Modify an Autodesk Inventor Project

Modify Inventor Projects using Autodesk Autoloader or manually.

Autodesk recommends using Autodesk Autoloader to format project data for the vault. Before modifying data for use with the vault, make sure no one is working on the files and that one person is designated to modify the files. Once you add the files to the vault, use the vault to share the files with other users. 

Modify an Autodesk Inventor Project Using Autodesk Autoloader

1. Click Start > Programs > Autodesk > Autodesk Data Management > Tools > Autodesk Autoloader.
2. Browse to and select the folder containing the Inventor data you want to modify.

Click Help to learn more about Autodesk Autoloader.

Modify an Autodesk Inventor Project Manually

An alternate way to modify an existing project file is to rearrange the folder and files manually. The method is a little more difficult than working with Autodesk Autoloader, but you can organize your data the way you want it.

Note: When modifying project files manually, files may fail to resolve and you will need to find the missing references.

1. Make sure there are no users currently working on the data set or project you want to modify. We also recommend that the project data is moved to a local folder for editing to prevent any users from working on the project while you are modifying it.
2. Open the existing project file with either the stand-alone project file editor or Autodesk Inventor.
3. Add a workspace to your project file if you do not already have one. The workspace must either be set to "." (for example, the same folder as the project file) or it must be set to a subfolder relative to the project file (for example, ".\Workspace"). If you plan on having any of your library data local, set your workspace to a relative folder (for example, .\Workspace)
4. Remove all local and workgroup search paths.
5. After the search paths are removed, move all folders and files that were referenced from the search paths into the workspace. You can either maintain the same structure as you had originally or you can create a new one. Take care in deciding how to structure the files and folders. They are added to the vault with the same structure.
   Note: In most cases, you end up with files that fail to open because of moving these files. To successfully get these files into the vault successfully, resolve the failed references.
6. All libraries may stay the way they are. Any valid library search path is acceptable to the vault.
7. Open your files in Autodesk Inventor to resolve any failed references.