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completely missing assembly model

completely missing assembly model

completely missing assembly model

(OP)
Hi,  I was working on a fairly complicated assembly and worked on it for several weeks.  then as of last friday (3/25/11) the whole assembly has disappeared.  My IT guy has no clue what has happened to it and I don't know where to go from here but to begin to redesign it from scratch.  Could anyone tell me if this has happened to them before and if they were able to recover the assembly and if you did how did you do it.  We use Wildfire 5 with Windchill.
Thanks,
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RE: completely missing assembly model

Obviously it couldn't stand the windchill and left for a warmer clime.

RE: completely missing assembly model

Maybe it got tied up by the ribbon and became a present.
 

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

RE: completely missing assembly model

Did you have the assembly in a workspace or was it checked in to Windchill and your workspace cleared?
Have you had your PDMLink admin search for the files since they can see more areas of the system?
 

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

RE: completely missing assembly model

(OP)
Hi, we put in a PTC ticket to see if they could find the missing files.  They were unable to do so, and all they did was to remind me to be sure to upload our design work, and checkin when appropriate to do so.
Okay,  here's what possibly happened.  When I discovered the assembly was missing, I began to look back into the frames history (Apply previous Frame).  Someone told me that once you go back in your frame history, you can't return forward (is that correct?).  So, it is possible, that as I was going frame by frame to previous frames I may have gone too far back.  This may have been what happened, however, I don't even think that's the case, because as I was working on the design for days and even weeks, there should have been many history frames created as I would save my work mulitple times during the day.
I've recovered now by recreating the assembly (fortunately, even though it's a headache to have to do it, it just takes a fraction of the time to re-do something than doing it the first time.

RE: completely missing assembly model

We had PDMlink set to Save and Uplaod so the files are at least stored on the server and not kept locally.
 

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

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