To Work with Drawing Resources

These resources include standard items such as object formats, sheet formats, borders, title blocks, and sketches.

Drawing resources appear in the Drawing Resources folder at the top of the browser.

The Drawing Resources folder contains object formats. When you place a resource in the drawing, you place an instance of the object.

You can copy drawing resources such as sheet formats, borders, title blocks, and sketches from one drawing and paste them in a different drawing. In the target drawing, you can edit the resource definition. If a title block format is copied to another drawing, prompted entries transfer correctly only if they match exactly in the source and target files.

Add a Drawing Resource to a Drawing

1. Expand a Drawing Resources folder to list its contents.
2. Double-click the drawing resource.

Copy Drawing Resources to Another Drawing

If a drawing resource of the same name exists in the target drawing, you can replace it, or paste the drawing resource with a new name.

1. In the browser of the source drawing, expand the Drawing Resources folder, and find the drawing resource to copy.
2. Right-click the drawing resource and select Copy.
3. Open the target drawing.
4. In the browser of the target drawing, right-click the Drawing Resources folder, and select Paste.

Copy or Replace Drawing Resources in Multiple Drawings

You use the Drawing Resource Transfer Wizard to transfer selected drawing resources to multiple drawings, or replace existing resources in multiple drawings.

After the transfer begins, the Begin the Batch Processing page shows progress of transferred selected borders, title blocks, and sketch symbols. Results of the processing are shown in a log file.

A target drawing can be listed only once.

1. Close Autodesk Inventor before start the Drawing Resource Transfer Wizard.
2. Click Start menu Programs Autodesk Inventor [version] Tools Drawing Resource Transfer Wizard.
3. Click Next to start the wizard.
4. In the Select Source Drawing and Resources dialog box , navigate to the source drawing and click Open.
5. Specify which selected resources to transfer or clear the check mark to skip, and then click Next.
6. In the Select Target Drawings dialog, navigate to the target drawing and click Open. To add more target drawings, click the folder and navigate to a new drawing.
7. Click Next, and then in the Select Option dialog, specify what to do if drawing resources have the same name in both source and target files.
   • Click Yes to replace resources in the target file with resources in the source file.
   • Click No to assign unique names to copied resources from the source file. The target file resources retain their original names.