Hello,
Sometimes my inventor drawing does not want to check in. I click on check in and nothing happens.
if i go the assembly and try to save it gives a message of do save copy as and refresh. if i refresh I loose my work and
the drawing reverse to the previous version as it represents now the previous versio of the assy.
I dont know why this happens, any help with this?
I work with Inventor 2013 and vault pro 2014.
Thanks
Dan
Dan,
I want to say I've had a simliar issue before that was not so easily explained but it sounds like the files are not checked out to you? Maybe they're checked out to someone else? At first glance, though I know that's incredibly basic, that would be what I'd check. Do you have a file doing this now?
Thanks,
Yeah, like I said, I feel as though I've experienced that in the past. When I had something checked out that wouldn't do anything when I tried to check it back in. Tough to say what caused it though...
If it happens again, I'll be sure to post on here what I take away from the experience.
Until then, best of luck! 🙂
I run into this same crap every day. There are several issues that it could be.
1) Someone else has the same assembly or drawing checked out. You check it out and Inventor does not tell you that it is already check out! It just does NOT check it out to you but acts as if everything is fine. You then make changes and discover that you can't check it in. Seriously annoying. I get in the habbit of looking to see if the "Check In" button is active before I start which seems to indicate that you actually have it checked out or check your Vault browser to make sure.
2) Very often Inventor will say that some associated part has to be saved before you can check in. I say OK but it just sits there. It doesn't save or check in (sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't). I then try to save it first and then check it in but it doesn the same thing no mater what or how many times I save. Usually in this case, if you close the file it will "Check-In" while closing. If not, you can open your local file and try again.
3) Also sometimes, Inventor completely loses track of what is saved and what isn't (a whole other bag of worms). One way around it sometimes is to go back and change some small thing to trick inventor into seeing changes that need to be saved and then re-saving again.
One other thing you can try is "undo checkout" on the drawing and check it out again (choosing not to overwrite your local files) and then try to check in again.
I could fill a whole page on Inventor/Vault file handling stupidity but hopefully something in there helps. Let me know if it doesn't and I'll keep going 🙂
When it prompts for save as right click on the exisinting file and take off the read only !
Cancel the save as and do a normal save. At least even if it's checked out by someone else you don't loose the work.
You can then later check it out without replacing the local existing files that you just updated!
Hello,
It happened again, drawing checked out, part and assy checkout.
The part does not want to be saved, drawing and assy yes. If we refresh we get the previous version.
Thanks
Dan
Are you using shared workspace ? Like on a network drive?
Do you know who marcd is? Another member of your eng. team?
It seems to me like this might be what happened: You may have checked out the assembly but not the part (easy mistake to make, with the current system). When you check out the assembly you have to specify "Check Out All" or manually check out the parts or the parts will not be checked out. Then, as you were working, marcd made a change to the part (which he had checked out). Is that possible? I've had this exact scenario many times.
Also aggravating this situation is that Inventor doesn't seem to know what "change" means. So even if marcd just opened and checked out the part, looked at it and then checked it in again without making any changes, it would still be seen as "changed" by Inventor/Vault.