Lost Drawing Link

I've got a model & drawing in SW2005 that seem to have become
disconnected. If I open the drawing file, I can right click on the
model name in a view in the feature manager and open the part. But, if
I open the model only, then right click on the model name in feature
manager to open the drawing, SW does not find the drawing. Apparently
I've lost the link between the model and drawing.
Any ideas how I can reconnect these 2 files?
Thanks,

 

Are the Drawing file and model file named EXACTLY the same? If not, the
model won't know where to look. The Drawing is linked to the model, so
it always finds the proper model to open, but the model is not linked to
the Drawing internally.

'Sporky'

 

When you right click and "open drawing" SW will say something about not
being able to find the model and ask if you would like to find it yourself
( something to that effect ). Simply browse to your drawing and select it.
When you save that drawing the references will be updated.

This typically happens when you have models and drawings of differing
names, then relocate them with windows explorer. When you tell sw to open
the drawing from the model, it looks for its old referenced path name, if
its no longer there, sw looks for a drawing in the same directory with the
same name as the model. If it finds one, it opens it, if not, it errors.

 

Thanks for the tips. Sporkman nailed it. I had a space at the end of my
dwg filename before the ".slddrw". When I looked at the 2 files in
explorer the naming error was obvious. Still not sure how it happened
though, as SW defaults to the model's filename on the first drawing
save?
Fred