Often when saving my assembly I receive a message saying that the document was opened as read only and my save will probably fail.
How do I unconsciously open assemblies as read only?
Opened as read only
Often when saving my assembly I receive a message saying that the document was opened as read only and my save will probably fail.
How do I unconsciously open assemblies as read only?
Your "c'est la vie" tends to imply that you are throwing out your changes when you discover you don't have ownership. All you have to do is take ownership of the part in PDMWorks. Of course, this doesn't work if someone else has ownership, unless you can talk them into giving it up.
I investigated your suggestions but the evidence may have been lost when Rx changed my settings to default.
I have used that unplanned opportunity to install 2009 and I will monitor the indicators you suggested.
There is a very under utilized tool in solidworks - in your task pane on the right, there is an option to see 'Open in SolidWorks' - black indicates read-write, orange indicates read-only and bold in either case means the same as the asterisk above.
There is also one option to check - system - External References - Open referenced documents with read-only access, a great thing to check when working in a group with shared files (ie no PDM). But kind of annoying if you have other controls - like a PDM. Checked this will open the model read-only when you open the drawing, same for all assembly children by default....
--Matt
I work in the field of Fire fighting vehicles.
I need drawings in format solidworks or Parasolid (.X_T) of 3 vehicles of Ford Motor Company in 3D.
a Crew Cab , an Extended Cab and a Regular Cab.
They are "F" Series vehicles ( Cab and Chassis )
I contact the Ford Company but they do not give or sell their drawings.
I am wondering if it is possible to find those drawings on the internet.
I need Help ! !
Thank You
Sylvain
You're not unconscious, the software is. This started happening when I was still running 2009. Thought it would stop with 2010. So, I went to System Options>External References>Open referenced documents with red-only access. Checked it, because it was NOT checked. Hit OK. Then, went back and unchecked it and hit OK. It stopped saying everything was opened read-only. Someone at Solidworks should check their updates and new software for internal software defaults.