Naming Route Assemblies

[MimiN63]

Our company is about to go completely SolidWorks and will soon be implementing PDMWorks as well. We are tying up some loose ends and in the process decided to find a naming convention for route sub-assemblies and their components. Has anyone come up with a successful way to achieve this? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[smcadman]

We just changed our naming convention a few months ago and it seems to be working pretty good for us. We take the project #, and then add a suffix for each part and sub-assembly. Parts end in -01P, -02P, -03P, etc., and Assemblies end in -01A, -02A, -03A, etc. This gives us unique part names that cross-reference the project number.

For example:
Project #81553
81553-01A
81553-01P
81553-02P
81553-03P

81553-02A
81553-04P
81553-05P
81553-06P

Flores

 

[Standing]

What does your part numbering system look like now. People already know it, so unless there is a good reason to change, I would suggest not changing. I do like insignificant part numbering systems with main categories only. E.g. top assemblies, subassemblies, machine parts, purchased parts and electrical cables.

PDM/Works has “Lifecycle” you maybe interested in.
We use revision control to let us know where a project is. E.g. A01-01 for sketches, P01-01 for prototypes, and R01-01 for released. We also use folders within the PDM Vault to store types of drawings.

Do a search in here for “numbering systems”.


Bradley

 

[ctopher]

We use 5 digit part numbers for parts/assys (XXXXX) and model numbers (XXXX or XXXXM1) for the final product.
Sometimes we use dash numbers to specify a certain configuration. No difference in numbering between production or prototypes, the revisions take care of that.

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