Sheet Metal Styles - pushing new sheet metal styles into old parts

[Anonymous]

Good afternoon All,

I was just helping a customer with some sheet metal rules.  Their current sheet metal template includes all the styles that they need (2020).  They have some older files (2016) that do not have those sheet metal rules showing in them though.  

I was able to find that you can just export/import the rules from the new files and load them into the old.  Is this the best way to go about it?  Appears you have to do each rule one by one as well.

Additionally, I was under the impression that as long as they were pointing to the correct styles library location, even the old files would be able to see the same styles as the new parts.  I ran an update on the styles library as well, and it didn't pick up any discrepancies for sheet metal rules though.

And so, I'm thinking that their styles library doesn't contain any of the custom sheet metal rules to begin with, and instead the relevant sheet metal rules are saved exclusively on their current templates.  And thus, we either need to upload those rules to the styles library and or import/export to the old files as needed.

Any thoughts?

[cadman777]

You may be better served to ask this question in the Inventor Customization forum.

They can share some ideas or rules that will do that may accomplish your objective.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I suspect a little tool in \SDK\ may help. Go to C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 20xx\SDK\ and install UserTools. There is a small add-in called Batch Update Styles. What it does is to push the same named styles from Styles Library to the selected files.

Many thanks!