Simplified representations viewed in ProductView
Hello,
it may not be the right place to post this message but as it involved ProE, ProductView and PDMLink I thought I have a go here.
We are confronted to a particular situation with some of our models.
I am going to try to make it sample. We have a component and it is a pin (cyclinder). When the pin is assembled it is riveted at both end. Our designers used to create 2 different models. One to represent it unriveted and one riveted. We need the unriveted for the production of the pins. This was not really creating any issue at that time because the ProE data were created locally and BOM edited manually. We now have implemented PDMLink and added more automation such as automatic BOM. Therefore we do not want anymore 2 different models for the same pin. We are struggling to find out the best technique.
From a Proe standpoint, it seems that using simplified representation is the best approach. We only have one model and use either representation depending if we want to show the pin on its own or assembled (and riveted). The BOM is also always correct.
Unfortunately, PDMLink/ProductView does not "understand" it the same way. When I opened the pin only in ProductView I see it riveted at both end (which makes it look as if it was headed at both end). Our explanation is that ProductView will only show the master representation. Good, so we will have in the master representation the unriveted pin and in the other representation the riveted pin. Unfortunately it does not work because in ProE, you can only remove feature in the simplified representation, so we have no other choice than having the riveted pin in the master rep. It seems that we are stuck and cannot achieve what we want to do.
Maybe some of you has been confronted to this type of situations and may have found a nice way around it
Thank you in advance for any suggestion of help.
Best regards