Is there a way to change a drawing from one file type to
another and retain the history. It is not uncommon for us to have
old legacy scanned handrawings or AutoCAD drawings that get
recreated in SolidWorks. In our legacy system, a drawing it
Anyone else needs this requirement? Our thought is that a drawing is the same thing in our system regardless of what format it may be in. Revisions A-C maybe scanned hand drawings, Revisions D-F maybe AutoCAD, then Rev G may be SolidWorks. We have a history with the drawing, not the file type.
Anyone else needs this requirement? Our thought is that a drawing is the same thing in our system regardless of what format it may be in. Revisions A-C maybe scanned hand drawings, Revisions D-F maybe AutoCAD, then Rev G may be SolidWorks. We have a history with the drawing, not the file type.
Mike
I put a jpg file in the vault. Checked it in. Then checked it out, made a change to it, and checked it in, adding a comment as I did. No problem - normal thing to do. Then I checked it out again. Now, out in a tmp folder, I renamed a SW part file that I had sitting there, to match that jpg name, including the extension. Then I picked it up and dropped it into the folder where the original jpg file was. I got the proper warnings that the file already existed, do I want to overwrite. Yes, do it. Then I changed the extension back to sldprt to make it a recognizable SW part file. Then checked it in. Upon looking at the history, all comments and events are still there, therby doing what you are asking for.
Now that being said, I don't know what would happen with Where-used, Contains, BOMs, etc. - didn't go there.
WT
So going to Enterprise, we are trying to figure out how to handle the same situation.
We also have cases of multiple files representing one drawing. For example, sheets 1-5 might be in Excel (BOM and selection rules) while sheets 6-10 are in AutoCAD or SolidWorks (Assembly details).