Employee rolled alot of feature trees backwords

[arcticcatmatt]

I have an employee that decided that when she wanted a new part that was the same as an old part but minus the last 2 features, she would save as copy then roll back the feature tree 2 features. UGHGHGHGHG

Now I have a 50 part assembly on my screen and solidworks keeps telling me that some parts were saved in their roll back state, would I like to roll them forward. Go figure!

Now I have a mess on my hands. Is there a way to check what parts she did this to? Or do I have to go thru them all.

I hate work.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

If you are/were the "go to" guy with one software, you will become the "go to" guy" with any other.
It's not the software, it's your personality, your drive ... it's who/what you are.

 

[arcticcatmatt]

^ This is true.

It's the little things.. Like creating a picture how-to and putting it on the network for everyone to use in the future. Every time someone asked me for help on a complex task, I helped them and then made a how-to and put it in a folder on the network for them.

Now, there is nobody enforcing modeling rules... so the person this thread was made about will be doing things like extruding .005 off the side of a part to make it wider, or rolling a feature tree backwards to remove the last two features, or modeling parts at .99995 and not having the planes in the center, or manually typing in the title block so the part has NO properties, or even manually editing (typing!) a BOM on a print so it says what she wants it to say with the dash number she wants, or not using design tables or configurations and creating 15 versions of a part that just gets .125 thicker (then of course 15 different drawings, or my favorite- create a BOM in excel and do not create any assemblies for a new machine. Just type up a BOM that is the same as a similar machine and add 10 parts to the BOM.

Sorry, I vented a little there .

 

[EEnd]

So your nemesis survived all the cuts? I had wondered about that.

Eric

 

[arcticcatmatt]

^ 10-4 on that. She is the last full timer in the group.

Well I just got word. Sounds like I will be sent to training for I-deas and then when our customer stops using that I will be sent to training for NX5.

I tried finding a free download of I-deas online to get a headstart at home but no luck.

 

[dgowans]

Matt,

I went the other direction. I was a longtime I-DEAS user and transitioned to Solidworks. I-DEAS will be a bit different, but the methodology you use in Solidworks is the same. When I was making the transition (about 5 years ago) I thought I-DEAS was a more powerful tool - not sure how the two compare today.

There will be user interface adjustments that you might struggle with but ultimately you will do fine.