One of the key benefits of adopting the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is that individual parts, assemblies, and drawings can be made clearly identifiable by all stakeholders. Implementing the right naming methodology for SOLIDWORKS content is important to ensure that not only your design team can easily identify items, but potentially other people within the organisation, and external collaborators too. 

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides a scalable set of capabilities that define how items are named, and these vary in complexity. Therefore it’s important to fully understand your organizations requirements right from the start. While there are no set rules, single users typically prefer using descriptive titles and file names, small design teams will often use a simple counter-based file naming scheme, and larger organizations typically require a more complex rules based numbering scheme that is used across the entire business. 

This guide explains how the 3DEXPERIENCE platform the applies a unique identifiers to SOLIDWORKS content and describes three different naming methodology examples that can be deployed.

Prerequisite Learning

Before reading this guide it is important that you are familiar with the different item types that are created when saving SOLIDWORKS files to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and how they relate to SOLIDWORKS configurations. For an in depth explanation please refer to the following sections of the Using SOLIDWORKS Configurations with the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform SolidPractices guide.

• Data Model and Identifiers in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform 
• Recommended Strategies for Working With Part and Assembly Configurations