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                       Posted - December 08 2012 :  8:24:38 PM
                        
                        
                      
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                       You can replace the first x number of characters with the renamer.  Is there a way to replace the last x number of characters?
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                       Posted - December 10 2012 :  08:38:00 AM
                        
                        
                      
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                       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.
  Thanks,
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                       Posted - December 10 2012 :  09:09:33 AM
                        
                        
                      
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                       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 :  09:49:09 AM
                        
                        
                      
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                       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.
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