Vault Rename wizard Add sequential tag

[Anonymous]

Right, so I'm fairly new at a company that just got vault within the last year, but has been using inventor for ten years or so.

Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of issues in the this database that I need to fix. The scale of the situation is another matter (Duplicate fily name query returns a 2720 page report)

One of the worst offenders is bolted connections, which I hate anyway, but I have about 600 pages of that report, just on these, so it really seemed like the place to start.

The simplest solution seemed to be to select all 9000 of them from a search in vault, and pull up the handy rename wizard, but the Increment command doesn't really work in this instance. It just bumps the number of every file up by 1.

I was hoping to be able to add a company prefix, and an incremented suffix, but this doesn't seem to work, the incrementing only seems to apply to the existing filename.

Any ideas on how I could get this to work? 

D/S Premium, V Basic 2016

[mflayler]

In my experience, you do not have many options.  What I have seen done in this scenario...

1.  Each designer takes 100 and completes the renames each week until the list is gone, turn on to check for duplicate names so it doesn't happen again.  The rename should be based on the assembly its located in so instead of a prefix or suffix increment, I would add a prefix /suffix of the assembly name / number.

2.  Do Nothing - Bolted Connections are Reference assemblies; do we really care as long as they link correctly?

Another solution for down the road is to upgrade to a higer version of Vault that takes care of naming conventions like Frame Generator and Bolted Connection items.

I will also say that 9000 rename is rather unweildy as it will copy the files to your local and then check them back in.  Try not to do more than a couple at a time especially  if they are large assemblies.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, the only one with any time for things like this is me, so I'm pretty stuck.

Vault Pro is prohibitively expensive, so that's out as well I'm afraid. And this would be the third time I'd have tried to sell that to the brass. Tired of that fight.

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The issue is that I'd like to be able to enforce unique file names, and until I get all 2720 pages of them sorted, I really can't do that