Life cycle assistant add-ons

[blitz97]

Has anybody ever played with adding any subsequent command processes to the lifecycle process in Insight?
When we "release" a part currently with Insight we have to manually create a .PDF of the SE .dft file that we then keep in a .pdf dwg vault area by folder numbers. This is long and tedious process that I would like to automate somehow. Anybody have any suggestions?

Proposed Insight lifecycle workflow:
-release .dft file and related parts as usual
-create .pdf of .dft file
-move old .pdf file from folder in question to historical folder
-add .pdf of new file revision to dwg vault folder

 

[Kenny_G]

We do this with VB. My process is...
Move the new revision from the CO work library to the Released library (we change the folder locations of the files so we can't use the automated workflow to do this)
Change the Status of the file to Released using MoveDocumentsThroughWorkFlow (this moves the old revision to the Obsolete library)
Open the new Draft revisions and print to PDF and close them
Move the old PDF to an Obsolete folder and append the old revision to it's file name (PDF's are located on a file share outside of SharePoint)
Move the new PDF to the Released folder.
Send an e-mail notification with a hyperlink to an Excel sheet that is our CO Coversheet to notify the company of the change.

We use a database in the background to track our Change Orders and revised files. We also use a VB tool to create are revisions but it just uses the Revise command in Revision Manager but we do this to capture the rev in the DB and automate where it is placed as we only allow revisions if they are assigned to a Change Order immediately.

Ken G.

http://grundey.blogspot.com

Have you checked out the Solid Edge Community site?

http://community.plm.automation.siemens.com/t5/Solid-Edge/ct-p/solid-edge

 

[blitz97]

perfect. thanks so much. I believe we can get a similar process to work based on our workflow.