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Pack & Go

(OP)
I completed a small job that includes one assembly made up of ten parts & one 24x36 drawing with all ten parts dimensioned.

I just got another job to do that is very similar to the last one. All parts are basically the same with very subtle differences, but they are for another customer so they must be named and filed independant from each other.

I used Pack and Go and selected all of the models and the drawing, applied a suffix and saved.

I opened up the new assembly and all of the new parts are referenced properly, However I opened up the new drawing and it still references the original part models. Is this a bug? Why would Pack and Go not handle the drawing contents properly? Is there a quick and reliable fix to link to the correct part models without muckin up the works?
Should I have handled this differently and not use Pack & Go? I do use PDMWorks but thought Pack & Go was the right way to copy and rename jobs.

Thanks for your help.

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

RE: Pack & Go

Did you checkmark the Include Drawings option in the Pack and Go window?

Did you checkmark all instances of the drawing document?

cheers

RE: Pack & Go

(OP)
Yes I included the drawing and it copied just fine. But the contents of the new drawing still shows the original part models

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

RE: Pack & Go

(OP)
If I now go to the File Open dialog and hilite the new drawing, I can then select the references button and individually update the referenced file locations. But this seems like a bandaid approach. Is there a better way to handle this? PDMWorks?

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

RE: Pack & Go

Not sure what steps you took for Pack and Go, but I always open the drawing THEN use pack and go.  If all parts/assemblies/drawings are in 1 folder, many times I will simply copy the whole folder and paste it elsewhere.  I then use Solidworks Explorer to rename the models for the new project.  

www.paul-flores.com/solidworks_screenshots/pack_and_go_test.jpg

SW07 SP2.0

Flores

RE: Pack & Go

(OP)
Thanks smcadman, I did everything EXACTLY as you show in your screenshot, included the drawing and applied a suffix to all but I did not copy them to a new folder. When I opened up the new drawing all of the dimensioned part models are still the old parts, except for the assembly which I included in the drawing, it was the correct one

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

RE: Pack & Go

(OP)
I just re-read your jpeg notes and you say to open the drawing file and use Pack & Go because it works better. Well I don't think I did this. I opened the assembly file and then did Pack & Go, but shouldn't it have worked also?

I will try this again in another temp folder and see what it does

thanks

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

RE: Pack & Go

Seems like you have two parts of the same name in two different places. The assy is ref the original parts. You need to change the ref to look at the new parts.
This is common when parts are copied.

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 10-27-06)

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