Data management question

Do the various systems people use to manage SWX (PDMW, Conisio etc) require
the drawing revision to be kept in sync with the revision of its related
part/assy?

i.e. If you up-issue a drawing because you've changed the surface finish /
added a note (or anything else that does not change the model) does it
create a new version and/or revision of the related model?

TIA
John H

 

no

 

Thanks Matt.
What systems does your answer apply to? - or are you pretty sure they all
work that way?

On a separate but related issue, do any of the systems improve on SWX's
woeful file protection i.e. if you only have a part/assy/drg referenced,
does it stop you from making any changes to it until you have taken
ownership of the file?

Regards,
John H

 

I've never seen a system that worked that way by default (that is all
the systems I've used don't rev dependent documents when the parent doc
up revs). I've used PDMW, SmarTeam, Conisio, Product Center. They all
manage files individually. There are techniques you can use to make that
happen, and certainly programming, but

No, not that I'm aware of.

 

On a separate but related issue, do any of the systems improve on SWX's

PDMW has 2 options to "help" with this.
- set filesystem RO attribute if not owner
- bind ownership to Solidworks RW/RO access

hth
kenneth

 

Funny you should ask. It is day 4 of dbWorks administrator training and
we just went through how to keep parts and drawings in sync revision
wise. It is a setting in dbWorks that can be turned on and off. I was
never able to do this in PDMWorks.