Whats better, filling in Custom Properties in Model or Drawing?

[SW Monkey]

To prevent double entry, where should custom properties be entered,
model or drawing?

The custom properties that I use are:
Part Number (which is the filename)
Title (description of part)
Date
Engineer
Designer
Revision
Material


ALSO, is there a way to automatically input the date in the format
mm/dd/yy? $PRP:"SW-Created Date" will show a date of "Monday, January
23, 2004 1:11:47 PM"

and

$PRP:"SW-Short Date" will show a date of mm/dd/yy BUT this date
changes each time the drawing is open. WTF???

If anyone can give suggestions, please post them

If you have a template I can look at, that would be great!

Thanks in advance...

 

[Nick E.]

To prevent double entry, where should custom properties be entered,
model or drawing?

The custom properties that I use are:
Part Number (which is the filename)
Title (description of part)
Date
Engineer
Designer
Revision
Material

put 'em in the model.

one nice advantage is that if you lost the drawing and deleted the SLDDRW,
you still have all the material, heattreat, finish, etc information.

$PRP:"SW-Short Date" will show a date of mm/dd/yy BUT this date
changes each time the drawing is open. WTF???

Last i checked, a static "created on" date is not possible in SW. Been a
while (01+) since I asked my VAR tho.

--nick e.

 

[Tony]

One reason for putting the Config/Custom Data in the model, is so a Drawing
and BOM can both pick up the same info.
Keep in mind also, that if you ever want to run a PDM package, most seem to
use Config Properties, not Custom Properties.

Regards
Tony O'Hara

 

[Len K. Mar]

Tony has provided some good advice.
However, configuration properties should be used regardless.

Case in point:

1 File - 2 configurations (blue/red)parts with unique part numbers and
descriptions (these items have to be ordered as separate lines on a
purchase or work order).

Drop these two configurations into an assembly.
Generate a BOM - out of the box SW (Excel BOM) will show qty 2: of the
same filename even though two separate configurations exist.

Add configuration properties called Item_Number & Item_Description.
Modify the excel BOM to hide filename (hide not delete) and add cell
column values Item_Description & Item_Number. Save BOM template
(General procedure - I'm going from memory here).

Repeat procedure to drop two configs into new assembly.

Modified BOM will generate two line items (configurations) - each with
its own number, description, and qty.

The only custom properties that should be used for configurations are
those that do not change - such as material for a family of parts.
Create a duplicate file with new numbers if the material changes.

Len