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awemawson:
Hi Rob, nice to have you onboard sir  :thumbup:

PekkaNF:
Warm wellcome.

How is catia 6? Any fun with connection to PML/PDM and componenet constraints?

Pekka

PPRINT:
Pekka,
V6 has been a real love/hate relationship. After working with this version for the last 4 years I think I am finally at a point that love out weighs the hate. 
Somehow we ended up not buying Engineering Central so the full functionality of PLM and PDM is not there.  The two biggest things we are missing is having our Design Change Request system integrated into ENOVIA, and we are not able to fully release anything.  We can Revise files, but not fully release them.  What this means to a programmer is that the Engineer with Design Authority can open the original file and edit it.  Any file that uses that edited part now needs to be opened and updated.  All of that is great in theory, but there are some problems if the Engineer deletes a feature that is used for an Engineering connection or linked to a tool path.  We develop our own products at this company so you can just imagine how many revisions take place.  I cannot tell you how many hours I have spent rebuilding PPR's because of a very slight modification to a 3DP. Things have  gotten better now that all the users know where the pitfalls lie and how to best utilize the strength of the PLM system.  In the beginning I was spending days to rebuild a PPR to recover from a design change, and now I rarely spend more that 20 minutes on it.

Hopefully we will be able to upgrade to 3DExperience later this year.  Supposedly everything wrong with V6 is fixed in the new release. :lol:

Rob

mexican jon:
 :wave: :wave: Hi Rob

PekkaNF:
Rob, all that sounds very familiar. I don't do cad but all the door and cubicles around me have one (and sometimes two using Catia v5/v6 and trimmings). Due to legacy work and die hard designers. Some last v4 users are phasing out old version. And don't get me started on PDM that does not work reall well as PDM, because corporate people wanted to build there everythig they could not cram into ERP.

I use PDM all day and cassually export one poduct out of project for further processing. Small ones have 15k parts, some more, some parts are nuts and bolts and some are hydraulic units with 5 fair size pumps pumps and I'm supposed to make sense out of it.

Pekka

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