Change the icons of existing categories in Content Center in Inventor 2014

When you create a Category in your custom library, you have the option to browse and select the icons for it.





By the way, in previous versions of Inventor, once you have created the new Category, you cannot change the icons you have selected, because the options are grayed out when you open the Category Properties dialog box.



This has been improved in Inventor 2014.

After installing the Update 1, you will be able edit the Category Properties of an existing category and change the icons you have selected when you have created it.

Besides, in case you have copied a standard Category Structure to your custom library, if you want, you can also change the icons for these Categories that will display in Content Center with the custom icon when the custom library is in use in the active project.





Posted By Andy (Application Engineer)

Understanding Content Center Locations

We often get calls about Content Center, where it is located and the best method for organising.

With Content Center, there are two elements, the Library and the Generated Parts. Because the Content Center contains over a million parts, it is easier to contain these in a database, which you access upon hitting Insert from Content Center. Once you select a size and place in the Assembly, it then creates the Generated Part.

Library

There are two options for hosting the Content Center libraries, Inventor Desktop Content or Autodesk Vault Server.

By default Inventor will install Desktop Content Libraries, which by default are copied to the following locations:

XP - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\Inventor 2012\Content Center\Libraries

Win7 & Vista - C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\Inventor 2012\Content Center\Libraries

These options are set during the installation and stored inside Inventor under Tools > Application Options > Content Center TAB.

If you are running Vault within the company, then it is likely that the Libraries will be hosted on the Vault Server, so to access these you will need to set the Content Center option in Application Options to Autodesk Vault Server.