Inventor FEA Supporting Files

[obourne]

In Inventor if I create an FEA analysis of a model the supporting FEA files are created and checked in with my model. If I access and open the file the Vault pulls my FEA files out along with my model. This is fine if I'm the one accessing the file. It becomes a problem when someone else (who knows nothing about IV FEA) opens the model and has to deal with the supporting files. Usually there is a lot of confusion on their part.

It would be best to some how "suppress" the FEA files until I need them. So, when someone else opens the model they do not need to "get" the supporting file (and ostensibly get asked to check them out).

[hans.martin.haga]

In the FEA configuration, you can click "Do not create OLE links". The FEA-files are then not linked as 3rd party files, and are not checked into Vault.

[obourne]

The issue above was with Vault COLLAB 2011. I don't know if it was fixed in 2013 or not.

[PeteMaxfield]

Hans is correct. 

FEA  - > Settings -> Solver,

Uncheck Results: Create OLE Link to Result files.

If the parent model file has already been checked into Vault, I recommend checking it out, adjusting the FEA settings, re-saving, and the OLE links should be severed. If that does not work, head to

Tools -> Links

and break the links to the files.

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