Checking into Vault an imported assembly

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Checking into Vault an imported assembly

Standing (Mechanical)

(OP)

11 Nov 10 12:47

Do you know how to easy check into Vault from imported assembly? When several parts have been imported and saved as Inventor .ipt ? Inventor keeps wanting me to replace the parts with same number on my local drive, with parts that are in the vault.

Standing
AutoDesk Inventor Router 2011
SolidWorks Pro 2009 x64, SP3.0, PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
HP xw8600, 64-bit Windows Vista Business, Service Pack 1
Intel Xeon CPU, 3.00 GHz, 16 GB RAM, Virtual memory 166682 MB, nVidia Quadro FX 4600

wyaro (Mechanical) · Answer 1 · 2010-11-16 15:27:45

Could you more clarify your issue. I'm not sure what you mean. Whoever before when you going to import the files that are the same part number as vault, check out all files from the vault. Then you should be able to replace the files.

Wojtek

Standing (Mechanical) · Answer 2 · 2010-11-16 17:04:21

Wojtek,
I have thousands of SolidWorks parts and assemblies that I am going to move from SolidWorks PDM Vault into Inventor Workgroup Vault.
Let's say parts A.ipt, B.ipt, and C.ipt are checked into Inventor Workgroup Vault.
Then I start to check in Assembly 123456.iam, now this assembly is using part B.ipt. Inventor stop the check process dead, telling me that part B.ipt is different than the one in the Vault. Yes it is, I just imported it from the SolidWorks PDM Vault, which came over from importing the SolidWorks assembly.

To correct this, I can replace the part on my local drive with the one in the vault.
What I am currently doing is moving part B.ipt to the same folder that is used in the Vault for part B.ipt. Very time consuming method.

Standing
AutoDesk Inventor Router 2011
SolidWorks Pro 2009 x64, SP3.0, PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
HP xw8600, 64-bit Windows Vista Business, Service Pack 1
Intel Xeon CPU, 3.00 GHz, 16 GB RAM, Virtual memory 166682 MB, nVidia Quadro FX 4600

wyaro (Mechanical) · Answer 3 · 2010-11-17 07:00:02

hi,

instruction:

Check assembly 123456 back to your local disk.
delete whole assembly and the parts from your local disk (don't work if you do something wrong you have backup in vault)

now importing

Open whole assembly (which has been made by solidworks) and save on your local disk don't bother about part number at the moment.

open design assistant

open the assembly that you created

now you can copy the whole assembly and parts. Make the same part numbers as you have in vault and make sure the path is correct.

after when you save it open in Inventor and send to valut

P.S.
I hope my English is clear enough.

good luck
Wojtek

mflayler (Mechanical) · Answer 4 · 2010-11-20 12:42:34

Just curious, do you want them in Vault just for data tracking of legacy files? Autodesk Vault actually does work directly with Solidworks files.

mflayler (Mechanical) · Answer 5 · 2010-11-20 12:44:05

RE: Checking into Vault an imported assembly

mflayler (Mechanical) 20 Nov 10 12:44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5fIh-gRWyg

Standing (Mechanical) · Answer 6 · 2010-11-22 11:54:23

mflayler,
Thank you so very much for the Autodesk Vault Manufacturing add in for SolidWorks video.
We are currently using Autodesk Vault Workgroup 2011. I am going to check the add-in's right now.
A star for you

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