Autodesk Inventor
We have the following problem / bug and i was wondering if others can reproduce it.
(IV2013, SP1.1)
When adding a new sub-assembly to an existing ipn, the newly added assembly doesn't have the + sign to expand it. (see image)
Steps:
1. create a part. (anything will do) - Part1
2. make an assembly and add Part1 a few times. - Assembly1
3. make another assembly and add Assembly1 a couple of times. - Assembly2
4. create a presentation file with Assembly2, add a tweak for good measure. - Assembly2.ipn
5. Save the ipn. (and any other unsaved files)
6. now go back to Assembly2 and add another instance of Assembly1.
7. look at the presentation again, if it's the same as our situation there shouldn't be a + next to the newly added instance.
If anyone can confirm this or perhaps knows of a way to fix it, without having to recreate the entire ipn, it would be greatly appreciated.
Ok, just to add a little more weirdness, here are a few more steps.
After making the ipn with the assembly that doesn't expand, do the following:
8. open Assembly1 and add another instance of Part1
9. go back to the ipn, there should now be a + next to the instance that previously didn't have one.
10. expand this instance to find it only shows the last instance of Part1 that was just added.
Attached is an image of the situation.
Can't say i ever noticed the behavior before, but then again we did change our workflow a bit over the last year.
I must agree with you on the fact that there hasn't been much change to the ipn environment.
Heck, you can almost say there has been NO improvement to it.
I'm kinda keeping my fingers crossed that they will add Publisher to the suite package, because ipn's are just really falling behind on the rest of inventor.
Still, it would be nice if there was a way to correct this problem...
We did figure out that replacing the assembly through "component - replace" gives a partially corrected list, just 1 lvl though... but at least that's something...
