Background : We're working our way into SW Toolbox parts. One of my people has a toolbox part defined with ~100 or so permutations in its design table. The preference internally is to completely populate the part file with all of the permutations as configurations, then release it once and be done ...

Tried using loginex instead of loginauto. Which worked perfectly. I mean, apart from having to hard code my password into the script. Small drawback there. EDIT: which drawback I solved by loginex'ing by using environ("username") for the userid, and the password I already had for ChangeSta...

Wrote a script to automate and regularize my release of engineering orders. Pops up a form with the files on the order listed and various info to check before releasing, you enter your password, and it then promotes them all automatically with a common history message, notifies specific people, and ...

It's affecting any files, rather than specific ones. Latest this morning: users can access files while online in PDM, as long as they don't touch the data card or the preview tab. They can check out, but not check in or undo checkout. They can work offline without trouble, and while offline can acce...

I've been doing just that, migrating myself over to VB.net (just because of the learning curve involved - I have a *lot* of practice with VBA). This print tool was the first thing I've done that way. Unfortunately, I haven't had time to do more because WatchGuard has torpedoed our entire network. De...

2021 sp5

We contracted with a new managed IT services company in February. They rolled out WatchGuard security to our PCs starting in March. Since then it has been non-stop random and difficult to diagnose problems with PDM. WatchGuard blocking all scripts on the network was easy to fix, but every single WG ...

A few months later, I've finally gotten my simple script to run as intended.

Three hours of initial coding got me about 90% there, the last 10% has taken three months and 40+ hours.

I'm starting to passionately hate PDM.

What I may have figured out is...kinda dumb on my part. Our company migrated to a new domain four weeks ago, right when this particular issue started. We did it in four groups over two weeks, which fits with it gradually appearing. And it fits (although it's kind of a stretch) that a change to any c...

I think I may have figured out the problem, but for completeness, here's the relevant parts of code: If Not swModel Is Nothing Then esoIsLocked = swModel.IsLocked ' -- if the model is locked, it needs to be unlocked If esoIsLocked = False Then Dim ffile As IEdmFile5 Dim pFolder As IEdmFolder5 Set ff...

BTW, the task is growing more unreliable and chaotic by the day, it seems. All the releases in the past week have had almost surreal superimpositions of geometry from views or even components not present on a sheet.

Wacky.

I think I found a dead-simple alternative that works. I'm teaching myself VB.NET. Discovered that there is a simple command in SW API, modeldoc2.extension .SaveAs3, which will save files to PDF. Built a small executable around it, which I'm currently troubleshooting. Basically, it takes passed comma...

I have a VBA script which checks out a file, makes a couple changes to the references, and then checks it back in. Or, it used to. For about a year and a half. Now the file .UnlockFile command....doesn't. Script runs all the way through, but it gets to file .UnlockFile and throws the error: Run-time...

This may be useful as a go-by example. I've stripped out some of the code for anonymity, but what this does is recurses through a passed file (in our case a PDM virtual document used as an ECO) and returns three lists: the PDFs of electronic signoffs, the design change records documenting the change...

AlexL: thanks for the pointer to CustomTools (https://www.customtools.info). I'm checking them out now.

AlexB: I'll give that a try in the meantime, and see if that helps with the prior problem. That actually has been stable for a while.

Resurrecting this thread... I really, really want an alternative to the convert-drawing-to-pdf task. Whether it's third party, or someone has a print -drawing-to-pdf mod that they'd be willing to share. I'm sick of the "task failed" emails coming to me on about a third of the conversion ta...

Ah, I see what you're doing. I think I can work with that. Thanks!

We have a limited number of licenses, can't buy any more at the moment, and so occasionally have all licenses in use when someone needs one. One can go to the license manager client, see who has a license, and send them an email or chat requesting they release their license, entering each name manua...

We're a small aerospace company, so I gather we do things a little bit differently from other industries. Based on experience with several of the Big Aero companies, we use revisions as follows: - a model/drawing is initiated with the revision value of dash, which is interchangeably called "rev...

How are you putting together your file name? ... Like so: <SourceFolderPath>\<FileName> - REV <%Revision%> - <%FileState%> As I said the earlier reply, though, this part does exactly what it's supposed to do. All I need to do is replace the resulting "REV -" with "REV NEW". (If ...

... named as "PARTNUMBER-REV-A.PDF" for something that had been released with revision A. I can do this part, with our equivalent filename structure being "PARTNUMBER - REV A - RELEASED.pdf" (or IN WORK or UNDER REVIEW for the state name). Defining the filename using the output ...

Does anyone know of alternatives to the conversion tasks in PDM Pro (2021 in our case) that actually work? I'm at wits end trying to get it to do a simple renaming of the output files to suit our company naming policy. It's something that the output file path template can't do (changing "REV -&...

Following up on this: I talked to our VAR, and they said conditional notifications disappearing is a bug peculiar to 2019 SP5. I ended up programming my own email VBS that I can execute as a command on transition. Which is a better option, as the content of the conditional notification isn't useful ...

I've been building a new workflow over the past week. In the process, I discovered conditional notifications, and added one to one of the transitions to test it out. It worked, and I decided to add it to transitions in a couple of other workflows. Only, the option is no longer there. I only have the...