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llorden4
in reply to: llorden4

I've spent some time looking into the Skeletal design, it is the "top down" design I'm looking for and appears to function primarily using one of two methods, that being "Derived" sketches/components or by Linking parameters from a Part file to an Assembly file - nothing new here but a new name association I hadn't heard of before.  Both methods have the same limiting characteristic, that being once a link is created it cannot be repaired if the link is broken.  How would this happen, you might wonder?

 

I would use this same assembly multiple times on a design and each time it was used it would have some variation required than the previous time used.  So the attempt here is to create a pre-configured assembly with all associations already made (I call this the "template files", though not technically a template file as considered by Inventor), copy it to a project folder elsewhere on the network and rename the part/assembly files with a routine via an algorithm associated with the location and properties of its usage.  Once the assembly filename is changed to the new filename, all the links between that assembly and part files are now broken.  Opening the part files offers no method that I've found to repair the link for the parameters or derived features of a sketch; it's just simply lost, no saving throw, game over.

 

The only option I've had any success with is to keep making individual parts and recreating each assembly time and time again; at least assembly drawings will allow me to repair links if filenames are changed and the file can no longer be found, if renamed.  I'm hoping to find a much simpler process than this.

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