To Copy Designs Containing iLogic Rules

What's New: 2023.2

1. With no documents open, select iLogic Design Copy (Tools tab iLogic panel iLogic Design Copy ).

2. Select a source project.

   The project must contain a workspace definition. Only files contained within the project workspace can be copied.

   Linked documents located outside the workspace are reused in the destination project/document copy.

3. Under Files to Copy, select the root assembly documents.

4. Select any nonlinked documents (Inventor or non-Inventor files) to include in the copy set.

   • Be sure to select any nonlinked, non-Inventor documents required by the rules involved in the design template so that rules fire successfully in the copied documents.
   • Linked documents residing outside the project workspace are reused (document copies retain links to them) rather than copied. There is no way to preview linked documents outside the workspace of the project being copied.

5. Click Next.

6. Specify a target folder for the copy and indicate the project.

   • Select Create New Project to create a duplicate project file with a new name.

   • Select Use Source Project if you don’t want to create a project file; this copies files and folders to the specified target folder. As a best practice, do not locate iFactory (iParts, iAssemblies, iFeatures), library, and Content Center files in the workspace of the source project; the project workspace folder should include only files that require copying (because they belong to the iLogic design template).

     The directory structure of the copy set is preserved in the destination copy.

7. If you want to replace text within the filenames, first specify the text to be searched for in the Search field. Specify the replace text in the Replace field. You can search and replace only one string at a time.

8. If you want to rename files, begin by specifying a prefix or suffix for the new filename. Use characters valid for Windows-supported filenames.

   The rename check boxes are visible after you enter a file prefix or suffix.

9. Rename files, if you wish. Use the Rename Non-Inventor Files option and/or the Rename option for individual files.

   iFactory document members (located in the workspace or its subfolders) are not set to be renamed by default. iFactory automatically generates these document names.

10. To delete all rules in the document copies, select Delete Rules.

    Use this option to remove iLogic rules from shared documents, or when the copied set of rules is incomplete.

    Select Update Part Number to make the part number (iProperty) of the destination file the same as the source filename.

11. Click Start.