Copying and renaming a manufacturing assembly

[cvansickle]

I have need to copy and rename a manufacturing assembly, with all of it's components, but I am struggling to figure out how to do this while maintaining all of the assembly references. Basically, I am looking for the equivalent ofFile->"Save a Copy". When you save a copy of a manufactuing assembly, pro prompts you to rename the assembly, and then each component.I am working with the VB API in wildfire 4, and I would rather not call a macro or a toolkit dll. Could anyone be of assistance here?

Thanks in advance,

Corey

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[FV]

Hi all,

Corey,

Copying and renaming manufacturing assembly process is verysimilar to amanual one...

The most simplistic case - no models in session

- create temporary directory

- change working directory to where an assembly tobe processedis located

- set config optionsrelated toretrieval of merged and referenced geometry to retrieve...

- retrieve an assembly in question into session

- change working directory to temporary directory

- backup models to temporary directory

- erase all models from session

- retrieve the assembly from the temporary directory

- rename models in session

- backup to the specified directory

- remove temporary directory.

HIH.

Feliks.

In Reply to Corey Van Sickle:

I have need to copy and rename a manufacturing assembly, with all of it's components, but I am struggling to figure out how to do this while maintaining all of the assembly references. Basically, I am looking for the equivalent ofFile->"Save a Copy". When you save a copy of a manufactuing assembly, pro prompts you to rename the assembly, and then each component.I am working with the VB API in wildfire 4, and I would rather not call a macro or a toolkit dll. Could anyone be of assistance here?

Thanks in advance,

Corey

[cvansickle]

Thanks for the reply.

I also got the following to work:

- Use VB to copy all the files in a manufacturing assembly to the directory of choice (the working directory in this situation)

- Using the API to rename and save each file after retrieving it into memory, ending with the .asm (IpfcAssembly) and finally the .mfg (IpfcMFG).

- Use VB to delete the copies that still retain the old name, as the rename method simply made a copy with a new name.

- Run the purge.bat file to remove redundant versions of the files.

- Use VB to change the revision extension for each file to 1

This prevents me from having exceptions for paths to files/directories being too long, without having to temporarily map a network drive or change working directories.