Hey all,
Short story:
I am trying to figure out a quick way to effectively do a pack-and-go to a single path, but break the project link.
Long story:
We use a 3rd party FEA software for simulation, but still want to Vault the files for design history. Right now I have to rebuild all of the assembly files and copy all of the sub components manually under my FEA project folder to prevent myself from modifying released files when I go through and do things like split faces and defeature for FEA purposes.
I would love to just load a pack and go, kill the project file so it doesn't reference my groups WIP files in the process, without having to rebuild the structure to use the pack-and-go files I have already copied "out of the project".
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Have you tried Vault Copy Design? You can copy as much of the design as you want or need, and put it wherever you want.
Chris Benner
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Chris,
I've found copy design relatively cumbersome when trying to move assemblies with hundered of parts (of course I want unique copies of them all too). Granted I am not running FEA on hundereds of parts, but even copying 5-10 parts to a new location for a model can be cumbersome using that tool.
Unless of course you do not have to re-enter the information line by line like I am.
Copy Design allows you to do a Find/Replace on both file names and the destination path. This can speed things up considerably. You may notice as well, at the bottom, there is a method for adding a prefix or suffix to file names... this could also speed things up quite a bit. I won't argue, the bigger the assembly the longer it takes.... but it's a heck of a lot faster than re-creating your assembly just for the FEA.
To do the find/replace...right click in a field and select replace. Then just type in the old string, and a replacement string. Always double check everything before hitting OK. I've been bit more than once by missing something in large assemblies.
Chris Benner
Inventor Tube & Pipe, Vault Professional
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I tried it again. I'll skip the copy/replace. The functionality is just as tedious for what I am doing.
Thanks for the effort! 🙂