We use item documents to support our solidworks drawings in the following cases.
- Purchased assembly manufacturer owns the CAD & drawing of the assembly.
- Pneumatic/Cable Harnesses that are drawn in lucid chart and due to existing issue of PNGs being black after translation we cannot paste into solidworks drawing so we attach a PDF from lucid chart and refer to the document number in the solidworks drawing.
Our current workflow
- Put document in “general documents” section of item
- Write document number in SolidWorks drawing w/ the anticipated rev # change (ex: if currently at A → B)
- Publish document
- Release item
The problem w/ the current method is that the document # is not maintained throughout our process. Document number changes when the document is published ahead of the item’s release and then again when the item is released. Even if the document isn’t published ahead of the item’s release, the doc # still changes at item release.
I am requesting that the document number does not increment when an item is released.
