Using Find in Browser

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Using Find in Browser

Standing (Mechanical)

(OP)

12 Nov 10 14:16

I know the part number of the part I am looking for in the Browser. Click the Find button and fill in the data. Then I pick Find Now, Inventor finds the part buried deep in an assembly. It is not automatically brought into my site. I have to expand all then manually scroll down the tree.
Am I missing some key setting?

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 07:45:03

ok, there is couple options for finding items. If you press Ctrl+F you will see a dialog box and then you can select the property which are you looking for. Or you can click right on the item and choose "find in browser". Just have a look at the attached

http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=4fb22fda-6f3c-46ad-97b4-6305ae1e88ac&file=Document2.pdf

Wojtek

http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=4fb22fda-6f3c-46ad-97b4-63

Standing (Mechanical) · Answer 2 · 2010-11-16 09:58:34

wyaro,
Thank you for your reply. I am using the Ctrl F dialog to search for a part number the browser. The problem I am having is finding the highlighted part that is buried into a subassembly of a subassembly of a subassembly.

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 · 2010-11-16 10:30:34

Right, you don't have scroll the browser to find the part. what you cold do is, just isolate the part after when you found it and then click right on the part and select "find in browser". I think is the shortest way to find the part in browser.

Standing (Mechanical) · Answer 4 · 2010-11-16 15:07:02

Thanks wyaro
Your idea gets me to the sub-assembly.

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

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