How to add " Controlled Copy" stamp in Drawing in a Particular State?

Discussion created by valai vadivel on Mar 11, 2008
Latest reply on Apr 11, 2012 by Brian Dalton

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Hi

i have some drawing in a state .If this drawings change the state No1 to No2 then Automatically it should Stamp the "Controlled Copy".Does anyone know how to do that?

R.vadivel

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Corey Hinman Mar 11, 2008 12:31 PM
We have a "watermark" in out title blocks that is a note that points to the Enterprise State (Released, Prototype, Pending, etc).

The only issue is, once the drawing is moved to released, it has to be checked out for the watermark to update, and then checked back in. I don't know of a different solution, but if there is one I'd like to try it out.
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- Joy Garon @ Corey Hinman on Mar 11, 2008 1:43 PM
  Stan ... oops I mean Corey,
  
  How are you creating the watermark? Is it just text that is associated to a file property?
  
  Joy
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  - Corey Hinman @ Joy Garon on Mar 11, 2008 1:44 PM
    Yep, it appears in the title block and is just a note linked to a file property.
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    - Joy Garon @ Corey Hinman on Mar 11, 2008 2:12 PM
      Shouldn't you be able to use a transition action to write the variable value back to the file on the transition? (see image)
      
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      - Corey Hinman @ Joy Garon on Mar 11, 2008 2:34 PM
        Yes, but the preview in Enterprise doesn't show the updated note.
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        Joy Garon @ Corey Hinman on Mar 11, 2008 2:48 PM
        If you are on 2008 it should...
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        Corey Hinman @ Joy Garon on Mar 11, 2008 7:09 PM
        2007 sp 5.0
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        Mike Sveda @ Corey Hinman on Mar 13, 2008 1:26 PM
        I am using the Transition Comment to add text to our titleblocks for watermarking and revision comments. Works great and helps automate our workflow
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        Corey Hinman @ Mike Sveda on Mar 13, 2008 1:29 PM
        So you're forcing transition comments by a user and then pushing that to the titleblock? I'm not sure that would work any better for us because the transition to "release" is automatic. Thoughts?
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        Mike Sveda @ Corey Hinman on Mar 13, 2008 2:14 PM
        I am overwriting any user comments in the Workflow transition comments. I set the variable to say "Under Revision" for example when a drawing goes to checking and that goes in the titleblock.
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        Joy Garon @ Mike Sveda on Mar 13, 2008 5:21 PM
        I think the issue is (and Corey, correct me if I'm wrong)...
        
        The value of the variable (doesn't matter which one) IS being written back to the drawing file, but, prior to the 2008 release, the integrated preview window (aka; eDrawings viewer) would not show the updated value because the SolidWorks drawing file must be physically opened and saved in order to update the display list so that it can be viewed properly in the viewer.
        
        This is not necessary in 2008.
        
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        Brian Dalton @ Joy Garon on Apr 11, 2012 10:41 AM
        As I understand it, in any case writing to a variable causes the file to be checked out and back in by the system, as evidenced by the fact that programmatically writing to a variable causes a new version to be generated.
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