SolidWorks and PRO-ENGINEER with .STEP files and .pdf

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SolidWorks and PRO-ENGINEER with .STEP files and
.pdfs What were we thinking?

• SW Assembly A
• SW Sub-Assembly A1
• Part AA1 Drawing AA1 PRO E Sub-Assembly
  A3
• SW Sub Assembly A2 Part AA3 Drawing
  AA4
• Part AA1 Drawing AA2 Part AA4
  Drawing AA4
• Part AA2 Drawing AA2

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• For transfer RAL creates a .pdf of the drawing
  and a step file of the part or assembly
• STEP file then has to be transferred into a
  SolidWorks part or assembly, checked in most if
  not all cases a cleaning process has to be
  performed
• If the part is associated with an assembly,
  especially the suspension these parts then have
  to now be updated in the SW assembly.
• During all of this the drawing is inaccessible!
• All has to start again if something goes wrong
  or changes.
• Red-lines can help but more often than not
  workshops want the CAD file to (cheaper). Starts
  becoming a headache to maintain.
• Request for change to drawing / modification to
  part have to go back to RAL.

• For transfer / modifying / creating a part a
  SolidWorks user loads it into the vault. The
  associated sub-assemblies and assemblies are
  automatically updated.
• Drawing is always linked to the part available
  and with correct permissions both can be modified.

ALL DONE BY CAD LIBRARIAN