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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Creating Custom Content for Autodesk Inventor Content Center - Part 2

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
Jorge Luis Borges

In my last post, I talked about Content Center.  Mostly what Content Center is, particularly with respect to Desktop Content Center versus Content Center running through the Autodesk Data Management Server Console.

But the long term goal of this series of blog post is to publish content to a custom library of our own creation.

So for our next step, I'm going to create a short blog post on creating those custom libraries.

The libraries that come with Autodesk Inventor are Read Only.  So you can only use them, you can't modify them, or add to them. 

In order to be able to make additions and modifications, you need to create a Read/Write Library.

The first thing to know, is if you're using Desktop Content, or Vault Content.  The libraries are created in different places for each.

I'm using Desktop Content Center

With Desktop Content, go to the "Get Started" and choose "Projects".

Choose "Configure Content Center Libraries.  A new screen will appear that will allow you to configure the libraries for your project.

Now you're ready to create a Read/Write library

Select "Create Library", and a new Read/Write Library will be added with the name you enter

Creating the Read/Write Library
Important!  Make sure the new library is checked!  If it's not, the library won't be available to the project!  This, needless to say, makes the whole point of creating it moot.  

Custom Library Created.  Note that it's checked! This makes it available for the project to use!
I'm using the Autodesk Data Management Console (Server)

We'll need to access the server, and have administrative rights to the Autodesk Data Management Server, so be ready to bribe the I.T. staff or Cad Manager if necessary.

Once you've gained access to your server, right click on the Libraries folder and choose "Create Library".

Creating the Library Folder
A new Read/Write Library will be added with the name you enter.



New library selected!


Note that just like above (with Desktop Content), you'll need to make sure the library is checked in the project!  If not, it won't be available!

Make sure you make the libraries available! 

So that's getting the stage set to create the read/write library for your Content Center.  Now we're ready to start adding data to the Content Center!

That will be the next post here!  Creating Custom Content for Autodesk Inventor Content Center - Part 3


5 comments:

  1. I have problem to use inventor 2012 content center.
    access to the content center (in inventor Desktop content) are not available, can you give me solution about that??

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    1. Deno,

      Check the previous blog post here, which shows how to change the content to desktop in Application Options:

      http://www.inventortales.com/2012/01/creating-custom-content-for-autodesk.html

      I'd also suggest checking against the Autodesk Wikihelp to make sure you content is installed correctly.

      http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Inventor/enu/2013/Help/1310-Autodesk1310/1655-Assembli1655/1779-Content_1779/1781-Content_1781

      http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Inventor/enu/2012/Help/0073-Autodesk73/0460-Assembli460/0584-Content_584/0587-Configur587

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  2. Thanks a lot for this post!

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  3. Thanks for your post!

    I have a problem... I'v created a custom content center profile, but what I can't figure out is how to add the moments of inertia for the iPart. Do you, or any one else now?

    Thanks
    Hanna

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    1. Off the top, I don't know if it can be brought in natively. It might require iLogic or VBA. Or manual entry..

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