Inventor Save and Check out Requirements

Learn about Save and Inventor Files

iAssemblies

Inventor asks you whether you want to save changes to the file, even when you did not make any changes in the following workflow:

1. In a top level iAssembly: Right-click on the browser Table node and select Change Component from the context menu.
2. In the Place iAssembly dialog box, note that the selected member is already activated in the top level assembly.
3. Select a different member.
   Attention: This action activates the member in the iAssembly factory. When you activate an iAssembly member, this action alone requires Inventor to ask you whether you want to save changes to a file.
4. Switch back to the original selection.
   Attention: The previously selected member remains activated.
5. Select OK to close the Place iAssembly dialog box.
6. Close the file. Inventor asks if you want to save changes.

Inventor/Vault

Inventor asks you to check out the assembly when opening a drawing file even though no changes were made to the assembly in the following workflow.

Scenario: You have an assembly file (that has a Bill of Materials), corresponding part files, and a drawing file (that has a parts list) all checked into the vault.

1. Check out a part file and, using the iProperties dialog box, modify a part number.
2. Save the file and check it back into the vault.
3. Open the assembly file.
   Attention: You are not prompted to check out the assembly because Inventor makes a change to a Bill of Materials when you launch the Bill of Materials command, and not when you open an Assembly file.
4. Open the corresponding drawing file. The part number in the part list is updated.
   Attention: You are prompted to check out the assembly when you open the drawing file because the updated parts list references the Bill of Materials and Inventor detects the Bill of Materials needs to be updated.