Also, if you are having to rename files, always remember to have any other
files (assemblies, drawings, etc.) that refer to them in session before
doing so, and save each of those related files after the rename. On a big
project, there's a lot of bookkeeping to that process and if a particular
part that's being renamed is used in several different places, you can run
out of windows to keep the related files in. Best to keep a tally of what
you've done on paper as you go along, and make frequent back-ups of upper
level assemblies in temporary folders in case you have a premature exit
while you're working. I did several renaming operations on large projects at
my last job where we didn't have any kind of PDM; there were often several
false starts before I got a good handle on what I needed to do and document.
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University of Texas at Austin
Carol Fly
Mechanical Designer
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Fax (512) 835-3259
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