nlewis01 - Tuesday, February 8, 2011 10:37 AM:
Hi All
I am currently setting up Innovator for the first time and trying to use it to help us handle client cad/drawing data. We would like to use the same revision sequencing as the clients, however, they of course each use a different sequence (1,2,3 or A,B,C etc). I can only see how to change the revision sequencing for all parts at the moment.
Does anybody have any recommendations for a structure/technique to deal with this?
Maybe modified part itemtypes for each client?
or can it be done using sub classes of Part?
or add a customer revision field to parts and documents and just update manually?
Thanks in advance
Nick
Brian - Saturday, February 12, 2011 9:49 PM:
Hi Nick,
Not really sure exactly what you are trying to achieve here.
Are you trying to have one revision sequence for Parts and different one for Documents? This is easy as you just define a new Revision item and link the "Other" Item type to it.
Are you trying to have one or a number of classes of Part (Say In house Designed) as Rev A, B, C and another class (say Commercial Off The Shelf) as Rev 1, 2, 3? In this case it is useful to realise that the revision string is just that. If you set the Revision string as A B C D E F G ...Z 01 02 03 04 05 06 07....99 then you can be anywhere in this string and the effect of creating a new revision will be to advance to the next component of the Revision String.
So you can have a Part at Rev A and when you rev it the part will go to Rev B. With the same Revision String you can have another Part at Rev 03 and when you rev it the part will have a Rev of 04.
The trick with this is working out where to start each of the sub classes of parts. You would do this with an onBeforeAdd server method that explicitly sets the starting Rev based on your Classification Structure.
Hope this helps,
Brian.
nlewis01 - Monday, February 14, 2011 3:26 AM:
Hi Brian
I'm trying to do the latter so I think the revision string containing mulitple series types will be the answer. I'll start looking into server methods.
Many thanks for your help
Nick
