×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

PDMWorks or Third Party?

PDMWorks or Third Party?

PDMWorks or Third Party?

(OP)
Hi all, (thanks to your responses to my other post!)

Hey, I was curious if anyone would recommend NOT going with PDMWorks vs. a third party solution and why?

I'm of the opinion to just go with PDMWorks and haven't researched the other options because our reseller doesn't offer a third party solution and I'd prefer to have all the support come from one place.  Also, I am assuming that the SolidWorks team can do a decent job of implementing a PDM.

However, before I ASSume too much... I'd like to know what you all think.

Thanks!

RE: PDMWorks or Third Party?


If you do a search here for PDM you will find oodles of previous threads. One of the better ones is;

PDM - Which one?  thread559-106196

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: PDMWorks or Third Party?

If you purchase SolidWorks Pro or Premium, it comes with PDMWorks. I have used PDMW for the past several years and love it. I have heard of companies and seen a little of users having SmarTeam with some problems. It is more complicated than PDMW. I am not too familiar with other PDM software. PDMWorks works well with SolidWorks and other files and almost all bugs have been worked out. I would not use any other. IMO.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: PDMWorks or Third Party?

As long as your primary CAD package is SolidWorks and you don't need something extremely powerful, PDMWorks is probably your best choice.

RE: PDMWorks or Third Party?

Depends on your needs. PDM/Works will probable suit most small to medium engineering departments and companies. It's fairly easy to use and setup.

The downside is it's really a document management program for Solidworks rather than a true PDM. It can't handle data that doesn't have a file attached and it doesn't do multi site very well (no replication) either.

Even if your reseller doesn't offer other 3rd party PDMs, doesn't mean they won't. You could be the first.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources