Autodesk Inventor Services & Support

List of Inventor pre-defined iProperty names

Published date: 2009-Oct-26
ID: TS14053666

Applies to:
AutoCAD® Inventor® Professional Suite 2010
Autodesk® Inventor™ Professional 2009
AutoCAD® Inventor® Suite 2010
Autodesk® Inventor® Series 2009

Issue:

In Inventor you can specify new custom iProperties by referring to existing Inventor properties. For example:

=<Flat pattern area>

=<Volume>

=<Mass>

Not all of these properties are exposed in the user interface. You want to know the list of all these hidden properties that exist in the current Inventor document.

Solution:

You can list the document properties by using a macro and follow this procedure

  • Open an Inventor part. For example a sheet metal part of which you want to find out if it contains any special properties.
  • Start the Visual Basic Editor
  • Select Module 1 of the current document or insert a new module
  • Paste following code in the module

    Sub PropertyNameList()
        Dim oProp As Property, i As Integer, j As Integer
        For j = 3 To ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.PropertySets.Count
            For i = 1 To ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.PropertySets(j).Count
                Set oProp = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.PropertySets(j).Item(i)
           
                Debug.Print oProp.Name
               
            Next
        Next
    End Sub

  • Run the code
  • The properties will be listed in the Immediate window

    • Please see attached image.

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