Does anyone have any experience with Cad Link? Specifically with creating BPM’s to control things like part class and part group? We have programmatic rules based on part number during creation, and I’m wondering if a BPM will work to create them instead of customizing CAD link.

We have used CADLink in the past, customized pretty heavily. We never used BPMs in combination with it, but I think what you’re asking about is possible. A BPM on the Part.Update method could set the Part Class / Group based on the part number. The only downside I see is that you wouldn’t get any v…

Alright, that’s good to know. I’m working on testing out one right now. I don’t have a great feeling about what we are going to get with the customization from CADLink. They don’t seem to ask a lot of questions so I’m not sure if they understand exactly what we are looking for, and as always with pr…

BPM’s work just fine. I did a quick test to set the class based on the part number, and you have to save the part, which creates it in E-10, then refresh, and it will show you that CAD and E-10 don’t match, and you can save again, and it will update CAD to match and you are then good to go. I can th…

Nice, glad the BPM will work for you. We discovered that customizing CADLink was not going to be sustainable for us. We ended up creating our own tool. It’s nice to be able to add features on demand. Out of curiosity, what do you use for CAD?

We use Solidworks, with EPDM, although our CadLink is not looking at EPDM. We are just at the beginning stages of implementing the system. What we really needed was a way to go two ways with the information and be sure that what we have in E-10 matches what’s in the model. We engineer to order so al…

Sounds very familiar! We also engineer and build to order. We have tools embedded in SolidWorks for editing part info and generating part numbers on the fly. Our CADLink replacement is also embedded in SolidWorks, but also has a standalone application to import Excel BOMs for anything that isn’t mo…

That’s pretty impressive. I wish we had the resources to do something like that in house. I think CadLink will be huge improvement for us going forward though.

Andrew … Thank you so much. You really have me thinking. Karen

So now I have an interesting problem. For some reason, after I import with CadLink, my BPM for setting the scrap rates will not work. (this is while in E-10 putting operations on the parts). The ttECOMtl row doesn’t return any row for some reason when I make a change in the EcoMtl (I’m changing the …

It looks like it was a fluke. I closed and re-opened epicor, and now it’s working fine.

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kpavlik (Karen Pavlik) August 8, 2017, 1:19pm 7

Hi Andrew … I’m curious about the tool you created. What did you use? I agree, it would be nice to add features on demand.

Thanks in advance,
Karen Pavlik

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