Checking-in a File

When you have finished working with a file, it can be released. The PLM - Autodesk Inventor Integration enables you to check in any Autodesk Inventor file and its linked documents to the PLM vault.

The check-in operation accomplishes the following:

  • Confirms the changes you made in the Autodesk Inventor file.
  • Changes the file’s status from Draft to RELEASED in PLM.
  • Transfers the Autodesk Inventor file to the PLM released area from the PLM work area.

The integration verifies that you have authorization to perform this operation and that the "document" linked to the file has the Draft status. If the file is new, the system prompts you with the Save As dialog box to save the file locally and perform the check-in operation. You can only access this file in Autodesk Inventor via the PLM Integration Query tool. See PLM integration query tool.

After the file has been checked in, you can only change the file by checking it out.

To check in a file:

  1. Do one of the following:
    • Click in the PLM toolbar.
    • Select Check In from the PLM drop-down menu.
  2. If prompted, save the file to Autodesk Inventor first. The file is checked in.

    You can specify how to handle files after they have been checked in. See Setting preferences.

    Note: If you check in a parent assembly, components that were checked out individually, and that belong to sub-assemblies of the parent assembly, are not checked in.

    For example, the situation is as follows:

    • Parent assembly: ASM1
    • Sub-assembly: ASM2
    • Child of sub-assembly: ASM3

    The user does the following:

    1. Checks out the parent assembly: ASM1.
    2. Checks out and changes the child of the sub-assembly: ASM3.
    3. Checks in the parent assembly: ASM1

As a result, only the parent assembly is checked in. The child of the subassembly is not checked in because the sub-assembly has not been checked out and therefore remain in released status at the time when the parent assembly was checked in.