Searching files without Intralink

Hi all,

I have a part ( *.prt ) assembled in several assemblies ( *.asm ). How can I
do to know in which assemblies that part is assembled ( without Intralink )
? I'm working with WF2 on Xp Pro.

Thanks in advantage.

Shultz.

 

I have a part ( *.prt ) assembled in several assemblies ( *.asm ).

I don't know if there's a function in Foundation (don't think so). I have,
though, used Windows Search. To find

abc123.prt, search for
*.asm.*
Containing Text
abc123

I'll be watching a "real" answer along with you.

 

: I have a part ( *.prt ) assembled in several assemblies ( *.asm ). How can I
: do to know in which assemblies that part is assembled ( without Intralink )?

This is one for you guys working in PTK or J-Link: 'Where used' without Intralink.
That would sell, maybe something like the old DOS Norton utilities, but for Pro/e
files. Something like that already out there?

David Janes

 

Thanks Jeff, but...this works on Win2K, but not on XP Pro...

Regards, Shultz.

 

Thanks Jeff, but...this works on Win2K, but not on XP Pro...

Oops, yeah I am using W2K (probably will 'til some critical app is no
longer supported and then I'm going to give Linux a hard look). Never
occurred to me that XP couldn't. Maybe possible to work up a DOS Find (or
has that been done away with, too?) batch file?

Some things that might be worth a try if someone doesn't offer anything ...
Post to mcadcentral.com or ptcuser.org. They see a bit more traffic than
this group, I believe. Mcadcentral also has some (inexpensive?) Pro/E
utilities listed on the site. Maybe one of them will have a function to do
the find (?).

 

Try doing it from command prompt using the old DOS 'Find' command.

1. Open command prompt (also known as DOS prompt). To limit the scope of
your search, navigate to the folder that is guaranteed to contain all
assemblies that contain your part (for instance, if you keep all your Pro/E
work in subfolders under folder 'Pojects', or some such, this will be the
folder under which you want to search). I am assuming you are familiar with
the old DOS 'CD..', 'DIR /p', and 'CD [path]' statements that are used to
navigate folders in command prompt mode. If not, I can elaborate on that or
you can download a tool that will add the 'Open Command Window Here' to your
right mouse button menu in Windows Explorer. It's a neat tool, I use it all
the time to open Command Prompt right where I need it. It is available from
quite a few sites; I downloaded it from http://www.tweakxp.com.

2. Let's say your part's name is widget.prt. The command syntax will be:
FIND /C "WIDGET.PRT" *.ASM*
If you want the search to ignore the case of the letters in the part's name,
add /I right after or before /C.
You will get a listing of all assembly files in the search path with the
number of instances of the string "WIDGET.PRT" listed after the assembly
file name. If the assembly file does not contain "WIDGET.PRT", the number
will be 0. Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to completely exclude the
names of assembly files that don't contain the "WIDGET.PRT", so if you have
a lot of assembly files in your search path, you will need to manually sort
all the '0' entries out. It might be easier to do this after copying the
list and pasting it into a word pocessor. In case you haven't done this from
he Command Prompt before, selection by dragging your mouse doesn't work
there. What you need to do is right-click anywhere inside Command Prompt
window, choose 'Select All' from the context menu, hit CTRL-C, then switch
to your word processor of choice and hit CTRL-V. Now you can delete all the
unnecessary stuff.

This is, of course, very cumbersome, but if you absolutely need to find all
these files, it will work.

P.S. Give the command prompt some time to find all the instances after you
type in the 'FIND...' and hit 'ENTER'. It seems to take longer than the
search from the regular Explorer interface.

 

Try doing it from command prompt using the old DOS 'Find' command.

Thanks, Alex. You got me thinking on this again and there's another
command that might be a little better suited assuming XP still supports it.

findstr /s /m "string" *.asm*

will search subdirectories (/s) and return a list of files (/m) containing
the string. (Or, at least so I think. I just gave it a quick try and it
seems to.)

Can be done from a session system window. There's also a way to add an RMB
menu DOS prompt in Explorer. Believe I found it in Windoze Help.

A couple more tidbits that might be of use:

Typing "findstr /?" or "help findstr" will list the command syntax and
switches.

If there's going to be a long list of files returned the output of the
command can be routed to a text file by using "findstr /s /m "string"
*.asm* > somename.txt".

If something should cause the command to hang, ctrl + c should abort it.

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Just a small add... holding the windows key (next to the control) and
hitting "r" will get that run box up quick. If the last thing you did
was CMD you can have that window up pretty fast. You can also type
excel, calc and launch stuff really fast.

Windows key also works great with "e" for Explorer, "M" for minimize and
"L" for lock the PC

-meld

 

We've just been down a route a bit like this and didn't want to pay
the extortionate PTC prices for Intralink. Our VAR (Concurrent
Engineering +44(0)121 500 0130, ask for Lee, tell him Ivan sent you)
suggested DesgnData Manager http://designdatamanager.com/ which is
working out at about 55% of the cost of Intralink and will do all your
searching & more.... It will run a 'where used' search, manage all you
BOM data and any other specs or documents you've got. There's a demo
on the website which is well worth checking out.

Ivan Robinson
Senior Design Engineer
International Radiators. Leicester.