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WCrihfield
in reply to: dustinbagley

Hi @dustinbagley.  This is an odd question.  Files and documents are two different things.  A file is what gets saved to a hard drive, with a file address.  A document is basically just a reference to the organized data being held in Inventor's session memory, which may have been at least partially read from a file, or created within the software, and has not been saved as a File to the hard drive yet.  A Document object has a ReadOnly property named File, which will return Inventor's version of a File object.  That Inventor File object then has a Read/Write property named FullFileName, where you can only 'set' its value when that File has not been saved yet.  Once the Document/File has been saved, that either creates or updates the File on the hard drive, but leaves the Document open in Inventor's session memory, until you Close it.

Wesley Crihfield

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