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Does a model/assembly know if a drawing of it exists.

Does a model/assembly know if a drawing of it exists.

Does a model/assembly know if a drawing of it exists.

(OP)
I would like to add a column in my BOM that states wether or not a drawing exists of the part itemized in the BOM. It can be either a Y/N or the actual drawing file name. Does anyone know how or even if I can do this?

SW 2007 SP 2.2
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
Windows XP PRO SP 2

RE: Does a model/assembly know if a drawing of it exists.

About the only way I know to pull this off is to use the "where used" capability of SWX Explorer.  It is a manual method, but it works.

- - -Updraft

RE: Does a model/assembly know if a drawing of it exists.

Don't know of a way. Send in an Enhancement Request.

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 02-10-07)

RE: Does a model/assembly know if a drawing of it exists.

The PDMWorks reporting function can do that, but I'm not aware of a way to do it in SolidWorks directly.

RE: Does a model/assembly know if a drawing of it exists.

(OP)
There must be a way, in pack & go there is a check box for selecting drawings, it can do this outside of PDMworks. It may be some kind of api but it would be sweet if I could add it to the BOM without rheems of programming.

SW 2007 SP 2.2
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
Windows XP PRO SP 2

RE: Does a model/assembly know if a drawing of it exists.

Unless I misunderstand, Pack & Go will only select drawings that are in the same folder as the part/assembly and have the same name.  

RE: Does a model/assembly know if a drawing of it exists.

(OP)
I don't belive that the files need to be in the same directories, it is also possible that models with drawings associated to them will not be selected if they are not in the assembly selected for pack & go.

SW 2007 SP 2.2
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
Windows XP PRO SP 2

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