Regenerating instances for Pro/INTRALINK 1

[daveykbelgium]

I use Wildfire 2 and Pro/INTRALINK 3.3

I have top-level assemblies which are generic assemblies.

I use these assemblies predominantly via simplified reps.

Mostly I enter the generic assembly, and not an instance.

Presently the master representation of the assembly can be opened.


For whatever reason, I make a change that changes the generic assembly. When I save the generic, I have a warning that the instances have not been verified. This warning can be ignored, but….

When I submit the generic assembly into Intralink, the submission is prevented because Intralink insists that the instances are verified. This means I have to retrieve the master rep of the generic assembly, and verify the family tables and save again.

This is a pain, but doable.

However, should the generic assembly become so big you can no longer do this, what is the solution – is there an alternative methodology?

Also, my understanding is that in order to re-order parts and sub-assemblies, I have to be in the master rep? Once again, a problem?

Sure, using skeletons such problems would probably never happen, but if they did, is there a workaround?

Thanks in advance

Dave

 

[JohnAndrews]

Dave,

I don't use Intralink myself, but this TPI might help:

https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=122367

or this:

https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=124017

This suggests using the config.pro option:
verify_on_save_by_default yes

I hope this helps

John

 

[daveykbelgium]

Top man - get a star! Thanks John.

Considering you don't use Intralink, you knew where to look to find the answer. I was expecting another user with similar experiences to have found a work around.

However, we still haven't solved the complete solution have we - lol.

All I have to do now is to get our system administrator to change the config options - that will be a formality - NOT!

Greetz

Dave

 

[fighterpilot]

As long as that option is not in the global config.sup file you can just add the option to your local config.pro file. Or, add it to the global config.pro file in the loadpoint.

I assume you are on a Windoze machine. You could just add or change the option in the global config.sup or global config.pro yourself. As long as your global configs don't grab a new copy each time you start Pro/E your admin won't even know.

(As a former Pro/E admin, I speak from experience)

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Fighter Pilot
Manufacturing Engineer