No CAD & Hopeless

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Normally, I get a part, and I chuck it in the CMM and probe away.
Failing that, I rummage through the server to see if I can find a cad program. Being that there is literally nothing whatsoever called "organization" regarding the various CAD extensions, I had to draft up my own script (either VBS or Powershell; probably one of each) to recursively search every share in our local server for multiple different extensions, and output shortcuts of them to a local folder.

Okay, tedious and annoying, and an entire day or two could have been solved with an email, but I'm not the boss, so...

Now I have these CAD models. I have to go around and talk to the 4 or so individuals that handle when parts get shipped out.
I have no idea, I just have part XXX's CAD file, I don't know if it shipped last week or 4 years ago. So I've gotta go through the rigamarole of asking four different people their input on what is where and when and how much, and try to weed through each of their conflicting responses.
Awesome.
Then I've gotta go into the software they use to determine whatever information they've told me to find out how much of that is accurate, now that they know I'll be accessing it, and determine if any of the CAD models I have require a program.
A list of 20 quickly turns into a list of 3.

God forbid any of the models have problems; one of the 3 that I had was missing two critical features! It would have been relatively easy to email the engineer for the correct CAD, work with the broken one in the mean time and switch them out when applicable.
The other 2? Already have a program made on the machine, without CAD. Useless, in this case.

It's like I have to play inspector, programmer, and manager at the same time.
But they're still breathing down my neck, wondering why parts aren't being checked.
(2 days after IT removed the entire desktop connected to the CMM I was asked by my boss if I could check this part on the CMM. He was absolutely blown away.)
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[rant]
Normally, I get a part, and I chuck it in the CMM and probe away.
Failing that, I rummage through the server to see if I can find a cad program. Being that there is literally nothing whatsoever called "organization" regarding the various CAD extensions, I had to draft up my own script (either VBS or Powershell; probably one of each) to recursively search every share in our local server for multiple different extensions, and output shortcuts of them to a local folder.

Okay, tedious and annoying, and an entire day or two could have been solved with an email, but I'm not the boss, so...

Now I have these CAD models. I have to go around and talk to the 4 or so individuals that handle when parts get shipped out.
I have no idea, I just have part XXX's CAD file, I don't know if it shipped last week or 4 years ago. So I've gotta go through the rigamarole of asking four different people their input on what is where and when and how much, and try to weed through each of their conflicting responses.
Awesome.
Then I've gotta go into the software they use to determine whatever information they've told me to find out how much of that is accurate, now that they know I'll be accessing it, and determine if any of the CAD models I have require a program.
A list of 20 quickly turns into a list of 3.

God forbid any of the models have problems; one of the 3 that I had was missing two critical features! It would have been relatively easy to email the engineer for the correct CAD, work with the broken one in the mean time and switch them out when applicable.
The other 2? Already have a program made on the machine, without CAD. Useless, in this case.

It's like I have to play inspector, programmer, and manager at the same time.
But they're still breathing down my neck, wondering why parts aren't being checked.
(2 days after IT removed the entire desktop connected to the CMM I was asked by my boss if I could check this part on the CMM. He was absolutely blown away.)
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