Hi Matthew, First of all, thank you for an amazing content and informational video. I am working at a startup and this attribute mapping in 3dexperience information is very useful. I have some questions though: 1. The name of the part generated using naming rules also shows up as some similar but other serial "counter" in the title field of the physical product. I was expecting the name and the title to be same but that was not the case. example. Name=EVO-A-00000440 and title=EVO-A-00000433(EVO-A-00000433), whereas naming rule is EVO-A- 2. Why does the drawing number generated from an assembly (physical product) did not receive same name as the assembly it was created from? 3. I mapped the custom configured attributes as you have described in this video but they can only be edited in 3Dexperience and not in Solidworks, I wonder why? 4. Can you post some content on possible mistakes in content naming rules and attribute management? Best practices?
Hello, Kaviresh! Thank you for your questions. 1. The name field is an auto generated identifier on the platform that automatically defines the uniqueness from other objects. As you've discovered, you can customize the naming scheme. The title is just an identifier defined by the user that is not unique on the database. When you save a pre-existing SOLIDWORKS file to the platform, the title will be the name of the SOLIDWORKS file whereas the name will fall in line with the naming scheme defined. If desired, you can configure auto-naming under the xCAD PLM Collaboration under the Collaborative Spaces Configuration Center on your platform to have the title automatically set as the auto-generated name field. 2. As mentioned in the first response, the name field is just a field to define uniqueness on the platform. If desired, you can set the title of the drawing to be the same as the name of its referenced component. If you have auto-naming configured, you will just have to modify the title after it has been initially saved to the platform as it will place the drawing name as its title upon first save. 3. When setting up the mappings, there is the option to choose whether you want the link to be unidirectional or bidirectional. Ensure that you have the linking set up either bidirectionally or from CAD to 3DEXPERIENCE. 4. Thank you for your ideas on content. These will be added to our list of content ideas moving forward! I hope this was helpful! If you would like help beyond this, please contact us at www.swyftsol.com/contact
Hi guys, Thank you for our videos. they helped me a lot while setting up 3DExpeirnce for the company I work at. Currently am working on the Checking / Approval procedure and I want to get a Checked By, Approved By, and dates attributes from Routes onto a drawing. Is there a way to map attributes like that? Thank you very much!
Hello Adam, I'm happy to hear the videos are of help! Currently this is not available other than creating custom attributes and manually filling those fields. This has been brought up and is under evaluation to potentially provide in future updates.
@@SWYFTSolutions Hopefully this is going to be implemented soon as it is a standard function in eDPM software and am sure that most companies work with checking and approval procedures. Thank you for your reply.
Do you know why Title mapping is only unidirectional and can't be changed? We want to use Title instead of Description as it seems a more prominent field in Enovia. However, with the unidirectional mapping, if we update Title in Enovia, it won't get pushed to Solidworks. Makes no sense to me.
Hello Tom, Title was bidirectional at one point in the past. This has been updated to improve stability from the system's perspective. Please attempt the following workflow to see if this produces the results desired. 1. In web browser, right-click on a Physical Product and select Edit Properties 2. Edit title and save changes 3. Open in SOLIDWORKS You should see the updated title. If you are not seeing it, and the part was already locally cached, try right clicking on the part in the 3DEXPERIENCE MySession Add-in and select Reload from Server.
CATIA V6 is natively integrated with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, so I believe you should only need to carry out the first step of creating the attributes themselves in the Attributes Management section and the mapping step is not needed. Once the attributes are created, they should show up in the properties panel of your model.
Hello, Asil! At this point in time, it is not possible to auto write a Change Action's properties to a SOLIDWORKS drawing. You can create custom attributes for Change Actions on the platform, however, when mapping attributes to SOLIDWORKS, only those from Physical Products are available.
For any future viewers - xCAD PLM Collaboration is now named CAD Collaboration. Icon is the same.
