I am wondering if anyone has any insight on how to setup PDM with actions and perhaps even conditions to automatically populate a "dumb" rev table that is part of our company sheet format? I've had a little bit of success setting up linked notes and mapping them to variables but I am struggling to get the revisions to behave in the way we have done when entering them manually.
We have other CAD users that aren't using SW and we want our drawings to have the same appearance, which is why our table looks the way it does.
I've seen a document that talks about a "rolling revision table" but that falls a little short of what I'm trying to pull off here because it always places the new rev at either the top or bottom of the table and then moves the old ones up or down. We actually want our revs to stay where they are but add the new ones to the line above and then only start rolling if the table gets full.
I have attached a .pdf to demonstrate how our table progresses through a project's life cycle. It's very cumbersome to have to manually enter all this info, especially on a multi-page drawing. The examples I put in the attachment were just typed into the cells for demonstration only (no PDM involvement) that's why I just attached a .pdf.
We use SOLIDWORKS 2019 (currently SP 2.0) on Windows 10, 64-bit systems. We also have PDM Professional 2019.
That is a cool idea for the rev table, but I am pretty sure it is not possible with SolidWorks and SWPDM the way they work. You might have to look into creating a custom add-in to do that. That might not even work because it seems like it would need to be a SWPDM add-in that collects the new revision information and then calls a SolidWorks add-in that modifies the Rev table.
The add-in would have to somehow read the information out of the rows and then write it back into the new row.