Find all drawings that reference a given part

I am currently running Wildfire 3.0 without intralink. I have multiple
drawings that reference back to a single part. Is there a way to
search for all drawings (or assemblies for that matter) that reference
a given part?

 

Obviously the drawing (or assembly) knows what part it documents, knows what
part it contains but the part has no knowledge of where it is used or even
if there already is a drawing that documents it (much less ten of them). So,
without the $100K Oracle file bookkeeper, you faced with looking through the
drawings themselves for a string that starts 'model_names' or just brute
forcing it with a search for a ".prt" or ".asm", with some file search
utility that can make a list of file name and offset pointer to the
reference or that can parse the line for the part number. If you were on a
Unix system, there's already something like this. On Windows, you have the
hamstrung Search function which seems incapable of normal string searches
much less of offsets or pointers. I'd try it anyway, searching within *.drw*
files for xyz.prt (exact part name, maybe * behind to cover those pesky
number extensions.) In fact, confirm for yourself that this information is
not stored in Pro/e parts by opening them with Wordpad or an ASCII/Binary
editor, like BeyondCompare. Check the header for reference to other
models/assemblies/drawings. Go back to Pro/e and confirm this with
'Info>Parent/Child relations' and 'Info>Global Reference Viewer'. See if you
can find a drawing referenced in a part as a "child" of the part.

David Janes

 

This might help you a bit

Paste into something like findref.bat

@echo off
findstr /i /s /m "%1" *.prt* > where_used_%1.txt
findstr /i /s /m "%1" *.asm* >> where_used_%1.txt
findstr /i /s /m "%1" *.drw* >> where_used_%1.txt
echo ====== Start List ======
type where_used_%1.txt
echo ====== End List ======

Stick the .bat somewhere you can find it.

Open a DOS window in the root directory of
the tree you want to search and type

[drive:]\[path]\findref filename_no_extension

writes to a file in current directory and reads back to screen. I think it'll
find most of them (and a few that once referenced the object and are no longer
relevent).

 

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