drawing control

[SunshineBuddy]

Ok folks, a fairly simple one here.

How do you control your parts/drawings revisions within solid edge? Checking and approving etc. revisions etc.


But not using something like teamcentre / plm!!!

 

[beachcomber]

Only drawings have the revision raised as part of the filename as it can be a nightmare trying to increment part and sub-assembly revisions throughout a large project. If you think about it, you could have to raise the revision of assembly models right up to top level simply because of a change to a single part.
When a drawing is released it should be protected from accidental update by setting the file status to 'Released'.
New drawing revisions should then be created using Revision Manager.

bc

 

[SunshineBuddy]

YUP.

One thing though can you "un release" a drawing?

 

[donyoung]

Hi,

one note here: a drawing can be set only to released when the underlying
part ist also released. When that's an assembly then before setting the
asm to released all parts that the asm holds must be set to released
The latter one also implies that you can only set an assembly(!)
to obsolete when *all* parts have been set to obsolete which is
quite a bit off reality.

To unrelease use one of the 'Status Changer' programs floating
around ;-)

dy

 

[beachcomber]

Yes- if you cheat, and assuming you have write access to the files/folders.
Create the new revision with rev manager. This will have it's status as 'available'. Rename it back to the old revision and overwrite your old file.
Alternatively it can be done with a bit of VB.

bc.
ps you must be as sad as me - on a CAD forum on Sunday evening (UK time) !!!!

 

[donyoung]

/Edit

simple way to change back to Avalable is: save under a new
name ;-)

 

[beachcomber]

Don,
I may be wrong but I believe you CAN set status to released for drawings only using VB.

bc

 

[donyoung]

bc,

that's what my 1st. post implies: use one of the 'StatusChanger' which will
enable one to set any part/draft or whatever to any desired status

dy

 

[beachcomber]

Don,
I'd assumed from the first part of your post that you meant drawings AND models all had to be released.
I was saying that drawings can be set to released without having to set the underlying models to released.

bc

 

[donyoung]

bc,

no, you may set the draft to 'In Work' or 'In Review'. To set
it to 'Released' or 'Baselined' then the underlying model
must be at least 'Released'. To set it to 'Obsolete' then
the model must be 'Obsolete' (V19/Sp3)

dy

 

[SunshineBuddy]

Very interesting folks but you still havnt said what YOU do to control your drawings?