iv10 Content Center Files - Save to Working Folder?

[Anonymous]

We save our screws, nut, bolts etc. in the working folder for each project. In iv9 we could "configure" the library to save in the working folder and it would always send files to the working folder for any project we had open.

With iv10 it appears that we have to make this change in each project file for every project.

Is there a way to make iv10 default to saving in the current working folder ??

Ken Mozden
H-P Products Inc
Louisville, Oh

[Anonymous]

Since I had no response to this issue I will respond to myself.

I submitted this question to Subscription Support. The response was that they did not know of any current way to save content center files to the working directory either. The request remains open as of 5-12-05. I am told that they (the developers) are actively working on this issue.

Ken Mozden

[buuhiz]

Is this issue solved already? In our company we need to have files to be saved in the same directory where the assembly is. This can be done by modifying the project file but it can't be done all the time.

Thanks, Pete

[Anonymous]

Is this issue resolved?

In particular, we give job specific file names to chunks of structural
components like angles and channels, and store these "custom" CC parts in
the project folder.

We also use the "single project" method for all the jobs we're working on,
and no "workspace" has been traditionally defined. i.e. we all work directly
on the files on the server. In IV8, when we created parts from the content
library it asked us where to name and place the file, which we did.

Now that I'm in IV10 and looking at an assembly with structural parts built
off the Content Center, when I go to change the part from say a 2x2 tube to
a 3x3 tube, Content Center says: Error: "Workspace isn't defined, the file
will be downloaded into temporary folder". Then it crazily tries to stick
some new file in some temp folder.

Please let me know how to get Inventor 10 to act like Inventor 8 in this
regard.





wrote in message news:4841496@discussion.autodesk.com...
We save our screws, nut, bolts etc. in the working folder for each project.
In iv9 we could "configure" the library to save in the working folder and it
would always send files to the working folder for any project we had open.

With iv10 it appears that we have to make this change in each project file
for every project.

Is there a way to make iv10 default to saving in the current working folder
??

Ken Mozden
H-P Products Inc
Louisville, Oh

[Ken]

I do not beleive this was ever addressed by Autodesk. I ended up editing the project file (for every new job) to define the workspace and/or the content file so as to throw CC files where I wanted them to go. We keep all related files for a job in the working folder here for simplicity. Rather than try to remember to keep editing project folders, some of the guys here just let Preventor throw the files where ever it does and then when they complete a job, they pack and go it to it's final working directory. It works...but leaves extra files hanging out there somewhere which never get cleaned up.

Hopefully someone else out there will be able to give you a better idea.

Ken @ H-P Products
Louisville, Oh

[Anonymous]

You have GOT to be kidding me.

I sincerely hope you are wrong, because with our single project method this
workflow will not be conducive.



wrote in message news:5239885@discussion.autodesk.com...
I do not beleive this was ever addressed by Autodesk. I ended up editing
the project file (for every new job) to define the workspace and/or the
content file so as to throw CC files where I wanted them to go. We keep all
related files for a job in the working folder here for simplicity. Rather
than try to remember to keep editing project folders, some of the guys here
just let Preventor throw the files where ever it does and then when they
complete a job, they pack and go it to it's final working directory. It
works...but leaves extra files hanging out there somewhere which never get
cleaned up.

Hopefully someone else out there will be able to give you a better idea.

Ken @ H-P Products
Louisville, Oh