CAD Data Management: Save As Support Using a Same Base Number Scheme for Creating New CAD Documents and Windchill Parts
Product: Windchill PDMLink
Release: 11.0 M020
Benefit
You can now copy CAD documents and Windchill parts using the Save As action and choose a same base number scheme to maintain consistent naming and numbering conventions between the new objects. For example, you copy an existing part and its related CAD document to create a new part and related CAD document with the following conventions: Part No. 12345, CAD Doc No. 12345, and CAD Doc Filename 12345.<extension>.
Additional Details
• This feature is supported in Creo 2 (P-10–36), Creo 3 (P-20–68), Creo 4 F000, all Windchill 11.0 supported workgroup managers, as well as the server commonspace.
• The new (target) objects are associated in the same way as their original source objects.
• The base number is calculated using a default or a user-defined expression stored in the server-side preference > > .
• Save As conflicts resulting from non-compliance of naming conventions as set by a Windchill administrator are tracked and reported in the Event Manager.
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