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How does your company control off the shelf component models?

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I would like some insight on how some of you are handling models of off the shelf components. Are you using revision control on these models? For instance, I have an assembly model of a purchased Thermistor that I created for use in my assembly designs. In one assembly the two wires came straight out and then bent 90 degrees. This model was then sent through document control and released. The design then changed and the wires had to follow a 3D sketch. In your experience would a revision be applied to the assembly model as there is now a new configuration of the model? We are not using PDM at this time but how would PDM handle this? I believe the program would automatically rev the model. I will be pushing hard for PDM in the very near future as manually managing the data SUCKS! Any help would be appreciaited.

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Jeff Thomas Aug 30, 2007 12:12 PM

Well I have answered my own question by reading further down the list of topics. We were saving them in a library folder the was write protected. We simply need to make this a shared folder and remove the protection. I need to make sure that everyone knows how to add a configuration so that previous configurations that are being referenced don't change.
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Glenn Wilkins @ Jeff Thomas on Aug 30, 2007 12:30 PM

When dealing with off the shelf parts/assys that have items thatmay change in the context of the assy, we will model the part/assywithout the wires or in our case, hydraulic hoses, and then at theassembly level we will create a part just for the hoses which inmost cases is a 3D sketch. We will name the part after the assy itis in (for example, if the assy is "123456" we will namethe part "123456-hoses"). That way, you do not needmulitple configurations to suit mulitple assys. You could modeljust a stub of a wire coming out of the thermostat and then use itto create the profile to sweep the rest of the wire in the assy.

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Jeff Thomas @ Glenn Wilkins on Aug 30, 2007 12:58 PM

I had not thought of that Glen. Thanks for the input.
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Jeff Thomas Aug 30, 2007 12:12 PM
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Well I have answered my own question by reading further down the list of topics. We were saving them in a library folder the was write protected. We simply need to make this a shared folder and remove the protection. I need to make sure that everyone knows how to add a configuration so that previous configurations that are being referenced don't change.
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Jeff
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- Glenn Wilkins @ Jeff Thomas on Aug 30, 2007 12:30 PM
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  When dealing with off the shelf parts/assys that have items thatmay change in the context of the assy, we will model the part/assywithout the wires or in our case, hydraulic hoses, and then at theassembly level we will create a part just for the hoses which inmost cases is a 3D sketch. We will name the part after the assy itis in (for example, if the assy is "123456" we will namethe part "123456-hoses"). That way, you do not needmulitple configurations to suit mulitple assys. You could modeljust a stub of a wire coming out of the thermostat and then use itto create the profile to sweep the rest of the wire in the assy.
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  - Jeff Thomas @ Glenn Wilkins on Aug 30, 2007 12:58 PM
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    I had not thought of that Glen. Thanks for the input.
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