topic Save as part in assembly in Inventor Forum

Save as part in assembly

ZFerrarini — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:27:27 GMT

I am used to Solidworks where from an assembly I open a part and do a "save as" with a different name, and the assembly gets updated with the new part.

I tried to do the same in Inventor 2023, but I can't make it work.

The only way I found is to do the save as, but the assembly doesn't keep the new part and then I replace the old part with the new one.

Is this really the only way or am I doing something wrong?

Is there a way to do the save as like Solidworks?

Thank you in advance.

Re: Save as part in assembly

kacper.suchomski — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:33:10 GMT

Save and Replace?

https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2025/ENU/?guid=GUID-BCC5604E-DC96-4772-8DF4-60AA2541D4B3

Re: Save as part in assembly

ZFerrarini — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:08:38 GMT

Thank you.

Re: Save as part in assembly

ZFerrarini — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:57:15 GMT

One more question: does it work with the drawing of the part I want to rename?

Re: Save as part in assembly

kacper.suchomski — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:07:13 GMT

No. A new part requires a new drawing. Depending on your needs, you can:

Save a copy as (new name), open a copy, swap reference.
Open drawing, swap reference, save (or save as).
Create a new drawing with the new part.

Re: Save as part in assembly

ZFerrarini — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:03:44 GMT

That sucks. Thank you.