I'm not falling or that one...

or did you unintentionally misspell "accuracy"?

actually, that was a genuine error!

Most people ask me if Socrates really said that...of course, I've never checked, as the quote implies.

It's funny on so many levels.


Anyway, is there a way of using something like xrefs in Inventor? Anyone know?

Excessive accuaracy is a sign of poor breeding. -Socrates.

far as i know the parts are referenced in an assembly.  much like an xref in autocad.  you can also reference small assemblies to create bigger assemblies.

Uh oh, I'm talking about the 2D aspect, which I use for creating the paper-copy layouts for the shopfloor.
So if I've got some "boilerplate" text, with a few drawings common to every 2D layout, I can't reference it from a common file?

i.e., if I have to make a change to my common drawing, I'm gonna have to open EVERY instance, (thats a couple of thousand 2d drawings) and edit it, rather than just a single file that will make the change across the board?

I think Autodesk made a bit of an oversight there...

Excessive accuaracy is a sign of poor breeding. -Socrates.

Create a template file (any IDW that you decide you want as a template) with the appropriate text images or what ever in it.  Put the template file in the templates directory.  I think that if you need to change it though after creating drawings, you still need to open them manually.  I think that someone has written code or something to do it, but I'm not sure.

I just had a thought, that you could put the boiler plate text in an excel spreadsheet and link to it, not sure about doing that from and IDW though.

Regards


Steve