Rename Assembly Browser Display Name

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  Rename Assembly Browser Display Name
  August 24, 2007, 11:11 PM Garin Gardiner

  
  
  Today I was working on an assembly and noticed that the browser display names had been overwritten to something other than the file name. In a small assembly this isn’t that hard to rename a few items although I was working on a sever hundred part assembly. This would take all day just to update my browser to the file names that somebody had overwritten. To get a better idea, take a look at the image below and notice the browser names are different than the file names.
  
  
  
  I looked around the web a bit to see if I could find a tool to rename my browser names to the actual file names and found a few tools that would get me almost there but not quite what I was looking for. It wasn’t until I was about to start doing this manual when I thought to check the SDK in Inventor. What do you know – under my nose the entire time was an assembly tool in the SDK folder that I was able to install and rename my browser display names in seconds. I would bet there are a few of you out there that have needed to do this very thing. Here is where you can find the tool in the Inventor installed directory.
  
  This particular tool is located under Program Files > Inventor 2008 > SDK > Tools > User > Assembly Tools
  
  
  
  Once you have installed the Assembly Tool, open an assembly and navigate to the panel bar and select the drop down menu similar to going to the Frame Generator. You will notice there is a new option (Assembly Tools) with several tools that might be of help in the future. The first tool will rename your browser display names to the file name. Some of the other tools are great for skeleton modeling and various other operations so play around a little to see if they are of use.
  
  
  
  If you feel you have a great tip that others could take advantage of feel free to pass them my way.
  
  Enjoy!
  
  Garin
  
  
  
  
  

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