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Juha_Kokko11-Garnet
11-Garnet
August 8, 2022
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Windchill Comparing two CAD Document Structures

  • August 8, 2022
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As per the original post. 

 

I also just had the need to check which CAD parts have changed within a CAD assembly.

I did not find any easy way to do this.  

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d_graham18-Opal
18-Opal
August 9, 2022

This could certainly be done.

 

What’s the use case?

Compare one level or all levels of two iterations of the same assembly?

 

It would require writing code to do the compare but that’s not a problem.

 

Can you describe in detail how you see the tool being run and what you need for output.

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Juha_Kokko11-GarnetAuthor
11-Garnet
August 10, 2022

This was a very special requirement from a collogue, who needs to update the Excel BOM for a customer (their own format) based on CAD design changes.

I was expecting thinking of going to version history of the assembly and do "compare structure" like you cad do in history of WTPart. In the result I would expect to see which sub-parts have been added/removed/modified, especially interesting is the next level below..

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Ajit_Kulkarni16-Pearl
16-Pearl
August 15, 2022

I certainly agree with Graham that we need coding to compare two iterations.

 

If you want to keep it simple, you can just check the modified stamp of assembly and its component. If components are saved later than assembly means components are latest than assembly. 

 

Regards

Ajit 

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