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thanks for all who spent the time to read this.  I was put in charge of organizing our database of pro/e files. (what a drag, seriouslly)  The guy who started this database was missing a little something upstairs if you know what i mean.  But in any case, we have assemblies, components, drawings, all over the place in one main folder.

Some subfolders are there to hold all the "plastic" files.  then theres a folder for all the "screws", just to name a few.  Some components are being used by multiple assemblies.  Which is why im asking if this is possible.  Now when i placed everything in their respective folders, i thought i was doing good.  Nope, now when i open the assemblies, an error message pops up saying it cant find the component.  So i manually find it, save the assembly, then close it.  Without erasing "non-displayed" items, ill open it again, and everything is nicey nice.  Then ill close it, and do the erase non-displayed items.  open it again and the error message pops up again.  

Is there a way to have all the components in subfolders, and assemblies in another, and have pro/e know where everything is.  Or does everything have to be in one folder all disorganized.

thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for all your help.

~~Joe

RE: Database

Create a search.pro file and put the location of that file in your config.pro or config.sup. I think the option is named search_pro_file.
In your search.pro file you all have lines like this:
f:\pro_stds\hardware\screws
f:\pro_stds\hardware\nuts
f:\pro_stds\fittings
f:\pro_parts\standard
f:\pro_parts\machine1

Anyway you can get the idea.

Pro/E will search the paths in search.pro for items in an assembly that it cannot resolve from the as-saved location.

 

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RE: Database

(OP)
Hey Thanks man appreciate it.  Ill let you know how it turns out.

~~Joe

~~Joe

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