So, do those backup refrences created in the last section allow that part to be divorced / independent of the other two parts that you refrenced? Just getting into the semantics of external refrences... Thank you for all your tutorials!
what is parallel level assembly? , do you mean sub-assemblies in the same level? i.e if sub-assembly A , B and C are in high level assembly ZZ , then A , B and C are parallel level assemblies?? , I don't understand this in relation to 'inside subassembly' reference. Then why do we back up those references, I cant understand importance of this backup Thanks
That’s an involved question. It depends on how the external references were made. You can avoid having to resolve the references by performing a Workspace Save As in Windchill.
@@CADPLMGuy Doing a “Save as” for the Windchill workspace is not an option for us. We would like to completely break external links in Windchill. The external links are created this way: 1. The hydraulic system components are assembled by the hydraulic designer into a separate assembly (hereinafter referred to as the “hydraulic system assembly”) with the default binding of each element that he adds to the assembly. 2. Then this hydraulic system assembly is included by the main linker of the combine into his top-level assembly (hereinafter referred to as the “top-level assembly”). 3. After that, the hydraulic designer opens the “top-level assembly”, activates the “hydraulic system assembly” and binds the components of the hydraulic system (included in the “hydraulic system assembly”) to the components of the entire combine (included in the “top-level assembly”). This technique works well when designing the combine of first base representative of the family, however, when using the Windchill command “Save as” on the top level, when another combine is created on the basis of the first one, it happens that the links (bindings) of hydraulic elements to the elements of the original (basic) combine are copied. On the subsequent run for several years, the Windchill “Save as” command was used, and as a result, there are a large number of bindings to the previous combine models in the assembly, which leads to the message “more than 60 thousand records”.
So, do those backup refrences created in the last section allow that part to be divorced / independent of the other two parts that you refrenced?
Just getting into the semantics of external refrences... Thank you for all your tutorials!
what is parallel level assembly? , do you mean sub-assemblies in the same level? i.e if sub-assembly A , B and C are in high level assembly ZZ , then A , B and C are parallel level assemblies?? , I don't understand this in relation to 'inside subassembly' reference.
Then why do we back up those references, I cant understand importance of this backup
Thanks
Is there any method or solution for breaking the dependency (reference) when copying the assembly using the command “Save as”?
That’s an involved question. It depends on how the external references were made. You can avoid having to resolve the references by performing a Workspace Save As in Windchill.
@@CADPLMGuy Doing a “Save as” for the Windchill workspace is not an option for us. We would like to completely break external links in Windchill.
The external links are created this way:
1. The hydraulic system components are assembled by the hydraulic designer into a separate assembly (hereinafter referred to as the “hydraulic system assembly”) with the default binding of each element that he adds to the assembly.
2. Then this hydraulic system assembly is included by the main linker of the combine into his top-level assembly (hereinafter referred to as the “top-level assembly”).
3. After that, the hydraulic designer opens the “top-level assembly”, activates the “hydraulic system assembly” and binds the components of the hydraulic system (included in the “hydraulic system assembly”) to the components of the entire combine (included in the “top-level assembly”).
This technique works well when designing the combine of first base representative of the family, however, when using the Windchill command “Save as” on the top level, when another combine is created on the basis of the first one, it happens that the links (bindings) of hydraulic elements to the elements of the original (basic) combine are copied.
On the subsequent run for several years, the Windchill “Save as” command was used, and as a result, there are a large number of bindings to the previous combine models in the assembly, which leads to the message “more than 60 thousand records”.