Associating the mapping rules to part files, assemblies, or drawings

Now that you have created mapping rules and saved them to a template, you can create parts, assemblies, or drawings in Autodesk Inventor using this new template. The part, assembly, or drawing acquires the values of the attributes you defined in the mapping rules. Only the owner of a file or the "project" administrator can perform associations.

To associate the mapping rules to part files, assemblies, or drawings:

  1. In Autodesk Inventor, open a template file for which you have created mapping rules as described in the previous sections.
  2. Save the template file under another name (that is, under the name of the part, drawing, or assembly that you are going to work on and to which you want the mapping rules of the template to apply). As a result, the new part file (or drawing or assembly, as the case may be) has obtained the attributes and the mapping rules of the template.
  3. Save the part file with the new name to PLM.