Problem reading part files

[jhyder79]

I hope this is the right forum to post this in...



I am going out of town next week to receive training on some new
software that is going to replace PDM at the company I work for. The
folks that are going to be teaching the class asked us to bring some
assemblies so that we have some parts to use during the training
exercises. I found a few assemblies that I thought would be good for
this so I pulled them off of our fileserver and burned them onto a CD.
This is where the problem starts.



I can pull the files up in Pro/E straight off the fileserver and they
open fine, but if I try to pull the files off the CD Pro/E refuses to
see any *.prt/*.asm/*.drw files on the CD (even though you can see them
in the Windows file manager). The weird thing is that it will see any
other file type on the CD just fine, but if it's a Pro/E file it won't
see it. I have tried burning the CD 4 different times now...2 times in
Linux, and 2 times in Windows but Pro/E still refuses to see the files.



Can anyone tell me if this is some kind of bug in Pro/E 2001 or am I just doing something wrong?

 

[charleskim]

What are their extensions? are they .prt or .prt.1


For your situation, I recommend following.


Open the assembly in ProE (not from CD but from fileserver).
Then do File > Backup (designate a empty folder).
When backup is done, copy all files from that folder.


This should remove any PDM or Intralink dependencies.


Charles

 

[jhyder79]

I'm an idiot...



I didn't tell the CD burning software to allow "multiple dots" in the
filename so it was changing the file extension from part_name.prt.1 to
part_name_prt.1.