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Oh... you had my hopes up with "View Normal"... but it does not show up in my menu like yours.... Maybe it's the way I'm selecting the face...

Well of course we have named views... and I can create new named views... but that will always zoom me in or out the that specific view. All I really want is the orientation... which is what the "Sketch View" command does in the sketcher. I notice the Sketch View does not change your zoom and...

Thanks for the reply. I did put it on the floating tool bar... but I still count at least (4) clicks. Maybe I'm not doing it right. -Click Reorient Icon -select Front -select Top -OK They have the (1) click icon in the sketcher... I never realized how much I used this in my old program...

In our previous CAD software I could position my model parallel to the screen with (1) click... With Creo 2.0 I've got it down to (4) by putting the "Reorient" command on the toolbar. Is there a faster way to do this that I have not discovered yet? Thanks

Thanks SparWeb... I liked the 80's ! I've done many Batch Files... I like your solution. I never thought about using a spreadsheet to duplicate the command sequences... good one! But... The folders where the iam files reside are Read Only and I can't put my exe file in there or write a text...

Thanks for the reply! I still don't quite have a solution... The two column solution would work fine because the output would be... "...from all the iam files in a folder." It would output the list from the sub-assembly iam's as well. I have an exe program that does that today... but it...

We don't use Vault.... I guess we will take this to http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-general-discussion/extract-part-numbers-from-iam-assembly/m-p/5750338/highlight/false#M556182

I need this to create a "Where Used" database...

Thanks for the reply! I've tried BomXTractor, which is great, but like you said... it does one at a time... and the output is really more than I need. I could have thousands of IAM files to look at. I've done a lot of VB for MS Access... but I haven't used it in Inventor (2012) yet. If I...

From a Windows7 Command Line... I would like to run a program that would extract the parts list from all the iam files in a folder. CSV output would be fine. I'd like to get 2 columns... one for the parent (repaets as needed) and the other for the related child part number. Is there a way to...

Thanks for the reply. It's wildfire 3 No PDM This assembly has a lot of intricate, internal detail that I don't need. I just need the outer shell (envelope) so I can bring this assembly into a large layout.

I have assembly that I want to turn into an "Envelope" part. I have my assembly open, I open the Envelope Manager, create New, select the components... and then I'm stuck.

Is there a way I can add a column? It seems that the window in my drawing will not expand to include an added column. Thanks.

oops... I was thinking macro in Excel. Sorry about that. Yeah... we would use this quite often.

I'm sure we could do it with a macro... but I'm trying to eliminate a step. The database we are importing to... is looking for a specific format. We don't have any control over the database code so I was hoping to tweak the output directly from Inventor.