We are modeling up a number of parts (Solidworks 2020) with the intention that they will be 3D printed. When we do this, it's been our practice to "engrave" the Part Number (PartNo) and Revision into the part with a "cut feature" using "Sketch text" employing part properties.

The problem that we are encountering is that when the parts are checked into PDM and promoted to a new Revision, the text in the cut feature is not updating to the new value. We are having to employ some "workarounds" to make sure the text (mostly the revision) is forced to be updated before we generate .STEP files and etc to send to the printer.

Can anyone give me an opinion about what we are doing wrong? Is there a setting in PDM that needs to be fixed so it with regen the model with the current values of the properties?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.