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kamleshjoshi15-Moonstone
15-Moonstone
December 2, 2022
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Re: Pack and Go (packing designs)

  • December 2, 2022
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As per the original thread. 

 

Dear sir @BenLoosli , 

 

If we have more drawings in the directory and while saving the assembly or let's say subassembly as a backup then how to figure out which drawing are utilise for the assembly.

Currenlty this method is very time taken, we are currently doing manual checkup of drawing and then do save as a backup result into invest more time.

If we have the pack and go functionality like solidworks then the process would be very easy, what say!

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23-Emerald III
BenLoosli23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
December 2, 2022

I have not used Pack and Go from Inventor in 12+ years nor have I used the Solidworks one.

Do they pick up related drawings of subcomponents that are pulled in as part of the upper level assembly/drawing?

 

The Creo Save-As function on a drawing will only save the drawing, its related assembly and the components in the assembly/sub-assemblies. It will not pick up and drawings associated with those sub-assemblies or detail components. I suspect that Pack&Go works similar to Save-As in what it picks up and puts into the new folder.

 

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kamleshjoshi15-MoonstoneAuthor
15-Moonstone
December 2, 2022

Dear sir,

 

In pack and go you can add the linked drawing even if you are doing only save a back up kind of things.

 

And here in Creo, we have to do manual copying of the drawing by identifying the related one.

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23-Emerald III
BenLoosli23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
December 2, 2022

So you have to manually add any associated drawings to the Pack&Go data set? How do you KNOW which drawings are associated to which part file? Still sounds like a very intense manual operation with a lot of trial and error on getting all of the associated drawings.

This is why we did a Save-As to separate folders for each drawing file in our project. We did not have Windchill for that project at that time. Those files have since been loaded into Windchill, so everything is now linked.

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