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1-Visitor
May 3, 2019
Question

Drawing templates: Historic up-issue

  • May 3, 2019
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Hello,

 

I've seen, maybe with other CAD packages, a way that the drawings keep a log of historic up-issue's. How does everyone manage that here? At the moment I'm creating new drawings, saving it with a different file name and only including the modification that required the up-issue for that one drawing. Ideally I'd like to keep a log of the modifications from initial drawing through to the current iteration.

 

I hope that makes sense?

2 replies

16-Pearl
May 20, 2019

What's an up-issue? I'm not familiar with that term.

1-Visitor
May 21, 2019

Hi Dave,

 

It's an increment of an issue number on a drawing. Maybe slang that I've gotten used to using!

 

Thanks

16-Pearl
May 30, 2019

I don't know what an issue number is... that might be a process or terminology specific to an industry or companies I haven't worked for.

Is that like a revision number?

 

joe_morton
18-Opal
18-Opal
June 17, 2019

Are you using Windchill to manage your files? Windchill keeps the history of the drawing, so there's no need to change the filename. We keep a manual table on ours for the engineer to enter information on what changed in that particular revision

1-Visitor
June 18, 2019

Hi,

 

No I'm not using Windchill.

 

It was that table that I was trying to find an automated method of updating after each change. I'm guessing it's a manual process.

21-Topaz I
June 18, 2019

Currently there is no way to automate this. There is a Creo enhancement idea for this for those that use Windchill:

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill-Ideas/Add-Windchill-parameters-for-latest-change-number-and-where-used/idi-p/470362

 

Solidworks has a solution for this with their PDM package. There is a link in the Creo idea that shows how it is done.

 

We have given up on this and we now just have a statement that says to review the history in PDM.