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kpyoung333

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2nd try, internet cleared me out...

Been using Inventor for 3 years with only need for 3 parts in my assemblies. SaveAs and Replace Component were the easiest way I could find to create easy, fast, repeatable parts. I use iProperties to drive my assemblies and they don't break and things look great. I now need to make large assemblies consisting of 40-100 parts. Saving this model as a revision or copy would seem to be a easy thing but I am totally missing something and have been beating my head for too long. I know that using iPart to create the parts and starting them from a Project to organize them is the best bet but I have never gotten it to work. Figuring out how to save and rename things so they don't go crazy has eluded me. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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I have been reading two large Inventor books and what I can find is that using Project to start, then creating a part, converting? it to iPart, creating Assembly, inserting iParts into said assembly. Are there any tutorials that anyone knows that might specifically direct me to my problem. I know I am super close but keep breaking things and don't know where to find the best answer for this. Over a hundred views and no answer is either something no one wants to share or a common problem that not easily answered. I will keep looking myself but a bit of direction on where the iPart and iAssembly are usable and repeatable for multiple projects from a similar design.

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Realistically, you sound like you would need to use the free Vault product that comes with Inventor instead. That allows you to take Revision C and make a complete design duplicate as a new design Revision A and rename files all at once. The files would stay separate unless you chose to do a reuse on a shared component instead of a replace/rename.

 

 

iParts and iAssemblies are utilized for a series of standard parts or designs that don't change too much. For more dynamic modeling with open values, iLogic usage is preferred.

 

 

Quite frankly its hard to say what's best when you say your designs are 40-100 parts without fully knowing your intent. You would also benefit from posting in the official Autodesk forums as there is a larger user base to support you there. It would also be good to get involved in user groups if your reseller sponsors them or an online user group that is always free.

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