COPYING PROE FILES WITH NOTEPAD DOESN'T WORK

[t2b]

WE ARE LOOKING FOR A WAY TO RENUMBER DRAWINGS.
WE USE "DESIGN DATA MANAGER" AND A 12345-67890 NUMBERING SYSTEM WHERE 12345 IS THE WORKS ORDER NO. AND 67890 THE PART/ASSEMBLY DRAWINGS.
WHEN WE WANT TO REISSUE AN OLD ASSEMBLY WITH A NEW WORKS ORDER NO. ALL THE PARTS & DRAWINGS ARE RENUMBERED BY HAND - THIS TAKES A FEW DAYS (SO THE OLD DRAWINGS HAVE THE NEW WORKS ORDER NO.-SOMETIMES THERE ARE SLIGHT MODIFICATIONS).
WHAT SOFTWARE(TEXT EDITOR) CAN COPY PROE FILES (PARTS,DRAWINGS & ASSEMBLIES) - NOTEPAD DOESN'T WORK.
I THINK THE PLAN IS TO WRITE A PROGRAM TO RENUMER JOBS - USING VISUAL BASIC SO THEY CAN BE RELOADED BACK INTO "DESIGN DATA MANAGER"
ANY COMMENTS WELCOME!
CHEERS

 

[looslib]

And you want all components that are used in assemblies to be renumbered and still associated to their newly renumber parent?

You need to do the renumbering in Pro/E or use a data manager that has rename capability. PDMLink and Intralink can do it.


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Ben Loosli
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[t2b]

YES- ALL SUB ASSEMBLY PARTS TO BE RENUMBERED AS THE ASSEMBLY UNDER THE NEW WORKS ORDER NO.
THE LATEST IDEA IS TO OPEN PROE FILES AS A "BINARY" FILE TYPES AND USE A VISUAL BASIC ROUTINE TO ALTER THE NUMBERS.
SAVING THE DRAWINGS WITHIN DDM AND MAINTAINING A LINK TO THE MODEL COULD BE A PROBLEM -WE THINK.
THANKS

AC

 

[fighterpilot]

Stop using characters in part names that can, or will become variable. If you want to use a work order number on your parts, make that a parameter. Ben has the correct way to do this, use PDM/Link or Intralink. You are only setting yourself up for sure failure. Pro/E keys on file names at the assembly/drawing levels.

--
Fighter Pilot
Manufacturing Engineer

 

[telecomguy]

Yes, filename vs part number is a tough one to overcome. I have done it both ways but naming by part number always seems to break down and I end up with a hybrid solution.
I think I'd go with the parameter approach as mentioned by fighterpilot.

As for manipulating ProE files outside of ProE's GUI interface, I haven't had much success since about version 19 or something when they made it a binary file. There must be some checksum feature or something that causes any changes to disable the model. I haven't figured it out... yet. ;o)

But if you make any progress, please share.
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