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Setting the Filename, Browser display name and Part Number for Content Center parts on insertion

42/11/2012 Click for blog article

You want to be able to insert a standard part from the Content Center, saving the file with a given name and get the same name for the Browser display name and the Part Number.For instance, you want to insert the part UNI EN 10219-2 - 508 x 8 – 100 from the Content Center in an assembly of your Project 1.You want to save the file as “Project1 Part-100” and get the same name for the part in the Browser and the Part Number.Then, you place the same member in another project/assembly and you want to call it “Project2 Part-100”, where the Browser display name and Part Number would then be “Project2 Part-100”and so on.The procedure to follow for getting this behavior is the following.In the Content Center Editor, copy the family of the parts you want to insert in this way in a custom library.Select the family you have copied, right-click, Family Table.In the Family Table, select the Part Number column, right-click, Column Properties.In the Column Property dialog clear the field “Map To Inventor Property”.Publish the changes.Insert the part from the Content Center with the option “As Custom”.Save the file in the desired location applying the desired name.The Part Number and the Browser display name will be the same as the saved file name.Ale

When deployment images have a short memory

50/09/2012 Click for blog article

Recently it was brought to my attention that you could end up in a situation where a reinstall of Inventor might take forever to finish without any visible signs of activity or progress.If you would leave the reinstall run over night (or for several hours), the process finishes successfully. The problem is that not many users will have the patience to let the process sit and run for so long and they will probably kill the reinstall process.The reason why I wrote this blog post is to just ask you to be patient and let the process take its time because otherwise you might end up with a corrupt Inventor installation.The scenario that can bring you in this situation is:Create a deployment image with Inventor 2012 and place the image in a network locationAppend Service pack 1 to the deployment image via the setup wizard (choose the Install service Pack(s) from local network option, see image)Hit the Add button and enter the network location (that requires login credentials) of the service pack you want to add.Enter the user name and password but don't check the option "Remember my credentials" in the Windows Security dialogInstall the deployment and run Inventor once to fully register itFrom the Control Panel, try either a reinstall or a repair of InventorThe result is that the installation process will seemingly hang because of a Microsoft defect that causes the installer to do a check on the credentials for every file that is part of the deployment image. Every check takes a couple of seconds, multiplied with a large amount of files, gives you this long delay that might take hours. Note that when you try to click the Cancel button or the Exit "X" button, there is also no response which tempts users to kill the process from Task Manager.While we are actively pursuing a solution with Microsoft for this problem, momentarily the only two remedies are:Always check the "Remember my credentials" option when you create deployment images If you prefer to continue to work with a deployment image that has the "Remember my credentials" option unchecked, disconnect the machine from the network before you try to reinstall Inventor.A dialog asking for the source file location will pop up and allows you to input the correct location and the reinstall will proceed successfully without excessive delays. We will update this blog post once Microsoft makes a fix available.

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