Concurrent engineering in MechworksPDM

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Concurrent engineering in MechworksPDM

Assembly/part changes notifications

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Currently the mechanism is active only for documents undergoing a revision process

This mechanism notifies all the users that are working on assemblies whether one of the contained parts has been changed in the meanwhile by another user.

The quickest way to learn about this feature is a simple example:

0.suppose to have enabled the option

Revisions→Checkin→images_checkONSend notification to all user when doing a check-in/refresh

1.Suppose to have an assembly made of 2 components:

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2.Assume the user Des1 is working on the assembly (open in his browser) and at the same time user Des2 (another user of the same team) is working on one of the parts contained in it

User Des2 performs a checkout on the part testpart001:

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3.User Des2 makes a hole in the component

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4.User Des2 can now perform a save+checkin images_Buttons_07_24 or a refresh images_Buttons_09_24 to notify the other user (in this case Des1) that he's made a change.

5.According with the settings of the following Checkin sub-option, the user Des1 will be notified in different ways:

A.images_checkOFFNotify silently any update of in-memory read-only documents
the user Des1 will be notified with a dialog that ask for the reload of the involved component

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A further option is available in the Reload Notification dialog:

images_checkONNotify me silently for the rest of this session

When the users clicks OK it is kept track of the missing reloads, enabling the reload button in the command/menu bar images_Buttons_15_24

B.images_checkONNotify silently any update of in-memory read-only documents
the user Des1 will be notified only with a system non-blocking popup (the reload will be automatic)

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Then the reload button in the command/menu bar will become active images_Buttons_15_24 and by clicking it the user will be asked to reload the changed component

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6.In the end the assembly is reloaded and now it shows the chenge in the component

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The popup dialog is independent from the option settings and it's shown even if not silent notification is set:

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Ability to select components to be reloaded

The Reload functionality allows the single components to be reloaded - the reload dialog defaults on reloading all the components.

Note: configurations are NOT managed in this dialog - only files

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