I just ran into another significant bug today in PDMW. There are 3 separate issues related to working copy.
1) Using "working copy" renders "as built" useless (this is a major issue for those of you taking notes). For this exercise PDMW option to retrieve Latest Versions is checked. Steps to reproduce are as follows.- check in a sub-assy at Rev A with all components at Rev A
- check in the same sub-assy and one component at Rev A+
- check in the same sub-assy and one component at Rev B
- check out sub-assy "As Built" Rev A Notice that the one component (part) at Rev B did not change as it should have.
2) When "rolling back" a component (Rev B) to the previous revision (Rev A) AND where a working copy was used (A+), then upon checking component back in at a working copy user gets an error, cannot check in. Steps to reproduce are as follows.- check in part at Rev A
- check in part at Rev A+
- check in part at Rev B
- delete/roll back to Rev A (roll back to working copy not an option)
- check in part at Rev A+ ("Vault Error: 50") This final step is required by us as the document must be signed off before checking in at Rev B
3) Revision Scheme not followed when checking in. For this exercise Revision Scheme set as follows. Primary - Listing, X1, X2, X3, X4, etc.... Secondary - Listing, A, B, C, D, etc... (the usual letters omitted) Tertiary - Not used. Sequential Revisioning checked. Steps to reproduce are as follows.- check in part at Rev A
- save part, check in again. by default Rev B is now set for part to be checked in. so far so good. do not check in yet & leave check in dialog box open.
- in check in dialog box, select the Revision column. use the drop down selector at top of dialog box and select working copy. what did you get? you should have got Rev A+ but instead you get Rev A. leave check in dialog box open.
Let's continue
- in check in dialog box, select Revision column again. use the drop down selector at top of dialog box and select next secondary revision. what did you get? you should have got Rev B but instead you get Rev A+. leave check in dialog box open.
- in check in dialog box, select Revision column again. use the drop down selector at top of dialog box and select next primary revision. what did you get? you should have got an error but instead you get Rev B.
The following was posted on the Solidworks forum. I've provided a link to the document and response from my VAR.
From PDMWorks Workgroup 6/13/2006