Our electrical and fluid power department use AutoCAD to make schematics. I created a data card with 3 tabs. Tab one is a misc tab for older drawings. The next 2 are for electrical and fluid power schematics, respectively. Is there a way when checking in to the ePDM to set the DocType variable to ES or FPS to show the desired data card?
Depending on the value of DocType, you want that tab to show?...i.e. if DocType = ES, you want the ES tab??
In the tab control properties, use "Controlled by variable"
The tab changes when I put in the DocTypes. I want to have the DocType automatically assigned when the document is checked in.
Based on what logic?
At this moment all the AutoCAD files go into a state called Schematic: WIP. There is nothing that goes on in the background.
EPDM needs some way to tell them apart.
Different data cards can assign different default values, but they need to be in different directories. Maybe a directory for electrical and another for fluid power schematics?
You could also have automatic transitions populating variables for you. One transition could put the value ES, the other FPS. Again though you'll need some sort of conditional logic so file will go through the proper transition.
They do go into different folders, but the folders are job specific. So each job would have a folder for electrical and fluid power schematics. Automatic transition could work. Some trials would need to be done to get it to work.
You should be able to have a conditional statement based on the file path for the automatic transitions' logic.
This is what I did to get what I wanted. In the automatic transition I used the variable DrawnBy to set the DocType variable.
EPDM needs some way to tell them apart.
Different data cards can assign different default values, but they need to be in different directories. Maybe a directory for electrical and another for fluid power schematics?
You could also have automatic transitions populating variables for you. One transition could put the value ES, the other FPS. Again though you'll need some sort of conditional logic so file will go through the proper transition.