No, there are several ways to handle this situation. If you search the NG
on this topic you will find the various ways others, including myself are
approaching this. With R6 Inventor began treating library paths as
read-only. Try searching on "library parts" or "read-only".
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Hal Gwin
Mechanical Designer
Xenogen
"Orion" wrote in message
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> Some of our library parts were drawn before I got here and I am finding
out
> the some of them need edited. When I go to edit the parts, I can't. I have
> to copy to a new location remove from the library then save copy as. Do I
> have to do this process every time? Is there a way around it? Thank
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