Export assembly to OBJ, components replaced by others with similar filenames

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

I am asking for help today because, as the title says, I have an assembly containing hundreds of parts and sub-assemblies, and I want to export it as OBJ. But when I do so, some of my sub-assemblies have their components replaced by other parts of my assembly (which have the same name). I don't know why I get such results, I also tried exporting as STP to avoid the problem but I get the same issue.

So my question is :

Inventor export can't handle multiple files with same name?

If so, is their any way to rename all parts with an index like "partname_1", "partname_2", "partname_3"... ?

Thanks in advance,

Arthur

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Arthur,

Inventor is a file-based CAD system. When exporting and importing files, the same name files within the project folder can create confusion. It is better to find those and rename them accordingly. Are these frame members?

Many thanks!

[Anonymous]

Ok Thanks,

I will have to rename parts then, do you have any ideas about how I can do that? I could use iLogic, but are there any other easier ways?

I'm not sure to understand what you mean by frame members, so I guess it's not the case.

Thank you,

Arthur

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Arthur,

Frame members are the frames created from Frame Generator. Due to a current limitation, the files can have the same name but stored in different folders.

Many thanks!

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Ok, then, they are not frame members ! Still, the files being replaced by others have the same name but are NOT in the same directory, that's what causes me trouble.

Anyway, I am working with iLogic to rename all files, I'll let you know if I get it working.

Thanks for all,

Arthur

[Anonymous]

So,

I worked on some iLogic rule to rename files, but I had issues because I worked on different computers (which corrupted some fullfilenames in cache).

I bypassed the whole problem by using a Shrinwrap on my assembly, in order to get only one file, and I was then able to export this ipt to OBJ without any issue ! I made sure to keep multiple bodies, and that was it.

Still, I don't understand why Inventor doesn't handle a STP/OBJ export of 2 parts with same name (but different path). I think it should be a native feature !

Thanks for everything anyway 🙂