findmymother

[bunterhund]

recently I had a problem to find assemblies which belong to a part I know. This is my solution without Intralink.2007-04-05_092059_findmymother_engl.zip


When you work with the explorer you can rightclick the file and then "open with..." and then this findmymother.exe. Then this tool will find the assembly when it

[dr_gallup]

Well, I scanned it for viruses and didn't find any. Who is going to be brave enough to extract and use it?

Bunterhund - how about a findmydrawing.exe?

[Israr]

I have used it. Its useful. A good effort. I appreciate it.


Israr

[verge]

I braved it. It works nicely. I was literally just thinking about this yesterday. My company uses a folder system to keep track of files, as we only have a few users right now. This is a simple way to be sure you're updating what needs to be updated, etc. I think this will be useful on a daily basis until we move to a data management system.

[bunterhund]

Hi dr_gallup ! findmymother is also a findmydrawing, because you can choose (in the criterion box)what kind of Pro/E file type you want to get. Just choose "drw" than "asm" and typethe name of the file into the textbox. ok??


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[dr_gallup]

I'll give it a try. Israr has been around here long enough to trust.

[dross]

Can you describe in more detail what it does?

[verge]

When you open a part file using this program (you do this through Windows Explorer's Open With... option), a dialog box appears with a list of all of the part's parent assemblies. You can also then click on an option which will show you all of the part's parent drawings.


We are still using a folder system for our Pro-E files, so this givesus a way to make surewe're not messing anything up whenwe rename a part. We can pull everything up before we rename.

[dr_gallup]

After running a search and finding a drawing or assembly, there is a button labeled "see it". What is this supposed to do? It does not appear to do anything on my machine.

Is it really any better than using Windoze Exploder built in SEARCH command? I can at least drag and drop those results into the active Pro/E session.

[verge]

I don't have a button labeled "see it". Interesting...


It's just a way to find parents quickly. All it's doing is looking for the connections between files. If you have a data management system this may be totally useless.


Strange about that button, though.