backup

I'm a long time user of Proe just getting my feet wet in SW. I miss
"backup" in Proe where you could backup an entire assembly into a
folder, zip everything in the folder up, post it on someone's ftp site
and have that person pull up the entire assy w/o missing a beat (or a
part ;-) ).

Does SW have an equivalent? It seems when I do a "save as" in SW into
another folder it only saves the assy and not the children underneath.
What am I missing?

TIA

Paul

 

Or you could also go to File, Find References, Copy, and aim it at a new
directory. Save As messes with too many other things for my taste. If
you're in SW already with the assy open, use File, Find References, if not,
then SW Explorer.

matt

 

You could also try:

File> Send to and pick the "SLDASM and other documents it references" option.

Kev

 

You can download an add-in I developped to unfragment and backup a assembly
with all it's sub-assemblies and parts

Just follow the link :
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/atemi/downloads/Divers/UnfragAndZip.zip
It was inspired by Jeff Prosise's Unfrag program.

You will find instructions in UnfragAndZip.txt

Hope it can help you

Pascal
http://www.atemi.fr

 

I agree with Matt. File/Find References is more robust. Also has some
features to allow mass renaming.

Generally you have three options:

SaveAs with References (be sure to do a SaveAs back to the original
directory or unexpected results may ensue.)

File/Find References with copy.

SWExplorer which allows for some powerful renaming and versioning
functions.

One thing you must be carefull about is that SW will not save things
in inactive configurations.