FEA names confilict-- Can't Check-in to Vault"

[karthur1]

I am doing a stress analysis on an assembly.  I have 4 different load cases that I need to evaluate.  I opened the assembly, checked everything out and created my cases.  Everything went fine.  Now I need to finish and check this back in for others to see.  When I tried to check in, I get a "Check In Error".

SO, I look in my model browser and see this.

I dont understand how this can be. There is no way to check this in because unique filenames are enforced in vault.  I think this is an Inventor problem since inventor named these files.  Not vaults problem... its just enforcing a rule that is set (unique filenames).

How do I check my files in and not loose the simulation cases that I have created?  How to I avoid this in the future? 

Kirk

[karthur1]

More on this issue.  Here is a couple screen shots.  first one is the vault browser right after I check out the assembly.  Notice that all files are checked out and everything appears fine.

Now since the subassemblies -1081 and -1082 need saving, I do a "Save" command, then I look at the browser again.  See below.

For some unknown reason to me, Inventor decided that the FEA files in the -1082 sub are now not in Vault. Now when I make changes and try to check it in, it wll not allow it since the FEA filenames already reside in Vault.

This is nuts.

Kirk

[karthur1]

....and a video showing the issue.

http://screencast.com/t/72puVgH6dq

[swalton · Accepted solution]

I have not seen that problem because we do not store the FEA results in Vault. 

IV stores the FEA setup in the component file and the results in separate files.  If you uncheck the "Create OLE Link to Result Files" option shown on the attached picture, Vault won't try to grab the results files. 

The disadvantage of this is that if you delete the results files out of your local workspace, you must re-run the simulation to see the results.  That is ok for us because our simulations don't take more then an hour or two to run.

[karthur1]

Thanks, I will give that a try.

[SER4]

I wish there was a method to rename the FEA filenames.  This appears to be a problem when copying a design, and then the new design uses the same FEA filenames as the old copied files.

[SER4]

I get this error if I have done Copy Design in the Vault, and then I try and run studies in the newly copied models.

A workaround is to Copy/Duplicate the Stress Analysis study/studies and delete the old studies.

This will fix the links (by removing links to old studies and creating brand new filenames for the new studies).