Triptych Posted June 2, 2013 Posted June 2, 2013 Hi all, Can any of you point me in the direction of a thread or information. I have created an assembly and saved it. I would like to copy the file and modify it while leaving the original file intact. I'm sure I have done this before but cant remember how I achieved it. Regards Quote
welldriller Posted June 2, 2013 Posted June 2, 2013 Have you tried bringing up the original file and use SAVE AS and save it under another name or save the original to a disk or CD (i would use different file name no matter which way i did it) Quote
Triptych Posted June 2, 2013 Author Posted June 2, 2013 Yeah, you would think that would do it. If I copy the file, open the copy, modify it and then save as (new name), the original file has the modifications too. I'm sure you had to break the link with the original file or a similar process. Thanks for the suggestion though.. Quote
welldriller Posted June 2, 2013 Posted June 2, 2013 Yeah, you would think that would do it. If I copy the file, open the copy, modify it and then save as (new name), the original file has the modifications too. I'm sure you had to break the link with the original file or a similar process. Thanks for the suggestion though.. Sorry i did not make it clear what i meant -- take a look at the 2 screen shots one is the original house-3-a the other is the original saved as house-3-b in house-3-b i have erase the room names and the original still has them hope the helps Quote
Triptych Posted June 2, 2013 Author Posted June 2, 2013 Thanks again Welldriller, I'm talking assemblies in Autodesk Inventor. I'm sure I posted in Inventor!! Quote
JD Mather Posted June 3, 2013 Posted June 3, 2013 Welldriller - you should ignore Autodesk Inventor topics. Inventor is not AutoCAD. There are several ways to do this. I hesitate to suggest any of the methods as I don't have time to fully explain any of them and as I hope you are aware you can mess up file dependencies if you are not careful. The easiest way. Make sure you are using Projects (*.ipj). Save As Pack and Go from the top level (assembly *.iam or *.idw of iam) to a new folder. Make rename project in that folder and make active. Verify after opening that your paths are not referring to original files. There is a better (safer) way using Design Assistant, but I use it so rarely that I have to figure it out each time. And of course, if you are using Vault.... Quote
Triptych Posted June 3, 2013 Author Posted June 3, 2013 Hmm...Both of those suggestions seem like a royal pain in the assembly...but I'll have a try at them and try Design Assistant. Cheers, yep....fought with those dependencies many times in the past, but they have become my friends. I got round it by creating a layout for the first assembly and deriving my parts from it. Then I could create a second modified assembly using parts from the first and just deriving the new parts I needed. Still seems like a long way to do it. Anyone else have a cunning way to do this? Thanks for the help folks Quote
welldriller Posted June 3, 2013 Posted June 3, 2013 JD Mather & Triptych --- So sorry but i did not realize that you were using INVENTOR until post #5 i thought that Triptych was using Autocad 2012. Warren Quote
Lazer Posted June 3, 2013 Posted June 3, 2013 JD Mather & Triptych --- So sorry but i did not realize that you were using INVENTOR until post #5 i thought that Triptych was using Autocad 2012. Warren Happens to all of us from time to time. Quote
Pablo Ferral Posted June 4, 2013 Posted June 4, 2013 May be this post could help? http://cadsetterout.com/inventor-tutorials/the-secrets-of-copying-assembly-files/ Quote
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