I am trying make a dispatch which reads the Material variable, and sets another field to a description of the material such as "Steel" if the material is a steel material, plastic if the material is a plastic material etc. I am trying to do this by reading the material variable from %CurrentConfig%, but it does not seem to work. Is it not possible to do so? If not, is there a solution to my problem, eventually another method to achieve what I am trying to do?
Hello Daniel,
easy answer is no.
%currentconfig% is not available. You should wite configuration names to data card then read it from there.
You can use SWCfgProperty attribute to populate config name in datacard. Please have a look at attached image
Regards
Gorkem
Hi Gorkem,
Thank you for your fast reply. The problem is that I want to do this to each configuration, or at least the active configuration, and I dont know what the different configurations will be called. Maybe I should look into using some sort of standard number for the configurations if that is possible?
ops I forgot we can not use variable for configurations. It is ER that I have voted several times.
You can read variable from "@" tab. You should wirte @ to configuration for that. API looks like best options for that
Ok, thank you. I was just thinking; is there another method which will set one variable to a specified value based on the value of another variable? I have experimented with "controlled by variable", but this only applies to liss and dropdowns..
Is material come from SW or is it manually written by users?
It comes from SolidWorks. If the material from SolidWorks is a steel material I want another variable to be written to "Steel. Hope I explain myself well enough.
F.ex I want something like "If Material = AISI 1020, Set MaterialGroup to Steel"
token formula is using for similar purposes but unfornutaley you can not use it. It should be triggered manually.
If you have couple material, maybe you can do that from wf, but only for one configuration. While sending approval, files can be use different ways based on material variable, and you can use set variable action for transitions. Yes very long solution
API is still best option
Ok
Maybe I will try to use API. I don't have any experience with it but will try to find something online. Thankyou
Hello Daniel,
easy answer is no.
%currentconfig% is not available. You should wite configuration names to data card then read it from there.
You can use SWCfgProperty attribute to populate config name in datacard. Please have a look at attached image
Regards
Gorkem