Every
Inventor assembly file (.IAM) has a corresponding design view file that
has an .IDV filename extension, such as assembly.idv.
This IDV file is used by Inventor to store design views of the assembly.
The design view file must have the same name as the assembly file. In
AutoManager 2003 the Inventor Add-in created a special reference in the
AutoManager vault between the assembly and the IDV file. The EDM Server
enforced that the IAM file and the IDV file were kept in the same state.
There was however a real possiblity of deadlock situations.
A more elegant way to keep the IAM and IDV together is by grouping
them in a hybrid document. This is the method that AutoManager 2004 uses:
when an assembly is saved into the AutoManager vault, the Add-In groups
the IAM and IDV on-the-fly. This is a one time operation: once the files
are grouped no additional changes are necessary.
For this grouping to work, the Document Type of the IAM file should
be 'Hybrid', with IDV as one of the hybrid part extensions.
The extension – ExtIDVFileGrouping.dll – that was provided with AutoManager
2003 as a workaround is no longer needed.
If an
Inventor drawing (.IDW) contained sheets without a title block, property
synchronization would not work correct. This is now fixed.
For Inventor users two registry keys have been
introduced to control the behavior of the Inventor link. These settings
can be added to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cyco\<Active
Product>\CurrentVersion\InventorLink
DWORD HideIsReadOnlyMsg - Control
the message shown by the Inventor link when a document is read-only.
0 : (Default) show the message box. 1 : Hide the message box.
DWORD HideGetWriteAccess -
Controls the message shown by the Inventor link to allow the user to start
editing a document.
0 : (Default) show the message box. 1 : Hide the message box and leave the document read-only. 2 : Hide the message box and attempt to make the document writable.