#Alibre disign rename part manual

And it is not really possible when working from a blank sheet.Ī very rigid and pre-established structure does not exist in the early design stage. *organization* and laying out everything pre-planned is not a design person's strong point. I think many here come from a drafting perspective, and do not understand the untidy way in which design is done. For a drafting person, no problem, the parts are all known about and can be given names, numbers etc.

He makes the parts, and does not know what they will be until they are thought of and made. That file name as part name pre-supposes a great deal more pre-organization than a product designer can have. I still think it could be more easily done part by part in the program.Īnd that it would have been better to have a 'BOM name' separate from the filename.

It had not occurred to me to do it that way, I associated the 'save as' simply for renaming the top level to a new name while keeping the structure, and you are suggesting to rename everything EXCEPT the top level. I think you are slightly wrong, and actually must use 'save all as', since that lists every part. It SOUNDS like you are suggesting to use 'save as', and going down the line re-naming the parts which you want to have new names for. Unless one sees the potential of that function. No mole hill, its at least a substantial tor. Sometimes the part does not link into the model completely in a correct way. I knew that.ĭoing a save under the new name, and then a 'replace part' can work, but is not really reliable, even though the part is the same. Help says this can only be done the very first time it is saved. Or at least a way to rename the part without losing the linkage. It is easiest to do things that way for programming, but one wishes for a different system. It is too bad that there is such a link between the file name and the internal name. I do not see a different way to change the human-readable name/filename.

Is there any way to more easily change the name of a part as it is displayed, so it will be more meaningful? So, aside from either biting the bullet and changing the part file name, accepting the need to rebuild the model, OR using something like 'comment' as an auxiliary name. Better to have it usable as it is output, maybe only moving to 'excel' or whatever. It is undesirable to have much editing of BOM, because that leads to mistakes. I have worked around this by adding a column, and using the 'comment' field to come out in BOM as 'drawing part name', relabling the 'part Name' column as 'CAD system name' so that the purchasing folks do not get confused. Through 'properties' you can change the part number, but the part name is evidently a fixed item forever, because it is also the file name. Quite natural, because it is the filename and internal name also.īut, later when you want to extract a BOM, your 'keel splice' is still 'bottom link'. So, if you change the name, everything in the model instantly breaks, because it seems to mess with the internal references inside the program that are used to identify parts. Later, one often wants to make a name change, because maybe the 'bottom link' is now better called 'keel splice' or whatever. When starting a design, basically modeling up on-the-fly to develop something, it is common to call parts names that make sense then.

#Alibre disign rename part manual

Since my search of the manual has not turned up info.