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Automatic PDF Creation

Question asked by Antonio Lucero on May 14, 2009
Latest reply on Jun 1, 2009 by Mike Sveda

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Hi,

I was wondering if EPDM has an automatic PDF creation like PDM Workgroup does or is there anybody who has written a code for this and is willing to share?

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Antonio

Antonio Lucero May 21, 2009 4:33 PM

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Thanks for the help. At this time, I will continue to do it manually. The only need was because EDrawings was not correctly display the notes. Some one has stated that this might get fixed.

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Mike Sveda May 14, 2009 4:16 PM
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We use a dispatch routine to create pdf. It loads the file in solidworks and then exports to the vault appending a rev letter.

I am not the code author but if you know someone who can program with VB and Dispatch it can be done.
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Gurpreet Singh May 20, 2009 6:14 AM
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Hi Antonio

plz refer S-014002 for your automatic pdf generation problem
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Antonio Lucero May 20, 2009 3:45 PM
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What is S-014002? I assume your are referring to a bug that has been posted but I can not seem to find that number. By the Way I am using PDM Enterprise 2008 still
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- Eric Martin @ Antonio Lucero on May 20, 2009 8:59 PM
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  I have helped our VAR code this for my company. Unfortunately I can only share with you the parts of the addin that I created since they have put a copyright on thier part of the code. Or you can contact them directly since they are now going to sell the program I believe. It has been re-written in .NET and the coder has alot of time invested. I will tell you it would be worth the purchase if they are indeed selling it.
  Ours will create a PDF of just about any file type as the file is moved through a workflow. It Creates a directory in a network directory that is named after the filename. It then creates the pdf giving it the name of the file with the ext of the filetype as part of the filename. (2007 PDM Enterprise)
  
  So if I had 2 files named draw1.slddrw and draw1.xls The end result would be
  
  z:\shared\pdfs\draw1\draw1slddrw.pdf and draw1xls.pdf
  
  In the new code this is accomplished through a client/server tcp connection. The data is sent to the server from the client. The server then puts it into a print que of a PDF print driver. From there the pdf is created and then moved to the above mentioned process.
  
  Mail Me if you want to know the Vendor
  
  If you are looking to do just Solidworks files email me.
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- Eric Martin @ Antonio Lucero on May 20, 2009 8:59 PM
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  I have helped our VAR code this for my company. Unfortunately I can only share with you the parts of the addin that I created since they have put a copyright on thier part of the code. Or you can contact them directly since they are now going to sell the program I believe. It has been re-written in .NET and the coder has alot of time invested. I will tell you it would be worth the purchase if they are indeed selling it.
  Ours will create a PDF of just about any file type as the file is moved through a workflow. It Creates a directory in a network directory that is named after the filename. It then creates the pdf giving it the name of the file with the ext of the filetype as part of the filename. (2007 PDM Enterprise)
  
  So if I had 2 files named draw1.slddrw and draw1.xls The end result would be
  
  z:\shared\pdfs\draw1\draw1slddrw.pdf and draw1xls.pdf
  
  In the new code this is accomplished through a client/server tcp connection. The data is sent to the server from the client. The server then puts it into a print que of a PDF print driver. From there the pdf is created and then moved to the above mentioned process.
  
  Mail Me if you want to know the Vendor
  
  If you are looking to do just Solidworks files email me.
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  - Mike Sveda @ Eric Martin on May 21, 2009 10:17 AM
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    We had a programmer dissect the swcreateoutput program. When we release a Solidworks drawings, it creates a pdf with the revision appended to the file name so anyone can see the older revisions instantly via pdf's. XC12345_A.pdf
    
    Have not worked out how to do it for autocad or inventor files yet.
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    - Jason Capriotti @ Mike Sveda on May 28, 2009 7:49 PM
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      Mike, interesting that you are creating a new pdf with the rev. letter on the file. So you aren't reving the PDFs through the system?
      
      What are your reasons for handling it this way?
      
      We haven't yet implemented Enterprise but this is issue I'm currently looking at.
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      - Evert Schuttert @ Jason Capriotti on May 29, 2009 6:21 AM
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        We also put the revision letter in the filename of the pdf, in the vault they are non revision managed.
        
        Of course the rev of the pdf would always be the same as the drawings rev, so it would work well when treating pdfs the same way as SW files.
        
        We put the rev letter in the filename, because when you send the pdf outside the vault (by mail to a customer or supplier) you can see the revision without opening the file.
        That wouldn't be possible with revision managed files, because the file name would be different with every revision, so the file is treated as a new one each time. We do the same thing with dxfs for lasercutting.
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      - Mike Sveda @ Jason Capriotti on Jun 1, 2009 4:18 PM
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        Not reving the pdf's. They are a static image of that revision for all to see. So you can see all the revs at one time easily.
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Antonio Lucero May 21, 2009 4:33 PM
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Thanks for the help. At this time, I will continue to do it manually. The only need was because EDrawings was not correctly display the notes. Some one has stated that this might get fixed.
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