I want to duplicate & then rename a project I have stored on my vault computer, However I am experiencing many difficulties.
There are probably around 1000 + files in this project-multiple assemblies/drawings & parts.
Initially i did a Pack & Go of the Project to my desktop. I then took my first top level drawings & using Design Assistant renamed all the reference parts and assemblies related too it. This worked fine, albiet a very long time to rename all the files.
The problem is that i have say 50 drawing files, some contain similar assemblies/part files which will have already been rename in the first top level drawing & some container different assemblies/parts (which are not related to the first top level drawing) & will have to be renamed seperately.
Is there an easier way to duplicate & rename a vault project because design assitant makes this task extremely labourious. An great tool to add would be to 'Find & Replace' a file name & apply it too all the files. Similar to the function in Microsoft Word.
I have looked into the copy design feature in vault however, you can only copy a project within a project, you cannot copy it to a competely new foldder in the vault.
The other problem is, is that you can only add a preffix or suffex to every file/related part/assembly, & i would rather replace the project numebr rather then add the new project number to the file names. This would be a viable option if you could rename multiple files quickly, however this just stems back to the design assistant.
Has anyone tried to do a similar thing?
Cheers,
Sandy
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Vault Copy Design works for me. It does allow for a "Find & Replace" in both filenames and destination paths. The one thing that does not seem to work well is the "ReplaceAll" button.... somtimes I have to hit replace for each instance. Still a lot quicker than manually renaming every file, sub-assembly or path.
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Cheers Chris, That has worked fine.
I dont suppose you know of any way you call select all files for 'copy' rather then having to clikc on all the icons?
Cheers,
Sandy