Copy Design & Content Center (as custom)

[johan.degreef]

Hello, when copying a design with Vault prof. (copy design), and the assembly contains content center parts (at least ones that are placed "as custom"), the custom content center parts are not copied.

When opening the new design, the custom content center parts, are still linked to the originals in the source folder.

So when changing size of those parts, the original gets modified too.

Is that normal behaviour?

In this example, there is 1 such a profile.

BR, Johan

[johan.degreef · Accepted solution]

For those of you who want to know the solution.

"As outlined in the forum post, the proximate cause for the Copy Design issue with the ‘placed as custom’ CC parts is because they get placed into a locked state as they are added back to Vault.  Because of this, I'll had to make a decision.  I will either need to:

• Change the lifecycle into which all CC parts are being placed to have a default state that is not locked
• Change the lifecycle into which custom CC parts are being placed by default

• That different lifecycle must not have its default state as a locked state

It has been fairly standard practice over the years to automatically release CC parts upon check in, but that only works for CC parts placed as standard.  CC parts placed as custom almost always need to behave like normal parts.  In this situation I would argue that you really do need those custom CC parts to behave like normal parts, because something needs to be different about that specific new iteration.

If you want your custom CC parts to be placed into your ‘normal’ part category (e.g. Engineering), you’ll have to change the rule that is used to categorize CC parts.  It’s probably using some mapped User Defined Property (that’s the way I’ve seen it implemented as standard).  You could change that rule to categorize CC parts by their Vault path instead, which should allow custom CC parts (which should by definition be placed somewhere inside the Inventor workspace) to be categorized as Engineering parts, and standard CC parts (which would be somewhere inside your Content Center Files folder in Vault) to still be categorized as CC parts and automatically released.

quote FJ - thank you"

Adding the yellowed criteria made it only appicable to standard content center parts, and not the "as custom" placed.

[bradeneuropeArthur]

That is a good tip @johan.degreef 

[bradeneuropeArthur]

There is also a Property available in the "ContentCenter" Propertyset with called "IsCustomPart".

For real Content Center Files placed as Standard the Value of IsCustomPart = 0

For real Content Center Files placed as Custom the Value of IsCustomPart = 1

IDEA CLICK HERE! 

This would help us a lot when this would be available to read/map in Vault too!