bookcase drawings and datasheet

[edo98]

Bye to all,
I've been reading you for a while and you've been helping me solve various problems with solidworks '
how do you manage the technical library/archive of cad designs and possibly technical cards?
currently I happen to use two different software cad then I have a library that is constituted trivially from the windows folders where there are various steps of the components and when necessary I use them amount and they.
I realize, however, that it is a malicious system and little useful when it comes to researching components.
how do you look for the various components? have a pdm? use an excel/database access sheet with various information?
I would like to develop something (that is independent from a software cad), which allows me to search, filter and find the various files looking in some fields that I define as myself according to the components.
Is there something? If there's someone interested, let's talk about it and see what you can do... I think it might be a good tool to have a nice bookcase sorted and complete with information.
Thank you.

 

[TETRASTORE]

ciao @edo98, I use it explores windows 10 files.
I predict that I manage some tens of thousands of files in graphical prevalence (vectoral and bitmap) and data (excel) so I attach an example of files generated by a vector graphics program (coreldraw). it is essential that when creating the file, in the properties, enter the properties on which you will want to carry out the searches; in my case (but vary according to the program used) are: title, author, keywords, as well as the attributes inserted automatically (date, size, etc.).
search is done through the filters already present in explore windows files (to learn more look qui).
I don't know if these were your expectations.
if you also want to print the results or import them into a excel sheet, there is a free software: karen’s directory printer that can be recalled directly, or, after a first execution, from the context menu (right key) of a directory in the file manager. at this point it will be enough to choose what to print, i.e. from which directories to start, if to proceed with all subdirectories, what types of files (it is that multiple filters will make the difference even with the already known solutions) and also how to print: in what order, with what attributes of files and directories “enrich” the print, if highlight executables and macros.
Finally you can also choose where to get the final result: on printer or text file, maybe ready to be imported into other control tools or spreadsheets.
personally I haven't tried it yet because I don't need it but it would be worth testing it.

 

[TETRASTORE]

I also wanted to add that if yours is or should become in the future a professional need there are software (for a fee) that allow you to search for a component both according to the properties and according to an image or design; a banal example: you are working on a project and you want to see if in the archive there is a spacer equal to or similar to what you need, you can indicate the dimensional parameters (diameters, thickness) and shape (circular, square, plate, etc.) or directly insert the design and the software will look for all the existing components with equal dimensional and morphological characteristics or similar to the one required. at this point you will decide whether to use a component between those proposed and already existing or whether to proceed with a new design.
It is undoubted that this system rationalizes work by avoiding duplication of details with a significant time saving and, consequently, economic.
Obviously the use of these systems is justified when you have to manage large amounts of components.