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    Save & Save Copy As - NOT WORKING sometimes

    This is on another user's workstation here who wouldn't know how to optimize if you told him. Not my work station and I only optimized on mine. I have never had this problem and he has never changed anything from defaults. He's runnin about as generic an installation as you could image as the...
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    Save & Save Copy As - NOT WORKING sometimes

    The assembly has NEVER been saved so library or not, the SAVE or SAVE COPY AS does not work. This is the initial save for the assembly so there is no possibility of it being a library part because that would mean at one time it WAS saved to a library. We have checked with our distributor and...
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    Save & Save Copy As - NOT WORKING sometimes

    We have a user who has had this happen about three times and we have no clue as to what is happening. He is working on several new parts and assemblies using those parts. When I get called over he has a new assembly started, parts inserted and constrained, and he can not save it. When you hit...
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    Launch Application from Inventor with Icon????

    We can add a macro (IVB) to a button definition but is there any way to define a menu button inside Inventor to launch an executable Window's application? We have an executable application that is a compiled VB app to do some file management and we'd like to be able to launch it from within...
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    Optimized and BORING!!!

    We're on SP2 and have been since it came out. We've had our share of problems but no more or less then pre-SP2 as far as I can tell but we did the IV8 to IV9 around the same time, too. So we may of attributed a lot to IV9 rather then SP2. That would be a call for IT and not us, but I think I...
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    Optimized and BORING!!!

    Hey Sean, Thanks for the link. On his website there is a configuration page at : http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm Do you follow this to the "T" or tweak around his recommendations? I am tempted to just run down the Power User settings and go for it. Hope things are well up the...
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    Optimized and BORING!!!

    We just downloaded the Autodesk file to optimize settings for Inventor at : http://adeskftp.autodesk.com/prodsupp/downloads/TS100796.pdf and these suggestions have us reducing the screen resolution and turning off all the XP features and effects that make the screen visually appealing. Our...
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    Model Tree Folders?????

    Does *ANYONE* have an add-on or anything that would allow you to organize the model tree in an assembly (IAM) file so things are not so cluttered up? SolidWorks does this and Inventor doesn't do anything. For example I have a massive assembly and would like to group together all the parts that...
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    Default CLUTTERED Dimension Styles in INV9

    We just moved to Inventor 9 and we had all our dimension styles set as we needed them. Now when we start a new drawing we get all these new styles like BSI, DIN, GB, ISO, JIS, XXXBigText and things like that. We want to PURGE these as we don't and won't use them BUT Inventor says they are all...
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    Revision Table - how to create a default version

    I beg to differ. I just created a new IDW file, inserted a Revisions Table and edited it so it was how I wanted it. Deleted it and then put a new Revision Table in and the format held. I then saved this into my template directory with a new template name to test. I started a new IDW and used...
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    Neat Helpful Hint ---> INVENTOR (or any solids package)

    We have had many situations where we need to simulate a rectangular shaped object rotating at a certain distance away from a rotating shaft (like a pallet on a chain) but we only need to check for interference. There may be other ways to do this but we found that we can constrain the base of the...
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    Inventor 9 - Work Feature Visibility

    We have just upgraded to Inventor Version 9 and every time we open an assembly all the work features (user planes, points, axes...etc) have their visibility ON. Is there any way to make it so when you open an assembly that the default is to have work feature visibility turned OFF? Thanks and...
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    Default Tolerances in Title Block

    We have a handful of mechanical engineers doing the work of a couple dozen. We barely have enough time to print out our drawings and even less time to place tolerances on everything and check and double-check that the buildup doesn't kill us. We build packaging machinery and it's not laser...
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    Default Tolerances in Title Block

    The problem we are running in to is we are converting old AutoCAD and manual drawings to Inventor and when some users run across 1.06 or 1.063 (for 1-1/16) in their haste they model the part at 1.06 or 1.063 rather then 1.0625 and then when you try to apply contraints with the mating part, it...
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    Mirror part *AND* drawing????

    There are a couple ways to make a mirrored part from an existing part in Inventor 8 *BUT* is there any way to make a mirrored DRAWING from the original part so that all the dimensioning/tolerancing/notes/comments don't have to be manually redone for the drawing file of the mirrored part? Any...
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