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Part number embossed on part?
martin_kopplow
Member Posts: 602 PRO
This just came up when discussing a current project on the shopfloor: Is there a way to more or less automatically emboss/imprint a part number (or some other part property from the BOM) onto a part? Maybe at a location specified by a mate connector or whatever marker may appear useful? At first glance, this appears to be a job for a FS …
The background is the shop messed up similar looking 3D printed and laser cut parts. 🤣
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As it turns out, even FS can't save you here as all of the part properties generate after the feature list, so PNs aren't accessible to a custom feature (unless that feature is also setting the PN). I think it would need to be something with the API that reads it and updates a variable every so often. I've wanted something like this for a similar purpose. For example, if I'm iterating on 3D printed mockups and changing each one, I'd like to have the version number and date automatically added.
Yes, that is exactly the use case here. The shop needs some means of identifying different versions of the same part, or the sequence of several similar parts for assembly. And I don't want to change/create the name stamps manually, to save time, of course, but mainly because I might just forget to do so at times.
So, as things are, it appears I'll have to do it manually for the foreseeable future.
Would there be a widespread interest in this kind of tool? If so, please vote up below. Thanks.