Let's say I have an assembly composed of 2 parts. I make a drawing for it so I have 2 .ipt files, 1 .iam file and 1 .dwg file, all in Vault, all completely done and checked it.
I check out the drawing because I need to change a note in the title block. I change the note then press save and for some unknown reason, Inventor seems to think the 2 PARTS need saving as well, so it brings up the dialogue that says "Do you want to save changes to xxx.dwg and its dependents?" and lists the .dwg with a "Yes" under the save column, as well as both PARTS with a "Yes" BUT says "Write enable (not checked out from Vault)". If I say yes to all 3, I get big time problems with my parts being all messed up as now my read-only, no longer up-to-date copy on my local drive has been marked write enable. If I change those to "no", it errors on save and says I must save before checking in.
What the heck is Inventor doing to these parts that it feels the need to save? How do I force it to STOP trying to save parts that haven't been touched?
From Inventors Application Options, Save tab... try unchecking the "prompt to save for re-computable updates". I've had success doing this.
Read some about it here: http://crackingthevault.typepad.com/crackingthevault/2010/10/changes-have-been-made-to-some-assembly...
Are they just normal parts? Not iParts, Content Center, Library Etc? Are they migrated to the current version of Inventor you are using?
Perhaps posting this in the Inventor forum would get you a better answer.
As for what happens after the files are saved and not checked out. If you are using Vault workgroup or Pro, there is a subscription update for the 2014 release which has some changes to help deal with this scenario.
These changes are not available in Vault Basic yet.
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