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How to make sure part property changes made from an assembly BOM stick?
Corvin
Member Posts: 9 PRO
My company added a new Customer-Facing-Name property for parts, so I'm having to edit the properties for hundreds of parts. I started doing it from the BOM of a top level assembly to save time. However, I noticed after moving on to another assembly (which shares parts) that some of the parts I had already given Customer Names were not showing them. When I went back to the first assembly, they were still there, but then when I refreshed the page, they disappeared there as well. Does anyone know what might cause this or how to avoid losing work?
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After some more testing, the problem seems to be related to versions/revisions. The changes made to the Assembly BOM from Main are only affecting whichever version/revision of the part is present in the Assembly. I must have updated some of the parts in the Assembly using the blue wheel, and it was those parts that lost their new names. This likely means I didn't successfully change any of the part names (the document doesn't own any of its own parts— all are linked from other documents). Any thoughts on how to avoid this? I know I've used this workflow to permanently change part properties in the past, so I'm not sure how I avoided this problem.
From my understanding (and my experience doing the same), changing something in the BOM table only propagates forward if the item in the table both resides in the document, AND is the "main" workspace part/subasm, not a version/revision.
I've never found a quick way to do it. I end up going to the part studio of each part, and changing the properties there.
I can think of two ways you can do this;
Ah, crap. The parts are spread across about a zillion documents. Well, time to start grinding, I guess!
Unfortunately, we don't have a set in stone pattern for the new names. I'm mostly removing specific supplier names and vender PNs, that sort of thing. We just want basic descriptive names for our customer-facing drawings. I think I'm just going to have to brute force it. I'll probably still go through the top level assemblies and use "Open linked document" then "Return to Main" so at least I won't have to individually navigate to each part. It's a pain, but it's not like it would have been any easier in traditional PDM, so I'm not too bothered.