topic Re: Linking a model to its drawing in Inventor Forum

Linking a model to its drawing

MikeKovacik4928 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 06:04:22 GMT

When you right click on the title in the browser bar (is this the right name?) of a ipt or iam drawing and click on open drawing,
the existing drawing (idw) for that component (ipt or iam) automatically opens if it has the same file name.
Is there a way of linking the .ipt or .iam to the .idw if their file names are not the same?

Mike Kovacik

Inventor Pro 2020, Vault Pro 2020

South Africa

Re: Linking a model to its drawing

torbjorn_heglum1 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 06:22:09 GMT

If you use Vault:

-RMB in browser->Vault->Open Drawing from Vault

mvh

Torbjørn

Re: Linking a model to its drawing

MikeKovacik4928 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 06:36:22 GMT

Thanks

I am using vault now for the first time, so that works perfectly.

Just out of interest, if you were not using vault, as I was previously,

how would you do it, if the 2 file names were not the same

Mike

Re: Linking a model to its drawing

torbjorn_heglum1 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 06:43:57 GMT

Not sure if it is possible at all.

Have been working with Vault the last 15 years, so I am not very familiar with non-Vault workflows anymore.

Torbjørn

Re: Linking a model to its drawing

MikeKovacik4928 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 06:53:06 GMT

Thanks

I am the opposite, I have been working without vault for the last 10 years, now I am working with it.

So it was just a question out of interest.

If anyone else, that doesn't work with vault, knows, I would be interested.

Autodesk, you should know, maybe you can tell me

Mike

Re: Linking a model to its drawing

mcgyvr — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:38:21 GMT

@MikeKovacik4928 wrote:

Thanks

I am using vault now for the first time, so that works perfectly.

Just out of interest, if you were not using vault, as I was previously,

how would you do it, if the 2 file names were not the same

Mike

That functionality is hard coded to only look for a file in the same folder with the same name.

There is no way to have that work if they aren't the same.. Most have decided that same name/same folder is best practice so it works that way..

Re: Linking a model to its drawing

MikeKovacik4928 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:17:46 GMT

mcgyvr

Thanks for that info

Mike