Drawing Table Regen

[ealdrich]

I have a question regarding the save-as functionality of Windchill. Our engineers do a save-as on files in a context in order to generate a new product. They are using those parts as a base, and they assign new part numbers to each file.

Our tables within our drawings use variables to automatically fill in their details, such as drawing filename. However, in order to update the filename within the table to match the new name given in the save-as, the engineer has to open the drawing in Creo, check it out, hit rengenerate, and check it back in.

Is there a way to automate this, or a more efficient way to accomplish this? It's wasting a lot of time and effort.

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[TomU]

Is the issue related to what you see in Creo View when published? If so, I think there is a way to force the worker to regenerate prior to publishing. This would probably fix the issue.

[ealdrich]

The actual CAD document isn't updated until it is checked-out, regened, and checked back in to the system. Becomes a time waste when you're dealing with 100-200 drawings for a save-as.

[TomD.inPDX]

The idea is that only a few items are affected, right? And those items will be opened anyways?

I can see this as a real headache when you use a product reference in the updates you need where all the parts are affected, but only a name reference. This would be worth automating with a script of some sort. Maybe even change the way these fields are populated.