badgerdave
Mechanical
- Mar 4, 2011
- 55
Hi all,
I have a bit of a conundrum. We've recently moved to SolidWorks but neglected to get the PDM.
This hasn't been too much of a problem, we've just handled different revisions the same as with AutoCAD, by adding Rnn to the end of the file name.
We're getting some assmblies completed in SolidWorks now and generally we work on models/drawings in one folder, and when they are ready to be released. We move them to a released directory that's separated into folders by the first three digits of the part number (000 through 060).
We're finding that the assemblies are losing their references and each part file has to be found and re-referenced in the assembly individually. I dread having to do this for some more complex assemblies.
Is there any way around this? Possible to have SolidWorks search a certain directory for the file name? maybe a macro could help?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!!
I have a bit of a conundrum. We've recently moved to SolidWorks but neglected to get the PDM.
This hasn't been too much of a problem, we've just handled different revisions the same as with AutoCAD, by adding Rnn to the end of the file name.
We're getting some assmblies completed in SolidWorks now and generally we work on models/drawings in one folder, and when they are ready to be released. We move them to a released directory that's separated into folders by the first three digits of the part number (000 through 060).
We're finding that the assemblies are losing their references and each part file has to be found and re-referenced in the assembly individually. I dread having to do this for some more complex assemblies.
Is there any way around this? Possible to have SolidWorks search a certain directory for the file name? maybe a macro could help?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!!