ok, so currently my employer does not have a PDM system but we are getting one installed within the next month or so. With that, we decided we need to come up with a new part numbering system.
My first question is this. If a single part is manufactured in mulptuple colors, do you simply keep everything in a default configuration and note the color options in the file properties, or do you create a new conifuration for each of the colors with configuration specific properties?
My initial thought was multiple configurations. So the default would be natural/colorless and each color would be a new configuration. That way, if we have an assembly that has multiple configurations of color combinations we could more easily call out the differences. The area i was getting hung up on is when i get to a drawing. I wanted a single drawing page per part, but i wanted a table that listed all the configurations that the part has (along with some configuration specific details such as pantone color, generic color name, etc).
Any thoughts?
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