V5 Drawing update from VPM

[blueedge]

Any info on updating V5 R12 drawings from VPM assemblies. Views come up with broken link unless they are opened from the top of the VPM tree as they were created. Is this a bug or a setting problem? Can you not force the link to only go to the CATpart used on the drawing, not the data above the part structure?

 

[catiajim]

Drawings contain Contextual Links, and must always be opened from the same Context in which they were created. You can sometimes change the link using EDIT LINKS (or you can write a script to re-link the views). This is fundamental.

Also, Drawing stored in VPM cannot contain views linked to more than one product at a time (caused crashes in R12, receive error messages in R13). In other words, all views on a given CATDrawing must be linked to the same Product (even if that Product is actually a CATPart). This pretty much forces VPM Drawings to be mono-detail (one part, one drawing).

 

[Akesson]

If you open the 3D geometry that the drawing is based on and then choose to update the links should be okey again.

VPM is handling the links between drawing and 3D document, so Catia V5 does'nt recognize the links until both documnents are loaded i Catia.