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Today’s post covers an option within Inventor’s Project file (.ipj) that compliments several Vault commands for file management: Move, Rename, Replace, and Copy. This is known as recursive searching within Inventor and Vault and allows the flexibility to restructure files in Vault folders without visiting the Resolve Link dialog box. In the Project editor, expand Options and verify Using Unique File Names =Yes. Depending on where your ipj is in relation to the files you are restructuring, Inventor will search all editable project locations to find the file based on name. Note that this does not apply to files in Library search paths.
Choose Yes to indicate that no duplicate file names are used in the project. Autodesk Inventor searches through all editable project locations to find the file name, even if it was last accessed from a different folder.
Choose No to indicate that duplicate file names exist in the project. If No, and duplicate file names are found when resolving files, the Resolve Files dialog box opens so you can browse to the correct file to manually reestablish the link.
-Brian Schanen
