Reset project folder name at start of year 2006?

[brrian]

We started using SolidWorks in February/March of this year.

We store our SW files in project folders--a top-level "Drafting" folder that has subfolders for clients, then for individual projects (and allfiles for a project are in that low-level project folder).

At the start of the new year, we want to start with a fresh (empty) "Drafting" folder. All projects from 2005 would be in a sort of archive folder. All I want to do is rename this years "Drafting" folder to "Drafting2005" and create a new "Drafting2006" folder for the new year. Note that prior to SolidWorks (we used Mechancial Desktop) this new folder would have just been called "Drafting" but I don't want to do that with SW because of references--more on that in the next paragraph.

So, what I think would happen is that by renaming the "Drafting" folder to "Drafting2005" I'd permanently break ALL references within that folder, but that wouldn't be a problem because all files for a project are contained within one folder, and that's the first place SW will look to fix the references. Do you agree with that?

I know that might be confusing--hopefully I explained adequately. If you're wondering why I don't use PDM, it's because we're an Engineer-to-order company and it's a little too restrictive for us... I have evaluated it.

Let me know what you think. Thanks,

Brian

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Providing no references are made to a folder outside of "Drafting", what you suggest should be fine. You are correct, changing the name of the top level folder wil not result in references being lost.


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