Initiate work sessions in Design Assistant

Design Assistant is a tool to find, track, and maintain Autodesk Inventor files and related word processing, spreadsheet or text files.

Open Design Assistant from Autodesk Inventor to work with files currently open in Autodesk Inventor. Open Design Assistant from Windows Explorer to work with many files or groups of files in the same session.

The Design Assistant Manager provides a way to manage linkage relationships between Autodesk Inventor files, such as rename files, revise files, replace files, and create product configurations.

Initiate Design Assistant work session in Autodesk Inventor

You can initiate a Design Assistant session from Autodesk Inventor to work with the properties of the active file. If the file is an assembly, you can also work with the properties of its referenced component files.

1. Open the Autodesk Inventor file.
2. Click Manage Design Assistant.

Note: When you initiate Design Assistant from Autodesk Inventor you cannot work with links between files or with files other than the active file and its components.

Initiate Design Assistant work session outside Autodesk Inventor

There are two ways you can initiate a Design Assistant session outside Autodesk Inventor to work with the properties of files and manage the relationships between files.

Open from Windows Start menu

1. On the Windows taskbar, click Start.
2. Select ProgramsAutodeskAutodesk Inventor <version>Design Assistant <version>.

Open from Microsoft Windows Explorer

1. Open Microsoft Windows Explorer and browse to the folder that contains Autodesk Inventor files.
2. Select a file, a group of files, or a folder, right-click, and then select Design Assistant from the menu.