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Delete referenced file

CadUser46 — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 08:56:42 GMT

Not as straight forward as it seems. I have a file that refuses to disappear from the referenced files collection. It does not show up in either BOM.rows or component occurences.

the delete method is not available for document or documentdescriptor so how to i delete this file?

Cheers

Craig

Re: Delete referenced file

Vladimir.Ananyev — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 17:12:00 GMT

Is it the only sick file or you find them quite often?

Have you an idea how this problem could be reproduced?

Could you upload this file?

cheers,

Re: Delete referenced file

CadUser46 — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:02:03 GMT

It's not the first time I have seen it but it happens so randomly I couldn't reproduce it. I'll upload the file tomorrow.

Re: Delete referenced file

CadUser46 — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:37:40 GMT

Attached the file you requested.

Re: Delete referenced file

Vladimir.Ananyev — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:26:58 GMT

When I open your iam file in the Inventor 2015 the Resolve Link Dialog indicates the missing file
asep\A1008639_Chainwheel_In_Work_01011581.ipt

After I skip this unresolved file reference I see the referenced files collection that is empty.

Re: Delete referenced file

CadUser46 — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:16:23 GMT

I had to doubt myself and wondered why i didnt try that already, then i remembered i did. The reason i started looking for a vba solution is because the 'Links' button is greyed out.

Using Inventor 2012.

Re: Delete referenced file

Vladimir.Ananyev — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:40:27 GMT

Have you solved your problem?

cheers,

Re: Delete referenced file

CadUser46 — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:47:37 GMT

No. Is there way to delete it with VBA?

Re: Delete referenced file

Vladimir.Ananyev — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:50:23 GMT

No, unfortunately API does not provide any tools for this

Re: Delete referenced file

CadUser46 — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:55:17 GMT

Any other suggestions? I cant migrate the assembly right now.

Re: Delete referenced file

Vladimir.Ananyev — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 09:06:28 GMT

Could you please describe your workflow when you solve this in the UI ?

Re: Delete referenced file

CadUser46 — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 09:11:45 GMT

Do you mean describe what im doing now? Or report back here when/if i do find a solution?

If its the first case i simply activate a project file in an completely empty directory, open the file, it tells me about the unresolved link which i then skip. At this point the Links button is greyed out.

Re: Delete referenced file

Vladimir.Ananyev — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 09:57:19 GMT

It is possible to open the document ignoring Resolve Links dialog.

Application.SilentOperation property helps to proceed the open file operation without prompting (if that gets required...e.g.: error message dismissal).

ThisApplication.SilentOperation = True
Set oDoc = ThisApplication.Documents.Open(filename, True)
ThisApplication.SilentOperation = False

In more complicated scenario you may consider FileAccessEvents.FireOnFileResolution method that could give you the unresolved filename.

Re: Delete referenced file

CadUser46 — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 10:59:51 GMT

Vladimir, you're confusing me. Go back to my OP. I dont want to suppress the message, i need the link to the file removed without changing the file version from 2012

Re: Delete referenced file

Vladimir.Ananyev — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:59:22 GMT

Unfortunately I have no good news for you, sorry for that. There isn’t a way to directly delete the references in an assembly. They are created and removed as you do things that require a file reference. But you may try to automate the workaround that works for you in UI.