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Oops. I spoke too soon. Problem solved. My bill of materials for the sub assembly was wrong.

I have assigned part numbers for each piece of DAX foam enclosed in each sub assembly part. I am trying to label them with balloons, with part numbers as the generated value instead of having to label each foam part. I added it in the Style manager, and it works for labeling the sub-assembly...

oops. spelled conflict wrong. ;/

I wanted the hatch patterns, material lists, text sizes etc. saved and used in the template. But I also want to be able to use the same .idw template for any project. So do I just create this under the default project type? Or....im lost...whats the best procedure to take...

How do I display my seat in the extended position in the same .idw without doing a save as, since whatever degree I change the copy to changes the origonal file as well.

I do not see the loft command as an option on my ribbon on the assembly level and was wondering if im missing something.

oh yea, I was also wondering if B.O.M.'s for 3 different seats can be combined to be placed in one drawing package. I currently have the bill of materialS broken down per the 3 seat styles, but I need one master B.O.M. :)

Thank you for such a helpful response. But the problem i'm having is one of my rows is populating the word "varies," even after i made sure the properties for the components where all the same. Also, this is happening in my .idw when I create the parts list, but changed my volume column...

Hmmm. Well thanks for the sarcastic response. It is not proprietary if they are our partners and we are working as team to design the seat for the customer. Thank you anyway. And by "insane," I meant the loss of time it would take to sift through the models and re-constrain screw holes, hinges...

If you have been on the shop floor machining this whole time, you have a bit of advantage I never had when I began using inventor 6 months ago (my previous experience is in Pro-E and 8 years OTJ of AutoCAD). You are going to model your parts the same way you would in the shop and create cuts and...

Have you imported custom blocks as symbols created in AutoCAD into Inventor before? The reason I ask is because I have but only small W blocks with attributes that I can change on insertion. And it works well. But is nothing like a xref you use in cad for existing information to create proposed...

That's a great question and ones that's been posed to me as well. Do you think there might a hotfix for something like this?

I design custom airplane seats using Inventor 2012. I usually create my bill of materials in Excel and then paste into an inventor .idw because i can adjust the table easily that way, but it is a lot of extra work that I dont exactly have time for. I am familiar with generating custom tables...

That's Insane and very frustrating to read. There has to be an add-on somewhere for this. Grounding the parts works, but does not allow me to create animated presentations. I have read something about a Feature Migrator somewhere. Have you heard of it or used it?

btrueblood- Corrections for my reply above...I now see the grounded option in the right click menu in the browser tree, but on part level. Thank you :)

The original file is a Pro-E assembly model of an aircraft seat frame. They have shrink wrapped it and emailed it to me as a STEP file. When I open the STEP file in Inventor the constraints are lost. Is there a way to restore the constraints. I accidentally posted this question in another forum...

SparWeb- The original file was a Pro-E file that our seat manufacturer converted into a STEP file then e-mailed to me. I have asked if it shrink wrapped before converted into the step file and they said yes. btrueblood- I am familiar with the Grounded command you are referencing but have not...

Is there a miraculous button I can click that will apply the original constraints placed before the assembly was made into a step file? I have a seat frame model with a 1,000 parts that I am overwhelemd by even thinking about re-constraining. If anyone could shed some light on the hows or whys...