Where used of a file

[ngocson8335]

Hello everyone,

How can I find where is the part used in a project by vb? Please help me in this case!

Thank you.

Ngoc Son

[WCrihfield]

I believe that capability is only available when you have Vault installed and set-up.

Do you have Vault?

[ngocson8335]

No I do not

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Correct that you need vault API for that.

Or you need to have the parent relation opened in inventor, but then you already know where the file is used.

[WCrihfield · Accepted solution]

@ngocson8335 

Without Vault, the alternative is pretty much an impossibly large, time consuming, and system resource heavy task.

In theory, you could create utility that would check each Inventor file within your entire Project workspace, by accessing its 'AllReferencedDocuments', and comparing each referenced document object with the target document object.  Then, when a match is found, adding the file name to some sort of list or text file.

Depending on the overall number of Inventor files you have within your project's workspace directory (and its sub directories), this will almost certainly lock-up/freeze your system, or worse.

[ngocson8335]

Thank you guy for your answer. Now I am starting to use Vault in my workflow.

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Please would you keep me informed if you are comfortable with using Vault and what version of Vault you are using and what workflow?

[greggeorgi]

For those who do not have access to vault, it is very likely that you do have design assistant installed. I believe it is normally installed alongside inventor automatically. It provides a where used functionality and some other functions. As it does not have an index like vault does, like WCrihfield said, the process can be rather slow, though not indefinite, you do get to see progress happening and it is possible to cancel the search (if you can spam cancel fast enough...) A downside is that the user will be spammed constantly with open messages for things like missing references, outdated assembly, etc. I wholly recommend vault over this, but this works if its absolutely needed. You could possibly set ThisApplication.SilentOperation to true, and set 'skip unresolved references options

before running. And then work in a different inventor session if your computer is beefy enough to do so.

Note that if a drawing contains components, it will be searched in the drawing, so if a drawing is made for every component in the search folders, then its best to not search drawings and components at the same time.

 

[maxim.teleguz]

what about for someone who has Vault, how would they be able to get a where used with ilogic? 

or a parameter?

We need to link to idw the where used so we stop entering it manually everytime. 

[maxim.teleguz]

here is the ilogic code to do a where used command:

Call ThisApplication.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions.Item("VaultShowDetailsTop").Execute