representing part

Hi Tim

I have had a quick look at representing part template.

Could you make the EXPRESS-G diagrams look like all the other diagrams (i.e. ones drawn by GraphicalExpress, so is it possible to change the font and the colour of the entities?).

Picky / subjective I know but perhaps we could adopt a convention for how to draw the product/versio/defitnion entities form top to bottom? Rather like has been done in product as realized? … just a suggestion

I am not sure that I agree with passing in the detail as to whether the part is a part or assembly.

What is that supposed to tell the receiving system?

That the part is an assembly (just about every part is and assembly from someone's point of view)

Or is it telling me that there is assembly information in the file.

The where rule (which is horrible and restrictive) is:

ENTITY Part
SUBTYPE OF (Product);
WHERE
WR1: SIZEOF(['part', 'raw material', 'tool']*types_of_product(SELF))=1;
END_ENTITY;

Why not just have a default product category which is the 'part; to make the model valid.

This should be reflected in the EXPRESS-G

I am not sure that we need to identify the part_view_defnition – surely that is identified by the view definition context?

I am assuming from the instantiation path that the following parameters

part_creator_org_id(Type='STRING')

part_creator_org_id_class_name(Type='CLASS')

part_creator_org_id_ecl_id

are to identify the part – they are not necessarily the organization that created the part – more the organization that owns the identifier that is being provided. So perhaps they should not have creator in the name e.g:

part_org_id

You are also assuming that the same organization owns the id for the part and the version …. is that always going to be the case?

Regards
Rob

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