PDMLink's duplicate

[jdunham]

Maybe someone has asked this before but I couldn't find it. I-link had a "duplicate" function that I used ALL THE TIME. I don't see it in PDMLink. Am I missing it? Is there another way if it is gone??

Thanks,

John

[RandyJones]

On 11/08/11 13:33, John Dunham wrote:
>
> Maybe someone has asked this before but I couldn't find it. I-link had a "duplicate" function that I used ALL THE TIME. I don't see it in PDMLink. Am I missing it? Is there another way if it is
> gone??
>

From the Workspace: "File | Save As"
From the Commonspace actions menu: "Save As"
From a Search results: "File | Save As"
From Pro/Engineer: "File | Save a Copy"
Probably other spots somewhere.

> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
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[jdunham]

Thanks everyone. Tell me if I'm wrong but "Save As" works at the top assembly but if I have a user that does a "save as" at the part level, it is taken out of the assembly and can not be swapped back in like what duplicate did... right?

[jfrankovich]

This is where the difference comes in depending on "where" you do the Save As...

A Commonspace Save As... creates a new copy in the commonspace. End of story.
But a Workspace Save As... allow you to update the parent assemblies, as you did in ILink, without opening the assemblies individually.

[amansfield]

Another thing to add is that if the user wants to do a secondary "Save As" on components from a duplicated assembly that has not been checked in yet, the assembly must be uploaded first. This screwed us up for quite a while before we figured it out.

Once uploaded Windchillknows it exists and is a parent and allows you to do an "update parent assembly" operation. We have a group that does a lot of customization and depend on this capability so they can manage their work in steps.