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mikeh4
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‎02-19-2003 09:56 PM
‎02-19-2003 09:56 PM

Locked Files/Checking Out

I am finally making the move to INV6 from 5 and I opened my big assembly in the shared mode and in the process killed INV, so now I have files that are still checked out by myself, yet I can't check them in, thus I can't edit them. Does anyone know how I can check them back in.

Thanks!
Mike
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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-19-2003 10:04 PM
‎02-19-2003 10:04 PM

You have to "Steal Checkout". It will throw up a
big nasty dialogue with red background and yellow letters, but steal the
checkout anyway. I could be wrong about this.


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
I
am finally making the move to INV6 from 5 and I opened my big assembly in the
shared mode and in the process killed INV, so now I have files that are still
checked out by myself, yet I can't check them in, thus I can't edit them. Does
anyone know how I can check them back in.

Thanks!
Mike

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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-19-2003 10:43 PM
‎02-19-2003 10:43 PM

I've got the same problem only worse. With 3D
models, you're right it is possible to steal the Check out. But If you try
it on a drawing my INV crashes during startup. So i never can reach "Steal
Check out". So what to do next??? Is there an other wy to reach
it?????

 

Richard


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

You have to "Steal Checkout". It will throw up a
big nasty dialogue with red background and yellow letters, but steal the
checkout anyway. I could be wrong about this.


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
I
am finally making the move to INV6 from 5 and I opened my big assembly in
the shared mode and in the process killed INV, so now I have files that are
still checked out by myself, yet I can't check them in, thus I can't edit
them. Does anyone know how I can check them back in.

Thanks!
Mike

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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-19-2003 10:44 PM
‎02-19-2003 10:44 PM

In the browser panel click on the arrow next to the
word model and switch to file status. right click each file and steal the files
back.
 
Inventor 6 can be a little buggy and when you crash
it leaves the files checked out to a person of your name but not you and you
have to steal them back in most cases.
 
this annoyed (edited) the people in our
office until we got the hang of it.
Always check the parts in when your finished or you
will annoy someone else.
When working in the top level of the model adding
or changing constraints check it out before saving.
for some reason if you edit a file it asks you to
check it out so that the changes save when you are finished but assemblies never
do.
 
Good luck
 
 

"Paul Harvey" wrote in
message news:34F876CFEE84F84796320973C77C3049@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
You have to "Steal Checkout". It will throw up a
big nasty dialogue with red background and yellow letters, but steal the
checkout anyway. I could be wrong about this.

"mikehilvers" wrote in
message news:f145971.-1@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...I
am finally making the move to INV6 from 5 and I opened my big assembly in
the shared mode and in the process killed INV, so now I have files that are
still checked out by myself, yet I can't check them in, thus I can't edit
them. Does anyone know how I can check them back in.
Thanks! Mike
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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-19-2003 10:53 PM
‎02-19-2003 10:53 PM

Make sure all the model and assembly files are
checked in.

Alternatively that they are checked out by you (the
real you that is if you have crashed they will be locked to a fictitious person
bearing your name , steal them and check them in)


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

I've got the same problem only worse. With 3D
models, you're right it is possible to steal the Check out. But If you
try it on a drawing my INV crashes during startup. So i never can
reach "Steal Check out". So what to do next??? Is there an other wy to
reach it?????

 

Richard


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

You have to "Steal Checkout". It will throw up
a big nasty dialogue with red background and yellow letters, but steal the
checkout anyway. I could be wrong about this.


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
I
am finally making the move to INV6 from 5 and I opened my big assembly in
the shared mode and in the process killed INV, so now I have files that
are still checked out by myself, yet I can't check them in, thus I can't
edit them. Does anyone know how I can check them back in.

Thanks!
Mike

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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-19-2003 10:56 PM
‎02-19-2003 10:56 PM

Would be cool if Inventor had the smarts to prompt
you to check in before closing. You know, kinda like when you start editing and
it asks you if you want to check it out.
 
"Whoah, hey there pardner, if you close now without
checking in, ya might me sorry later. Would ya like to check in."
 
And if they could do the Inventor messages more in
like a John Wayne vernacular, it would be a lot more fun too.
 

*(big snip)
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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-19-2003 11:01 PM
‎02-19-2003 11:01 PM

Sounds good to me pard...ner

(huge snip)
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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-19-2003 11:05 PM
‎02-19-2003 11:05 PM

Checking in and out for part isn't the problem.
Just as you said, you can check them in and out by using Check in/out tree. This
works quite good. But not for drawings. They will not checked in by using this
command,  and you have to do this for each file, one be one. This irritates
me alot!! There has to be a way to chech them in out side Inventor or to do this
easily??!!

