PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
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I am working with a test install of SW2005 and PDMW2005, and I have come across an interesting situation. After upgrading the license server to 2005, I tried running both products. SW2005 loads fine, and so does PDMW2005 stand-alone. However, when I try to activate the SW Add-In for PDMW2005, it refuses to load, saying the license server does not support such a feature. That cannot be true, since PDMW2005 stand-alone loads fine. I have checked the license server and verified that it wasn't an issue of license availability. I tried the same thing using SW2004 and PDMW2004, and the SW Add-In loads without any problem.
Has anyone else come across this? What are some possible reasons for this kind of problem to occur?
Thanks for the help!
Has anyone else come across this? What are some possible reasons for this kind of problem to occur?
Thanks for the help!






RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
You can't have services of PDMworks running on the same system. If you have made a new SW2005 vault then you really need that vault on a separate HDD.
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Scott Baugh, CSWP

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RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
What we had to do in a case like this, was to create a vault on a standalone PC. We unplugged the network from the standalone PC and name the computer the same name as our server.
Bradley
RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
My SW04 vault is on my local PC where SW04 and SW05 is installed at. The SW05 Vault is located over my network on another machine with a completely different name. That will work, but the computers must not have the same name.
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Scott Baugh, CSWP

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RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
When I tried to install PDM Works 2004 onto my local machine, PDM Works would not load until I renamed my local computer to the server name. The same was true when I installed PDM Works at home. I was thinking that SolidWorks puts everyone’s server name on the CD’s.
Maybe someone who just purchased PDM Works 2005 could tell me. Did you have to give SolidWorks the name of your server to get PDM Works to run?
Bradley
RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
But if you have sw04 and 05 on your machine then you are going to see problems with *.dll files already being loaded. This is aknown conflict in SW. If you start Photoworks in SW05. Then start SW04 you get a message informing you that the *.dll file is already loaded. Maybe this is some what related to the PDMworks issue.
Have you stop and restarted the service?
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

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RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
PDMW2005 Server is the only PDMW service I am running on my machine. The PDMW2004 Server and file vault are on different machines, neither of which is the machine I am using. I am using my current machine for the PDMW2005 login server and file vault.
The .DLL file conflict would make sense. As a check, I uninstalled SW2004 and PDMW2004, leaving only SW2005 and PDMW2005 on my machine. The result was exactly the same -- PDMW2005 stand-alone runs fine, PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to start. The exact error message I am getting is:
Could not obtain a license for PDMWorks.
License server does not support this feature.
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RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
Bradley
RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
The FlexLM server that you are running needs to be upgraded to the 2005 version. You will be able to run PDMW2005 stand alone and SW2005 stand alone, but not integrated. You will get the message that the licence server does not support that option.
Update your FlexLM licence manager and you should be OK to run.
tait
RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
After testing SW2005 yesterday and today, I started suspecting that FlexLM was the culprit. The funny thing is, I installed the SW2005 license server from the web download, but it doesn't appear to work the way it should. I'll try installing the license server from the SW2005 CD. If that works better, I'll make a note of it here.
Thanks for all the help!
RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
I uninstalled and reinstalled the SW2005 license manager from the SW2005 CD, but that did not help. I am still unable to load the integrated PDMW2005. If you could give me some specific details about what you did, that would help me tremendously.
Thanks!
RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
We did not do anything too fancy, we simply updated the FlexLM server and the issue was solved.
wtait
RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
In the 2004 license manager the PDMWorks Add-IN and PDMWorks standalone are considered seperate features. However, when you install and run the PDMWorks standalone client, a license is taken out for the PDMworks add-in. Therefore you don't need any licenses for the PDMWorks standalone.
I've been told that this is not expected behaviour, so it almost sounds like the license manager in 2005 is behaving "as it should" by preventing you from taking out a license of the PDMworks add-in if you are running the PDMWorks standalone.
RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load
RE: PDMW2005 Add-In refuses to load