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Rev Letter in Revision Table

Rev Letter in Revision Table

Rev Letter in Revision Table

(OP)
This is the first time I have ever had this happen in a drawing:

My revision table has 'A' and 'B' revisions rows.

When I 'Add Revision' the next row comes in as 'F' instead of 'C'.

Any suggestions of where it is pulling this information from or how I can correct?
I assume someone else modified the drawing and somehow changed something.

Thanks for the help.

RE: Rev Letter in Revision Table

(OP)
I can insert a blank row.

type in 'C' in the revision column, and it inserts the correct symbols as rev C.

But if I do 'Add revision' again it still tries to put in 'Rev F' again.

RE: Rev Letter in Revision Table

The "next letter" for auto incrementing is in the Rev block table itself.  When we copy any drawing with a rev filled   to start a new one we always delete the rev block and insert a new table.  Maybe someone knows away to roll back besides deleting rows in the table.

RE: Rev Letter in Revision Table

What are the setting s in Tools > Options > Document Properties > Tables > Revision --- Alpha/Numeric Control ?

RE: Rev Letter in Revision Table

(OP)
'A,B,C' is selected
'Change all' is selected/greyed out


If I select '1,2,3'
Insert a new revision row and Rev 1 comes in.
Delete Rev Row 1
Change back to 'A,B,C'
Insert new revision and it is now at 'D' as it should be.

I don't know what is going on, but will dismiss this as either a setting mixed up somewhere or a glitch with this file.

Thanks for all of the help.
 

RE: Rev Letter in Revision Table

Are you using PDMWorks? If so, change the setting from the vault to not use revision table.

Chris
SolidWorks 09 SP4.1
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SolidWorks Legion

RE: Rev Letter in Revision Table

Smart Revision tables are junk.  The quicker you realize this the better and less work you will have replacing rev tables in the future.  I tried them on a couple of drawings awhile back and realized their short-comings pretty quickly.

RE: Rev Letter in Revision Table

I just deal with it and over ride the rev letter as needed.

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2009 SP 4.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
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RE: Rev Letter in Revision Table

I tried that as well then you end up having over half of your drawings not being automated.  You might as well just get rid of the automation that's bugged and use a manual table.   

RE: Rev Letter in Revision Table

Hi, MDGroup:

What version and SP of Solidworks are you using?  I do not have this issue with mine.

Best regards,

Alex

RE: Rev Letter in Revision Table

(OP)
I am on SW2009 SP4.1

This is the first time in 100s of drawings that I have ever had an issue with the 'auto-lettering' in the rev blocks.

RE: Rev Letter in Revision Table

Hi, MDGroup:

I think you opened a drawing document created with old version SW.  Revision "C", "D", and "E" were removed by someone with the old SW.  So, when you add a new revision, SW showed you next revision after "E", hence gave you a "F".  This issue does not exist in new SW documents with relative new version.  I use SW2008 sp3.1 and I do not have the issue.  You can alway fix it manually through "revision" custom property of the drawing document if this happens.

Good Luck!

Alex

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