(big humongous snip)
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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-19-2003 11:08 PM
‎02-19-2003 11:08 PM

LOL,
 
There could be a whole market for Inventor
personalities.
 
The Drill Sergeant:
"WHAT IS MY MAJOR MALFUNCTION?  I HAVE A OPEN
LOOP THAT NEEDS TO BE CLOSED!  CLOSE IT NOW MAGGOT!"
 
The School Marm:
"Now user, you know better than to try to edit a
library file.  Be a good boy/girl and change to a new
project."
 
The Surfer Dude:
"Woah.  Like you just shredded some surfaces
there dude!  Major bummer!"
 
The George W Bush:
"The work axis you select has gone bad. 
You must do something to stop this Axis of Evil"
 
The Dell sales guy:
"Dude, you're getting an access
violation"
 
ok I guess that's enough...
-- Sean Dotson, PEhttp://www.sdotson.comCheck the Inventor
FAQ for most common questionswww.sdotson.com/faq.html

(snippero)
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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-19-2003 11:12 PM
‎02-19-2003 11:12 PM

We had couple of drawing that were crashing the
computers also it was during the update to the drawing as it opened it seamed to
need access to all  the part files. until we checked them in it complained
about the drawing being locked and crashed before we could attempt to check the
drawing out.
 
have not found any external method of checking
parts in on mass if anyone out there knows of a utility I would love a
copy.
Spoke to our reseller he recommends we purchase a
document management system as there is an option in the project file to use an
external program but at the moment I can not afford that.

(*sound of snipping scissors)
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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-19-2003 11:14 PM
‎02-19-2003 11:14 PM

You could always use the original and free
PDM...."Hey, guys! I'm working with #XXXX assembly!  Don't edit any of the
parts, ok?"
-- Dave JacquemotteAutomation DesignerAuto/Con Corp.

(HUGE snip)
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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-19-2003 11:37 PM
‎02-19-2003 11:37 PM

LOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLv



Of course I'd go for the Star Trek one.

Captain, we've drained all our our RAM reserves! She just can't process an assembly drawing of this magnitude. We've got to close 'er down now or she'll fall apart!



MechMan
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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-20-2003 12:11 AM
‎02-20-2003 12:11 AM

Dude,

 

I think you need a long ride in the vette. 
<bg>


--
Hal Gwin
Mechanical
Designer
Xenogen
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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-20-2003 12:15 AM
‎02-20-2003 12:15 AM

Just a request for people in this thread to check their newsreader settings to make sure
replies are set to plain text in options, and that maybe we could start snipping a little
bit again ...... Purdy please 8^)

17 KB for one line of new text is a bit much?

--
Kent
Member of the Autodesk Discussion Forum Moderator Program
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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-20-2003 12:18 AM
‎02-20-2003 12:18 AM

Are you using the share or semi-isolated
environment?  We are running here in semi-isolated and are having no
problems (except for OE) with checking in and out all file formats, especially
IDWs.  Many times when working on an assembly or detail drawing I checkout
all the files using the 'checkout tree' and when finished 'check in tree'. 
Everything checks in and out just fine.  R6SP1 has been very stable with
W2KSP3.


--
Hal Gwin
Mechanical
Designer
Xenogen


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Checking in and out for part isn't the problem.
Just as you said, you can check them in and out by using Check in/out tree.
This works quite good. But not for drawings. They will not checked in by using
this command,  and you have to do this for each file, one be one. This
irritates me alot!! There has to be a way to chech them in out side Inventor
or to do this easily??!!
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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-20-2003 03:10 AM
‎02-20-2003 03:10 AM

Dudes and Dudettes -

This is getting WAY off topic and into the old Take5 chatter.
Please "rein" it in so the moderators don't have to do a trash
and burn on your messages!

And again a plea for these eyes and fingers - SNIP your
quotebacks off at all possible. Your moderators will be eternally
greatful.
--
Anne Brown
Manager, Moderator
Autodesk Product Support Discussion Groups
Discussion Q&A: http://www.autodesk.com/discussion



Hal Gwin wrote:
>
> Dude,
>
> I think you need a long ride in the vette.
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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-20-2003 03:11 AM
‎02-20-2003 03:11 AM

You beat me too it! Fast Kent, fast.

Anne

Kent Keller wrote:
>
> Just a request for people in this thread to check their newsreader settings to make sure
> replies are set to plain text in options, and that maybe we could start snipping a little
> bit again ...... Purdy please 8^) (snip)
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Anonymous
in reply to: mikeh4
‎02-20-2003 05:52 AM
‎02-20-2003 05:52 AM

sorry

--
Sean Dotson, PE
http://www.sdotson.com
Check the Inventor FAQ for most common questions
www.sdotson.com/faq.html
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