Lastly, locate the network directory where your Group Project File is stored. When picking the location for personal files, select a folder on your workstation as the Workspace. The project file (with the IPJ extension) will have the same name as your project. Move to the next dialog of the wizard, shown in Figure 1, and fill in the required information about your project (the project's name can be numeric or textual). To begin creating a Project File for a semi-isolated environment, select the Personal Workspace for Group Project radio button within the wizard. To activate it, go to the Projects window within the Open dialog box and press New. The Autodesk Inventor Project Wizard is the easiest way to create a project file. Inventor's Project Wizard provides a way to simply fill in the required information about your project and create a project file suitable for your working environment. You define a Workspace for the components of a work in progress and link to the Group Project File to access the remaining design files.įigure 1. A Group Project File makes it easy to build a project file for the semi-isolated working environment. Workgroup Search Paths contain links to the parts that make up the rest of the design, excluding the components of works in progress. Standard and purchased parts can commonly be located by the Library Search Paths. The Group Project File is simply a project file with Library Search Paths and Workgroup Search Paths. The workgroup members commonly access the shared files through a Group Project File available on the network. When they need to make a change or revision, they typically copy the required files into a personal workspace on their computer, while still accessing the shared files from the server. Users working in a workgroup working within a semi-isolated environment commonly store files on a shared server.
Your project files can be authored to match your company's design processes and workflows, which may be within a semi-isolated, isolated, or shared working environment, as defined in July's column, " Curing Unresolved Files Headaches-Part I". They break the dependency between an Autodesk Inventor dataset and the file's actual location. Project Files are text files with IPJ extensions they contain a list of paths to various folders where the referenced Autodesk Inventor documents are stored. Last month we explored the concepts behind Project Files, how they work, and how they fit into your working environment this month, we'll learn some tips and tricks on how to create and maintain your Project Files. Curing Unresolved File Headaches-Part II 31 Jul, 2002 By: Jeff Wymer
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