MWAutoNumber for MechWorks PDM Automation.

AutoNumber Format Options – Drawings Tab

Drawings Part Numbers Are Generated From Main Component

With the above option activated, there are three areas within the dialog to become familiar with: 1. Get Part Number From:

a. Depending on the environment’s needs, it is possible to have the Drawing’s part number assignment based on its Model’s [ ID ] value or its [ FILE_NAME ] value (from within MechWorks

PDM). While these two values ( ID vs. FILE_NAME ) are frequently similar, they can obviously be quite different as demonstrated earlier with some of the options for managing configuration records.

2. Suffix Options: a. As required, the Drawings can be automatically assigned a suffix. In the cases in which multiple Drawing files are saved against a single Model, then all of its Drawings (after the first Drawing) have to include an automatic sequential number ( 01 , 02 , 03 , …) to avoid duplicates. These

options allow the administrator to determine if additional suffix characters are desired and if the option should be applied for all Drawings or all Drawings after the first Drawing for a Model.

3. Examples: a. At the bottom of the figure there are two examples that reflect what to expect for the Drawing’s naming scheme.

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