revision tracking with model based definition FTA
revision tracking with model based definition FTA
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one of our companies aerospace customers is going to all model based definition and is pushing the requirement to us. we do not have experience with it. i am currently the only catia user and will be the one interacting with our customer on this subject. how does anyone handle revision documentation? we have a very strict quality control and i know the issue will come up. i have already been asked about being able to do a report of the dimensions from a model and havent found a way. i would like to have some ideas in my pocket. any advice is appreciated. also any lessons learned in this area would be very helpful. thank you!





RE: revision tracking with model based definition FTA
Do you use a PLM/PDM system? If not, its time... or with some programming skills you can handle but it will be, let's say, not so easy and comfortable...
FTA can be exported in Excel with a macro (just an idea...), along with other (meta)data.
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RE: revision tracking with model based definition FTA
RE: revision tracking with model based definition FTA
RE: revision tracking with model based definition FTA
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RE: revision tracking with model based definition FTA
As far as documenting the changes; here are a couple thoughts:
1. Ask your customer what they do to document the revisions, and do the same thing
2. At my last job at a defense contractor (Boeing and Airbus were customers), we used paper EC forms (printed Excel docs) to document and sign-off on the revisions and scanned PDFs were sent to the customer. These contained lots of IS/WAS pictures with ADD/REMOVE/CHANGE balloons highlighting the changes.
3. You could add FTA Annotations to the 3D model with 3D Text to highlight the change. Each revision could have it's own View or Layer to group the annotations.
RE: revision tracking with model based definition FTA
RE: revision tracking with model based definition FTA
Boeing, IAI do that a lot. Just createnew capture, add flag note and you are done.
RE: revision tracking with model based definition FTA