Resolve Link, link unused/unfound

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I have a somewhat complicated .ipt part and I keep getting a Resolve Link error pointing to a part called standoff.ipt. I had used this part before, but no longer am using it. I can't see it being referenced anywhere. It is not in the Parameters box or anywhere I can see. Is there a way to figure out where in my part the reference to "standoff.ipt" is coming up?

Thanks!

[cwhetten]

Try going to Tools > Manage Links.

-cwhetten

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[Anonymous]

Unfortunately the "Manage Links" button is grayed out for me.

[cwhetten]

What version of Inventor?  I could help you faster if you posted the part.

[Anonymous]

I'm using Inventor 2012. Sorry I don't think I can post the part as it is proprietary. Is there anywhere else in the model where a link to another part might be?

[blair]

Is the part located in a directory outside of your path(s) defined in your current active Project file?

[Anonymous]

No it's in the path. The file actually no longer exists and can't be recovered. But I don't need it anyway.

[cwhetten]

Maybe it was adaptive at some point with projected sketch entities?

Or maybe you derived the existing part from the other one, and there is a derived part node?

Other than these and the ones you mentioned, I'm not sure where else they could be linked.

-cwhetten

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[Anonymous]

Now I'm even more confused. So I created a copy of the part and deleted every sketch and feature from the part, as well as every parameter. And I'm still getting the unresolved link.

[cwhetten]

Can you post the part with all of the features deleted?

[Anonymous]

Ok so I fixed it. I found an old version of the part and put it in the directory. Only then could I see that the parameters section was still referencing this part. So I deleted the corresponding parameters. Then I was able to delete the referenced part, and the error went away. There has to be a way to do this if I wasn't able to find this part though, right? I find it funny that I couldn't see the error in the parameters window until I actually found the part.