Replace From Content Center Does Nothing OR Causes Crash Inventor 2017

[Anonymous]

Hello All,

I am using Inventor 2017 and I have, and am currently working in multiple assemblies with some having a lot of components and sub assemblies and some having only a few. If I place a component into an assembly and the click "Replace From The Content Center" with another component, I will get the normal prompts to do so and then NOTHING will happen. Nothing changes or is replaced. Then sometimes I will go through all that and after I click on what I want in the content center it will shoot me to another screen to place the component from my C Drive. Then finally the worst problem out of the 3, it will cause a crash.

I can delete and place new components just fine. I have talked to Advanced Solutions, and Autodesk about this and they have given me work around's, and ask me to to un-install certain software, turn off add ins, and nothing. I have an "Open Support" Case but I am so touch and go with using the software I haven't been able to share my screen much when having the issue. I love the Inventor but I have had this problem for months. My company bought me a new computer and we are about to switch to 2018, but until then....Am I the only person who has had this issue?

[CCarreiras]

Hi!

I never had those kind of issues in any previous versions.

Do you use project files to your work?

[Anonymous]

Carlos,

Thank you for your inquiry. 

Yes, my co workers and I use the same project file. No one else has this issue that I have noticed.

[Mark.Lancaster]

@Anonymous

Are these CC components that you can't replace related to tube & piping components?  If so, disable your Inventor routed system add-in and test again.  Although this article is a couple of years old, the information within it describes what's going on.

[chris]

I've experienced that before, just needed to do a re-start

[Anonymous]

Mark,

That was a really good informational article and I really appreciated it. I always wondered what the difference in the symbols were and why I had both. I have turned off the add in for now because I am not using it currently, but I still have the different symbols. Currently everything is working as it should so I will have to do an extended test. Most of the time everything replaces just fine when I click on the component I want to replace and then Right Click, select "Replace From Content Center". It is just randomly when it fails or causes the crash. But I will continue to test to see if that is the problem. Thanks!!

[hosford]

Make sure you are not in a positional representation,  needs to be Master.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! When it crashed, did you submit the crash report? If yes, could you send me the email address that you fill in the report (johnson.shiue@autodesk.com)?

Many thanks!

[Anonymous]

Hello,

Sorry for the late reply as I have been upgrading to 2018 and testing to see if that was the issue. The email I used is wwilson@lectrodryer.com.

I still have the same issue and I have placed a screen cast of my problem below. This is with the tube and Pipe Add in LOADED. I will now try UNLOADED.

[Mark.Lancaster]

@Anonymous

For a test before unloading your routed system module..  Right mouse click on your "tee" and select copy.  Paste a copy of it somewhere.  Next do a component replacement on the copy/paste tee.  Can you replace that tee with your cross?  If so the original tee is under the control of the routed system rules.  When you copy/paste, its pasted as a normal CC component and the pasted copy will have a different browser image.