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Hit OK, and Inventor will create a new copy of your Assembly, including copies of all the assembly’s components, and handle all the Internal paths. Tip: Right click over the ‘New Name’ or ‘File Location’ fields and choose ‘Find and replace’ to quickly edit repeated text strings.įinally, you have the choice whether you want to place your copied Assembly into your current assembly – or create a new file (Probably create a new file).

‘User Path’ allows you to set your own path.

‘Workspace’ will save the new file in the root folder of your workspace (Again, probably not what you want!).

’Source Path’ will save the new file in the same location as the old file (probably not a good idea!).

Right click over a field in the ‘File Location’ column to set a new path. You can use the ‘Prefix’ and ‘Suffix’ boxes to Automatically revise your file names, or you can edit each one by hand. This dialogue gives you a lot of options to chose where you’d like to save your copied components and what you’d like them to be called. The next Dialogue is the ‘Copy Components: File Names’ Box. Hit ‘Next’ when you are happy with your selection. You can select and deselect components from the Assembly browser to add them to the list. You will be taken to the ‘Copy Components: Status’ Dialogue box, which allows you to chose whether to copy or reuse the components that you have selected. Tip : In Inventor 2015 the Copy tool has been moved to a drop down panel Or right click on your selection of Components and choose ‘Copy’. To copy the entire Assembly navigate to the: To copy an Assembly with the ‘Copy Component’ tool, you first need to open the Assembly you wish to work with. Copying Assemblies with Inventor’s ‘Copy Component’ tool Thanks very much to Steve Bedder of Autodesk for supplying this Vault Screenshot. If you are lucky enough to be using the Vault to manage your Data, then I guess you can stop reading now! This is the only downside of this technique. Vault 2015 has a new and improved Copy Design tool, and you can read about it here:

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(Click on the links to zip down to your technique of choice) Copying Assemblies with the Vault ‘Copy Design’ ToolĬopying Assembly files with the Vault is very simple, apparently – I don’t know because I don’t have the Vault…Įdit: I do now! We’ve recently upgraded to Vault workgroup 2014, and I can say – it’s awesome!

There are Six Seven methods to copy an Autodesk Inventor design file (that I know of). It can be! So it’s worth considering your options before you start.

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I’ve also included an extra bonus chapter on copying assemblies with the Pack n Go tool – check out the download link at the end of the post.

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NEW! Since I wrote this post, it has been viewed over 20,000 times! As a thank you, I have written it up as a free PDF eBook for you to download and print out. Note: Some of these techniques can also be applied to copying Drawing files (DWG or IDW) If you copy, move and rename all the sub components of an Assembly, you will also need to repair all those Internal Hyperlinks. If you are copying files within a Project, you will also need to re-name all the components, otherwise Inventor may find the wrong version of the component that you intended to be used in the new Assembly.Īnd that’s not all! An Assembly file contains a list of Hyperlinks to other Assembly and part files.

If you want to create a copy of an Assembly, you also need to copy all the Sub Assembly and Part files (Components) that go with it.Īnd that’s not all. This is because an IAM file only contains a list of links to other Assembly and part files. If you are new to Inventor, you can get tripped up when it comes to copying an Assembly (IAM) file. There have been a lot of questions around Copying Inventor designs on the Autodesk discussion groups, so I thought I’d put together this guide for you.