Regenerating instances for Pro/INTRALINK
Regenerating instances for Pro/INTRALINK
(OP)
I use Wildfire 2 and Pro/INTRALINK 3.3
I have top-level assemblies which are generic assemblies.
I use these assemblies predominantly via simplified reps.
Mostly I enter the generic assembly, and not an instance.
Presently the master representation of the assembly can be opened.
For whatever reason, I make a change that changes the generic assembly. When I save the generic, I have a warning that the instances have not been verified. This warning can be ignored, but….
When I submit the generic assembly into Intralink, the submission is prevented because Intralink insists that the instances are verified. This means I have to retrieve the master rep of the generic assembly, and verify the family tables and save again.
This is a pain, but doable.
However, should the generic assembly become so big you can no longer do this, what is the solution – is there an alternative methodology?
Also, my understanding is that in order to re-order parts and sub-assemblies, I have to be in the master rep? Once again, a problem?
Sure, using skeletons such problems would probably never happen, but if they did, is there a workaround?
Thanks in advance
Dave
I have top-level assemblies which are generic assemblies.
I use these assemblies predominantly via simplified reps.
Mostly I enter the generic assembly, and not an instance.
Presently the master representation of the assembly can be opened.
For whatever reason, I make a change that changes the generic assembly. When I save the generic, I have a warning that the instances have not been verified. This warning can be ignored, but….
When I submit the generic assembly into Intralink, the submission is prevented because Intralink insists that the instances are verified. This means I have to retrieve the master rep of the generic assembly, and verify the family tables and save again.
This is a pain, but doable.
However, should the generic assembly become so big you can no longer do this, what is the solution – is there an alternative methodology?
Also, my understanding is that in order to re-order parts and sub-assemblies, I have to be in the master rep? Once again, a problem?
Sure, using skeletons such problems would probably never happen, but if they did, is there a workaround?
Thanks in advance
Dave





RE: Regenerating instances for Pro/INTRALINK
I don't use Intralink myself, but this TPI might help:
https://w
or this:
https://w
This suggests using the config.pro option:
verify_on_save_by_default yes
I hope this helps
John
RE: Regenerating instances for Pro/INTRALINK
Considering you don't use Intralink, you knew where to look to find the answer. I was expecting another user with similar experiences to have found a work around.
However, we still haven't solved the complete solution have we - lol.
All I have to do now is to get our system administrator to change the config options - that will be a formality - NOT!
Greetz
Dave
RE: Regenerating instances for Pro/INTRALINK
I assume you are on a Windoze machine. You could just add or change the option in the global config.sup or global config.pro yourself. As long as your global configs don't grab a new copy each time you start Pro/E your admin won't even know.
(As a former Pro/E admin, I speak from experience)
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