MFG assembly extensions. PTC Bring it back!

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March 20, 2014
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Seriously, what were you guys thinking? I don't understand the logic. Am I missing something?

First, by getting rid of the separate MFG ext asm you have made it difficult to quickly determine whether a MFG file has been created by simply looking thru windows explorer.

Second, and more important, with the new change if you happen to bring in an assembly with the same naming structure, but who’s models have been altered, it over rides the old .asm and botches up the manufacturing work within it!

Bring back the old way of doing it. The MFG file should be separated from the ASM file.

Leo Iezzi

Supervisor, Mfg Eng/CnC prg. Dept.

Aircraft Systems Group

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

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SteveLucas

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Leo,

The way we differentiate between assemblies and mfg assemblies is to put a M in front of the manufacturing assembly name when creating the manufacturing file. Itreally isn't that big of a thing to deal with at least I don't think so. We have been doing that long before the switch from the old .mfg extension.

Steve

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ptc-3262358

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We saw the change from Wildfire 4.0 to Creo 2.0.

Perhaps its a personal thing, but I don't care for creating extra steps when the original way of doing it was more efficient.

Having to name something with an M, vs, not having to do it at all seems pretty straight forward. Why create more work AND the off chance of a programmer forget and screw things up? Seriously, Pro-man and Pro-e is already the king of clicks and steps......why add more? Doesn't make sense. Here's a pic of the old way on the right and the new way on the left. (arbitrary parts since I cannot disclose actual work part names and numbers)