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sniswonger
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Posted - December 08 2012 :  8:24:38 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You can replace the first x number of characters with the renamer. Is there a way to replace the last x number of characters?

Steven L. Niswonger

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Posted - December 10 2012 :  08:38:00 AM  Show Profile  Visit Admin's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Hi Steven,

Typically the last X number of characters on a drawing all need to be different (i.e. numbered 001, 002 etc...)

Typically if they are all the same, there will file-naming "collisions" when renaming. I suppose this could be alleviated if the beginning of your filenames are all different, but I haven't seen much if this in CAD conventions.

Do you have a specific example you can share?, as there may be a way to achieve what you need with Hurricane as it currently exists, if not, a solution can be added to an update if appropriate.

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sniswonger
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Posted - December 10 2012 :  09:09:33 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
What I typically need to do for a particular customer is just eliminate the last x number of characters from the filename. For example I submit files with dummy names such as "spacer1", "spacer2". They return the files with their part numbers prepended to the name, "123-spacer1", "456-spacer2". For final drawing submission I eliminate "-spacer1" etc. I need to keep the "-spacer1" so I can keep correlation to my assembly drawing until I have updated the assembly with their numbers, then I rename the detail files.

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Posted - December 10 2012 :  09:42:09 AM  Show Profile  Visit Admin's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I think I understand.

If you used the "REPLACER" option to eliminate "spacer" (for instance), then you would be left with 123-1, 456-2... with the 1 and 2 being unacceptable in the filename. Am I understanding?

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sniswonger
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Posted - December 10 2012 :  09:49:09 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
That's correct. Each name may be different depending on the part description so there may be only one of each name among many files.

Steven L. Niswonger
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