PDM and E-Drawings
PDM and E-Drawings
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Does anybody know how nicely PDMWorks and E-Drawings play together? I've seen the E-Drawings options in the PDM Admin tool, but my distrivutor sold my IT guy on the PDM Web client. Do we really need these clients or can we use E-Drawings for all of this?






RE: PDM and E-Drawings
Chris
SolidWorks 07 2.2/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 03-11-07)
RE: PDM and E-Drawings
RE: PDM and E-Drawings
I strongly suggest not having anyone outside of engineering and your machine shop have access to the vault. All others can access a directory where eDrawings are stored.
Chris
SolidWorks 07 2.2/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 03-11-07)
RE: PDM and E-Drawings
RE: PDM and E-Drawings
RE: PDM and E-Drawings
RE: PDM and E-Drawings
You could do this... In the vault admin tool make sure the setting for "Keep extra copy of latest files" is checked. This will create a folder that you will not see in the vault through the standalone client, but nonetheless is there in the actual folder structure. Allow the vault some time to produce all the copies. In PDMWorks I have all our released drawings in one project - 7000 files. This allows us to access all the latest versions of these files using eDrawings. Browse to where your vault is located and understand the structure. Find the project/folder where all your drawings are. Find the folder titled "Latest" in this area. This folder contains all the latest versions (copies of) that you can open using eDrawings. Make this location a favorite so that you can revisit it easily without having to browse several folders deep. From within eDrawings, click open and then browse to the location. Open the drawing you are after. Voila.
Pete
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Pete
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Eric
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Pete
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You set up user accounts for users that will the web portal just like you would for a user that uses solidworks.
That is the nice thing about the web portal is people can view files without having a standalone clinet which can get costly if you had to buy a client for each person that dosent have solidworks.
RE: PDM and E-Drawings