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Brian Schanen joined Autodesk in 2005 as a Product Designer and currently is a Customer Success Engineer for Autodesk’s Data Management products. Brian has taught at Autodesk University numerous times and has authored white papers on Vault and Productstream. He works with customers to implement a complete digital prototyping solution specializing in Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Vault and Productstream. Brian lives near Detroit, Michigan.
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Create your own custom Revision Scheme in Productstream
January 5, 2009, 09:04 PM Brian SchanenThis week we will concentrate on creation of a custom Revision scheme for Productstream Items. Autodesk Productstream ships with several Revision schemes out-of-the-box. These include an Alpha, Numeric, and ASME Y 14.35M which is Alpha minus the letters I, O, Q, S, X and Z. An administrator can also choose to create a custom company-specific rev scheme to match existing revision rules.
In the following example, we’ll create a numeric revision scheme. In this example, there will be no initial dash, and the rev format will begin with zero. An easy way to start is with MS Excel, as you can easily build a large sequence quickly as in the following image.
The next step is to save this out to a txt file to be imported later to Productstream. Opening the txt reveals a list of values that will be the sequence of revisions in Productstream.
Next, open Productstream. From the Tools menu, select Administration>Items tab. In the Lifecycles and Revisions area, click the Sequence button.
In the Revision Sequence dialog, click the ‘New’ button, then the … browse button and choose the txt file. Enter a name for this sequence, choose a delimiter for secondary and tertiary revisions, and click OK.
With these modifications, you can view the new sequence from the drop down. Then, preview the new revision scheme sequence and an example is listed in the bottom half of the dialog box.
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January 8, 2009 05:51 AM Knut Lunde
Hei Brian, I tried this, and it is going fine until I want to choose the new revision sequence. Is it not possible to change revision scheme in an active vault database? Knut Malm Orstad as Norway
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