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Protecting CONFIGURATIONS

Protecting CONFIGURATIONS

Protecting CONFIGURATIONS

(OP)
We are using Solidworks Office Pro 2007, SP4.0.

My question to anyone who can help.

We know you can take ownership of any part/assembly/drawing put into PDM.  But can a single part/assembly have different ownership's (or protection) on it's individual CONFIGURATIONS?  This way ONLY the configuration that NEEDS to be change is changed and NOT the others?  

Since one part/assembly with multiple CONFIGURATIONS could be used with MULTIPLE drawings.

Thanks

RE: Protecting CONFIGURATIONS

If you are using PDMWorkgroups, or SolidWorks Workgroup PDM if you are using SW 2009, then no there isn't a way to just own a configuration, it's all or nothing with the file. I'm not sure about Enterprise, but I'm guessing it's the same thing.

Joe Hasik, CSWP/SMTL
SW 08 x64, SP 4.0
SW 09 x64, SP 0.0
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

RE: Protecting CONFIGURATIONS

DekkerDesign is correct. Even if you could, how would you control the revisions? It's possible the associated drawings could have separate revs for each config (but I advise against it, IMO), but not the part.

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
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RE: Protecting CONFIGURATIONS

You can set your configurations to not add any mates, parts or features.  This way all the other configs can change but the ones that are "locked" will remain untouched.  you have to right click on the config and look for the advanced settings on the bottom of the task pane.

If the drawing is critical you can always break it apart into 2 separate files, but i dont know if that will be accepted by your company's doc ctrl.

SW2008 Office Pro SP4.0
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
2.2GHz, 2.00GB RAM
QuadroFX 3700
SpacePilot

RE: Protecting CONFIGURATIONS

This sounds crazy, but can't you create a design table (excel), and then write protect the design table from folks tampering with it? I did this with my own toolbox parts

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2008 SP 4.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer

RE: Protecting CONFIGURATIONS

(OP)
THANKS for everyones answers...

RE: Protecting CONFIGURATIONS

(OP)
Thanks for all the help....

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