Hallo all,
many people on this forum gave me inspiration to develop better part numbering in our company. Have a new idea hot to make semi-autonumbering. This technique is suitable for manufactured parts. For a buying/ordered parts will discusse later.
l will be glad to hear any critique, note that l see the problem mainly from CAD user/engineer point of view.
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Company workspaces:
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Workspaces naming convention includes the first part of product number.
It consits of two main part with a "-" as a separator ---> product number - short logical description ---> example> 11010-CWT (in our company everyone knows what CWT means)
My imagine about function:
- l´m working on 11010-CTW project
- set workspace to this project
- create a new part
- new part will be autonumbered like following:
- because my active workspace is 11010-CTW so WCH will extract "11010" automaticly from workspace name
- because autonumbering is ON WCH will create a number after a dash (this number is filtered in part relations to drawing number)
What l expect:
- WCH has full control of NUMBER and FILE NAME ---> no more has to solve renaming parts/drawing from the duplicity reason ("part is not unique").
- drawing number is include in file name and extract with relation ---> each drawing number is unique
Reasons why l choose this:
- keep it simply
- keep some logical file naming (year and proct number in this year is anough for a rough orientation)
- make clear difference between projects
How to continue?
- what function shall i used for workspace name filter (11010) --- need to show some direction (don´t like a blind exploring)
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l like your comments like: "What happen if ...?"
If you see some mistake point it please.
Thanks in any advice, commets, tips or tricks
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