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Parts showing in Vault Browser tree but not in Model browser tree

Nauld1 — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:56:45 GMT

I noticed that there are 2 parts showing in my vault browser that I would like to remove from this assembly. But I can't seem to find these parts in the model browser in order to delete them. See picture below.

Re: Parts showing in Vault Browser tree but not in Model browser tree

blandb — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 19:01:06 GMT

Are any of these parts derived from those 2 files? Maybe those are a master file of some sort?

Re: Parts showing in Vault Browser tree but not in Model browser tree

Nauld1 — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 19:17:41 GMT

That was my first thought, but no

Re: Parts showing in Vault Browser tree but not in Model browser tree

blandb — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 19:19:36 GMT

Can you post your files?

Re: Parts showing in Vault Browser tree but not in Model browser tree

johnsonshiue — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:16:10 GMT

Hi! Two possibilities.

1) The two parts are not derived to other parts but they are linked (parameters) to some parts.

2) Occurrence corruption due to prior usage. The two parts were used to create assembly features or frames on Inventor 2015 or earlier. The features and frames were deleted along with the sketch parts. But, the reference remains there.

Many thanks!

Re: Parts showing in Vault Browser tree but not in Model browser tree

Matthew_Policelli — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:14:29 GMT

We had a user do #1 in one of our assemblies 8 years ago, and it went undetected until today. During those 8 years, it was copy designed 3 times, with those linked parts being copy designed as well despite no longer being in the assembly at some point. So basically we ended up with a bunch of unused, unnecessary parts in vault that are tied to the assembly but unused and not in the model tree.

Searching vault reveals user who linked the parts as parameters has also touched a lot of other assemblies. Many of those assemblies have probably also been Copy Designed in the past 8 years, so we could potentially have a lot of assemblies with this issue. Is there some way of finding files that have linked parts in the user parameters through Vault, or do we just have to keep an eye out for these and hope that this was an outlier?

Re: Parts showing in Vault Browser tree but not in Model browser tree

johnsonshiue — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 21:30:52 GMT

Hi Matthew,

Likely this is an Inventor bug. It means Vault detects the document links but Inventor browser does not show such link. Go to Tools -> Link and see if such link is there. If not, it is a bug. Please share the files that exhibit the behavior, I would like to take a closer look. If you know how to reproduce the behavior from scratch, it will be very helpful to find a fix.

Many thanks!

Re: Parts showing in Vault Browser tree but not in Model browser tree

JorritDix — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:20:34 GMT

For us, the solution is to delete the parameters referencing to the "extra part" in the fx.

Likely the part was in a parametric assembly. Deleting te references in fx works