Rebuild issues with drawings
Rebuild issues with drawings
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Hello All! Have a problem with some of our offices. After checking the parts/drawngs/assemblies into our PDM software (SmarTeam) and then when our shopfloor tries to view the drawings thru e-drawings and our companies intra-net, drawings can show up without any of the assemblies visible, only the balloons. We got a tip at our local user group meeting to always hit Ctrl-Q before we save and check into the PDM software. Our question is, is there a way hook this Ctrl-Q with the checkin and release features of SmarTeam, our attemps at macros have failed and our VAR is reluctant to attemp this. Thanks!






RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
You say "can" show up. Does this mean that it sometimes works?
Can the problem files be opened on other machines?
Can the problem machines open files which are known to open on other machines?
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RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
Also what are the video card specs of the shop floor computers?
Are the shop floor computers opening the native SW files via the eDrawings program? ... or are the files saved out as actual eDrawing files?
Are the eDrawings files controlled by SmartTeam?
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RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
We have also seen this problem, but we think it's due to something else we can't pin down. Our VAR has suggested this quick test to see if it's ST or SW that's messing things up. If the file doesn't view properly try opening it up in SW in view only mode. If it still doesn't display properly then it's likely SW didn't save the file correctly.
While we don't use eDrawings we do use Navigator and the Cimmetry viewer and again this problem is evident. Viewing native files is a pain and we will be switching to something else, more than likely PDFs.
Kevin Carpenter
CAD Systems Specialist
Invacare Corp.
RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
Bring a complete system from the shop floor into the office & try to open the files, then take a complete system from the office out to the shop floor & try to open the same files.
If the SF comp' can open the files & the office one cannot, then it's a network problem.
If the SF comp' cannot open the files & the office one can, then it's the SF comp's.
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RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
I have not posted it on the smarteam users forum, but I should to see if anyone else is getting it as well.
We were thinking that ST is updating the objects in the system behind the scenes, but we have disabled all the automatic vault updating.
Kevin Carpenter
CAD Systems Specialist
Invacare Corp.
RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
CBL...from all the tests we've done it does not appear to have anything to do with the SF comp's. In SJ's case they have locally installed software while we use a web based product. I guess it's worth a shot for him test it none-the-less.
Kevin Carpenter
CAD Systems Specialist
Invacare Corp.
RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
I'll bet that it's a video card problem then ... but I have been known to lose bets before.
The test in my previous post should prove/disprove that.
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RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 06
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RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
Save tessellated data for drawings with shaded and draft quality views
The draft/high quality setting could explain some of the "randomness"
RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
RE: Rebuild issues with drawings
Eric