Revision Levels of Configurations?

[cclark440]

Is there a way to change the revision level of just a single configuration in a part file?

It is nice to be able to auto populate info on detail drawings, but it is a bummer when you are dealing with a family of parts and need to only change one detail of one of the family.
I guess this is something I should put on the wish list.

 

[swertel]

What Configuration Management philosophy do you follow that allows you to only revise a single configuration?

 

[cclark440]

Imagine a family of parts that are threaded on one side have a taper and a hole on the other. All the threads are the same as well as the hole size. the difference is in the length.
Example:
M5 x 10 x 3 Description, M5 Threads 10mm length from threaded shoulder to face pf part, with a 3mm hole.
M5 x 12 x 3 Description, M5 Threads 12mm length from threaded shoulder to face pf part, with a 3mm hole.
M5 x 15 x 3 Description, M5 Threads 15mm length from threaded shoulder to face pf part, with a 3mm hole.

Now lets say that our customer needs to change the length of the M5 x 15 x 3 to 15.2mm. Because of their process they do not want to create a new part number, they just want the dimension changed.
Currently there is now way that I know of to uprev only that one part. IF you change the revision number, it will be reflected over the entire family of parts.

 

[cclark440]

Never Mind, It does seem to work the way that I was hoping.

I was having a problem with the drawing updating after I made the changes.

Oops!