Hi all… We currently use a fairly robust part numbering system: XXXX-OOOO-XX-XXXX At present, the filename itself is simply the drawing/part number. We’ve also added a small amount of human-readable text to help engineering, purchasing, and production identify parts more easily. Personally, I’d …

Piling on. Don’t have a suggestion, but interested in what others might think.

Have you seen this thread? I think it might help with your situation. [image] Revision control app macro (release) booksMacro Library Hi, Like many of you, I use SOLIDWORKS at home for my personal projects. Since I don’t have PDM, and 3DEXPERIENCE is still a…

It was my second Job, that I came across the best part numbering system that I ever found. #1 thing about it was that it was very well documented with a excel page that explained how every part number was created. If you were building a part for a nozzle all you had to do was open the page on the …

Also following this thread. A way to expose custom properties other than Description in Windows Explorer without PDM or supplicant documents (like Excel sheets) is something that I need as well.

The method used here that is about as good as I have worked with is like this : 6 digit part number (could be longer if needed) The first digit gives type of item 1= manufactured part 3= purchased items 4= hardware 6= Kits 7= assemblies8= weldment 9= Top Level Finished product The second di…

[image] DavidWS: My current thought was to concatenate configuration-specific properties into the file-level “Description” custom property so it appears in the Windows Explorer Description column. But from what I can tell, that approach starts falling apart with multiple configurations because W…

To be honest, even PDM doesn’t display Configurations Specific data in a table format, you must click through each configuration tab one at a time. I’ve been asking for it for years but PDM no longer seems to be their focus. However, it being stored in SQL, you can build some reports to show them. N…

If you want a single answer, there’s no definitive solution. I’ve participated in similar studies in many companies I’ve worked for, encountering many different methods and experiments. This topic has become a subject of theses in universities, a complex brainstorming session. It depends on the sect…

I’d like to share this amazing article on naming/coding conventions that I found on the internet a while ago; the site was taken down, so I pulled it from the archive, so pictures are missing. But the info here is golden. It settled the argument for me (I settled for dumb sequential numbering and wr…

It’s a really great resource, thought-provoking. Unfortunately, the industry isn’t conducive to coding with intelligence. That’s why I prefer random numbers. I have my own solution for this; I designed an HTML file, not complicated, just detailed dates: year, month, day, hour, minute, second. It m…

Part Numbers, Man readable names, no PDM

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Have you seen this thread? I think it might help with your situation.