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Use Style Library Only users with the proper permissions can control the
value of this setting. It controls whether a user can edit, use, or even access
style libraries.
Libraries In addition to the Content Center libraries that ship with Autodesk
Inventor, you can declare that fi les in specifi c folders be treated as library fi les.
These fi les can't be edited while you're using a project fi le that defi nes them as a
library. It's also important that you not allow these fi les to be edited by people
who don't consider them a library.
Frequently Used Subfolders As you saw earlier in this chapter, you can defi ne
shortcuts that take you to folders that are relevant to the work you need to get
done. Creating a path to a folder and another path to another folder under it repli-
cates the structure on the disk. These shortcuts can be given any name, and you
should name them in a way that is clear to you. For example, a disk path of C:\
Users\Public\Public Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2010\Samples\Models\
Assemblies\Suspension\Components could have a shortcut of Brackets.
Folder Options This area lets you establish paths to styles and templates that
are in locations other than the ones that Inventor uses when it's installed. This
is important in a network environment where you may want to have everyone
accessing the same templates from a central source. The Content Center Files
path tells Inventor where to put the local copies of standard content used by the
fi les that you're working with. This too is an important consideration for a net-
work environment so that you don't, for example, have multiple people keeping
individual copies of the same standard bolt on their own computers.
Options The group contains a couple of interesting items, but most of them
are less frequently modifi ed than other parts of the project fi le. The Old Versions
to Keep on Save value controls the number of versions of the fi le that are saved
to an Oldversions directory in the fi le path. You can restore these older fi les as
new fi les or over the current versions of the fi les. It's important to note that if
you restore over a current version, all changes made since the old version was
saved are lost.
NOTE The Oldversions directory can hold multiple versions of a
file, created each time the file is saved. It's like having multiple BAK files
that can be restored.