You can specify which component file versions should be retrieved from the BOM. Selecting the 'Extract BOM' option will provide a dialog similar to this:

With Vault open, select a part from your project (assemblies and other files which contain Bills-of-Materials) and right click to find the IMAGINiT Utilities and select the ‘Extract BOM’ option as shown in the graphic below. To make use of the IMAGINiT Utilities for Vault Extract BOM tool you need to first use the BOM Export: Admin to setup for your projects. Here are more details on the usage of the Extract BOM tool from the Help file: To determine if your version of the IMAGINiT Utilities for Vault Client 2015 has or needs this new feature, look under Help in the Vault Client's Tools/IMAGINiT Utilities/About.

Latest Release: The latest component file version.

At Checkin: The version that was current at the time when the assembly last checked-in.

So, to summarize, here are the two new options to extract and display in the BOM:Ĭontrol which version of component files is shown in the BOM: or to extract and display all the latest versions: Our developers examined the issue and have added a new option to specify whether to extract and display the versions that were last checked in: Recently a Vault customer noticed that when he used our Extract Bill of Materials tool to extract and generate a BOM for his Inventor assembly, that the version of some files listed in the BOM was different from what the Vault client's 'Uses' filter listed. Our IMAGINiT Utilities for Vault Client includes a handy, useful and popular utility for the Vault client that enables Vault Explorer users to extract a Bill of Materials (BOM) within Vault to create a BOM based on your Inventor or AutoCAD data and then export to Excel or CSV. Select 'Delete Original' to get rid of the Mesh in the file once it's converted to a solid or composite. A solid will be created only if the mesh is closed. The Convert to Base Feature dialog box opens and you can choose a Solid or Composite conversion. Once installed, to convert the mesh you can access the converter in the right-click menu. Note: Available to subscription customers only. The Add-In will install on Inventor 2013,20. You can toggle the entire Mesh Visibility or Mesh Edge visibility only.ĭownload the Mesh Enabler at the Autodesk Exchange Apps to convert the Mesh to an Inventor solid or composite surface:

On import you'll see a mesh feature in the Model Browser.

Since mesh features are for visualization purposes only and cannot be modified this is not possible. When importing STL files in Inventor you may need to convert the 3D Mesh feature that's imported to an editable Solid or Surface.įor example you might need to measure or create work features using the imported Mesh geometry as a reference.

Mesh enabler for inventor 2012