Use Design Assistant Properties to help find, track, maintain, and report on the Autodesk Inventor files, using iProperties as the key to the files. You can also work with other files, such as word processing or spreadsheet documents, that are referenced by Autodesk Inventor files.
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Access: |
Click From Microsoft Windows Explorer, select one or more Autodesk Inventor files or a folder containing Autodesk Inventor files, right-click, select Design Assistant from the menu, and then click Properties. |
The Properties browser contains two sections:
Folders and files
The left section of the Properties browser shows the folders and files available to the active Design Assistant session.
If you initiated the session from within Autodesk Inventor, you cannot work with other files. If you initiated the session from Microsoft Windows Explorer, you can select File 
Open from the menu to load other folders or files.
- When you select a folder in the list, the files within the folder are displayed in the right section of the browser.
- When you select a file in the list, all referenced files are displayed in the right section of the browser. For example, if the file is an assembly, all the component files are listed.
Properties
The right section of the Properties browser shows the files with which you are working and the specified properties for each file. The display is limited to ten columns.
- To change the properties that display in the browser or print on reports, select View Customize.
- To create a report, select Tools Reports and choose the report type.
- To copy properties from a file to another file or group of files, select Tools Copy Design Properties.
- To Find files, select Tools Find and choose the search method.