G_L Parameter & Editing Structural Shapes in CC/FG

[Bishop]

Okay, so my company has its own SKU's and such for all the different structural shapes, and a certain way that they want the information on BOMs, etc. I've been able to get just about everything to work ... with the exception of getting G_L to go into the Project.Description iProperty.

 

B_L is the length parameter that's set in the table, and that's the value that you get if you insert the shape from the Content Center. This is okay, except that I don't really want to insert these things from Content Center every time - I want to use Frame Generator, so that I can have dynamic adjustments to length, miters, notches, etc.

 

The three screenshots here are showing:

 

(a) part of the table showing the basic format that I'm trying to achieve, although the ".001" that you see in DESCRIPTION and File Name is based on B_L, and is not what I want.

 

(2) The expression that currently is set for DESCRIPTION to produce the results from (a) above.

 

(D) The expression that I want but can't seem to get.

 

How can I get G_L as a usable variable to use in Project.Description?

[Bishop]

Ah, well, that's interesting - I just noticed that I never actually attached the referenced screenshots. Anyway, it turns out that you really don't need them.

 

Figured out the solution to this one, and boy was it simple. I'm an idiot for not figuring this one out sooner.

 

So G_L doesn't exist until the frame member is created, and this means that it's not available for use / manipulation / etc., in the table. There's an incredibly simple way to get around this, though. If you just enter text in the table field that's mapped to Project.Description, it'll get put into that field just the way you type it, and the table won't recognize expressions for iProperties as anything other than just text. So, just enter in the table the expression you want the iProperty field to evaluate, and *boom, headshot* it's in there.

 

After you've done this, insert a CC part from this family somewhere that you can edit it, and in the parameters table, mark G_L (and whatever else you've used) for export. Save it, then go back to the content center editor and replace the template for that family with the part that you just edited. Next time you insert it, everything works.

 

It took a while to figure out, but now it's just entirely too obvious.