No iProperty Change event fired for iPart row change

<?xml encoding=”UTF-8″>By Adam Nagy

If you have an iLogic rule then you can hook it up to various events – one of those is iProperty Change:

Though ideally this event should fire even when the iProperty changes as a result of an iPart factory row change, it does not. It’s a limitation in the Inventor API.

However, the following workaround is available.

First of all, you might have to add a new user parameter to the part just for this purpose:

Add this parameter to the iPart table and make sure its value changes whenever the iProperty (in this case Title) changes – i.e. it needs to have different values in each row. 

Then add a line like this to the rule:

trigger = UserParameter

Even though the purpose of the rule is to work with the iProperty, you can use the parameter change to trigger it.

Attached is the sample part file:  Download IPartTest