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  1. wisker

    Revision control

    Alex, I completely agree and have worked that way in the past. However my new job, operates completely different than I'm used too. It's a welcome change (multinational corporation with me all over Asia for half the year to a job shop w/ 30 people total), but it's got me a little scattered...
  2. wisker

    Revision control

    EEnd sounds like he feels my pain. And I considered the parasolid format, however I'm working in sheetmetal and really need access to both the formed and flat parts. So let me pick some brains out there. How would you guys go about modeling something like this? ~50 sheetmetal parts that...
  3. wisker

    Revision control

    What wisker wants is to work from all the same Rev....but I don't see that happening. After talking to some other SW guys I think that I'll save off a part that I intend to modify as a copy and break/lock all of the references, creating a dummy part with a similar, but different name. This...
  4. wisker

    Revision control

    I've been looking at PDMworks, I've just never used it before. Here's a question though. Part 001 is on revB and part 002 has features tied to it (ie holes constrained to the temporary axis of part 001). Using PDMworks if I roll Part 001 back to revA and the holes move - will they update in...
  5. wisker

    Revision control

    I just started a new gig where I'm the only SW user. We're a 'fast pace' job shop. Whenever I release .... this is taking too long. Here's what I need = I need to be able to have access to past revisions of components even if they are created in and tied to assemblies that aren't on the...

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