PDMWorks Revision Control

[flatwire]

Hi,

My question concerns revision control with PDMWorks. In the past we've controlled revisions by giving a part and drawing a letter in the actual part name to tell what revision we're at. For example, 100000-A.sldprt and 100000-B.sldprt would be sequential revs for part 100000. Now we're moving to PDMWorks, and I'm removing the revision letter from the part name so we can control the rev with PDMWorks.

At this point, I'd like to put all of the revs of all the parts and drawings into the PDM system. My problem is that I have multiple drawings and parts that should technically have the same name. I have found a way to check in the parts so that I can select the rev using the revision tab in PDMWorks. I check in the lowest rev, then open the newer rev and change the name so that it matches the lower rev, and then check this part in. This seems to work for parts. However, I can't get the drawings to match the correct rev level. What I want is drawing rev B to be a drawing of part rev B, drawing rev A to be a drawing of part rev A, etc.

Is there a way to do this? I would appreciate any help. Thanks

Jason

 

[Standing]

flatwire,
If I understand the question right, you could have the model control the drawing revision. Put $PRPSHEET:"Revision" MODEL onto the format of the drawing. You will still have to manually change the revision when checking in models and drawings to match.
So many of our engineers print their drawings before putting the drawing and model into the PDM. We set the revision before checking into PDM. I tried to get them to check in the models and drawing into the PDM, and then open them from the PDM and then print. Bad idea.


Bradley