×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Don't prompt to save read-only reference documents (discard changes)

Don't prompt to save read-only reference documents (discard changes)

Don't prompt to save read-only reference documents (discard changes)

(OP)
Hi,

"Don't prompt to save read-only reference documents (discard changes)" is a system option in SW.  When I saveas an existing assembly as a new assembly with selected parts renamed, SW forces me to save all those Read-Only parts that are not renamed.  Imagine that you have an assembly with 100 parts.  You want to save this assembly as a new assembly with 10 parts renamed.  The other 90 parts (Read-Only) will just be reused with no changes in this assembly.  However, SW asks you if you want to save those parts 90 times.  This is very annoy.  Is there a way to bypass this?  I never had this problem with SW before 2008.

Alex  

RE: Don't prompt to save read-only reference documents (discard changes)

Hi Alex,

We often run into this problem here at work with Solidworks 2008, usually because multiple people are working on parts of an assembly while I'm working on that assembly.  If you can get them to close out, the saving process moves forward without the READ-ONLY prompt.  

Unfortunately for changing prompt options, I find that I often keep checking the box "check this box to not show this message again" and other various options.  I have also opened other assemblies and been rewarded with my options being changed such as set all parts to lightweight.

PDM works is also available using a "Check-In" "Check-Out" system.  Nonetheless, I don't see a direct bypass to the problem.  If you do discover a bypass, please let me know.

Kyle

Kyle Chandler
www.chiefengineering.net

"To the Pessimist, the glass is half-empty.  To the Optimist, the glass is half-full.  To the Engineer, the glass is twice as large as it needs to be!"
 

RE: Don't prompt to save read-only reference documents (discard changes)

(OP)
Hi, Kyle:

Thanks for the quick reply!

All my read-only parts are in our Vault, and are secured via network security.  So, it does not matter whether other users open these documents or not.  Additionally, I know for sure that no one are opening these documents while I am renaming them.

This happens to all my coworkers (16 seats).  This never happened before SW08.

Alex

RE: Don't prompt to save read-only reference documents (discard changes)

I guess that makes for a good argument not to get Solidworks 2009, lol.

Kyle Chandler
www.chiefengineering.net

"To the Pessimist, the glass is half-empty.  To the Optimist, the glass is half-full.  To the Engineer, the glass is twice as large as it needs to be!"
 

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources