Publish an asset locally

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Thanks for continuing on.

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Here, we are going to continue the discussion with asset publication and we're going talk about how to publish an asset locally.

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And we'll also touch upon what files make up an asset itself.

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If we flip back over to Inventor, I'm going go through asset creation again.

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Here, I'm going to choose to "Import Model" again and I'm going to use the trusty "Bench" that we've used previously.

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Note that this is in my demos file and my project scope is not the same.

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As such, I will get a warning message and I'm going to hit "Yes" to that for now.

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I'm going to be publishing this locally.

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I will be warned that the active document needs to be saved.

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I'm going to hit "Yes" to that.

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And then, instead of publishing to the "Cloud" or "Vault," I'm just going to leave the "Local" designation.

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I'm going to hit "OK" to this and it's going to save it in my "User Assets" directory.

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As you see, I have a number of assets saved there already.

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Once that is complete, I'll go ahead and close out.

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Note, we won't be using "Vault" for this, but we can go to the local path.

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I've copied that to my clipboard for simplicity.

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I'm going to dump that into the "Start" menu which will open up the folder containing the asset.

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The asset directory itself has a part, as you may expect, however, it has a number of other files.

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The DWF file is the drawing utilized by Inventor and there's also a PNG file.

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If we open that, that is a portable network graphics file.

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That file is utilized to show the thumbnail wherever applicable.

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If we go back to this folder, you also note that there is a 2D folder.

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From there, I have a DWG file. This DWG file is what is utilized by AutoCAD when referencing this asset.