How to tell Inventor to open last saved file in Explorer

[johnEE7T4]

Hello,

How do I point Inventor to open up and "save as" to a specific folder in Explorer?  I see the setting "last active" in the Open Tab in Options but I am hoping for Inventor to remember my last folder because I have a ton of subfolders in Windows Explorer. 

It continuously reverts to a completely different folder 

I do get the message that the part, etc is not active and I have to say its active. 

I had many problems trying to use a master project template file and unresolved links so this was my work around which I know is a poor practice. 

Thanks for reading. 

[CGBenner · Accepted solution]

Can you share some screen shots of what/where you are trying to open or save?  Inventor will always try to open or save to your active project workspace, which is the preferred/best place to save your files and should eliminate most of the reference problems.

[sundars · Accepted solution]

Hi @johnEE7T4 

In the event you do save a file outside of your project path, the quickest way I have found to access that folder is via the Open or Save As dialogs and look at the File name pulldown. Its a list of all the recently accessed files and their locations. Its not perfect, but it does the job.

• Say you have project c:\XYZ as your active project path
• And you create a new file and save it to C:\MyDocuments
• And you close the file
• Do a File Open and look at the filename field in the Open File Dialog and drop down the list you will see your last saved file location.

Thanks

-shiva

[johnEE7T4]

Gents,

I appreciate the detailed and informational response. You both confirmed and taught me a trick. 

I have mentioned this so many times but this forum is one of the most helpful forums on the web when I need a way to describe something that Google doesn't get correctly.  Saves me a lot of time. 

[CGBenner]

@johnEE7T4 

Awesome.  Great to know we're able to help!  Thank you for posting, and for the feedback.