Check in weld beads in sw

[SWscience]

I have about 500 weld bead in my assembly
How can I check in them considering that I have the same names in pdm (bead1,bead2,....,bead500)
Should I rename 500 file name to obtain unique name to check in ?!?

 

[SBaugh]

You probably shouldn't check those in at all, but place them on the server with a unique folder per project. Otherwise you will have to rename all 500 welbbeads.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376
faq559-716 - SW Fora Users

 

[ctopher]

Rename them first. In the future, rename them as you create them ... it will save you alot of time.

 

[SWscience]

You mean that I have copy all beads in a folder and then put it on server , sho what then ?

 

[ShaggyPE]

You may be able to use Solidworks Explorer to rename and automatically add a prefix. You could use the assembly's number as the prefix. eg: 100xxx bead1, 100xxx bead2...
With that done, you can easily check them in to pdm.

The prefix option may only be available when copying files, but I would recommend investigating that route.

 

[SWscience]

How can I use explorer to reanme all 500 files in a time ?

 

[SBaugh]

Open up the assembly that references them and there you can rename all the files at once.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376
faq559-716 - SW Fora Users

 

[ShaggyPE]

You may have to copy the files to a new location, renaming them at the same time. But yes, you can rename all of them at once adding a prefix of suffix.