John, using your grip

[moog2]

John, I've been looking at previous attribute posts, and in one, you posted a grip of yours which is called "dwg_info" , I've tried chopping it up but i don't understand the language.
All i want is a grip, which adds the current date to the existing "date" attribute (overwrites).
But the date needs to be day/month/year, format, using a dot between each.
Could you please help ?

 

[JohnRBaker]

OK, attached are two GRIP programs (since I didn't know how you wanted the 'year' to be formatted).

'assign_date-1.grx' assigns a Part Attribute titled DATE in the format of 'dd.mm.yy'.

'assign_date-2.grx' assigns a Part Attribute titled DATE in the format of 'dd.mm.yyyy'.

I hope this helps.


John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[moog2]

thanks John,
the first one is the one, I've been trying to string it together 3 times, to get it to add, DRAFTER_DATE , ENGINEER_DATE , APPROVED_DATE .

I thought i'd be able to sus it from reading the other programs. I've looked at help, but i think i need a training course. Would you mind altering it to add these, Thanks....

 

[JohnRBaker]

Attached is an updated version of the first program, covering the 3 named attribute that you asked for.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[moog2]

thanks John, you're a star.
I'll see if i can understand a bit more how to write them.
Are there any tutorials or training available ?

 

[JohnRBaker]

Since GRIP is really a sort of 'dead' language (at least in terms of it not being fully up-to-date and modern) there is nothing out there that I can think of. Of course we still have the user documentation which technically contains everything that you need.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[moog2]

OK, well thanks for your help.
Incidentally, in one of the posts, you advised someone to do this type of thing with a grip, cos journal doesn't do it as well, and since, it sounds as if grip will be dropped, will journal be enhanced to encompass this functionality?

 

[JohnRBaker]

GRIP will NOT be dropped, just that Journaling is based on a much more modern approach and one that is easy to use by non-programmers which was always the strength of GRIP, it was simple and easy to learn.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[demco]

Moog,
would you be interested in a .vb Journal file that does that? I can post one, although I think I got it off of this forum, so perhaps the author could post it (someone named Henry?)

-Derek
DL Engineering Services
specializing in CAD Design Consultation Services

 

[moog2]

demco, yes thanks, i'm up for learning about all ways of doing things.

 

[demco]

OK, I've uploaded it. You can see easily how to set your date format... We use the "2008/07/01" format here. Hope it helps.

-Derek
DL Engineering Services
specializing in CAD Design Consultation Services

 

[moog2]

sorry to be a pain....can you zip the file , i don't have winrar on this machine