PDMWorks Advanced Server Set-Up
PDMWorks Advanced Server Set-Up
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Has anyone here set up Advanced Server for their company? My VAR added a $1,200 set-up cost to a quote they just submitted to us. Could this set-up easily be done by anyone with half a brain, or is it much more involved than what I think? We have an IT staff here that could make an attempt at set-up, but I wanted to see if anyone had any information and insight on the matter. Thanks in advance.
Pete Yodis
Pete Yodis






RE: PDMWorks Advanced Server Set-Up
A lot of it I think is Networking and I'm not a network man yet. Getting ready to take some classes on that to help me understand.
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RE: PDMWorks Advanced Server Set-Up
If you're upgrading, you can probably manage it yourself. The webportal does require some IIS knowledge, and from what I understand there are some tricks to setting up Toolbox, but other then that it's pretty straight forward.
If you're starting from scratch I would get your VAR involved as it is very important to get things set up properly the first time. Your VAR's experience and (hopefully) expertise will come in handy.
RE: PDMWorks Advanced Server Set-Up
We have been using PDMWorks for roughly 2 years now, so we will be adding the Advanced Server as an upgrade. We don't use toolbox as a parts database, but just as a means to create copies of parts, which we check into the vault. I am primarily interested in any information concerning set-up of the web portal. What IIS knowledge is required and what are the basic steps needed? Thanks for the information so far.
RE: PDMWorks Advanced Server Set-Up
-install IIS on the machine running the PDMWorks vault (IIS and the webportal can be running on another machine if you want)
-modify your PDMWorks vault installation to include the webportal
-go to IIS (Start-Run-type in inetmgr) now under the computer and default website there will be an entry for PDMWeb
-on any IE browser (has to be V6 or better) the path to the default web page will be the IP of the IIS server followed by:
pdmweb/lang/english/default.htm
-each computer accessing the webportal should have a copy of the Solidworks viewer - you can't open documents that you have read-only rights too, you can only view them
You may have to involve your IT folks to handle security issues or Intranet vs. Internet issues (though I would be a little wary of making your webportal available to the world).
Hope this helps.
RE: PDMWorks Advanced Server Set-Up
Thats exactly what I was looking for. I'm not an IT expert either, but my VAR's $1200 price tag for what looks like just a few steps seems to be way overpriced, as I suspected. This portal will be just for in-house (intranet) use and won't be available outside the confines of our local network, so security is somewhat of a moot point. Thanks for your help.
Pete Yodis
RE: PDMWorks Advanced Server Set-Up
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 2005 SP0.1