2 Replies Latest reply on Mar 24, 2008 7:00 PM by Neal Rusy

Linking files in PDMWE

Mike Sveda Mar 24, 2008 2:52 PM

Is there a way to link an Autocad drawing to a Solidworks part? Some of our customers want Autocad drawings of our Solidworks designs. It would be nice to link them together.

Linking files in PDMWE

Spencer Smith Mar 24, 2008 6:31 PM (in response to Mike Sveda)

I don't think so. Sounds like an enhancement request.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but creating manual parent/child relationships is not something new in the PDM world. The most useful example is the instruction/installation MS Word document that is manually linked to the SW assembly file as a child of the assembly. That way, the system can prompt for a change or check out for this related document when you make a change to the linked assembly.

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  Neal Rusy Mar 24, 2008 7:00 PM (in response to Spencer Smith)
  
  RMB part at top of feature manager design binder then link to ACAD drawing as shown but make sure you link the drawing so it goes with the part when you send it somewhere
  
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  Also you can checkin ACAD drawings if they are visible in your file explorer on the right just rmb the ACAD file an choose to checkin then once it is in the vault you can attach it to your SW part
  
  Attatch ACAD Drawing1.JPG 507.8 KB
  
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