Does anybody have a solution in Windchill for added a family table instance to a generic while still keeping the revision of the generic and all existing instances the same? Currently when we have the need to add an instance it falls on the WC admin to set the state of the generic and all instances from Released to In Work, and then the designer adds the new instance, Checks In, and generates the Promotion Request. Upon approval the generic and all instances are back to Released at the same revision. We are trying to offload this burden from the admin to a standard workflow practice for all designers.
Ordinarily this would involve a Revise, but we cannot burden our CNC programmers here with updating all revisions to existing programs whenever we add an instance (the existing instance geometry is not changing, essentially we are just generating a new object). Further to this logic we want to keep all instances, the generic, and drawing lock-stepped in revision. New instances come in at the latest revision level of the rest of the existing instances, and any global geometry change that affects all or most of the family table instances would then follow the typical Revise workflow, taking all objects up to the next revision letter.
Thanks
Sasha Johnson
Sr. Design Engineer
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Russ Bassett Corporation
8189 Byron Road
Whittier, CA 90606
Phone 800-350-2445 X 3345
Fax 562-447-2228
sjohnson@russbassett.com<">mailto:tsimon@russbassett.com>
www.russbassett.comhttp://www.russbassett.com
Ordinarily this would involve a Revise, but we cannot burden our CNC programmers here with updating all revisions to existing programs whenever we add an instance (the existing instance geometry is not changing, essentially we are just generating a new object). Further to this logic we want to keep all instances, the generic, and drawing lock-stepped in revision. New instances come in at the latest revision level of the rest of the existing instances, and any global geometry change that affects all or most of the family table instances would then follow the typical Revise workflow, taking all objects up to the next revision letter.
Thanks
Sasha Johnson
Sr. Design Engineer
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Russ Bassett Corporation
8189 Byron Road
Whittier, CA 90606
Phone 800-350-2445 X 3345
Fax 562-447-2228
sjohnson@russbassett.com<">mailto:tsimon@russbassett.com>
www.russbassett.comhttp://www.russbassett.com
