iLogic Inventor Drawing Save As

Anonymous · ‎03-01-2017

I have a rule that runs a part drawing to save as after I put a new part in it. When I start with and "idw" drawing file everything is fine.

ThisDoc.Document.SaveAs(ThisDoc.Path & "\" & RtrnSpannerPnNo & ".idw", True)

Problem I have is that there are lots of drawings that I want to reference and save as on that are Inventor based .dwg files. When I swap out ".idw" with ".dwg", I get a new file that is actually correct, but it is an autocad .dwg that is not tied to model. How can I get the SaveAs to pick Inventor based .dwg?

MechMachineMan · ‎03-01-2017

As you would have seen had you looked in Programming Help....

DrawingDocument.SaveAsInventorDWG Method

Syntax

DrawingDocument.SaveAsInventorDWG( FullFileName As String, SaveCopyAs As Boolean )

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Jonathan.Landeros · ‎03-01-2017

Thanks!

I was wondering the exact thing myself. Ironically, looking in the first place is the last thing that I thought of.

Lesson learned! Now to give it a go!

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Anonymous · ‎03-01-2017

I didn't even know it existed, so I got a two for one!

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