Conversion Process

  1. Click Generate Input Log to create the log file in the following location:

    <PLM_Client>\Inventor\ConvLogs\input.log

    The entries listed in the file are in ascending order of FIILE_ID + FILE_VERSION and areused for processing. The file contains entries for only RELEASED files.

  2. Select the type of operation that must be performed for different file types. Three options are provided for Inventor Part, Assembly, and Drawing file types.
    • Convert (if previous version): Indicates that the utility must convert these file types only if the file is of earlier version.
    • Re-Convert All: Indicates that the utility must perform re-saving of these files (even if the files are in current version). The utility is used when the conversion run is not successful.
    • Skip: Indicates that the utility must skip these file types.
  3. Download dependent files during conversion: If this check-box is checked. This indicates to the user that the utility will perform conversion for a file by downloading its dependent files also.
  4. Click Process Using Input Log to convert the files that are listed in the input.log. During the processing of a file, the utility downloads that file along with its dependent files. The file is converted and if the conversion is successful, the file is transferred to PLM. During the file conversion, the utility also checks for dependent files in the list. If dependent files exist, the utility converts the files. If the conversion is successful, these dependent files are also transferred to PLM.

    During this operation, the utility creates a log file in the following location:

    <PLM_Client>\Inventor\ConvLogs\output.log

  5. Include dependent files (for conversion): By default, this check-box is not selected. This flag is required only for specific cases. For example, if you want to convert a particular assembly(say FILE-ID = “FILE-01585”, Version = “0003”) and all its dependents under its structure, youcan create a single entry (as below) representing the data set for this assembly in the <PLM_Client>\ Inventor\ConvLogs\input.log file as FILE-01585_0003.IAM|0. If this check box is selected and you click Process Using Input Log, the utility searches forthe dependent files (that are RELEASED) under the assembly structure, and also considers them (if required based on the above mentioned flags for various file types) for conversion.
  6. Generate Error Log: During conversion process, status of files is listed in “output.log” file. When user clicks on this button, the utility will create following log file containing only the listof files for which there were errors during conversion operation. <PLM_Client>\Inventor\ConvLogs\ error.log