Hey Greg,
Hopefully at some point my questions will become smaller than my answers. I think the easiest way to communicate is through examples and as much detail as can be provided. Currently WC is being used as a glorified storage area, beyond that not much has been setup. There are a few parameters mapped like BOM_DESCRIPTION, MATERIAL, etc… meaning designated in Pro/E and WC is setup to look for these so we see them and can edit values either in Pro/E or WC (2way communication). All drawing title blocks have parameters from models which include “who did what and when”, the company uses 4 names/dates, i.e. DRAWN_BY, MOD_BY, CHK_BY, APPR_BY and dates for each… so 8 string parameters total dealing with release procedures… well if you include REV and REV_DESC would make 10 total. We haven’t setup our workflows in WC yet but will involve these 10 pieces of info. We are in the process of updating all of our models via script prior to putting everything into WC.
Q1. Will WC create system parameters for all 10 pieces of info so they can be used in the drawing format? Ex. PTC_WM_CHK_BY, PTC_WM_MOD_BY, PTC_WM_MOD_DATE.
Q2. Didn’t understand what you said here, please clarify.. “...(carrefull ! by default only contains system parameter of the CAD Document. not WTpart or ECN. cf your question 2)”
Q3. If we wanted to avoid replacing drawing formats on all drawing put into WC to use system parameters couldn’t we just setup the workflow to automatically (via robots I believe is what they call it) to assign values to our 10 pieces of info as the document passes through the workflow? If so then we would need to have all 10 pieces of info designated in models correct?
Q4. If we removed rev history info and boms from our drawings we would obviously need a way of either showing or attaching this info to the drawing somehow. Could you please send me or show me an example of this?
Thanks again.