How to check for Inventor assembly integrity?

[jimbo22]

Hi All,

I am helping a fellow Inventor user who faces determining if a set of assemblies, on the file system, are complete and not missing any parts, references, etc. Aside from opening each one in Inventor direclty and manually verifying if the design is at least able to resolve al parts, is there any way to automate or semi-automate this check?

Thanks

Joe

[Cadmanto]

Welcome to the forum.

Do you have vault?

[jimbo22]

No Vault in use here - the user has lots of older designs managed on file system - I am assiting on getting them into another PDM and the need is to check each assembly is corerct before import - well over 2000 assemblies, so manual checking is obvioulsy not preferred

[Cadmanto]

What PDM system?  Solidworks PDM workgroup, EPDM, Smartteam or Windchill?

I ask, because you can do comparisons in those depending on which one.

[jimbo22]

Hi Cadmanto

I am not really at liberty to discuss that detail at the moment unfortunatley - I would like to focus on my original question of is it possible to check on if a given assembly can resolve all of its parts programtically when the design is on the file system in folders - Vba, design assistant, etc?

Thanks

[Cadmanto]

No problem.

I was just asking because what I thought you to be asking and what I understood you to be asking,

I thought the PDM system might be able to help you out.

[t_stramr]

Hi Joe,

For this purpose you can use Inventor Tool called Task Scheduler. You can find it in the start menu under Autodesk/Autodesk Inventor 201X/Tools. Start it and create new "Update Design" task. See attached image. The task log will tell you what reference files are missing.

Robert