Does your company have both WF4 and 3? Will there be any risk that WF4 overwrite WF3 drawing templat

[jgfrankusa]

Pro Gurus:

My company hasn't rolled out WF4 M160 to everyone yet. Only a handfull of
engineer and designer have been upgraded to WF4. I have write access to
maintain and update the drawing template and common parts library folder
located in one of our company server. If I am required to create a new WF4
assembly model and drawing using WF3 drawing template and common library
parts (screw, washer, bolt etc) will these WF3 files be overwritten by WF4
once I save them in their working directory? Will there be any chance that
this scenario would ever happen? If you have a mixed bag of WF4 and WF3
users in your organization, what would you do to ensure that users will
still be able to open projects that are created in WF3?

Your comments and inputs are greatly appreciated.

Frank

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[dgschaefer]

Pro/e shouldn't save template and format files into their folders unless
you explicitly ask it to. Library parts might have more risk to them if
users simply assemble them from the library rather than backing them up
into their working directory. Aside from that, a couple of things come
to mind.



First, even if they do get saved, they will get incremented so as long
as the folder isn't purged old WF3 versions will still be available.
You just may have to do some digging to find them.



Second, in situations like this where I don't want files overwritten, I
simply create a zip file within that directory containing a copy of the
'good files'. I use a zip file rather than a subfolder because, while
Pro/E will read from a zip file, I don't believe it will write into one.
So they cannot be overwritten inside a zip file. If they get messed
up, simply extract them from the zip.



Doug Schaefer

[davehaigh]

You ought to also make sure your startparts and template are set to read only. That way they can't be overwritten. You can also make the directory read only for everyone but the admin.

David Haigh

[BenLoosli]

If your account is also an admin account, create a secondary account with normal user rights and do all your WF4 work from that account. This will prevent you from overwriting library and template files.


Thank you,

Ben H. Loosli
USEC, INC.