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October 31, 2013
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Copying and renaming a manufacturing assembly

  • October 31, 2013
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I have need to copy and rename a manufacturing assembly, with all of it's components, but I am struggling to figure out how to do this while maintaining all of the assembly references. Basically, I am looking for the equivalent ofFile->"Save a Copy". When you save a copy of a manufactuing assembly, pro prompts you to rename the assembly, and then each component.I am working with the VB API in wildfire 4, and I would rather not call a macro or a toolkit dll. Could anyone be of assistance here?


Thanks in advance,


Corey


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    FV_01
    FV_0117-Peridot
    November 5, 2013

    Hi all,


    Corey,


    Copying and renaming manufacturing assembly process is verysimilar to amanual one...


    The most simplistic case - no models in session


    - create temporary directory


    - change working directory to where an assembly tobe processedis located


    - set config optionsrelated toretrieval of merged and referenced geometry to retrieve...


    - retrieve an assembly in question into session


    - change working directory to temporary directory


    - backup models to temporary directory


    - erase all models from session


    - retrieve the assembly from the temporary directory


    - rename models in session


    - backup to the specified directory


    - remove temporary directory.


    HIH.


    Feliks.

    In Reply to Corey Van Sickle:



    I have need to copy and rename a manufacturing assembly, with all of it's components, but I am struggling to figure out how to do this while maintaining all of the assembly references. Basically, I am looking for the equivalent ofFile->"Save a Copy". When you save a copy of a manufactuing assembly, pro prompts you to rename the assembly, and then each component.I am working with the VB API in wildfire 4, and I would rather not call a macro or a toolkit dll. Could anyone be of assistance here?


    Thanks in advance,


    Corey


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    cvansickle1-VisitorAuthor
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    November 5, 2013
    Thanks for the reply.

    I also got the following to work:

    - Use VB to copy all the files in a manufacturing assembly to the directory of choice (the working directory in this situation)

    - Using the API to rename and save each file after retrieving it into memory, ending with the .asm (IpfcAssembly) and finally the .mfg (IpfcMFG).

    - Use VB to delete the copies that still retain the old name, as the rename method simply made a copy with a new name.

    - Run the purge.bat file to remove redundant versions of the files.

    - Use VB to change the revision extension for each file to 1

    This prevents me from having exceptions for paths to files/directories being too long, without having to temporarily map a network drive or change working directories.
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