track drawings

[cen82]

Hello, everyone. at work we have a license, my own, but my boss is very thick looking for drawings, consulting and printing them through inventor view (which among other things does not show him previews)

I always name the files with a code e.g. s0001854 but when he goes looking for the design "catch sheet for ...." he gets crazy and breaks the [Bleep] to me:tongue:

I wanted to confront myself to figure out how you do it. :confused

for now I have made a script that at the end of the table type a pdf named with "s0001854 - hat sheet for .pdf" so that if you look for the file with the string "*cappello*" at least find the pdf and from it goes back to the code.

 

[ValvMax]

Hi.
absolutely shocks you inventor view to view files and especially save files in idw format.
I hope you already save your work in inventor dwg and not idw.
Autodesk is pushing to save the "dwg inventor" drawings a little lighter but they release you to use that brute program of inventor view and above all they are manageable and compatible also by third-party software without forgetting the compatibility with handhelds and webcad.
so having a dwg file and untied by that software I absolutely recommend using dwg true view from 2013 onwards that it is much lighter to open up ( download it from the autodesk site free) and you can see both inventor and autocad designs but especially your boss can look at them on his car without using yours.

As for coding we have created a talking encoding with families and subfamilies and 4 progressive numbers to each family corresponds to a type of piece.
es. 3510000a
3 is the type of piece
51 in detail what I refer to
0000 is the progressive
a can be galvanic treatment for example

cmq ideal for research is to have a pdm (formerly the saint pdm)
with that you do searches of all kinds also for text fields (i-propriety) but above all you can know for example: starting from a pin all the files together to which it is corresponded in a moment

 

[Filo]

as to your question, i.e. how to find the link between the code and the name of the piece, the only (in my opinion) valid method is to have an external program, in order of complexity spreadsheet, management, pdm. appointing the file also not the name of the piece does not seem very practical to me.
then everything depends on what, how and how much you do also because surely your solution works

Hi.

 

[cen82]

Thank you very much for the answer
In our case, where I am alone drawing I believe it is not applicable . :-(
and even a pdm I think it's definitely the "a doc" solution but I think it's off budget.

Hi.
absolutely shocks you inventor view to view files and especially save files in idw format.
I hope you already save your work in inventor dwg and not idw.
Autodesk is pushing to save the "dwg inventor" drawings a little lighter but they release you to use that brute program of inventor view and above all they are manageable and compatible also by third-party software without forgetting the compatibility with handhelds and webcad.
so having a dwg file and untied by that software I absolutely recommend using dwg true view from 2013 onwards that it is much lighter to open up ( download it from the autodesk site free) and you can see both inventor and autocad designs but especially your boss can look at them on his car without using yours.

As for coding we have created a talking encoding with families and subfamilies and 4 progressive numbers to each family corresponds to a type of piece.
es. 3510000a
3 is the type of piece
51 in detail what I refer to
0000 is the progressive
a can be galvanic treatment for example

cmq ideal for research is to have a pdm (formerly the saint pdm)
with that you do searches of all kinds also for text fields (i-propriety) but above all you can know for example: starting from a pin all the files together to which it is corresponded in a moment

 

[ninfh]

I recently started using the vault to be able to receive with i-proprieties, first I used a foliage of excel where I inserted all the different components of the "finished" projects and some filters to go to find the code of the file to be found

excel is not the maximum but it is done quickly enough to flatten a handful of distinct exported by inventor and to set up some search filters