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Releasing files into PDMW at revision level other than A

Releasing files into PDMW at revision level other than A

Releasing files into PDMW at revision level other than A

(OP)
I am having trouble releasing legacy data files that were recreated in Solidworks into PDMWorks. I was under the impression that you could release files into the PDM at whatever revision level you wanted. I have a part and drawing file that I want to release into the vault at revision "C". I change the life cycle status column to "Released" and both part and drawing revision levels change to "A", the first primary revision. After that I am able to manually change the revision level for the part to "C" but am not able to change the revision level for the drawing. I have tried multiple times and many different ways but nothing works. What should be a simple operation is driving nuts and wasting lots of time. Has anyone out there ever had this happen?  Could this a bug
or am I an isolated case? Does anyone have a work around?

banghead

I thought I would tap into the expertise of the PDMWorks users here while I wait for a response from my VAR.



Regards,
Dan Olid
SW2006 SP4.1
PDMW 4.0
Cad Designer/PDMW Admin

RE: Releasing files into PDMW at revision level other than A

Are you the PDMW admin? Login as admin (or whoever is admin) and check the settings and revs.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks Pro 06/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: Releasing files into PDMW at revision level other than A

(OP)
Ctopher,
I am the admin and far as I know our settings are correct.
I am logged on as a regular user when I try to release into the vault. What settings should I be looking at?

We have been on PDMW for almost 5 weeks and I believe I have a good grasp of how things are supposed to work but I am still learning.

Regards,
Dan Olid
SW2006 SP4.1
PDMW 4.0
Cad Designer/PDMW Admin

RE: Releasing files into PDMW at revision level other than A

If all your settings and Revision Schemes are correct, then it's a bug. I have seen this a couple times. I've had to delete from PDMW and re-check in.
Make sure you are the owner of the dwg you are trying to change.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks Pro 06/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

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