Parent Project and Children Part Renaming

[alyssaweaver]

Let me preface this by saying we do not use Vault.

So what I am trying to do is set up a way to rename a project, automatically rename the files within that project folder, and resolve the links. A batch file renamer does a third of the job, and some of the macros I’ve found online do another third of it, but none of what I’ve found does all three.

The goal is to NOT use DA to do this or Vault or to individually rename each file, as each project can contain dozens or even hundreds of parts.

So here’s what this might look like: I have a project folder, 100000. Within this project folder I have part files 100000-1.ipt, 100000-2.ipt, 100000-3.ipt, etc. all the way to 100000-60.ipt.

It turns out my project folder should have been named 100001. I can rename that with no problems. But now I need to rename my part files to 100001-1.ipt, 100001-2.ipt, 100001-3.ipt, etc. all the way up to 100001-60.ipt.

I can use a batch file renamer to change these part file names easily, but then I have resolve link problems with my assemblies (say 100001-61.iam and 10000-62.iam, which each contain some of these part files) and drawings. 

I don’t think there’s a macro out there that does this (at least not one I can find), but what I’m wondering is a) is it possible; and b) if so, are there some tools or links that can put me on the right track towards creating it? I’ve never used VBA before so I’m a little behind in that regard, but I’m willing to put in the time and effort to learn it and do it.

For reference, as this comes in to question frequently in these threads, we are using Inventor 2011.

Thank you in advance,

Alyssa Weaver

[alyssaweaver]

Quick correction. "say 100001-61.iam and 10000-62.iam" should read, "say 100001-61.iam and 10001-62.iam". My apologies.

[YuhanZhang]

We have a sample tool to do similar task to udpate the referenced parts/assemblies' names and re-reference them to the draiwng. The tool is in Inventor SDK, please install the UserTools.msi(for Win7 it is in "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor \SDK") first, and then you can find SDK\UserTools\CopyDesign, the CopyDesign tool can move andrawing and its referenced top assembly and its parts/sub-assemblies with changing the referenced files' names and re-reference them to the drawing. But the tool is very simple and can't satifiy what you request so you can change the source code and add more functions to it. Please let me if any more questions.

[alyssaweaver]

Thanks Rocky, I saw that solution on a similar post from last year. I will start looking in to editing the source code for these purposes.