A few years ago, I wrote some code to copy rename some assemblies and their associated parts. In order to accomplish this from inside Inventor some hacking was involved since Inventor would not allow this to happen using apprenticeServer called from an addin.

I had to create a com server application that called apprentice server to do the work using a different thread.

I need a similar program for .Net but I don't like the lack of connectivity between the apps.

Does this limitation still exist or can I do this directly from Inventor now?

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I have not investigated this in depth yet so take it with a grain of Sodium Chloride. According to the 2008 API docs, the functionality of Apprentice has been rolled into the Inventor Type Library. The docs tell you that Apprentice is still supported but will go away in the future.

I too have a rename parts/assemblies routine (stand-alone using Apprentice though) that works unmodified using 2008 and Apprentice. It has been my plan to try this as an add-in but I can

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Robert A. Williams
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Thanks Robert, I will let you know if it works as this is a method I will definitely need and I hated using a com server to do the work.

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I did notice that when I did this manually in an assembly that it unadapted (new word, just made it up!) the original part(assembly).

But since I have been warned not to use adaptivity, it should not be a problem for me if using the API does the same thing.

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