ct27gt
Mechanical
- Aug 25, 2009
- 34
Our file structure is not the best and we are working in an unmanaged environment.
We up-rev all of our assemblies, parts, and drawings (by using file-->save as on released documents) and keep everything in the same folder (for each specific project), including the old revisions. When the assembly is released to production, we set the status to "Released" for the corresponding assemblies, subassemblies, parts, and drawings. This creates a spiders nest of read-only documents with references to various revisions of released documents.
Problem: We have a ton of electrical components (no drawings) in different folders we would like to move to a standard parts folder. These are currently being referenced by released assemblies from multiple different folders and revisions. Upon initial testing it seems that you can only re-define broken links for "Released" assemblies, and not necessarily move referenced parts while keeping links intact.
Am I correct in assuming the only way to accomplish moving referenced part files while maintaining links within "Released" assemblies would be to move the files to break the links, and then fix them using either revision manager or the data management link fix up tool?
Anybody have experience with the Link Management text file? If we were to set that to search our standards parts folder after the default searches would this significantly slow down model load times if it contains multiple subfolders and a lot of parts?
We up-rev all of our assemblies, parts, and drawings (by using file-->save as on released documents) and keep everything in the same folder (for each specific project), including the old revisions. When the assembly is released to production, we set the status to "Released" for the corresponding assemblies, subassemblies, parts, and drawings. This creates a spiders nest of read-only documents with references to various revisions of released documents.
Problem: We have a ton of electrical components (no drawings) in different folders we would like to move to a standard parts folder. These are currently being referenced by released assemblies from multiple different folders and revisions. Upon initial testing it seems that you can only re-define broken links for "Released" assemblies, and not necessarily move referenced parts while keeping links intact.
Am I correct in assuming the only way to accomplish moving referenced part files while maintaining links within "Released" assemblies would be to move the files to break the links, and then fix them using either revision manager or the data management link fix up tool?
Anybody have experience with the Link Management text file? If we were to set that to search our standards parts folder after the default searches would this significantly slow down model load times if it contains multiple subfolders and a lot of parts?