Trace the author of part file

[ptc-2661893]

I want to trace the person who modeled a particular part. I am in a university grading the assemblies and we have complains that students are copying and submitting. Can we trace the author of a file from within pro/E is there any possibility? Thanks Krishna
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[JonathanHodgson]

There are a couple of possibilities. One is to try Info -> Audit Trail. This gives a list of the last change dates by username, although I think sometimes it can clear itself. The other, if you have two models you suspect of being copied, is to look at the Feature ID (FID) of similar features in each model. Unless two people model the same part using exactly the same sequence, it is unlikely that all the FIDs will be the same between models - so if several FIDs *are* the same, it suggests that one model has been copied from the other. Dimension names (d123 etc) could be another clue. HTH!

[eric.mills]

Also open the part file in wordpad or other text editor. It will tell when the part was made and on what computer/license. This is in the header of the file.

[RickGiguere]

College students cheaatingggg, nah, say it ain't so. LOL......ahhhh....the memories. Not that I ever cheated With everything going computerized, must be a nightmare to control nowadays.