Switching Componets in a drawing

[Anonymous]

I have a drawing which was created from an assembly. Whomever, created the drawing dimensioned the assembly as a detail part. It has a considerable amount of dimesioning which I don't want to recreate. It it possible to do a save as on the drawing and then swap out the assembly .iam for the detail part .ipt which should have been there intitially? I have tried use "Change Model Reference" under the Manage tab but it only looks for a replacement assembly and nothing else. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dale Bennett

Trapeze Group

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

[SBix26 · Accepted solution]

I don't believe that this is possible.  All the methods for accomplishing this assume the same file type.  I'm afraid that you will end up re-creating the annotations.

Sam B

Inventor Professional 2016 R3 SP1 Update 1
Vault Basic 2016 SP1
Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit, SP1

[tschaeferZNBXX]

Change Model Reference would work if and only if the part is in the same orientation as the assembly.  The X, Y and Z axis' must be the same along with the faces (Front, Back, Top, Bottom, Left and Right).  You may still have to do a little clean up but not nearly what you would if you started from scratch.

[Anonymous]

If it's not totally disruptive to your file management, the cheap work around is to create a new assembly with only the one part in it, and then do the replace.

Whoops, beaten to it.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the suggestions, but it looks like I will have to bite bullet and create a new drawing with the correct .ipt the way it should have been done initally.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the suggestions, but it looks like I will have to bite bullet and create a new drawing with the correct .ipt the way it should have been done initally.