Show Extended Names

[BCrosby]

My "Show Extended Names" option isn't working in my iam files but it is working in my ipt files.

Any thoughts as to why?

[mdavis22569]

Can you post an image ...

Also ..I'm assuming you've looked at this:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016...

Select Show Extended Names in the Filter menu to display detailed information about part features.

Extended feature names are available in the Part, Sheet Metal Part, Assembly Modeling View, and Drawing environments. Format or content of extending strings cannot be changed.

[BCrosby]

To be clear... The extended names are now showing in a weldment.iam file under the machining process.

they are showing up in a ipt file.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi BCrosby,

To show the extended name information of parts in the assembly, you must change the browser view from Assembly View to Modeling View, this will display the extended information of the features in the parts.

I think that assembly features simply do not have the ability to display extended data at this point, but I could not find anything stating so clearly in a quick search of the help files.

So I think it is just not psossible to do this for assembly (weldment) features?

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[BCrosby]

I toggled between assembly view and modeling view with the "Show Extended
Names" check on and they don't show up in either situation in the iam file.
Kinda strange that the option would be available to turn on if the
capability isn't there.



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@BCrosby wrote:

Kinda strange that the option would be available to turn on if the
capability isn't there.

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Hi BCrosby,

The capability in assemblies is there, it turns on extended information for the part features in the assembly tree, and it turns on the Relationships extended information (for constraints, etc) it just doesn't do anything for assembly features.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com