×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Updating design parts

Updating design parts

Updating design parts

(OP)
Hello,

I am farely new to inventor, but I am in charge of setting up our Inventor enviroment. My question is: we are working witch profiles that have te same geometric shapes, but in each assembly different lengths. So if I am working without Content Center the parts automaticly update (each get the same length e.g.) Should I publish al of out profiles into the CC so that they get their own unique filename, or is there an other way to do this wisely ?? Please give me your thoughts about this..

Kind regards,

Arthur Wijker

RE: Updating design parts

I would avoid the content center at this point. Publishing and managing the content center is more confusing (to me anyway).

Much easier to use i-parts. Either with pre-set lengths or custom (user defined) lengths on placement. You can easily define where the child will get saved and the filename for BOM use in the idw.

Check out http://www.sdotson.com/tutorials.asp for good tutorials for each. There are also easy tutorials for linking part files to an excel spreadsheet if you might want to work with that option.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources