AutoCAD Inventor :: Placing Content Center Parts At Assembly Origin 2012
Mar 14, 2012
I have just installed Inventor 2012 and am experiencing a bizarre problem with placing content center parts. When I start a new assembly, and place a content center part, I would expect it to locate itself central to the assembly origin. What actually happens is that it grounds itself wherever I click on the screen. This doesn't happen with parts that I have created myself.
Is there a bug in the system or maybe an option that I have unknowingly switched off?
Inventor Professional 2012 SP1
Windows XP Pro 64 Edition SP2
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Jan 22, 2013
A thing I bump in to everytime is that Content Center parts do not standard section in Assemblies and Drawings.
In the Drawings I can menage this by selecting the parts in browser or drawing views and get them sectioned or not.
In Assemblies there is the option to select "Participate in Assembly and Drawing sections" in the Document Settings.
Unfortunately this doesn't work on Content Center parts. Why not?
After searching the site, I noticed the "solution" to check the "Section All Parts" option in the Application options.
This solution is a work around. It only solves the issue when you want to section all parts.
But what if I want to section a few parts and not all?
For example, I do want to section my beams, pipes, tubes etc., but do not want to section my bolts, nuts, washers etc.
I thought that was wat the "Participate in Assembly and Drawing sections" option was for.
Currently working with Inventor 2012
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Oct 16, 2013
We are developing a macro for steel structures and we know about the program to insert or place a content center component in assembly through VBA programming. If there are provisions for changing the object type and changing length in that importing process it will be very useful.
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Oct 16, 2013
We are developing a program for steel structures, for which we are requiring the program related to placing content center component in an assembly file. We will be pleased if the program had provisions for specifying the type of steel structure and length at each occurrence of the object.
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Sep 27, 2012
I am trying to replace a custom part - created from a content center part - with a copied part with a different name. (I am using the replace tool in an assembly.) However, Inventor is not replacing the part with the part I pick but rather the content center version of it.
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Aug 19, 2012
Is there a way using ilogic,that when you select/highlight a part within an assembly and run the code that it will turn on the Origin planes only and also turn turn them off ?
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Mar 2, 2011
In an assembly I'm working on, I need to place the same part multiple times, but I need this part to be a different scale each time. I'm working with Inventor 2010. Relatively new to the program.
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Mar 9, 2012
I am just starting to make assembly parts from the content center and have found that for the most it is useful. Unfortunately I have found that when these parts are placed in the assembly and a drawing is make of the assembly the bill of material lists total inches of a structural member rather than quantity of piece parts in the quantity column. Thus a 10" tube shows a QTY. of 100 in. rather than 10 piece parts. I have removed the check to export B_L in the function menu but that does not solve my problem. Is there a way to get this to read quantity of piece parts and not total length of material used?
Inventor Premium 2013 SP1.1
Vault 2013- plain vanilla version
HP G71 notebook
celeron cpu w 4gb RAM and 64 bit system
Win 7 home premium
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Aug 31, 2010
I'm having problem placing fittings in my piping runs from parts that I have created. When I try to place them in I come up with an error "Place Fitting can only be used on authored parts." Now as I have said I am new to inventor so I have no clue what this means. I know there is a content center that has parts used for piping runs which I have been using but it doesn't have all the parts I need so I have been making them.
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Dec 18, 2013
I am having a problem with the display of a custom content center part in an IDW. The cc part has been added to a weldment assembly and has 2 preparation holes drilled into it within the assembly. These holes display fine when showing the whole weldment assembly in the IDW but when I add the cc part on it's own it does not show the drilled holes. I understand this is perhaps because the cc part had to be prepared with the holes and these preparations have not carried over on the IDW, is there a way to display preparations in this way for single cc parts ?
Autodesk Inventor Professional 2013 SP2 64-Bit Edition
Windows 7 HP Z400, Intel Xeon W3550 3.07GHz
12.0GB RAM, ATI FirePro V4800 (FireGL)
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Sep 28, 2012
My Content Center Add-In is not loading in Inventor Pro 2012. It's listed as unloaded in the Add-In manager (see below), and, of course, "Place from Content Center" isn't shown as an option on any of the menus. If I double-click on Centent Center in the Add-In Manager, the word "Unloaded" changes to "Loaded" and I don't get any errors. It looks like it should have loaded fine. But then if I close the Add-In Manager and open it again, it has gone back to "Unloaded". I haven't found anything that can restore the Content Center functionality.
I have installed Inventor Pro 2013, and this could have been around when the Inventor 2012 Content Center broke. I'm not positive about the timing... If I start Inv 2013, the Content Center works fine in it.
What to do before uninstalling 2013 and/or reinstalling 2012?
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Jan 22, 2013
I recently updated computer and installed inventor 2012 and the updates. Loaded ok
Opened project and tried to place parts from content center, nothing happened. I mean nothing. Could not even open configure Content center library in projects. I am running windows 7, 32 bit. window
I loaded it to my laptop and it works fine.
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May 26, 2011
Certain pieces from the content center, both things that I made and standard content, are coming into my drawings scaled wrong. Actually I don't think it's scale, because some rectangles are coming in as squares.
Everything looks great on the assembly, but they are wrong on the drawing. I've tried replacing from content center with no change.
.iam and resulting .idw. And one showing a wrong part and a correct part on an idw. The square on the left is supposed to be 2.25" square, which is what it measures to - but you can see that it isn't snapping to the actual geometry.
This is all stuff that has worked fine on previous versions of Inventor. I've had several instances of this so far since finally getting 2012 installed yesterday.
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Oct 14, 2013
I can't seem to find studs in the Content Center to drop into my assembly. Are they not included?
I'm running Inventor Professional 2014.
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Aug 14, 2012
I'm working on some plumbing in an assembly and in the past I've inserted all the fittings and pipe into a main assembly. Then created a sub-assembly and moved all those parts into that assembly. However I cannot drag and drop the pipe fittings around in the browser window. So I'm unable to move them to a sub-assembly.
I last remember moving content center parts between assemblies in Inventor 2012 and I'm currently running 2013.
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Nov 20, 2012
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You're code is definitley a great starting point, and will most likely save me a ton of time!
I am currently diving into a small project which should save a lot of time for designers in the end if it pans out.
Issue being resolved:
We use the Vault and have a ton of machines that get re-used from time to time through the Copy Design method. There's obviously some changes that are made from job to job, but the big issue is changing a machine from an Imperial to Metric one. This is the time (and mind) consuming process I'm looking to shorten.
What I have:
Currently I have a code (few tweaks needed but it works) that is run from an upper assembly. This code then cycles through each and every sub assembly and part that exists within it. As it cycles through, it checks for hole features which are tapped, and if it finds one of these instances, changes the thread from Imperial to Metric according to a Hard Coded set of values.
Current Dilema:
What's the point of changing the holes if the designer has to go through the assembly to change the bolts and fasteners anyways?
I've practiced a bit with your code and been able to replace items, the issue is everything must be hard coded in order to do so. My question is:
Is there a way to get the Family from the Part Occurence / Document / Anything related?
I've looked through the API, but have only found that everything related to the Content Center.... is only accessable through the Content Center, and nothing else.
For Example, yes I am able to tell if a part has come from the content center (ie. PartComponentDefinition.IsContentMember), but that's as far as it goes, just a simple Boolean.
There MUST be a way to find out some sort of Content Center information from the direct Part / other related documents. I've looked at the "Replace Content Center Part Sample" provided in the API, but this example hard codes the ContentTreeViewPath as well.
In the end, I don't quite understand the point of hard coding this path with no way to access it through the Part Document. This only creates the need for constant manual change and / or MANY rules to compensate each and every family.
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Aug 21, 2012
I have some parts published in the Content Center. I need to modify a dimension on some parts. I can edit the family table and modify it. The new dimensions are right. But if I open an assembly which use older versions of the modified parts, when I try to update the Content Center parts, Inventor says all standard parts are up to date. When I insert the modified from the CC, I obtain the old version.
I don't have local versions of the part.
If I insert the part with option "Update standard parts when insert", I have the old version too.
I have already made these modification on other parts with no problem, what is wrong with this part ?
I use Inventor 2010 SP4.
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Jul 21, 2013
How do you copy content center referanced parts to the model? I would like to render my model in Showcase but the nuts and bolts are missing because they are referenced parts.
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Aug 29, 2012
I am trying to add color to my content center parts. For example I want all M10 hex head bolts to be red and all M12 hex heads to be blue.
I have My library configured in content center and I take from the "Inventor ANSI" catalog the "Heavy Hex Bolt -Metric" and right click and copy to my library. I switch the sort back to merged view and right click on the "Heavy Hex Bolt - Metric" and select family table. I scroll to the end of the table and insert a new column and set the "Column Name" To "Color" and set the "Column Caption" to "Color" , "Map to Inventor Property:" is set to "Member.Color"
Now going back to the family table I have to enter simple color names like, Red, Green, or Black, I cannot enter names like Water Bubbles, Particle Board, or any of the Inventor Apperance names. If you do you will recive an error on placing the part stating " Unable to create componet"
Futhermore when you click on the Material Column you get a drop down of all the different materials.
Why do I not get a similiar drop down for the colors/apperances?
What is the list of working colors names?
