Template Location

[cturner0034]

First let me state that I am not a user of this program I am the IT person at the high school I work at so I may not present this in the best light.

 

The teacher who uses this program is having an issue where he is trying to increase the size of fonts on certain templates. When he goes to save the template it looks like it is saving but when he reopens the template his changes are not saved. He says the templates are read only. It looks to me like the save is taking place but I cannot find where the save is being stored. Any help with where these files are going would be appreciated. Autodesk Inventor 2016 is the product on a Windows 7 machine.

[MarkFlayler]

This is a bigger issue that just one setting...this involves the administration of the Inventor Styles and Standards library.

 

 

What the instructor probably did...

Opened the template and adjusted the font size of the existing font. Saved and closed the file.

What is happening...

Inventor is reading its external style library that says what dimensions and fonts should be on an administrative level. It is discarding the override from the instructor and using the style library value instead.

 

 

To solve this you can do 1 of two things...

1. Make the Inventor project read/write for the Styles Library, make the change and then use the Save to Styles Library command in Inventor. This is probably the worst thing for this instructor because the design data is localized to each computer and I guarantee they did not set up a network location for this.

2. Rename the font in the Styles Library so no apparent override is in effect and when the template is opened the next time it should be using the uniquely named font. This is probably what you should do to fix it.