Interesting Macro ......

Hi:

The company that I work for uses the name of the base solid in a part
to help identify that component in an assembly.

Example: You rename "extrude1" to "BRACKET, MOUNTING, ROTARY SHUTTER"
.. Then when move your mouse over the component in the assembly, the
popup shows what the part is.

This is helpful when working concurrently, and you many not recognize
the part numbers....

Anyway, the only way to do this is to copy/paste the text from the
Description Custom Prop or to retype it.

Has anyone out there written a macro that can simply take the text
from the custom prop and write it into the name of the first feature?

I don't really know anything about macros but this seemed like an easy
one. Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Todd

 

I just use the "Show Component Description" option checked on to display the
name of a part in my FM. Works great for us, does the same thing and no
macro required.

Richard

 

It would be quite easy but still an hour or so of work. There are examples
of each of these out there.

to get the description

PartDescription = part.getcustominfo ("" ,"Description")

for the feature name.

Feat.Name = PartDescription

there is more to it check out the examples on traversing the feature tree
and depending on the consistency of your group you may need to do something
a little more complex when getting the custom info.

First off I presume the custom info is per model not configuration specific.
I don't think you have the option of having a different name per config, Do
you?

Second if within your company there isn't extreme consistency on the caps in
the field title (eg some are "DESCRIPTION" and others "Description" and
others "description" you may have to handle this because the properties are
case sensitive.

Corey

 

Richard:

What you're talking about is different. That shows the description
next to the part in the feature manager. Useful, but not what I mean.

What I'm talking about occurs in the gfx window -- hover your mouse
over a component and it's description pops up in the gfx window.

Todd

 

Thanks for the info Corey.

Actually, we are using configuration-based props. I wish I had some
time to figure this out but I don't -- we're in full swing on a new
product and blah blah. I'll forward this to one of our software guys,
maybe he can figure out how to make it work.

Todd

 

for reference this would be to get the "Default" config's description

PartDescription = part.getcustominfo ("Default" ,"Description")