Detached Drawings
Detached Drawings
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Has anyone had experiences with detached drawings? Any thoughts on the plus's and minus's of using them.
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RE: Detached Drawings
RE: Detached Drawings
So if there is some change required, when you open the detached drawing it will prompt to initiate changes in the model?
RE: Detached Drawings
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091
RE: Detached Drawings
Remember...
"If you don't use your head,
your going to have to use your feet."
RE: Detached Drawings
Sometimes what people think says a lot more than help files. Thanks again!
RE: Detached Drawings
meintsi ... When saving for a revision, how do you ensure that the drawing does not get updated at a later date? Do you Lock or break links or ???
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091
RE: Detached Drawings
Opening the detached drawing is only a small concern when the model is already loaded in memory and it is opened with the 'read-only' tick box left unchecked. But even then, the drawing will partially update, but it will not keep the changes when closed unless you purposely hit save.
You do not even get the prompt when closing to save it. It just closes.
We have a very disciplined and SW savy group here, and errors very rarely happen. But every two or three years, the nightly tape backup yields a very easy fix.
Remember...
"If you don't use your head,
your going to have to use your feet."
RE: Detached Drawings
Flores
SW06 SP4.1
RE: Detached Drawings
We don't use a PDM system here and get along just fine without one. I don't want to start a debate about a PDM system because the benefits just don't justify the cost. A lot of that just may be due to the fact that we have a very savy group of users.
But we like to be able to open the old revisons within SolidWorks because ...
1) The SW 'FILE OPEN' allows us faster access than browsing thru windows explorer and waiting for Adobe to load. SolidWorks is always open and running.
2) Detached drawings open extemely fast here without a PDM system in place. (Not sure if PDM works is slowing it down or not, but a "2 page - 6 view - 2 section - 6 detail view" drawing will open in a few seconds)
3) When opened in SW, the drawing is availiable with either an "arrange window" command for side-by-side viewing and reference or via Ctrl-Tab.
Remember...
"If you don't use your head,
your going to have to use your feet."
RE: Detached Drawings
Slay the bloatware of Adobe! This is a very nice, VERY small PDF reader. It only works for viewing and printing, but you save all that load time of Acrobat.