COPYING PROE FILES WITH NOTEPAD DOESN'T WORK
COPYING PROE FILES WITH NOTEPAD DOESN'T WORK
(OP)
WE ARE LOOKING FOR A WAY TO RENUMBER DRAWINGS.
WE USE "DESIGN DATA MANAGER" AND A 12345-67890 NUMBERING SYSTEM WHERE 12345 IS THE WORKS ORDER NO. AND 67890 THE PART/ASSEMBLY DRAWINGS.
WHEN WE WANT TO REISSUE AN OLD ASSEMBLY WITH A NEW WORKS ORDER NO. ALL THE PARTS & DRAWINGS ARE RENUMBERED BY HAND - THIS TAKES A FEW DAYS (SO THE OLD DRAWINGS HAVE THE NEW WORKS ORDER NO.-SOMETIMES THERE ARE SLIGHT MODIFICATIONS).
WHAT SOFTWARE(TEXT EDITOR) CAN COPY PROE FILES (PARTS,DRAWINGS & ASSEMBLIES) - NOTEPAD DOESN'T WORK.
I THINK THE PLAN IS TO WRITE A PROGRAM TO RENUMER JOBS - USING VISUAL BASIC SO THEY CAN BE RELOADED BACK INTO "DESIGN DATA MANAGER"
ANY COMMENTS WELCOME!
CHEERS
WE USE "DESIGN DATA MANAGER" AND A 12345-67890 NUMBERING SYSTEM WHERE 12345 IS THE WORKS ORDER NO. AND 67890 THE PART/ASSEMBLY DRAWINGS.
WHEN WE WANT TO REISSUE AN OLD ASSEMBLY WITH A NEW WORKS ORDER NO. ALL THE PARTS & DRAWINGS ARE RENUMBERED BY HAND - THIS TAKES A FEW DAYS (SO THE OLD DRAWINGS HAVE THE NEW WORKS ORDER NO.-SOMETIMES THERE ARE SLIGHT MODIFICATIONS).
WHAT SOFTWARE(TEXT EDITOR) CAN COPY PROE FILES (PARTS,DRAWINGS & ASSEMBLIES) - NOTEPAD DOESN'T WORK.
I THINK THE PLAN IS TO WRITE A PROGRAM TO RENUMER JOBS - USING VISUAL BASIC SO THEY CAN BE RELOADED BACK INTO "DESIGN DATA MANAGER"
ANY COMMENTS WELCOME!
CHEERS





RE: COPYING PROE FILES WITH NOTEPAD DOESN'T WORK
You need to do the renumbering in Pro/E or use a data manager that has rename capability. PDMLink and Intralink can do it.
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RE: COPYING PROE FILES WITH NOTEPAD DOESN'T WORK
THE LATEST IDEA IS TO OPEN PROE FILES AS A "BINARY" FILE TYPES AND USE A VISUAL BASIC ROUTINE TO ALTER THE NUMBERS.
SAVING THE DRAWINGS WITHIN DDM AND MAINTAINING A LINK TO THE MODEL COULD BE A PROBLEM -WE THINK.
THANKS
AC
RE: COPYING PROE FILES WITH NOTEPAD DOESN'T WORK
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Fighter Pilot
Manufacturing Engineer
RE: COPYING PROE FILES WITH NOTEPAD DOESN'T WORK
I think I'd go with the parameter approach as mentioned by fighterpilot.
As for manipulating ProE files outside of ProE's GUI interface, I haven't had much success since about version 19 or something when they made it a binary file. There must be some checksum feature or something that causes any changes to disable the model. I haven't figured it out... yet. ;o)
But if you make any progress, please share.
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