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Reset revision block data

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ttruman
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Reset revision block data

We frequently will create a new part and drawing based on an existing drawing to save time recreating views and re-dimensioning the entire drawing. This is done by using Design Assistant to copy the idw and ipt file to a new name.

 

The only problem we have experienced with this workflow is that the revision history for the old drawing is maintained in the new file, and there doesnt seem to be a way to reset it. This also causes us a problem if a drawing needs to be changed from numeric to letter indication of revision level.

 

Does anyone know of a way to reset the revision history so that a new table can be started from scratch?

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Curtis_Waguespack
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Hi ttruman,

 

Unless I'm misunderstanding, you'll want to delete the revision table and revision tags from the drawing, and then place a new revision block. That will let you choose the starting revision number, etc. again.

 

Also be aware that older versions of Inventor had limitations in this area, but I don't recall when the changes were made (Inventor 2009 maybe?).

 

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

 

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Hi Curtis,

your answer may be correct, but is not very elaborate. In my (and many colleagues) experience, Revision Tables and Tags may drive you completely nuts, when tags and tables don't do what you want them to do, because you haven't understood, what's going on under the hood, and you try to use them on a naive approach and you're bound to what's explained in the documentation about that topic.

So i have conducted some systematic research what happens when and why, when I am trying to add another Table, Row or Tag and the result is not what I have expected. I have written down everything that I considered noteworthy and what's not well explained in the documentation in my opinion (or not even at all).

I hope, this might help others to better understand whats going on.

Cheers, Bert

-> see the attached pdf 

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Bert_Bimmel
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Postscriptum: The active Revision Table row will not update automatically, when you have edited linked iProperties outside Inventor (i.e. in Windows Explorer) and then reopen the drawing. Apparently it will not update before the document get's dirtied with the ePropertyEditCmd-Flag beeing raised.

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