manage folders with variants

[slurpix]

Bye to all,

use pro/e - creo for more than 10 years but with always combined intralink or windchill; now I have changed company in which however there is no pdm (and we are 8 designers -.- )

to today there was no organization of the folders; we say that, simplifying everything (even if it is not really true), they created 1 unique folder and threw everything in.... there are about 14k files inside.. .

Now waiting to convince the dizziness to buy a pdm, I would like to try to fix some stuff by creating some folders and configuring the search file, and so far the ideas are clear.

the problem that arises, however, is how to manage the search for family table variants, I explain with an example:

I start and create 2 folders on the disk, and I call them:

- m000
- l000.

in m000 will put all the files that start for m and in l000 all the files that start for l

but put the mario.prt file inside the family table variant called luigi.prt, then it will be placed on the m000 folder;

in such case though if I want to open the file luigi.prt from creo with file->open I would go to look for on the folder l000 obviously (because it is not that I can know what father is tied up), but actually I would find it inside the folder m000....

This obviously is a simple example to banal, but I'm imagining to have about 15/20 folders in total, so it would become an endless treasure hunt. . .

is there no way to know where the file luigi.prt is located without staring at all folders?

Can I just do it with a pdm? ?

 

[nico_3D]

Bye to all,

use pro/e - creo for more than 10 years but with always combined intralink or windchill; now I have changed company in which however there is no pdm (and we are 8 designers -.- )

to today there was no organization of the folders; we say that, simplifying everything (even if it is not really true), they created 1 unique folder and threw everything in.... there are about 14k files inside.. .

Now waiting to convince the dizziness to buy a pdm, I would like to try to fix some stuff by creating some folders and configuring the search file, and so far the ideas are clear.

the problem that arises, however, is how to manage the search for family table variants, I explain with an example:

I start and create 2 folders on the disk, and I call them:

- m000
- l000.

in m000 will put all the files that start for m and in l000 all the files that start for l

but put the mario.prt file inside the family table variant called luigi.prt, then it will be placed on the m000 folder;

in such case though if I want to open the file luigi.prt from creo with file->open I would go to look for on the folder l000 obviously (because it is not that I can know what father is tied up), but actually I would find it inside the folder m000....

This obviously is a simple example to banal, but I'm imagining to have about 15/20 folders in total, so it would become an endless treasure hunt. . .

is there no way to know where the file luigi.prt is located without staring at all folders?

Can I just do it with a pdm? ?

hello, if luigi.prt is under search path you don't need to look for it. just do > open file type luigi.prt and create the variant automatically. Once you open the variant you can also see its allocation path.

 

[DANI-3D]

Hi.

I also recommend you to prepare a good search path, and then organize the folders at best, without taking too much care of doing strange research.

 

[ederic]

hello, if luigi.prt is under search path you don't need to look for it. just do > open file type luigi.prt and create the variant automatically. Once you open the variant you can also see its allocation path.

I didn't know that.

Fortunately, having always used a pdm, I never had to worry about these robes -. -

 

[calacc]

one thing I found really useful in ut is to insert in all drawing carts parameters & model_name e &dwg_name.if you return a design for a revision just do a search on the server to see where the files are; copy the address; set the working dir to that address on creo and proceed with the changes or with what is to be done.

 

[320i S]

we say that the usual classic abuse of family, is the double internal coding ("because it's convenient"), which you know will burst sooner or later.
rather I would wonder when to solve this problem, which will be the first objection that will tell you when you pass to windchill (I have to check out every time of the whole family if I have to insert a new variant/parameter).

 

[AndreaTerzi]

Good morning.
on the vs suggestion I would like to make a clarification.
with the search.pro compiled correctly, the system allows, specifying the file name, to open a model that is within any of the folders specified in the search.pro, even if the working directory is not part of that list.
However, to open a family table instance (variant) you need to specify the name of the generic member (as an image) if not.
so it is not so immediate.
greetings

 

[nicksoft]

if you do file -> management session -> updating index -> sending -> sending creates an index file that allows you to open any instance, by typing its name, without switching from the generic.

if you then put in the configuration file menu_show_instances such instances also see them in the file opening window.

 

[AndreaTerzi]

I missed this one.
However, I add that the index update (update index) is manual and it must be made folder by folder.