"Unresolved Reference (i.e., not found in Project)

[ka309061]

Hi Community,

When I try to open an assembly file form my desktop, a window in Inventor titled "Resolve Link" pops up, saying "Unresolved Reference (i.e., not found in Project)" and is prompting me to pick only an .ipt file. I've been able to open other assembly files just fine. How do I resolve this?

[guido_overath]

Hi ka309061,

do you know that Inventor uses a project file (standard is devault.ipj) and how these IPJ files work?

Inventor only searches the directories that are defined in the IPJ. You can't just load an IAM or IDW from anywhere...

Read how the IPJs work and you will have no more missing references, expect you delete files. 

Br

Guido

[James_Willo]

As mentioned above, Inventor searches in certain areas for your files. 

Check the file you are having to resolve is in one of these locations of the Project file.

[guido_overath]

@james,

you are rigth, but it is not just this. Usually one have folders that are static over more than the current project, e.G. standards parts. Otheres are different from project to project like templates, title blocks etc.

An Inventor-User need to understand how Inventor is dealing with files. If the Path settings are absolute (D:\...), the references get saved absolute in the IAM. This can cause issues if the files get started on a different computer. Maybe D:\.. is not available.

Here the key is using relative path like: .\Content Center files\

Also using the number of the year is not that optimal. At the first glance it seems a good idea, but sooner or later you need to migrate to the latest version anyway...