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Content center part location

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 08:40:51 GMT

Hi everybody.

So i am creating my own content center and I've created my first ipart there but i wanted to know where physically she is saved. I wanted to store this part, because i've made changes in it inside the content editor and now i don't know where to find it.

Best regards.

Re: Content center part location

Marco.Takx — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:54:37 GMT

By default your Libraries are placed on:

C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\Inventor ????\Content Center\Libraries

You can check you path within the Application Options -> Content Center Tab.

Re: Content center part location

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:39:15 GMT

Yeah, that i know, i will try to explain me better.

I created several iparts, then i included them in my own library. After that i altered some values in their family table and i wanted to save that iparts phisicly in a folder i my computer. And for that i wanted to know if when i publish the parts in my library, where does the inventor store the *.ipt files so i can go there and copy them to my folder.

Thanks for the attention,

Best regards,

Ari Cardoso.

Re: Content center part location

Mark.Lancaster — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:11:28 GMT

@Anonymous

Clarification.. Are you working with Iparts or content center parts? Your response is a little confusing..

Once a part or an Ipart is published to the content center that part is no longer needed. All the information is in the family table of content center. When a part is placed from the content center and placed into an assembly that CC part is located based on the setting either in Application Options/File tab or your active project file/folder option. Meaning if the information in your project file states default, then CC parts are placed based on the Application Options/File tab. If there's a location defined in your project file then CC parts are placed based on that location.

If you make changes to the family table in CC you then need to update the content center part on your hard drive manually. It will not doing it automatically.

Also I'm not sure why you need to copy these files to another folder location. Can you clarify?

ALso review this information:

Re: Content center part location

Anonymous — Mon, 02 May 2016 08:19:06 GMT

Hi,

I am working with iParts, and what happened was that i created one ipart and published it in my content center, but i realized that was missings variants in that ipart. So i added 50 lines in the family table of that part( the ipart its an round tube section).

And this is where i wanna get, there is a difference now beetween my original ipart(my computer) and the one that is in the content center, do i need to add the variants in the ipart that is in my computer or is there a place where inventor store the parts i publish in the content center and i can go there and get them.

In the generel view of my problem is that, i wanna, in the future, make a library shared with one more computer, so i am "testing" my library with some iparts, and i am trying to figure out if when i publish one iPart in the content center and change or add vallues in the family table i have to make that changes in my computer ipart ( for the future library i am making), so that the two of them stay equal or when i change the one in the content center i can go somewhere in my computer and get that ipart with the values actualized.

Hope that i could explain my problem better,

Best regards

Re: Content center part location

Mark.Lancaster — Mon, 02 May 2016 11:46:34 GMT

@Anonymous

I have to say you are making this way too complicated...

When you publish an iPart to the content center all the information is now in the content center. If you need to add/make changes, make the modification by editing the family table of the content center component. There's no need to modify the original iPart. However if you make dramatic changes to the iPart table structure then delete the content center family and republish your iPart.

Re: Content center part location

johnsonshiue — Mon, 02 May 2016 22:09:01 GMT

Hi! Content Center files are placed either in default system folder (Tools -> Application Options -> File -> Default Content Center Files) or a designated folder in your active Project (Folder Options -> Content Center Files).

Thanks!

Re: Content center part location

Anonymous — Tue, 03 May 2016 08:12:38 GMT

Ahah I believe that may be true!

Not yet ansering me,so, hipotetly:

i publish one ipart in the content center in my library, then i delete the original iPart of my computer, it exists only in the content center.

Now imagine i want to make, in another computer, a library with that part, because i no longer have the original ipart i can not use it. It's because of that, that i wanted to know if the content center stores the published parts somewhere in my computer so i could go there and copy it to another computer.

Could i explain myself better this time? I hope so! 😃

Best regards.

Re: Content center part location

Anonymous — Tue, 03 May 2016 08:15:16 GMT

Hi,

But in the Default content center files only stores the member parts, is there some place that it stores one part with all the family table?

Thanks.