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Winterhaven1-Visitor
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September 12, 2014
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CAD Doc Revision Procedure

  • September 12, 2014
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Good Morning

I wonder if anyone has a solution to stream line the revision process. This is for simple revisions where the customer for some reason rev's up a part but has only attribute changes. Currently, as I know it, you revision an item up. You check the item out. You then edit the attributes. Finally you check the item back in. Is there a more efficent way to accomplish this process? No changes were made with the physical characteristics of the part. Our problem is we are having to make these changes on 50 component assemblies.

Thanks in advance for your comments

Bob

Best answer by LoriSood

Hi Bob,

If the attributes are tied to the CAD Document, WTPart, or WTDocument, then they must be checked out in order to update the attributes. If the attributes are associated with CAD Document Master, WTPart Master or WTDocument Master then they do not need to be checked out. However, when you update a master attribute you change the value for all iterations of that Master.

For example, you have an attribute defined on WTPartMaster called "color", and you have the following:

Part1 A.1

Part1 A.2

Part1 A.3

Part1 B.1

Part1 B.2

If you set color="blue" for Part1 B revision then B.1 and B.2 will have color="blue". Likewise, if you set it to "yellow" for the A revision then A.1, A.2 and A.3 will have a value of "yellow."

Note: if you are working with CAD data and these attributes are tied CAD parameters then you have to define the attributes on the CAD Document and not on the CAD Document Master.

I hope that helps!

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LoriSood23-Emerald IIAnswer
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September 19, 2014

Hi Bob,

If the attributes are tied to the CAD Document, WTPart, or WTDocument, then they must be checked out in order to update the attributes. If the attributes are associated with CAD Document Master, WTPart Master or WTDocument Master then they do not need to be checked out. However, when you update a master attribute you change the value for all iterations of that Master.

For example, you have an attribute defined on WTPartMaster called "color", and you have the following:

Part1 A.1

Part1 A.2

Part1 A.3

Part1 B.1

Part1 B.2

If you set color="blue" for Part1 B revision then B.1 and B.2 will have color="blue". Likewise, if you set it to "yellow" for the A revision then A.1, A.2 and A.3 will have a value of "yellow."

Note: if you are working with CAD data and these attributes are tied CAD parameters then you have to define the attributes on the CAD Document and not on the CAD Document Master.

I hope that helps!

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    Winterhaven1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    September 22, 2014

    Thanks for the info Lori.

    Can the check out and edit be done on a multiple item basis as a check out and edit in one step? is that function only available in Windchill documents.

    Thank again for your help.

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    LoriSood23-Emerald II
    23-Emerald II
    September 22, 2014

    Bob,

    What kind of data are you working with? WTParts? WTDocuments? CAD Documents?

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