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To be able to folderize component patterns seems to have been surpassed once again in release 2012. However, I am wondering if this is a setting issue yet I cannot find settings for what can and cannot be placed in folders, if they exist. And I wonder if it is a setting issue because during a training class I visibly watched the trainer place component patterns into a folder and once I still cannot do so. Any ideas out there?
Did you RMB create the folder first? I just made sure and it was trivially easy to create folder and drag pattern to the folder.
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But since you say this is easy. Could you post file with pattern in folder?
It is meaningless if it works in my assembly but not yours - attach your assembly here and I'll see why it doesn't work in your assembly.
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I was to post zip with packed part of project but it is to big for forum. I can send this by mail.
But I did try what the movi schows and this I found out.
There are 4 patterns. I would like to put them in to the folder "belki szalunku" I managed to put one patern in to this folder but after I can not move folder on the list.
So it schould be put this way:
It is in SOME CASES true one can put patterns into folders. This is only possible if folder is belowe pattern on the tree. After putting patern into folder one can no longer position folder in the tree.
I have created the folder first and tried to drag and drop and no success. I have also highlighted the pattern(s) right clicked and created a folder on the fly and one time I was able to get one component pattern in a folder but could not add any too it which has occurred to me numerous times before this post and before my last post about this issue. You would think it wouldn't be this trvial. Drag and drop. Even during a short introduction to 2012 by cetifiied testing center associates showed me right then and there when I asked if this issue had been corrected and he dragged and dropped the pattern as you would any part to a folder.
Thanks. I have been waiting for something like that for a long time as to why. Now it makes sense, but unfortunately most of the stuff I am working with will already have been "ordered" long before I start to work with it which will always make this a simple headache.
I can't stand it.. That is my ONLY wish for 2013.. Fix this crap.
There have been times that I avoided a component pattern (which would have saved me tons of time) just because I know I will be bit by the component pattern/folder limitations.
I bet that the simple fact that Autodesk hasn't fixed these limitations costs me over 100 hours of extra work per year. Of course it's my decision to place everything into browser folders and I don't have to do that. But I do.. Saves me more time later trying to find stuff. Folders are GREAT.. But limitations on what can/can't be reordered SUCKS.
Its not technically a bug. Its just typical Autodesk "half finished" functionality.. It more than likely will never be fixed unless enough people complain about it or its kudo'd enough in the ideastation.. I'll add it to the ideastation later.. and include my cute story too..
After reading a bit I found a little workaround on this issue.
You can drag and drop patterns into folders! The problem is that you cannot reorder it (move the pattern in the browser). So take the next browser exampel.
You have:
pattern 1
part:1
part:2
folder:1
You cannot move directly the pattern into the folder, because you have to "jump" part:1 and 2. what i did is dragged the folder next to the part (upper to it or lower it dosent matter) and after that drag and drop works again.
the problem whit this is that you cannot move the folder anymore after that :)). but if you pay attention on the order of creating your patterns and folders. it is workable.
I have to say that solution you propose, however usable in some cases, can not probably be used by most users. For example in my case assemblies include many patterns and parts, and during design process some of them are deleted, created again, edited, changed, replaced, deleted and placed again. So structure of assembly that inventor creates automatically during this operations is not at all suitable for proposed solution.
Personally I am using AI 2014.
Can someone tell if in AI 2015 at least some of this issues ware fixed finally?
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