the-moog - Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:49 AM:
hi,
I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this question as it seems to span several areas.
Firstly, I'm only just starting to learn what Aras Innovator can do.
Our EDA software, Altium Designer (AD), can retrieve what it calls 'models' from a database.
To it, models are such things as schematic symbols,PCB footprints, mechanical parts, simulation models, etc.
I'd like to get our models under configuration control and allow for where-use queries. AD currently does this using Subversion (a.k.a SVN) together with any DAO/ADO database.
Bar the subversion, this seems to be what Innovator already does.
So, without blinding a noob with internal API and if possible, how would I add:
- Model files into Aras
- A database link from a Part that (if a certain type of part) would allow addition and change control of model files?
- A mechanism to allow for branching (merging is meaningless) of models files into new or existing parts?
- A means of importing a BOM from the schematic (or even better a direct DB link) such that there would be a way of querying a 'where used' for each model?
Cheers,
Jason.
