Data refile at version upgrade?

[edgray]

Does anyone out there do a total data open and refile at the time of version upgrade. The powers that be here insist that this is necessary, although in the ten years of managing our local data base before moving under the corporate umbrella I never did this or had it recommended. We are still on NX4 waiting for a successful refile!!! Unfortunately this is a really big pond and I am just not a big enough fish.

 

[cowski]

There is a utility provided in the UGII directory for this purpose (refile_part.exe). It can save parts in the new version en masse (there is also a version if you are running Teamcenter).

I've been through about 4 version upgrades and we have never refiled the parts (with the above utility or manually). The parts generally get 'upgraded' as they are opened and used (not that I'm advising that is the preferred way to do it).

 

[looslib]

The only time I used refile_part was on our hardware library to prevent these files from being marked as modified when opened. Since they were read-only to the users, it would create a mess when saving assemblies with these parts in them.
Other than that, we just let the files be modified when they were changed for a revision.


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[JohnRBaker]

It will also be critical that anyone moving to NX 7.5, because of the manner in which lightweight representations are now handled, that it's imperative that you run 'refile' on ALL of your Family Table parts (not necessarily the master templates, but certainly all of the family members which have already been generated and which are being reused). This is so that if you're creating Drawings from Assemblies which contain any of these Part Family members that they render properly for things like Hidden Line views and so on.

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[DMiller01]

We have just moved to 7.5 and I am having some issues. I am thinking in light of this thread that refiling some of my parts may help.

I looked at help files regarding use of refile_part.exe and I just wanted to run my plan by forum members to make sure I don't do any damage when using this utility.

I have all my family part instance files in a single directory. I plan on navigating to that directory using my command prompt and entering:

refile_part.exe -d

I should probably save a copy of this directory and its files before I run the utility just in case.

Do I have it right? Should I add any other switches to the command?

Thanks.

I am using 7.5.2.5 on Dell with windows XP OS

 

[looslib]

I always make a backup copy before running a refile.

That should be all you need to run the refile on all files in the main and sub-folders.


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