Re: Tracking numbers in a graphic

[edunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

It would seem to me that if the CAD drawings are produced by another department,
and the parts list is autogenerated, that you shouldn't do anything. This is
even more so considering the volume of figures and lists.
What needs investigated is not how FM can check numbers, but how the drawings
and lists are produced in the first place. The engineering/CAD process must be
set up to provide you with drawings and parts lists at the same revision level
and verified by engineering. Any post processing the publications department
does may be well meaning, but is covering for someone else's mistake. If
liability arises from inaccurate data, this opens the publications to scrutiny
instead of engineering or the process used to gather engineering information.
This may make no difference as to who pays, but it does make it difficult to
ensure the correct part of the process is corrected so the situation does not
reproduce.
Anyway, any solution that checks after the fact can only check if the numbers in
the parts list are present in the illustration (not something frame could do,
but scripts could accomplish). Suck a script could never tell if number 46 in
the list and number 46 in the illustration are both screws.

Eric L. Dunn



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