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We introduced PDM Link about a year ago. During this implentation, we brought in several family tables of common hardware components. We have been running into a major problem. The problem is that when we need to revise an instance of the family table, we are required to check out and revise all instances of the family table. For instance we havepin type component and a diameter tolerance needs to be changed for one size. This currently requires all instances to be revised and checked out.We are looking into possibly putting tolerances into the family table itself as well as looking through the config.pro options to see if there is something in there that we can change. I am assuming others have this pain out there? Any clues?
A suggestion was to set this create_drawing_dims_only" to Yes, but that will tie our hands.
Thanks,
James
Hi James,
Handling family tables in PDMLink isn't easy nor straight-forward, but what you describe isn't correct. At least, to a certain point. As long as you haven't to add an extra column to the table, you only check-out the generic and the instance to be changed. Adding an extra column affects all the instances, even if they aren't changed geometrically, so in this case you will have to check-out all the instances.
For this reason, I advice my users not to use the generic in any other way then producing instances. In the revise/promote cycle, the revision of the generic will by augmented by each revision of an instance. Anyway, if you are dealing with a set of parts that could be considered as a family, but with a high expectancy for changes of the instances, consider the use of inheritance feature as an alternative.
Regards, Hugo.
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