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jrosenlund-21-Visitor
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May 25, 2016
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Copy Assy and drawing

  • May 25, 2016
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Is there anyway to create a copy of a drawing and an assy and update the BOM?

When we try to do this and sends over the BOM to annotation, erases the sketch and insert the new BOM all position balloons are lost or more exactly they are still there but not connected to the BOM, so we have to put them in again. This is very time consuming and in other cad and PDM systems this is not necessary because it is updated so the BOM and Structure of assy is the same. I hope there is a way to solve this, hope that it is just me that is doing it wrong....


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Kevin1-Visitor
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May 25, 2016

Depends on your working environment. If you are just saving it on your local system there is a config option rename_drawings_with_object you can set. The files names need to be exactly the same for it to work.

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jrosenlund-21-VisitorAuthor
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May 26, 2016

We are working with Creeo Elemenst direct and Model Manager ver 19.

And it seems to work fine with BOM update and so on if you don't change the names on assy and drawing. It would have been good if you could just say copy from MM and you will get a new masterdata assy and drawing with BOM and all.

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wvangeem12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
May 27, 2016

I should check this.

The BOM balloons are referenced to the ELID of the MASTERDATA elements in your BOM.

If you have the same MASTERDATA elements, then their should be a way to re-link them to your new BOM.

What I suspect is that the owning MASTERDATA (of your drawing) has changed, and maybe there's still a reference.

Haven't you tried to log a case at PTC Support?

Best regards,

Wim.

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