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You can directly use appearance and material name also in the BOM. But if you need to fill in these properties as custom iProperties, you can use the following simple iLogic macro:

iProperties.Value("Custom","myMaterial") = ThisDoc.Document.ActiveMaterial.DisplayName
iProperties.Value("Custom", "myAppearance") = ThisDoc.Document.ActiveAppearance.DisplayName
Inventor
100% *CAD
27.12.2019    15565×  
applies to: Inventor ·

See also:
Tip 14611:Contribution of individual features to the total mass of an Inventor part (iLogic).
Tip 14200:How can I use multiple title blocks in an Inventor drawing?
Tip 13884:How to send e-mails with an iLogic macro?
Tip 13611:BOM with multi-line items in Inventor.
Tip 13536:iLogic: How to find if a document is a sheet metal part and if it contains holes?


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