Nacho
Automation & Design Engineer
Inventor Programmer (C#, VB.Net / iLogic)
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Create an empty drawing.
Change all the layers to the desired lineweight.
On the "I" menu in the top-left corner of Inventor, select the Save fly-out menu.
Save as Template
Close and don't save your drawing (because you just saved it as a template)
Create a new drawing and this time, use your new template.
Actually, this is controlled through the styles library, here:
Once you have all of your lineweights configured how you would like, then you can click the "Save" command next to the "Styles Editor":
(Note: it's grayed out on mine because my project is set to read-only, if it's gray on yours I can show you how to enable it)
In the dialog that pops up, click yes to all and then OK. This will copy all of your changes to the style library. Now you can open up your template and click "Update", "Yes to All", and then OK to update the template hen save it so that all new drawing will have the correct data. You can then use the same procedure to update any drawings you've already started.
It should be the layers.xml file located in your designated design data. However you're talking about global styles here.. Meaning the next time you upgrade to Inventor you'll need to migrate this file.. You could just leave it a local style in your drawing template as well. But its your choice..
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Thanks for the reply!
I keep design data in the vault and when I make updates to anything I tell the team to just get the folder. I wish there was a way to push updates to everyone on login.
I have written a stand-alone program that downloads files from specified Vault folders
We run it as part of a login script
What version of Vault are you using? My program is version-dependent & I don't have versions that work with every version of Vault.
Nick
We are running Vault Pro 2018 and Inventor 2018 as well, hope it works with these. I would save me making sure everyone is up to date.
A little further on your point above.
Making it a local style (on the drawing template) will only work with new drawings. If you make it a global setting (design data) and you are mid-project then you can update existing drawings. I think having them both match is the ideal way of going about this. Let me know what you think. Thanks for the help!
I also Vault our design data. I "push" updates using a windows task scheduler task that runs Vault workspace sync overnight every night.
Search for and run "task scheduler"
Here's the full path for my workspace sync: (include the quotes) "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Vault Professional 2018\Explorer\Connectivity.WorkspaceSync.exe"
I use these arguments: -NAPP02\MPI-ENG-1 -VUmrattray -VP[redacted] -S"C:\Local Working Folder\Templates\WorkSpaceSync.xml" -F"C:\Temp\workspace sync.csv"
The first is the name and location of your vault. Replace NAPP02 with your server name and MPI-ENG-1 with your vault name. Second is your vault user name prefixed with -VU. Follow that with your vault password prefixed with -VP. Next is the location for your workspace sync settings file followed with an optional location for a log file.
I'm assuming you're already familiar with using vault workspace sync. If not, there's good info in the knowledge base on how to set it up.
If you'd like I can also post up here the xml files for the saved windows task and my workspace sync settings.