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Aug 28, 2012
inventor 2012 sp1- single user- lap top screen dies, so I loaded up all my file to external hard drive down load inventor to desktop for 30 day trial until my laptop gets fixed. laptop back up everything good moved files over except in one the assemlblies i had added some screws from the inventor catalog (place from content center menu. now I open the assembly drawing it is has unresolved files all the ones from that I loaded from the standard content center. I assueme it is looking for the files stored on the 30 day trial on the desktop but I can seem to find them to try and move them over.
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May 7, 2013
Why is access to the Content Center only available in the Assembly Environment?
Surely I can't be the only one that could benefit from access to the library when creating a single tube or beam or angle bracket etc..in the part environment.
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Mar 20, 2012
When my colleague opens one of my assembly's which has content center items in it his inventor cannot find them and vice versa. I am assuming my content center items are coming from my hard drive and not a server from the same place as him. How do you set it up so both our computers take content items from the same location?
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Jan 17, 2013
This would be for standard, not custom cc parts. I read that you can save a cc part file as a template with the G_L parameter set as fractions, and then use it to replace the family template in cc, but that doesn't work (or I'm doing it wrong). It worked once, then stopped? I know there has to be a way of doing this.
I tried exporting values from cc as custom iProps, then tried to populate description iProp with these, but that doesn't work.
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Jun 5, 2013
As you can see, there is an entire face of the pipe missing. When I highlight over it (2nd picture) it thinks it is there. This has happened on lots of content center parts. There has been a few issues where this has happened with some of our downloaded user content (in our custom content center) even to the point of disappearing entirely.
This has happened across multiple (identical) machines. However, it doesn't seem to be reproducible on demand.
Pertinent info:
Inventor 2014 Pro, 64-Bit, Build 170, Update 1
Graphics - NVIDIA Quadro 2000 with latest current driver (Problem presented before driver update)
12GB RAM and Xeon Quad Core
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Aug 15, 2012
For some reason when I start either the bolted connection generator or the shaft generator, the content center parts don't show up if I select "modify" to change the parts. For example: I wanted to create an axle with a retaining-ring-groove. I created the axle, and under Features I selected Retaining Ring.
Then a dialog shows up with some standard dimensions, and on the right under "Position" it says "ASME B 27.7M". When I click here, an empty dialogbox shows with filter "All" activated.
It should show all retaining rings available in the content center. The strange thing however is that when I exit this function and start the ordinary "Place from Content Center" command, I can see all retaining rings that are available (see pictures).
The same thing occurs when using the bolted connection generator.
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Dec 16, 2011
I have authored a part to the Content Center, but the part is inserted at a standardized length. How do I author the part so that the length can be specified whem inserted, like the structural steel shapes?
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Jan 4, 2012
if I place from content centre > structural shapes > AS1163-1991 rectangle hollow sections - not all sections are there. For example I would like to use a 65x65x6 SHS section. The content centre only goes up to 65x65x3 SHS.
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Apr 10, 2012
Just as it sounds, my client wants to be able to set the layers up in a drawing file so that all CC parts come in on a specific layer on the drawing.
I'm looking at the layers and the Object Defaults menus in Style Editor but not finding a way to accomplish this.
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Sep 25, 2013
I recently did a pack and go on a top level assembly. Kept folder hierarchy. Included linked files. Included referenced files. All OK so far.
Then opened the assembly in the “Pack and go” folder I created to put it, and it cannot find all the content center parts, such as the ASME eccentric reducer and M24 bolt – see attached i.e. I had to resolve the links. I know they came over with the pack and go as they are in the “Libraries” folder.
Inventor Professional 2014.
Windows 7 64 bit.
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Sep 19, 2011
I have been using Inventor 2011 and I have noticed that I can’t create a component *.IAM in place if there is a content center part that is selected. I am saving content center parts as custom.
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Oct 7, 2011
We are using Tube and Pipe with custom valves, flanges etc published to and taken from Content Center. Quite frequently we have to mock up a vendor supplied valve until we get the final model from them (usually near the end of the project) the mocked up valves can change in design over the course of the project, which means submitting and re-submitting different versions of valve with a slightly different name each time.
To try and keep things tidy (and prevent confusion with other users) I've tried to delete existing families and replace again with the same name, but Inventor T&P/CC won't allow this, and usually get the error message about family name already existing.
How can I truly delete the family and have no trace left on CC/Vault/working folders etc? Is there a workflow I should be aware of for such a task?
Inventor Routed Systems 2011
Win 7 x64
Product Design Suite Ultimate 2013
Win7 x64
Dell Precision T7400
Xeon X5460 @ 3.16GHz
8GB RAM
Quadro FX 1700 512MB
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