PDMWorks properties and drawings
PDMWorks properties and drawings
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Hi,
We are using PDMWorks as basically a secure file storage vault. We are not interested in using the revision history of PDMWorks. So, we setup all PDMWorks to set the revision to 0000 to 9999, assuming a specific object will have no more than 10000 check-in's, heh.
However, our drawings were setup pre-PDMWorks to pull the revision field from the Revision Table to put the latest revision in the lower right of the drawing automatically using the field: $PRP:"Revision"
Now that we have PDMWorks, whenever we check-in a drawing it sets that field to the PDMWorks Revision of 0000 or later. And we need it to remain at the letter revision that is assigned in the Revision table.
Is there a way to stop this without editting all of our drawing formats?
We are using PDMWorks as basically a secure file storage vault. We are not interested in using the revision history of PDMWorks. So, we setup all PDMWorks to set the revision to 0000 to 9999, assuming a specific object will have no more than 10000 check-in's, heh.
However, our drawings were setup pre-PDMWorks to pull the revision field from the Revision Table to put the latest revision in the lower right of the drawing automatically using the field: $PRP:"Revision"
Now that we have PDMWorks, whenever we check-in a drawing it sets that field to the PDMWorks Revision of 0000 or later. And we need it to remain at the letter revision that is assigned in the Revision table.
Is there a way to stop this without editting all of our drawing formats?






RE: PDMWorks properties and drawings
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-05)
RE: PDMWorks properties and drawings
RE: PDMWorks properties and drawings
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-05)
RE: PDMWorks properties and drawings
RE: PDMWorks properties and drawings
To play devil's advocate - why not set your PDMWorks revision scheme to match your "true" revision scheme?
RE: PDMWorks properties and drawings
The reason we don't want to match the revision schemes is that we don't create a new revision for every check-in. We also don't want to see dual revs, such as A1, A2, A3, in the revision field.
RE: PDMWorks properties and drawings
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)
RE: PDMWorks properties and drawings
RE: PDMWorks properties and drawings
RE: PDMWorks properties and drawings
Conversely, what I did at my company back in the day was just choose another property name for our official revisions (called "Current Revision"). We didn't have much legacy at the time. If you do this, I recommend using a shorter name though, such as just "Rev".