We are relative beginners compared to the big users but remember some of the confusion. There are a few large companies that have been using this for many years and have finely tuned systems going. We have one administrator/librarian (me, with some support duties for other software also), one part time librarian, and about ten people who are responsible for the schematics and basic harness design, and two that do the 3D routing and then hand off the final harness to a few drafters to be detailed for the vendors.
What we are doing is not "as designed by PTC" for Schematics. We got into this because the old software that we were using (and some still are) was declared obsolete 10 years ago by its maker.
It has taken a lot of work with the help of a consultant to get where we are and some people are trying to stick with the awkward system that they have been working with for 15-20 years. They know it well and it is a learning curve plus extra work when they need to convert old designs to go to Schematics, even though it will save them work in the long term.
I was brought into this after the decisions were made and there were misunderstandings of some of the people that this is how the base program works.
It can be used in the as designed with a lot less work for setting it up and the revisions to Version 4 have improved its ease of use in that mode (draw a schematic, aka CID - convert to a wiring diagram, aka WID) using two steps.
Our consultant asked me a number of times as I was suggesting more data attachment to save work for the designers, "this will mean more work for the librarian, do you want to do that?" My answer is: the extra work for the administrator and librarian is one time for each item, the designer will get the benefits every time they use it.
