Rename factory files and maintain original associations

[tmoxam]

Is it possible to rename/regenerate factory members and have them maintain their association with an iassembly?

i have an i assembly with 6 iparts. the assembly has 70 or so variations. Each of the 6 iparts contain 40 - 80 factory members.

i have completed drawings for all files, assemblies and parts. Now, (of course now) i have been asked to add a "B"  in front of the part number. (part number = member file name). File name is 26075-24 and now will be B26075-24. I am worried that everything will go for a ship if i generate these new files. All drawings will be pointing to wrong files. All iassembly configurations will have to be re-done from scratch.

is there a way to do this keeping the original associations?

[Frederick_Law]

You need to manually "reconnect" all of them.

[Cadmanto]

Do you have Vault?

Because I am pretty sure I have done renames and copy designs of factory's as well as the members within vault maintaining connections.

Why do you have 2 threads going asking basically the same question?

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/rename-factory-members-and-maintain-association/td-p/8...

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[tmoxam]

Thats what i was hoping. (to use vault) i was checking first for a good procedure.

i was un-able to delete the second forum post.

[Cadmanto]

See the attached link for renaming factory members in Vault.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/vault-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/EN...

And see this link for using copy design within Vault to copy factory's and members.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/vault-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/EN...

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