When you have an assembly that contains older content, go to the Manage tab, and look for the Refresh button on the Content Center panel.Ī dialog box appears showing you which content is out of date. This is great for new content that you’re going to place, but what about older assemblies that have content from your previous versions? Join the Autodesk Virtual Academy community and never stop learning. So that makes my job easy.Īfter the update is done, You’ll see a confirmation screen, Inventor will ask you if you want to create a log, if you’d like.Īfter this, your library is updated, and it’s ready to start using. Inventor will ask which libraries you’d like to update. Once you’ve made that backup, click next, and go to the next step. If you haven’t, this is your second, and last chance. Next, Inventor is going to ask you if you’ve made a backup. To start the process, click the Update icon. Any libraries that require migration have an exclamation point icon next to them. This shows the libraries available to the project.

When the projects screen opens, make sure the project your working with is active, and click on the Configure Libraries icon. The first step is to open up Inventor, and on the Get Started tab, choose Projects. I’ve never lost content during an update, but there’s no reason to tempt fate. Do you want to lose that? It’s worth a few minutes to make a backup. Custom content can mean hours of work that’s been collected over the years. I hope this can help you too!īefore anything, there’s that little thing about having a backup. Without further delay here’s how I did it. This will make sure they’re ready to be used by Inventor 2016. So really all that’s left to do is update the libraries. These steps are particular to that setup.Īlso, I’ve already copied the files to their new locations. These libraries are databases stored on my local drive. In my setup, I’m using Desktop Content Libraries, which means they’re not stored in Vault.

So in the interest of sharing, here are the steps that I used to update my own content center from Inventor 2015 to Inventor 2016. Fortunately, this isn’t really that difficult, but it’s good to know the steps. If you’ve created your own content in Inventor’s content center, you’ll have to update it when you move to your next version of Inventor.

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