Good day to all,
I am interested in Routing management, and has there been any discussions on how this works, I am just curious about file location and keeping track of routing assemblies. I dont use pdm works, and most of our files are on a server in different files locations depending on the product we are talking about to make it more confusing we seperate all electronics. I would love to use Routing but am no to sure how i would name the wire assemblies, and keep them associated with the assembly they are in Im confused and you may be too by now but if you have some idea of what I am refering too please give me a little insight, I do not work at the most organized facility and on top of that i do take care of all the prints and drafting mostly myself, I do get a little help from electrical though.
ex. cable assy 5000-0009
in this assy is red wire 50000 and black wire 00009 lengths may be the same and they go on connectors ABC and XYZ.
Now if i have 20 of these assemblies each pretty much the same only difference would be wire lengths how could i go into createing all these files besides adding - to them or make configurations but it seems configurations arent always a good thing and can get confusing running multiple levels. I think Im sol on this one.. but thanks to anyone who can even imagine and get a grip on this dilema, for now im trying to do my wire routing in my assemblies or on parts and adding to bom manually/
Thanks
D. Robertss
Hi Diane,
I can imagine your struggle.
If you do not use PDM then I would suggest to go by what our company used years ago before PDM was introduced.
It should not be difficult if you are the only one person who manages entire SW library. That is important. Because if you have few users, then every update (revision) of library part should be copied into every machine with SW library. We used to do it every Friday night as automatic SW Library update.
Keep your SW Library in one centralized location. It will be your local drive. We used to have it on specially created for SW users: "D-drive". If you have few users, the directory should have same specific path. Library path setting will work on any machine.
When you create wire piece specific to project, save each part (piece of wire or pipe/tube spool) to the project specifc directory under unique name. This way the part will not be confused from contract to contract.
The library fittings do not need to be renamed or saved in contract directory. Only route assemblies and route new created parts. I do not have experience with wires. But the tubes are similar. We save them under contract and assembly specific name.
After the project as built, we would "Pack and go" entire folder into "as Built" directory - this time all the library parts renamed to AS BUILT prefix.