Save and replace - Associated drawing

[BoganD2]

It would be nice if we had the option (checkbox or otherwise) to also copy a drawing associated with a part within Inventor. I will often be working in an assembly where I am utilizing a released (locked) part/assembly that I need to modify. Currently if I want to copy the drawing and part/assembly I need to copy design the part in Vault or through Inventors Copy design feature. It would be nice if I could utilize the 'Save and Replace' feature and also copy the associated drawing and possible IPN without having to copy design and replace that file.

[RajSchmidt]

Thing is – a model does not retain any information where it is used. Hence Inventor, on its own, cannot do that. You need a data base behind that to work with a reasonable speed.

All Inventor functionalities which find an associated drawing are either looking for a drawing with the same file name or are running through all drawings, looking for the model inside. That’s why they all take ages to complete.

[jtylerbc]

Not as nice as what you're suggesting, but you can get the desired result by manually making a copy of the drawing and using "Replace Model Reference" to change it to use the new copy of the part.