Apprentice: Replace components with different internal name

[IQUADRATAG]

Hello,

I would like to know if there is any possibility to replace a component with another one, that has a different internal name. Losing the dependencies would be acceptable.

ReplaceReference and PutLogicalFileNameUsingFull always return the error "wrong parameter".

Thank you in advance

Christian

[philippe.leefsma]

Hi Christian,

Which release version are you using? The ability to replace references that have a different internal name was added in Inventor 2011, I would think it is the same for Apprentice.

Regards,

Philippe.

[IQUADRATAG]

Hi Philippe,

thank you for your answer. I'm using version 2013 (64 Bit). Replacing the reference only works direclty in Inventor, but neither using the Inventor-API nor using Apprentice.

Perhaps you can tell me which function I should use?

Regards,

Christian

[xiaodong_liang]

Hi,

I am not sure how you wrote by Apprentice, but this is a blog which may help you:

http://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2012/08/replace-the-file-reference-by-inventor-api.html

[IQUADRATAG]

Hi,

I'm using the method "ReferencedFileDescriptor.replaceReference", as shown in the mentioned blog. it works perfectly, but only for files that share the same internal name.

Regards,

Christian

[philippe.leefsma]

Hi Christian,

I doubt files with different ancestry can be replaced after all, wether you use Inventor or Apprentice. Comments from the ReplaceReference method in Help Files confirm this:

The file being replaced and the replacement file must share ancestry (i.e. they must have the same InternalName). Documents have the same internal name if they are copied using 'Save Copy As' or a file explorer copy.

Regards,

Philippe.