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Vault Basic Copy Design cannot 'replace' a drawing model reference

March 28, 2025 Joanna Gryszka

Issue:

Using Vault Basic 2024 Copy Design to copy a drawing and replace its reference(s)automatically excludes the drawing preventing the copy.

For example, copying drawing Test.dwg and attempting to replace its reference Test.ipt:

Changing the reference Test.ipt 'File Status' to 'Replace' automatically changes the drawing 'File Status' to  'Exclude'.  Copy cannot proceed:

Cause:

Vault Basic 2024 can't replace a drawing's child component in Copy Design.

See the Autodesk reference article:

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Vault-Basic-cannot-Copy-Design-a-drawing-and-replace-the-model.html

Solution:

This is fixed in Vault Basic 2025:  the Copy Design interface matches Vault Professional. 

From this version forward, you can copy an Inventor drawing (idw or dwg) and replace its references in Copy Design.

In previous versions, once the drawing is copied, open in Invnentor an use the Replace Model Reference command.

About the Author

Joanna Gryszka

Manufacturing Technical Support Specialist<br><br>Joanna has over eight years of experience working with Autodesk products. She started supporting core AutoCAD and network installations of all Autodesk products. She now has five years of experience with Inventor. <br> She graduated from Mechanical Engineering and has been providing solutions to clients and dedicating her knowledge to the Solution Center since then.

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