Document Categories
MetaReader recognizes what kind of Inventor document you opened - Content Center, Frame Generator, Weldment, iPart/iAssembly and more - straight from the file, shown as a colour-coded badge.
Every Inventor document carries readable markers about the subsystem that produced it - whether it came from the Content Center, was built by Frame Generator or Design Accelerator, is a weldment, or is an iPart/iAssembly factory or member. MetaReader reads those markers straight from the bytes (no Inventor needed) and shows the result as a colour-coded badge under the document name.
Hover the badge in the app to see the full legend. A document is given the most specific category that applies, so a Tube & Pipe pipe shows as Piping rather than the broader Content Center.
| Colour | Category | Recognized by |
|---|---|---|
| Content Center | the Categories iProperty (the part's library categories) | |
| Piping | a Content Center category with the TUBEANDPIPE mnemonic | |
| Frame Generator | the _com.autodesk.FG property set | |
| Design Accelerator | the FDesign property set (generic - it does not record which generator) | |
| Weldment | the assembly document subtype | |
| Sheet Metal | the part document subtype | |
| iPart Factory | the member table plus the Parameterized Template flag | |
| iPart Member | the member table without that flag (and not a model-state part) | |
| iAssembly Factory | the same, for an assembly | |
| iAssembly Member | the same, for an assembly | |
| General | anything without a more specific marker |
This is the file-readable counterpart to Inventor's DocumentInterests / HasInterest. Inventor's
own add-in "interest" list lives in the proprietary RSeStorage database, which MetaReader does not
decode - but the same information surfaces in the readable iProperties and property sets above. The
category is also available from the command line - the info report prints a
Category: line and the json output includes a primaryCategory field.
What it can't tell apart
The FDesign marker is shared by every Design Accelerator generator, so a bolted connection can't be
distinguished from a shaft or a gear by the bytes alone - all of them read as Design Accelerator.