Style Conflict message

You start a new Inventor file (drawing, part, assembly, etc.), selecting one of your templates or the default one and get the Style Conflict message.

The error message is telling you that in the template file you have selected, the listed entities (i.e.: Layers: Center Mark (ISO), Standard: Default Standard (ISO) ) have different definitions compared to the same entities stored in the Style Library you are using in the active project.

As written in the message, the definitions from the Style Library will be used for these entities in the new file.

1. If you want to use the definitions from the Style Library when you use this template, but without getting the message every time you select it for creating a new Inventor file, do the following.

• Do not start a new file, but open the template browsing to its location (i.e.: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2012\Templates).

• Menu Manage, Styles and Standards, Update.

• In the following Update Styles dialog, click on Yes to All and then OK.

• Click Yes in the following message and save the file.

 

2. Instead, if you want to overwrite the style definitions from your template file into your style library, do the following.

• In the active project set the option Use Style Library = Read-Write.

• Do not start a new file, but open the template browsing to its location (i.e.: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2012\Templates).
• Menu Manage, Styles and Standards, Save.

• In the following Save Style to Style Library dialog, click on Yes to All and then OK.

• Click Yes in the following message and save the file.

By the way, if you decide to overwrite the style definitions from your template file (i.e.: Standard.idw) into your style library (Point 2), the next time you select this template for creating a new file, of course, you will not get style conflict message.

But, if you select a different template for the same file extension (i.e.: Standard_2.idw) for creating the file, you should get the style conflict message, because the second template should have the definitions from the Style Library before the overriding.

So, if you want to use the new definitions from the Style Library when you use this second template, for instance, if you want to use the style definitions you have saved from Standard.idw into the Style Library in Standard_2.idw as well, but without getting the message every time you select it for creating a new drawing, you have to apply the procedure of Point 1 above for the second template.

 

3. If you want to use a different style definitions than the ones from the Style Library but just with a specific template, in previous versions you could set the option Use Style Library = No in the active project.

This option is not available in R2012.

You can find more details here about why this option has been removed and a procedure if you want to use the cached style definitions of your template anyway.

Ale

Comments

[Heath]

Then link listed in the post is bad FYI:

"You can find more details here about why this option has been removed and a procedure if you want to use the cached style definitions of your template anyway."

[Ale]

If I click on “here” the link works for me.

If this is not the case for you, please, try the link below.

http://wiki.autodesk.com/display/edsinstall/How+to+preserve+cached+styles+in+Inventor+2012

Regards,
Ale

[Rainer Proehl]

Hi Ale,

the link is not working, even for me ;-)
...shouldn't it be wikihelp.autodesk.com instead of wiki.autodesk.com?

I think the correct link should be:
http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Inventor/enu/Community/Data_Migration_and_You/Data_Migration/What_changed_from_release_to_release/Autodesk_Inventor_2012

Best regards
Rainer Pröhl

[Ale]

Thanks Rainer,

I’ve fixed the problem now.
The link should work for everybody.

Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Ale