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lholmberg4-Participant
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July 12, 2012
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Performing a revision in Windchill 10.1 on an assembly

  • July 12, 2012
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Hi:


We are upgrading from Windchill 8 to 10.1 and we have a test server up and running and have started playing with the data. I am hitting a snag. When I try to revise one of our large assemblies Windchill wants to Revise every part in the assembly. Is there a setting so that by default when I revise a assembly it only grabs the assembly and not every part that could be related to it? I tried setting the dependants to none but it still lists all the parts. Am I missing something?


I want to change this for 3 reasons:


- Many of our assemblies contain family table parts link to large famliy tables which can make the generated table be anywhere from 3000-6000 parts. I can take a while to generate this table.


- Trying to exclude all of the parts can be a hassle. I cannot get it to sort the table to get "initially selected" to the top like I could in W8 for some reason and when performing an exclude on all the parts I have to work through 10-15 slow page script errors until it finishes.


- This is way too easy for a user to accidentally go OK and then revise 3000-6000 parts.


Thanks.

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RandyJones20-Turquoise
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July 12, 2012
On 07/12/12 08:29, logan holmberg wrote:
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> Hi:
>
> We are upgrading from Windchill 8 to 10.1 and we have a test server up and running and have
> started playing with the data. I am hitting a snag. When I try to revise one of our large
> assemblies Windchill wants to Revise every part in the assembly. Is there a setting so that by
> default when I revise a assembly it only grabs the assembly and not every part that could be
> related to it? I tried setting the dependants to none but it still lists all the parts. Am I
> missing something?
>

In Windchill 9.1 m050 this is controlled by the Revise | Collector preferences:
Site | Utilities | Preference Manager
Revise | Collector
and then set as needed

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MikeLockwood22-Sapphire I
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July 12, 2012
Check out preferences for Collection. There are a very large number of preferences that deal with collection - for Revise, Move, etc., all independent. We played with them quite a bit - finally set all to NONE.
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lholmberg4-ParticipantAuthor
4-Participant
July 16, 2012

Thanks Guys. This was eactly what I needed. One other thing though. I noticed that from Windchill 8 there was no option to tell it not to revise a family table. So when revising a part in a family table it will no longer try to revise a whole family table (with all these revise options set to none) unless I tell it too? If true this is great. In my opinion I think default functionality should be only revise what a user selects. Prevents people from making mistakes.



In Reply to Mike Lockwood:


Check out preferences for Collection. There are a very large number of preferences that deal with collection - for Revise, Move, etc., all independent. We played with them quite a bit - finally set all to NONE.
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cc-21-Visitor
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July 16, 2012

HI



it depends, you may want to revise at the same time WTpart and drawing and thus preventing traditional mistake of users revising part of the product definition. Unless your users are very fine tuned with PLM and Windchill concept, we find that our users only think 2D so, without this auto collect, they would only revise 2D drawings......

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