Conditions
With the Conditions tab you can specify which job types are executed for which Inventor files inside the Vault.
The Conditions dialog box
There are 3 predefined conditions:
- idwOnly
- iptOnly
- dwgOnly
These conditions are designed for the file types of Inventor IDW Drawing (idw), Inventor Part (ipt) and Inventor DWG drawing (dwg). The conditions are defined with regular expressions checking the filename. If the condition is true, the job gets executed otherwise the job is removed from the job queue and nothing happens. If the file context menu command GRAITEC PowerPack > Add job to queue is called the condition is checked immediately. If the condition is true following dialog is shown and the job is submitted to the queue:
Condition true
If the condition is false following dialog is shown and the job is not submitted to the queue:
Condition false
The predefined conditions can get deleted or changed and addtitional conditions can get defined.
Example: New condition iamOrIpt for Inventor assemblies and Inventor parts
Clicking the plus sign at the lower right corner of the dialog adds a new condition to the dialog:
New condition
The red frame shows that the condition isn’t completely defined, the commands OK and Apply are not active in this case. Clicking the button Add element opens a flyout where the user can add Match pattern (for regular expressions) or the boolean operators and/or/equality if you want to combine multiple conditions:
Add Element
The Add element command inside Match Pattern opens a flyout with following options:
Match pattern
- Uppercase/Lowercase
Converts the element to upper- or lowercase capitals. - File Name
The complete file name with extension, for example 1700-0561.idw - Extension
Only the file extension, for example idw - File name without extension
The filename without extension, for example 1700-0561 - For our example we could check the extension with a logical or. So, the complete condition could look like this:
Condition for iam and ipt files
1. Using Uppercase or Lowercase conversion also results in true if the notation of the extension is different.
2. The regular expressions of the default jobs check the end of the complete file name.
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