By Adam Nagy
There is already an article on changing the file reference to another file using the Inventor API:
http://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2012/08/replace-the-file-reference-by-inventor-api.html
If you want to combine this with the renaming of a referenced file then you can do it like so. It might be a good idea to keep the original file until the reference has been replaced:
Sub ChangeFileNameReferencedFromAssembly()
Dim asmDoc As AssemblyDocument
Set asmDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
Dim asmCompDef As AssemblyComponentDefinition
Set asmCompDef = asmDoc.ComponentDefinition
Dim asmOcc As ComponentOccurrence
Set asmOcc = asmCompDef.Occurrences(1)
Dim partDoc As PartDocument
Set partDoc = asmOcc.Definition.Document
Dim fileMgr As FileManager
Set fileMgr = ThisApplication.FileManager
Dim oldFileName As String
oldFileName = partDoc.FullFileName
' Create new file with new file name
Dim newFileName As String
newFileName = oldFileName + "_new.ipt"
Call fileMgr.CopyFile(oldFileName, newFileName)
' Change reference
' The file you replace the reference to needs
' to be the same file or one derived from the
' original file
Call asmOcc.ReferencedDocumentDescriptor. _
ReferencedFileDescriptor.ReplaceReference(newFileName)
' Delete the original file (if you want)
Call fileMgr.DeleteFile(oldFileName)
End Sub
