renaming parts or sub assemblies
renaming parts or sub assemblies
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we typically start our designs with generic part and sub assembly names, ie plate 1, sub assembly 3, etc... as the design progresses we eventually replace the generic names with the actual part numbers. the only way to do this thus far is to open each part do a "save copy as" and perform a replace component command in the assembly. usaully the replace component command causes errors with constraits and you usally end up deleting them and re-constraiting the part. this method is rather time consuming is there a better way to rename parts?
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RE: renaming parts or sub assemblies
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RE: renaming parts or sub assemblies
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RE: renaming parts or sub assemblies
RE: renaming parts or sub assemblies
i noticed that the da works really well with small assemblies 50 parts or less, but when trying to open larger ones it is really a resource hogg. It took 30 to 45 min to open what I would consider a medium sized assembly. I have not run into the same problem you are having, sorry.
What I would like to know is how does one get around checking out the files in inventor first and then opening them in the Design Assistant? If you don't check the files out first then th DA assigns a unavailable tag to them and one can't change anything.
RE: renaming parts or sub assemblies
I'm not sure how to get around checking unavailiabe files out other than creating a new personal project file and pointing it torwards the directory that includes those files, leave off any reference of an included file or other workspace librarys.
Now that I have accompolished copy/renaming files in da I am seeing a lot of file names not updating in my browser any Idea why? The propertys are correct and the idv's even point torward the new file but for some reason a lot of the sub assemblies are retaining the old name in the browser although when I open them the files are named correctly. Again any help would be great.
RE: renaming parts or sub assemblies
RE: renaming parts or sub assemblies
I have completly renamed a big project recently. It is true, replacement of components is slow and unreliable.
Better way is:
- note original/new names
- rename parts/assem files in some file manager
- open an assembly and point out new names
- keep hierarchy from down to top, from subass. to top assemblies.
There are no problems with ass. constrains,then.
RE: renaming parts or sub assemblies
RE: renaming parts or sub assemblies
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