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How to quickly delete 3rd party links to external objects in Inventor?

If you need to remove "3rd Party" references (e.g. XLS tables, OLE documents, raster images) from your Inventor document (IPT, IAM), you can use three ways:

Remove them individually, one by one using the function "Links" (Tools > Options > Links) and its button "Break Link".
Use the VBA macro "MyRefDocs" described in Lesson 18 of our samples on Inventor and AutoCAD VBA programming
Use a simple iLogic rule - see below:

 Dim oDoc As Inventor.Document
 Dim ref As Inventor.ReferencedOLEFileDescriptor
 oDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
 For Each ref In oDoc.ReferencedOLEFileDescriptors
    ref.Delete 'delete reference
 Next

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See also:
Tip 12508:	How to assign an expression (not value) to a user parameter with iLogic?
Tip 12432:	Parse/replace Inventor iProperties using regular expressions.
Tip 11801:	What is the difference between ThisDoc.Document and ThisApplication.ActiveDocument in iLogic?
Tip 11542:	How to reset the top browser node name back to the file name?
Tip 9561:	iLogic macro for exporting IDW/DWG Inventor drawings to DXF.

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