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A couple of comments.
1.) While not officially supported, it is possible to create new attributes for existing objects without revising or altering them. Fishbowl Solutions has a product that can do this and @d_graham could easily create something as well. This would allow you to mass-assign the new attribute to the selected assemblies. Of course this doesn't do any good unless you also republish all of them after the attribute is added.
2.) Instead of using the ibaname stuff in CS130256, I've elected to use a custom filter method as described in the help docs. This gives much more control over how each item is published. You could even decide how to handle stuff that is missing your custom attribute if you wanted. In my case I publish all assemblies as extended positioning assemblies unless they are in one particular context or they are Manikin assemblies. Code snippet is below.
Edit: CS291199 may prove useful as well.
You can manually republish legacy assemblies as Positionning assemblies.
You can use that mainly on assemblies:
- Do not need publishing often
- Are too large to be loaded in to CAD application memory
- Do not go out-of-date
- Fail to publish as non-positioning assemblies due to worker resource or other limitations
Procedure - I'm assuming that you need the positioning assembly capability on few assemblies. Doing so won't require setting an attribute value and to iterate the CAD models.
1- Verify that the Windchill user is member of the Administrators group, this enables the Positioning switch in the Create representation UI, you can see the switch in the screenshot below.
2- Create the representations manually using this UI set them as default to replace the existing one ( that won't be deleted) and check the Publish as Positioning Assembly switch .
Alternate method:
Use the Publish and Thumbnail Control UI available from the Utilities menu. From there you can define the list of assemblies that should be published as positioning assemblies. At the next check-in of these assemblies they will be published according to this. If you want to republish without iteration, delete the default representation and republish with a batch job or manually.
Note: the publication process is much faster than a "regular" publication.
A couple of comments.
1.) While not officially supported, it is possible to create new attributes for existing objects without revising or altering them. Fishbowl Solutions has a product that can do this and @d_graham could easily create something as well. This would allow you to mass-assign the new attribute to the selected assemblies. Of course this doesn't do any good unless you also republish all of them after the attribute is added.
2.) Instead of using the ibaname stuff in CS130256, I've elected to use a custom filter method as described in the help docs. This gives much more control over how each item is published. You could even decide how to handle stuff that is missing your custom attribute if you wanted. In my case I publish all assemblies as extended positioning assemblies unless they are in one particular context or they are Manikin assemblies. Code snippet is below.
Edit: CS291199 may prove useful as well.
