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Where used on a drawing

Where used on a drawing

Where used on a drawing

(OP)
All,
 We use PDM and on part drawing would like to put the next assy part number where this part is used. Does anyone have any ideas of an easy way to do this? Is there a field that you can draw from PDM that would populate this new field with the "Where Used"? Or a macro?

Thank You.

RE: Where used on a drawing

What do you mean by "next" assy part number?  Do you mean the part number of the next part in the assembly order or just the number of the assembly containing it?  

RE: Where used on a drawing

(OP)
Number of the assy that this part will be going into. Sorry.

RE: Where used on a drawing

Each dwg should have "Used on" and Next assy". Sorry, I'm not sure how to link these feilds to PDM.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
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RE: Where used on a drawing

This should be possible in PDMWorks with API.  I assume that PDMWorks and SolidWorks API work together rather nicely, since the SW API help includes PDMWorks functions.  I don't have PDMWorks myself, though.

If each part file is only used in one assembly you could do this with custom properties and a macro.  You would run a macro with the assembly open which would add the assembly number to custom properties of every part in it.  If you only want certain parts to have where used (e.g. you want to exclude fasteners) then your macro would check for whatever condition you want to include/exclude.  For example, if all parts you want to mark follow a certain naming convention you could program that into the macro.  Or you could have a certain custom property that flags that file to be marked with the assembly number in another custom property.  If this sounds like a way you'd like to go I'd be happy to help out.

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