Inventor File Paths Issue

[patrickB6LNB]

Hello Everyone,

I have a dedicated fasteners library that I have created myself (to control internal part numbers etc,).

I have been using this for quite a while now and all my assemblies reference these fasteners.

the problem started when I had to move the location of my fasteners folder.

 I thought it would be a case of updating the file paths for my project's in the libraries section.

However its now making me manually select every fastener to input them back into the assembly.

is there a way of getting round this?

Thank you.

[Frederick_Law]

All folders should be inside Workspace.  IV look inside Workspace first.

Anything outside Workspace IV remember full path.

Use single Project file.

[patrickB6LNB]

What do you mean by remember full path?

[Anonymous]

If I'm understanding this correctly, you are NOT using Vault, correct?

And you renamed/moved a folder, this is now causing Inventor to request you to manually resolve the broken links to those components that reside in that moved/renamed directory, correct?

Yes, this is something you're going to run into for files that used the previous path as that's built into the model's history (Inventor is a history-based modeler).

Hint: If you used Vault, even the free version you get with Inventor, moving/renaming within the Vault application, these broken links would be automatically repaired.

Unless you can use Inventor's Migrate feature found in Inventor Task Scheduler, manually fixing these links as they come up may be the only way.

But check into Task Scheduler doing it for you or writing an iLogic rule to do such may be an option.

[SBix26]

I think this should work-- the new location is still within the project's search paths.

What version of Inventor are you using?  I'd like to try this for myself.

Just out of curiosity-- why did you choose the library folder method instead of Content Center for your fasteners?

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Sam B

Inventor Pro 2024 | Windows 10 Home 22H2

[patrickB6LNB]

That is correct I am not using vault.

Thank you I will look into the migrate feature function, if not I will have to continue manually resolving the links.

[patrickB6LNB]

Yes the new fasteners location is in the search paths. I have even deleted the old fasteners folder search paths and created a new one. when the window comes up to resolve the links you can see the the files are being looked for in the old search path if that makes any sense?

I am using inventor 2023.

also because the company I work at has their own bespoke parts management system that is ingrained in all aspects of the company. so each fastener has their own individual part number.

Thank you

[Frederick_Law]

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@patrickB6LNB wrote:

also because the company I work at has their own bespoke parts management system that is ingrained in all aspects of the company. so each fastener has their own individual part number.

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You can copy CC library and set part numbers the way you need.