changed assembly file locations
changed assembly file locations
(OP)
Hi; I've got a problem. A previous employee made an assembly with files on one network drive letter, but now the files are on another network drive letter (Same directory otherwise). When opening the assembly, it says "cannot find file, would you like to find it yourself?" ... upon hitting yes and changing the drive letter, it works and finds all the rest of the files on the new drive. But it won't save it like that. Every time the assy is opened, we have to re-tell it the new location.
We are using PDMWorks, and the files which are giving grief are part of a non-revision-managed design library within PDM.
Any insight would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Kyle
We are using PDMWorks, and the files which are giving grief are part of a non-revision-managed design library within PDM.
Any insight would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Kyle






RE: changed assembly file locations
SW only saves these changes for the parentmost open assembly and its direct children... subassemblies don't have these references saved for their children... our assembly in question has a few layers. Solution was to open up child assemblies and save them separately and work up the tree.
Thanks anyway !
RE: changed assembly file locations
Before you open an assembly, click on the assembly you want, click "references", and you can replace the folder of specified assembly references.
RE: changed assembly file locations
RE: changed assembly file locations
Matt
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RE: changed assembly file locations
In any case--opening each assembly and saving them with new references worked, while opening a parent assembly with those subassemblies with bad references, wouldn't...
thanks again for the words of help!