Inventor filling wrong drive

[Anonymous]

Hi, I have been running Inventor 2015 on my computer for FEA recently and It has been filling up my C drive despite beinginstalled on my D drive. I have a 128GB SSD for C so I wanted to reserve that for the OS and Office; and i have a 1TB HDD that i have installed programs on. there is plenty ofspace left over on D. I had noticed over the last few days that the remaining space on my C drive has dropped by about 20GB and I havent run anything other than Inventor.

The RAM usage has been up for 13-14 gig (of 16). I have been doing some fairly intensive FEA work with 6-7hr solve times.

Basically, does anyone know why my SSD is filling up? And if it is inventor, is there a way to set the location for all this data to be on my HDD?

Many thanks

[swalton]

It looks like you installed IV on D:. 

Where are you saving your IV design files?  By default, they are somewhere in the My Documents folder, which is usually on C:.

I have simulations that generate 500 MB of results data that only ran for 1.5 hrs.  IV stores the FEA results in a sub-folder below the source iam/ipt.  If your IV part/assemblies are stored on c: then you could very easily eat up drive space with FEA results.

Have you cleaned out your temp directories? 

[rhasell]

Hi

Not sure if this is applicable, but have you checked your temp folder? It is normally hidden so deep. it almost impossible to mange.

Step one: Create a Temp folder on your C: drive (OR D, its up to you, I figure that the OS want a fster drive for temp files)

Step Two:

Right Mouse Button on "Computer", select "Properties".

Select "Advanced System settings"

Click on "Environment Variables"

- Take note of the directories, this is where your temp folder is currently located.

- These files can be deleted, (That is if Explorer will let you, IMO useless file manager)

Step Three:

Change the Existing temp locations to the newly created temp directory.

This will allow you to view and manage it a lot easier than before.

Worth a try.

[Paul-Mason]

When you cretaed you project,ipt, file did you specify the D drive.

Shows up and work perfectly for me.

Have you tried recreating the IPT file to the D drive?