topic RE: ProductView Combined Current Drawing With Out-of-date CAD Models in 3D Part & Assembly Design

ProductView Combined Current Drawing With Out-of-date CAD Models

srector — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 11:58:52 GMT

We recently noted a problem with ProE/ProductView, and I was wondering if anyone else had run across a similar problem.From a ProE workspace (WF3, m230), a user selected a drawing and it's associated models for check-in. They then logged into PDMLink to verify that their drawing

RE: ProductView Combined Current Drawing With Out-of-date CAD Models

david.brisson.p — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:16:18 GMT

Hi Steven,

Although my answer will surprise you, this is the expected behaviour. By default, PDMLink publishes with the As Stored configuration. So, if you only update a model and not its drawing, the representation in PDMLink will be the same. I do believe that it is the right behaviour to make sure that your representation is consistent with what was submitted to your database. But, you can configure PDMLink to mark out of date the representation so that the user is notified thatmodelsin the configuration have changed. The only down side is that it does require a lot of Hardware resource to make that validation but if you have a good PDMLink server, this should not be an issue. See TPI 131667 for more information.

David

ProductView Combined Current Drawing With Out-of-date CAD Models

MikeLockwood — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:51:26 GMT

It's actually essential that it be like this.

You want and need the drawing to be published as it was stored, ignoring model changes that happened after it was stored, so that you:

- Do development using the latest of all models

- Do business on the as-stored condition of the drawing, ignoring model changes until the drawing has been updated to incorporate them in a managed process

RE: ProductView Combined Current Drawing With Out-of-date CAD Models

cc-2 — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:04:18 GMT

Hello

we have a different approach where the publisher is configured to take the latest iteration of the model when publishing the drawing.

This allow us to work more quickly as we only need to "manipulate" the model and not the 2D drawings too.

Obviously it depends on the nature of the change.