- [Narrator] So we've gone through all this trouble
of putting together an assembly.
We want to make sure we save the assembly correctly.
Now you'll notice that at the top,
I have what's called Product 1.
I still have a file that hasn't been saved.
So what I want to do is, I want to label this product,
give it an appropriate name.
The way to do that is, right mouse click
over the product and go into Properties.
Once I enter into Properties,
I can enter in the part number, the part name that I want.
You'll notice that there's all sorts of nomenclature
that I can place in here, revision, definition nomenclature,
description, sources and so on.
Now, depending upon which PDM system you're working out of,
and your design requirements,
you may have different text fields
that you have to fill in the appropriate information.
But again, it's easy, you just right mouse click,
go into Properties, and under the product head
you have all that information.
So for this, I'm just going to type in Cup Holder,
and select okay.
Now that I've given it a name, Cup Holder,
you'll see that it appears up at the top,
I need to go through and save this.
Now when I go into File, you're going to see Save,
Save As, Save All and Save Management.
Right now if I just hit Save, it's going to bring up
the Save As New dialog box because this is a brand new file,
this is a brand new product.
It hasn't been saved yet.
Once it's saved and I hit the save button,
it will just go through and save it automatically
to where it needs to be saved.
The Save As allows you to change the name,
put it into a different directory.
Save All is probably the most dangerous of them all here.
The reason behind that is because working
in a large assembly, you may have made changes
to some of the components
that you may not have wanted to save
and by just doing a blanket Save All,
you can potentially cause problems.
What I really like to use, and what I want to talk about,
is the Save Management.
Of all of the saving tools, this is the safest one to use.
If you're doing a singular component,
then doing a file save is just fine.
But when you're talking about an assembly,
you're talking about maybe multiple objects or items
in that assembly that have been changed,
you want to go into Save Management
to really see what's going on within that context
of the assembly.
So I'm going to hit Save Management,
and this little menu pops up.
What this does is, it takes me to the state of the parts,
the name of the part and the location,
as well as the action and access.
You get a nice list here.
So by paying attention to what's really going on,
you can see that the state of this is new,
this one's open, open, open and open
so the only thing that really needs to be saved here
at this point, is the product.
Now before I hit save, I want to make a change
to one of the parts so you can see what happens
to the state here.
I'm just going to cancel out and I'm going to come in,
just double-click on the bezel,
and I'll just go Center Graph
and I'll just select a part body and something simple,
a little change.
We'll just make it lovely blue.
I'm going to double-click back on the Cup Holder
up at the top, and I'm going to go File,
Save Management once again.
And you'll notice that bezel has been modified,
telling you what's changed.
This is why the Save All is kind of dangerous.
You may have changed something and not be aware of it.
With the Save Management, it lists the status
of every single component you have open,
not just within the context of the assembly.
You may have two or three or four different assemblies open,
parts from different assemblies open,
and in this window it will list everything you have open
and give you options on how to save it.
So this Cup Holder, I'm going to hit New,
I'm going to say Save As, where do I want to save it?
This is my working model, so I'm just going to create
a new folder, call it My Clean Assembly,
and I'm going to save that product in there.
Now you'll notice up at the top,
let me go ahead and open this window up a little bit more.
My action for this is this to save,
and the action for the bezel is to do a save automatically.
The reason why this happens
is because I'm saving the product.
If I save the product, the components nested within
will automatically be saved.
Now this is where you just want to be careful.
Do you want to save this back to your original folder?
And if you don't, you can always do a Save As,
select a folder you want it to go into,
when you hit Save you can see now it's going to be saved
in the new location.
So that is a great tool to manage
where all of your products, parts, data
is going to be saved.
Now if for some reason, you need to send out,
let's say this entire assembly to somebody,
you need to package it up and send it
and you currently have parts pointing
into a million different places.
A really great tool is the ability to go in here
and say, on the product, you've done your Save As,
we know it's going to save as Propagate Directory.
If I do this Propagate Directory,
what ends up happening is,
it's saying, "I want to take all of the components
"within assembly and save them all into one location."
so you can see here all of these will be saved
into this new file location.
So, if you're packaging something
and you need to send it out to a client or a vendor,
or somebody needs to send something to you,
they can just simply do the Save
at the top level Product, Propagate Directory,
and once I select okay, all of those files
get saved into the appropriate folder.
So now, when I go to my File Open,
this is the original directory for that product.
You can see I have my clean assembly in here.
If I double-click on it, all of those components
have been saved back in.
I may have components being pulled from several directories.
So using that Save Management, you can make sure
that you're linking to the correct components,
you can make sure that you're saving
into the correct locations,
you can make sure that things are named correctly,
as well as being able to package something up,
finalize something and then send it all at once.
Great tool.