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With PDMWorks, it is possible to automatically revise a drawing’s title block and revision block upon check in.\u00a0 Three things are\u00a0necessary to use this functionality.\u00a0 First, the drawing template will need to employ a SolidWorks Revision Table.\u00a0 If someone is not familiar with how to set up revision tables, please see my previous article: Settings Up and Using SolidWorks Revision Tables faster<\/a>. Second, the drawing template’s title block will need an annotation note that is linked to the custom property “Revision”.\u00a0 If someone is not familiar with how to link annotation notes to custom properties, please see my previous articles about this subject:Introduction to SolidWorks Custom Properties<\/a>.\u00a0 Third\u00a0activate the revision automation feature\u00a0within the PDMWork’s VaultAdmin tool.\u00a0 Of course, this will require Vault Administrator access to the VaultAdmin. The setting is found under the Revision Table tab in the General section, called “Enable Revision Table”.<\/p>\n

Once these three items are set up, drawings will automatically revise upon check in, with updated revision and title blocks.\u00a0 Control over what appears in the added revision row is within the check-in screen itself when the drawing is checked in.\u00a0 Further controls can be set up to limit or automate the value for revisions so that no mistakes can be made regarding the revision level of the check-in.\u00a0 Within the VaultAdmin, there is even the ability to control the number of revisions visible on a drawing.\u00a0 Utilizing this set up can save substantial time and eliminate potential check-in revision identification errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With PDMWorks, it is possible to automatically revise a drawing’s title block and revision block upon check in.\u00a0 Three things are\u00a0necessary to use this functionality.\u00a0 First, the drawing template will need to employ a SolidWorks Revision Table.\u00a0 If someone is not familiar with how to set up revision tables, please see my previous article: Settings … Continue reading “Drawing Revisions and PDMWorks (Part 2: Automatic Revisions)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,4,9,3],"tags":[202],"series":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","category-how-to","category-methodology","category-tipstricks","tag-revision-table"],"yoast_head":"\nDrawing Revisions and PDMWorks (Part 2: Automatic Revisions) - 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