Hi,
I am really curious to the best way possible to present drawings in a poroduct to the end-user/manufacturer.
I was hoping as many as possible of you could tell of your method/routine in your field.
Our method as of now, I think it's too hard to get an overview of the structure of the product with all its levels.
We do it like this: all part and assembly .idw's are printed and signed. then scanned and put into one pdf we call technical file. in the pdf, we use bookmarks for sorting into four main categories: purchased, manufacturing, assembly, and fitting kits. in addition we have other things, lik einstalation manual. the minus of this is that, when you are viewing one part, you cannot tell what assembly it is to be included in. in production area, they have small stations with ability to read these pdf's.
Please tell of your method of publishing to production.
Depending on your industry the methods can change but we have a simple approach that I think should help.
It’s enforced and managed by Autodesk Vault with the following stages
Work In Progress - The design team designs the product, makes appropriate assembly’s and required drawings
For Review- the QC and new products mangers have to okay the design. Any issues it goes back to work in progress.
This includes a first off check to make sure the manufacturing process is okay
Released- The design is released to manufacturing
Hope this helps
Vault all the way. We have Vault Professional and use the Item Master as our document manager. All drawings of our designs are assigned items, and the lifecycle is controlled through Vault with a Lifecycle watermark applied to all drawings. Using either Vault client or the Web Client, anyone can look up a drawing and will always get the most recent version and revision, clearly marked with a watermark indicating it's current status. No parts can be made or ordered to rpints not marked as Approved. We also recently started using the Vault ECO system to track and document changes.
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Why are you MANUALLY signing and not making use of thei properties in the drawing environment?
Using the iproperties would save time and do away with the need to scan the documents to PDF, this way, using iproperties, you can export to PDF file for each idw then by using adobe acrobat pro these files can easily be merged/combine in to one PFD file.
In iProperties for each part you can have a design state and what department has approved the design. (With an approval date)
It can be found in iProperties under the project tab
These properties can be put onto a standard drawing boarder.
So the approval stages are on the drawing and shows who has and hasn’t sign off the design.
Hope this helps
Thanks, that is very clear. So you as the engineer set these as checked?
or do the different departments have to do it in vault?
Yes as the product is designed these sets are checked
We used to manually do this and about six months ago upgraded to vault. The vault lifecycle manages this for us automatically now. Much easier but does cost quite a lot because we got a new sever for vault.
And sorry the I properties your after are under status tab not the project tab as I stated earlier
My bad!!