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Good morning! I've run across a situation where a user wants to use content center fittings as regular parts, but is having problems replacing them. He has some metal gaskets that he uses, but only a few different types and doesn't want to have to navigate to the content center to use them, so he's saved them locally on a network drive and then modified them as needed. However, when he wants to replace the part with another part, he gets an error message saying that a conduit part cannot be replaced.
This seems to be a known issue, as there is this post which shows how this can be remedied. I can get that to work and it scrubs the authoring data from the part.
My problem is back in the assembly. Even though the part has been scrubbed of the authored content, the assembly still recognizes the part as a Tube & Pipe component and will NOT allow us to use the standard Component Replace option. The only way that I've found to get around this is to Delete the component and then place it back in right away.
I'm hoping that someone else has run into this before and has figured out a way to accomplish the replacement without having to delete the original placed component. Or if there is a better way, any ideas would be most welcome! Also, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to me. Hope all is well and have a most blessed day!
Peace,
Pete
Review this 2014 article: https://synergiscadblog.com/2014/04/14/component-replacement-on-a-content-center-part/
Mark Lancaster
& Autodesk Services MarketPlace Provider
Autodesk Inventor Certified Professional & not an Autodesk Employee
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