EasyPDM v0.4.2

Added

• The item's name can be left out of the record name. Until now a record always read
  C0001(plate), and that is the name the CAD macros give the file on disk. A new switch in
  Settings → Numbering drops the name, leaving C0001 — useful where the number alone
  identifies the part and the name is long or still changing. Like the prefix and the
  padding, the choice is frozen on an item when it is created, so existing items keep the
  form their files already carry.

• The SolidWorks and Inventor macros now write the item's name into a custom property,
  EasyPDM_Name, alongside the link properties they already wrote. Drawing templates and
  title blocks can pull it — $PRP:"EasyPDM_Name" in SolidWorks, the iProperty of the same
  name in Inventor. This matters most with the name left out of the file name: the property
  is then the only place in the document where the name appears at all.

• Mass and material now fill themselves in. On upload the macros add two custom
  properties, EasyPDM-Mass and EasyPDM_Material, and read them back into the item's Mass
  and Material fields in EasyPDM. In SolidWorks neither holds a value but a SolidWorks
  expression — "SW-Mass@@Default@<file name>" and "SW-Material@@Default@<file name>",
  quotes included, since without them SolidWorks never evaluates it — which the program
  resolves itself, so both keep up with the model. A value that comes back still looking like
  the expression is logged and dropped rather than sent. Inventor has no equivalent
  expression, so there the two properties hold a snapshot taken at upload time. Drawings are
  skipped, assemblies get no material (they have none of their own), and a value that is
  empty or not a plain number is logged and left alone rather than guessed at.

• A material EasyPDM has never seen is added to the catalog automatically. The macros
  read the material off the document, not from a list, so the catalog may not know it yet —
  without this the item would carry a material that could neither be picked again nor used
  as a filter. Only the name is created; group and subgroup stay empty for someone to fill
  in.

Changed

• Mass is now a field of every Part and Assembly, not just a Purchased Part. It used to
  be a property of one kind only, and on an Assembly it fell through to the raw-properties
  editor — so the mass the macros now fill in landed somewhere nobody looks. It sits above
  the kind-specific fields, since it is the one property they all share, and changing an
  item's kind no longer clears it.
• Zero padding now stands on its own in Settings → Numbering, instead of sitting inside the
  prefix list where it read as if it belonged to one of the kinds.