Drawing numbers

andrew_kleinert

I'm currently setting up a revision control / company numbering system.  I've noted that Onshape has not included 'Drawing number' as part of the standard drawing parameter set.  ('Part number' has been included, 'Drawing number' has not)

In practice, is it expected that the 'part number' field within a drawing would effectively be treated as the drawing number?  This would seem to cause confusion when 'Part number' is a different thing to 'Drawing number'?  Curiously, the 'Release Management Workflow' has an option to prevent a drawing from having the same part number as its part (Enforced by "☑️All part numbers in a release must be unique")

Or is it better to manually create a new 'drawing number' field under Admin user -> company settings -> properties?

Does anybody have practical experience with this?

I'm also curious, is there a practical reason Onshape didn't include 'Drawing number' in its standard property set?

philip_thomas

@andrew_kleinert - You COULD make a company custom property and everything would work fine for you.

That said, the definition of 'unique' in Onshape is the pair of 'Part number' and 'Revision'.
For instance, throughout your company/enterprise, there can only be ONE part/assembly/drawing with (for instance) part number 234 and rev B.
Outside of that, you can do anything - but remember, that's OUR definition of unique - if you use your own, then it's up to you to maintain the integrity of your process.

As a pro user, if you still need help/guidance, please free free to submit a support ticket or reach out to your customer success representative.

I hope this helps

philip_thomas

Andrew - 'Part Number' can be used interchangeably between drawings and parts.
This is exactly why we included the option to allow duplication between parts and drawings.

andrew_kleinert

philip_thomas said:

Andrew - 'Part Number' can be used interchangeably between drawings and parts.
This is exactly why we included the option to allow duplication between parts and drawings.

Thanks ...

... so if I don't want to use them interchangeably (e.g: I want to retain a '1:many' correspondence between parts and drawings) then I would need to to manually create a new 'drawing number' field under Admin user -> company settings -> properties?  Is that the recommended workflow?

MBartlett21

@philip_thomas
Is there a way to 'force' the drawing to use the same number as the part?

philip_thomas

@andrew_kleinert - You COULD make a company custom property and everything would work fine for you.

That said, the definition of 'unique' in Onshape is the pair of 'Part number' and 'Revision'.
For instance, throughout your company/enterprise, there can only be ONE part/assembly/drawing with (for instance) part number 234 and rev B.
Outside of that, you can do anything - but remember, that's OUR definition of unique - if you use your own, then it's up to you to maintain the integrity of your process.

As a pro user, if you still need help/guidance, please free free to submit a support ticket or reach out to your customer success representative.

I hope this helps

andres_dandler

MBartlett21 said:

@philip_thomas
Is there a way to 'force' the drawing to use the same number as the part?

Hi,

This question didn't get answered, and it's a good one!  I would love this feature.

Thanks,

Andres

mads_peter_jensen

This is a very good question indeed. I also would like an answer.

tim_hess427

I don't think there's a way to force the drawing PN to be the same as the part's PN. I believe the closest you can come is having the drawing automatically reference and display the part's PN property. 

It seems like it could be complicated to implement because you can easily add more than one part to a drawing. So, there would need to be some user input to figure out which part's number to use (and thereby making it non-automatic again...).