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lbraden1-Visitor
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August 17, 2018
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Locating different generic models that contain identical instance names

  • August 17, 2018
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Hi,

I occasionally encounter the following message when an assembly is loading: "identical instance names encountered in different generic models". This appears to cause prolonged loading time as Creo randomly decides which of the duplicate instances to load into the assembly. I would like to eliminate these duplications. Is there any way to easily ascertain which specific generic models contain the identical instance names, and what the offending names are? Our standard library contains hundreds of parts and assemblies with family tables.

Unfortunately we don't have a PLM (we only run 4 or 5 licenses in a small team). I'm hoping that removing these duplicates will improve the load time for many of our assemblies.

 

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
August 17, 2018

Hi,

 

did you check the contents of trail file ?

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dgschaefer21-Topaz II
21-Topaz II
August 17, 2018

Look for a *.idx file in your working directory named the same as the folder.  It's a simple text file that contains a list of all the family table instances in that directory and their generics.  If you have data in multiple folders, you'll need to look in each one.

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lbraden1-VisitorAuthor
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August 19, 2018

Thanks for the response - this is a good starting point. I've had a quick look at the idx file which contains a large amount of info that looks like it will be readily transferred to an excel spread sheet with columns for individual generics that can then be filtered for instances. Most helpful

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