Hi Matthew,
First of all, thank you for an amazing content and informational video. I am working at a startup and this attribute mapping in 3dexperience information is very useful.
I have some questions though:
1. The name of the part generated using naming rules also shows up as some similar but other serial "counter" in the title field of the physical product. I was expecting the name and the title to be same but that was not the case. example. Name=EVO-A-00000440 and title=EVO-A-00000433(EVO-A-00000433), whereas naming rule is EVO-A-
2. Why does the drawing number generated from an assembly (physical product) did not receive same name as the assembly it was created from?
3. I mapped the custom configured attributes as you have described in this video but they can only be edited in 3Dexperience and not in Solidworks, I wonder why?
4. Can you post some content on possible mistakes in content naming rules and attribute management? Best practices?
Hello, Kaviresh! Thank you for your questions.
1. The name field is an auto generated identifier on the platform that automatically defines the uniqueness from other objects. As you've discovered, you can customize the naming scheme. The title is just an identifier defined by the user that is not unique on the database. When you save a pre-existing SOLIDWORKS file to the platform, the title will be the name of the SOLIDWORKS file whereas the name will fall in line with the naming scheme defined. If desired, you can configure auto-naming under the xCAD PLM Collaboration under the Collaborative Spaces Configuration Center on your platform to have the title automatically set as the auto-generated name field.
2. As mentioned in the first response, the name field is just a field to define uniqueness on the platform. If desired, you can set the title of the drawing to be the same as the name of its referenced component. If you have auto-naming configured, you will just have to modify the title after it has been initially saved to the platform as it will place the drawing name as its title upon first save.
3. When setting up the mappings, there is the option to choose whether you want the link to be unidirectional or bidirectional. Ensure that you have the linking set up either bidirectionally or from CAD to 3DEXPERIENCE.
4. Thank you for your ideas on content. These will be added to our list of content ideas moving forward!
I hope this was helpful! If you would like help beyond this, please contact us at www.swyftsol.com/contact
Hi guys,
Thank you for our videos. they helped me a lot while setting up 3DExpeirnce for the company I work at.
Currently am working on the Checking / Approval procedure and I want to get a Checked By, Approved By, and dates attributes from Routes onto a drawing. Is there a way to map attributes like that?
Thank you very much!
Hello Adam,
I'm happy to hear the videos are of help! Currently this is not available other than creating custom attributes and manually filling those fields. This has been brought up and is under evaluation to potentially provide in future updates.
@@SWYFTSolutions Hopefully this is going to be implemented soon as it is a standard function in eDPM software and am sure that most companies work with checking and approval procedures.
Thank you for your reply.
Do you know why Title mapping is only unidirectional and can't be changed? We want to use Title instead of Description as it seems a more prominent field in Enovia. However, with the unidirectional mapping, if we update Title in Enovia, it won't get pushed to Solidworks. Makes no sense to me.
Hello Tom,
Title was bidirectional at one point in the past. This has been updated to improve stability from the system's perspective.
Please attempt the following workflow to see if this produces the results desired.
1. In web browser, right-click on a Physical Product and select Edit Properties
2. Edit title and save changes
3. Open in SOLIDWORKS
You should see the updated title. If you are not seeing it, and the part was already locally cached, try right clicking on the part in the 3DEXPERIENCE MySession Add-in and select Reload from Server.
Hello, is it possible to do this same process with Catia V6? There is only Catia V5 in the list.
CATIA V6 is natively integrated with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, so I believe you should only need to carry out the first step of creating the attributes themselves in the Attributes Management section and the mapping step is not needed. Once the attributes are created, they should show up in the properties panel of your model.
Hi! Is not it possible to transfer Change Action related attributes to SolidWorks and to show them in the drawing somehow?
Hello, Asil! At this point in time, it is not possible to auto write a Change Action's properties to a SOLIDWORKS drawing. You can create custom attributes for Change Actions on the platform, however, when mapping attributes to SOLIDWORKS, only those from Physical Products are available.