Lesson 3.3 – Working With Custom Properties

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Description

In this lesson we will examine the powerful and efficient ways to use the API to add, delete, and modify custom properties for the document and each configuration.

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Lesson Files

Lesson 3.3 code – with error handling
Lesson 3.3 code

Homework

Lesson 3.3 homework solution

4 Comments

  1. AlexBitencourt
    December 9, 2014 at 8:18 AM

    How to access the data of the BOM?

    • Keith
      December 10, 2014 at 5:12 PM

      Alex,

      You’ll have to be more specific. Are you referring to the “BOM Quantity:” dropdown in the custom properties dialog? If so, then that value is considered has being a custom property with the name “UNIT_OF_MEASURE”, which you can get like any other custom property using ICustomPropertyManager::GetX.

  2. niknak17
    September 14, 2017 at 3:58 PM

    Would you need to do anything different if you were working with an assembly instead of a part?

    • Keith
      September 15, 2017 at 12:49 PM

      No, all of this should work fine in an assembly. If you want to modify the custom properties of components, however, then you’ll first have to obtain the IModelDoc2 pointer for that component using IComponent2::GetModelDoc2.

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