Automagically place content center fasteners in Assembly browser sub-folder?

[Anonymous]

R2017 Inventor and Vault Basic users.

Is this at all possible?  We have been trying to standardize on placing fasteners in an Assembly sub-folder named "Fasteners".  I even put the folder in the Assembly template so it's there as a reminder.  It's a bit tedious to move fasteners into the folder after placement and many times component patterns won't move.  This would help us better organize and standardize our large assembly browser trees.

I am just wondering if there is a way to get the component instances to populate in the sub folder?  We are fairly new to Content Center so I'm still learning it's features.

Thanks.

[cbenner]

@Anonymous

A little more info, please.  Are you using Desktop Content or Vault Content Libraries?  And, are you placing your fasteners "As Standard", or "As Custom".  With custom, a new part file is generated each time you place the fastener, and should prompt you for a file name and location.  This would get them to the folder you want, but the downside is that you would have many different instances of (possibly) the same fasteners, all over your file system.  Which is fine, if that's what you want.

As Standard would place them with the filename determined by the Content Center, and would place the component into the default Content Center file location (determined by Application Options).  Only one instance would be created, and would be re-used each time that same fastener is placed in any assembly.

[Anonymous]

@cbenner 

Thanks for the reply.  Sorry, we are placing all fasteners "As Standard".  I'm not looking to change the location the instances are created and saved to.  I'm just wondering if there is a way to "organize" them in the assembly browser within a sub folder named "Fasteners" in a somewhat automated way.

We have not traditionally been good as a group about organizing our assembly browser trees and they get quite long and messy.  Just trying to clean things up a bit.

Thanks

[cbenner]

@Anonymous

My bad, I didn't catch that you were doing this in the browser.  I'm not seeing any way to do this automatically.  There may be some ilogic for this, or it may be a good Idea for the future.