IDW Question Of The Day

[Anonymous]

Is it possible to replace a part in an idw with another part that is
similar? As an example, part1.ipt has been modified and saved as
part1_updated.ipt. Part1.idw is the drawing for part1.ipt. I would like to
replace part1.ipt in part1.idw with part1_updated.ipt. Makes perfect sense,
eh? Is this possible, or do I have to draft a new drawing?

Thanks,
John

--
John Gaubatz
Raven Industries, Inc.

[Anonymous]

Use Design Assistant to copy and rename files. Open the IDW in DA, for each file click on the cell in the Action column and change it to Copy, double-click in the Name column and give the file a new name, save your changes.

MechMan

[dan_mayers]

Somebody will correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that there is no way to "redirect" an .idw to a new part. If you want to create a copied drawing that is associated with the new part, then you need to make the copy before you modify the part:

Open the .idw (<-this is important) in Design Assistant, and use the Action column to copy the .idw and the associated .ipt. Rename both of them to whatever the new name is. Then go in and modify your new part-- the new drawing should follow the changes.

Dan Mayers

[Anonymous]

Rename part1.ipt to another name.
Open part1.idw.
When it says I can't find part1.ipt pick the part1_updated.ipt.

Byron Newton

[Anonymous]

Can't do that. Part1.ipt is of an adaptive assembly. When I tried to modify
part1.ipt, the part that was adaptive to it blew up big time. This is why I
modified part1.ipt then did a save copy as part1_updated.ipt, then undid the
mods to part1.ipt.
Just had a thought, if I did what you suggest, then change the name back to
the original part name so the assembly is linked to the original name, will
the idw still be pointing to part1_updated.ipt?

John

"Byron Newton" wrote in message
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> Rename part1.ipt to another name.
> Open part1.idw.
> When it says I can't find part1.ipt pick the part1_updated.ipt.
>
> Byron Newton
>
>

[Anonymous]

Thanks, I will give a try. I never opened an idw in
DA. I must live in a bubble or something.

John

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Use
Design Assistant to copy and rename files. Open the IDW in DA, for each file
click on the cell in the Action column and change it to Copy, double-click in
the Name column and give the file a new name, save your
changes.

MechMan

[Anonymous]

You are correct Dan. My answer was incorrect based on my re-read of John's message question.



John, as Dan said, you can't reassociate an exising model to an existing drawing.

MechMan

[Anonymous]

You and mechman are on the same path. I will give
it a try. Though I may go back and look at the assembly and see how much work is
involved in fixing the adaptive part that crashed when I modified part1.ipt.

John

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Somebody
will correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that there is no way to
"redirect" an .idw to a new part. If you want to create a copied drawing that
is associated with the new part, then you need to make the copy before you
modify the part:

Open the .idw (<-this is important) in Design Assistant, and use the
Action column to copy the .idw and the associated .ipt. Rename both of them to
whatever the new name is. Then go in and modify your new part-- the new
drawing should follow the changes.

Dan Mayers

[Anonymous]

My aplogies John, I offered you an incorrect solution. Using this DA approach only works if you have an existing drawing/model association and you want to duplicate it so you can edit the existing model to become a new part. You can't replace different models into idw's.

MechMan

[Anonymous]

So creating a copy of an idw will not allow the ipt
to be replaced?

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You
are correct Dan. My answer was incorrect based on my re-read of John's message
question.

John, as Dan said, you can't reassociate an exising model to an existing
drawing.

MechMan

[Anonymous]

No, you can't replace the referenced ipt in an idw. What you have to do is make a copy of an existing model/drawing package in advance. Then make model changes to the copy and the copied model will be linked to the copied drawing.

MechMan

[SBix26]

Byron is right, I have done this many times.  Copy part1.idw and part1.ipt to part1_updated.idw and part1_updated.ipt.  Temporarily rename part1.idw to something else, then open part1_updated.idw: it will (naturally) not be able to find part1.ipt and ask you for the location.  Choose part1_updated.ipt and save.  Then rename the original part1.ipt back to that name, and everything should be good.  But as others point out, this works best before any changes are made to the updated part.



Sam Bixler

Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis

[Anonymous]

John, here is how I do this.
First I do a save as on both the idw and the ipt to a different direcrtory.
Close the "old" files and rename the "old" ipt to "partname_old.ipt" or some
name that I will remember. Then open the "new" idw and when it askes me to
resolve the unresolved link to the ipt (it is looking for the original ipt)
I then point to the new copy of the part with the new name. Save the
drawing and then move both files back into the original directory replacing
the original idw with the new one. Sometimes I will once again have to
resolve the link to the ipt, but it gets the job done.