When we create iparts and generate the files from the mother ipart, Inventor creates an additional folder to place the iparts into. Is there a setting somewhere to force Inventor to place these generated files into a user defined location?
Or is this just something we have to live with and do we have to manually move the files after generating them.
Hi Cadmanto,
For the most part you have to live with it. But it would be nice to have the abilty to define the file store location for each iPart factory.
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/2011/01/feature-request-for-inventor.html
If by chance your iPart factories can all be placed in a library folder, then you can set up Inventor to write the files to a single directory. Attached is a slide I had on hand that covers the set up for this.
I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com
Hi Curtis,
Thanks for the link. Not sure if dumping all of our generated iparts into one folder will work for us, but I have put it out there for discussion here. I also placed an enhancement request into the link you provided as well.
Thanks for your help again.
Well it would be nice to change the location of the folder. I'm wondering though why do you want to move the files?
Only so the are in one central location not only on the local drive, but in the vault.
If you generate all the files when you check in the master iAssembly it will check in all of the individual files also. What we do is put the master iasmbly files in a seperate folder and give them descriptive names with the individual versions getting a number. When they are created we leave them in the subfolder and check in the master. The annotation files are created and saved in our normal folder structre.
Yes that seperates the iam and idw/dwg file but it also makes it easier to update the iassembly when needed.
@Anonymous
This posting is 5 years old.. Can you clarify what you are looking for?
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I will put it this way:
- I sent all the part to CNC and laser cut. then my coworker asked for a assembly modification to help his guys to define the right order of assembly.
- I came to the computer, got in Inventor (release 2018), changed the explosion to modify the drawing as we needed but when I try to see the update in the drawing it just does not update. I push the bottom "update", I re-inserted the drawing.
Now instead of keep going with my job I am searching in the web for 15 min. until I find that the same issue happened 5 years ago and still nobody have realized that we the users don not need a "inventor created extra hidden file"
And then I have to type to Autodesk "my issue".
I didn't had this kind of problem with NX or solidworks.
Fernando Avelar
@Anonymous
Can your clarify this..
I came to the computer, got in Inventor (release 2018), changed the explosion to modify the drawing as we needed but when I try to see the update in the drawing it just does not update. I push the bottom "update", I re-inserted the drawing
Changed the explosion to modify the drawing.. What do you mean by this? Are you updating your iPart factory/members or the drawing? If the former you need to regenerate members when changes are made. Changes don't automatically happen.. And just because something works in a given application doesn't mean every other application in the world works the same way. One more thing. What did you type to Autodesk?
Mark Lancaster
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Autodesk Inventor Certified Professional & not an Autodesk Employee
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I see the forums, and you guys always give the same answer to everyone. Inventor is different.
I have no time for this chat, thank you for your time.
Fernando
There have always been some issues in Inventor with iparts/iassemblies not updating for as long as I've been using it..
I always recommend that after any change to an ipart or iassembly that you do a rebuild all and then generate all the members..
Hi Fernando,
Many thanks for approaching me directly! The file you sent me was empty. Please send it again so I can take a look. Based on your description here and in the email, I not sure if the issue is related to iPart. It is more about how drawing views update based on the change in ipn file.
All software has room for improvement. Inventor is not an exception.
Thanks again!
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