PDM checkout question

[tmalinski]

When in SW, I click on the PDM icon, I RMB on a simple assembly model (contains 3 part files) and select open/check out document. Then the PDM dialog box pops up but it proceeds to fill it up with a ton of stuff (approx 50) other part models and assemblies that I don't want and forces me to uncheck all except the one I want. Why does it do this? It must be something I'm doing wrong. It looks like the bulk of the unwanted stuff is a larger assembly that I have been working on recently, but have since checked it back into the vault.

tom

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

 

[ctopher]

Your settings are to open the current files within PDMW. It will list them all and copy them into your specified user folder. If you have those folders already in your folder, it will overwrite them from PDMW. If the files in you user folder are more current, and you want to keep them, uncheck the boxes for those files in the open/checkout PDMW window.

Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 03-26-07)

 

[tmalinski]

Chris, I understand PDM basic functionality and have been doing this for some time, but I was wondering how or why PDM decides which files to initially include in the list that are checked by default.

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

 

[ctopher]

If you open/checkout an assy or dwg, it includes everything associated with it.

Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 03-26-07)

 

[EEnd]

Along the lines of what Chris said… It sounds like something in your simple assembly depends on the larger assembly. In context relationships are a typical cause. The PDMWorks checkout page is nested, so you can use it to see what file(s) are dependent on the larger assembly and then focus on that file to track down the dependency.

Eric

 

[automationbabe]

Sounds like you have "Select All References" checked in your PDMWorks options. If this was design in-context, it will grab all the components that it's related to in-context. Deselecting it should solve your problem of having them automatically checked.