connection parts of different assemblies

[Luca Reali]

Hello everyone,

I use solidworks 2019 and I'm creating different machine assemblies that use some common components that I would like to be able to independently manage their dependencies.

I better explain: the assemblies are created by drawing from the "machine name" folder and its subfolders in which they are present sub-assiems previously assembled. Some machines (e.g. machine1 and machine2) have common parts that, for convenience, I decided to use in their axiemi drawing from the corresponding folders, then copying the file from the folder "machine1" to the folder "machine2" and using them separately. currently, making a change to a part that is located in both folders, changing one also the other.

Now my question: is it possible to check the fact that changing one also changes the other or that they are totally independent?

thanks to all in advance.

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

currently, making a change to a part that is located in both folders, changing one also the other.

How do you do that? if they are 2 different files. even if they have the same name, changing one cannot change the other automatically.
as the already open file is loaded (due to memory cahe sometimes the last opened) is easier than you are always loading the file of one folder; i.e. if you have opened machine 1 charging the subaxis/machine 1 pin when opening machine 2 will be loaded the subaxis/machine 1 pin and not the subaxis/machine2 pin.
always check the file references (menù file>trova references)

if you use files on multiple machines you have to save them in a shared single card otherwise the risk of getting lost in references, uploading wrong files is quite concrete

 

[Luca Reali]

as the already open file is loaded (due to memory cahe sometimes the last opened) is easier than you are always loading the file of one folder; i.e. if you have opened machine 1 charging the subaxis/machine 1 pin when opening machine 2 will be loaded the subaxis/machine 1 pin and not the subaxis/machine2 pin.
always check the file references (menù file>trova references)

Thanks for the answer, I didn't think about the cache. At the same time it sometimes happens that some files are loaded with the modification of another machine, so I will close the program for security.

if you use files on multiple machines you have to save them in a shared single card otherwise the risk of getting lost in references, uploading wrong files is quite concrete

I cannot do this for other reasons.

do you know a way to create references between the same file in different folders whose machines surely share the same changes?

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

do you know a way to create references between the same file in different folders whose machines surely share the same changes?

from what I understand you would like you to open machine 1 and modified subaxle/machine1 pin located in the machine folder1 you automatically and independently change the subaxeme/machine2 pin file located in the machine folder2.
it is not possible without making complicated processes* and I think it is not the correct way to use the program.

*a method would be to insert within the pin part a part that resides in a shared folder; you would have two pin files in each machine folder and a perno_master file in a shared file folder. going to edit the perno_master file you would update both the pin files of the machine folders.
It is clear that this is a complicated way of managing the need to have multiple identical files in various folders, but in fact you have to have a single shared file.
others may be possible with a pdm (which is not free), but I do not know them and I do not know if it can do such a thing

 

[drake]

I want to give you advice... review your way of working, because the approach is conceptually wrong. It is right of course to upload library elements, but precisely they must be such and therefore elements that should not be modified. These elements must be placed in a precise folder, from which to draw in the various works. you have to simplify the workflow so you have the perfect control of what you do.

 

[Steppermotor]

But does a pdm not help to do this? from us all that is commercial we cannot touch it and is in common to all.
if we want to reuse some parts we make assemblings of convenient to the departure.
otherwise you remain the save by name and every part-assieme lives by own life.