2018 BOLTED CONNECTION COMPONENT GENERATOR - TEMPLATE LIBRARY LOCATION???

[sguan1212]

Hi, I want to start using more bolted connection command to speed up my productivity.

I've saved a few bolting assemblies in the Template Library.

I want to know the location of the saved up files so I can share it on other colleague's computers.  Can someone help..

We are currently on 2018 version. See attachment for a snapshot.

Regards,

Sean

[AlexFielder · Accepted solution]

The answer to this is... complicated.

I've just run some tests and when you create a new bolted connection it edits the index.xml file here:

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Inventor 2019\DesignAccelerator\Templates\CABoltCon\index.xml

The templates themselves are also placed in this folder but are given a GUID-type filename:

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Inventor 2019\DesignAccelerator\Templates\CABoltCon\

The index.xml file then gets a reference to each new file's GUID with a "Node" prefix:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<FDesign RecentlyUsed="C7F4D760-C82F-4ECC-8DCD-21859BD1B86D"><NodeC7F4D760-C82F-4ECC-8DCD-21859BD1B86D/><NodeCF06171C-BC49-417C-BD7D-6F7E7632E607/><Node7CEF0F17-3BFB-4FB3-B563-677F5F4A57CB/></FDesign>

The filename and part-data from one of the Bolted Connection template files

Sharing the templates should simply be a case of copying the template (GUID-named) files and the index.xml file to the relevant user path on other systems you want to share the template with.

🙂

[sguan1212]

Thanks you very much for that! 

I've came across this same file address earlier on the net, but wasn't able to navigate my way to them. This time i persisted.

The key here is to turn on the hidden files/folders in Windows, this will make AppData folder appear