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After I release a design to manufacturing my design goes to our CNC programmers. Since they use CAMWorks they have read/write permissions to the released design. In doing their work they make several changes to the files that make it very difficult to revise the design. The engineering department does not like the changes they make to the files.

How do others handle this situation?

My thought is that the CNC programmer should only have read permissions to released designs. But since their program is written on top of SolidWorks I'm not sure this will work for them.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

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greg.johnson
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Jeff Mirisola

Send them a Parasolid file and tell them if they need some changes, the changes will be made by engineering. Then send them another Parasolid. :)

This keeps manufacturing out of the design/documentation loop, except for design reviews, when you probably want their input.

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Art Woodbury

We use CAMWorks also. Our CNC programmers do not get the orignal models. They get a copy of the models to do their work in. If they need to make changes they let us know and we update the original accordingly. The CNC dept has their own file directories for saving their models and g-code files.

For us, a snapshot in time of our models is sufficient for the CNC programmers. We deal with the latest and greatest; and very rarely need to worry about previous rev's.

Regards,

Anna Wood

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Anna Wood

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