Solidwors Explorer & PDMWorks access control
Solidwors Explorer & PDMWorks access control
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I am trying to set up PDMWorks for my company and would like to have employees outside engineering to be able to view the documents in the vault (using eDrawings in Soldworks Explorer), but not be able to check out or save a local copy. is this something PDMWorks or PDM Enterprise can handle, or am i just barking up the wrong tree






RE: Solidwors Explorer & PDMWorks access control
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RE: Solidwors Explorer & PDMWorks access control
So you're telling me that people outside SW user world can view doc's in PDMWorks?
Colin
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 2.2
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000
RE: Solidwors Explorer & PDMWorks access control
RE: Solidwors Explorer & PDMWorks access control
RE: Solidwors Explorer & PDMWorks access control
RE: Solidwors Explorer & PDMWorks access control
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 2.2
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000
RE: Solidwors Explorer & PDMWorks access control
The viewer and e-drawings is free. To see inside the vault is what cost.
Bradley
SolidWorks Premim 2007 x64 SP3.1
PDM Works, Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 4 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB, nVidia 3400
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Chris
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 2.2
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nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000
RE: Solidwors Explorer & PDMWorks access control
The advantage of each having a standalone PDM seat far out weighed the issue of persons messing with the drawings. Most of the time, (no all of the time), the ones with standalone PDM do not know how to mess with the drawings. Then they can also maintain our ECN excel spreadsheet.
Departments outside our department like the mechanics are buying their own seats. Training was not hard at all.
Bradley
SolidWorks Premim 2007 x64 SP3.1
PDM Works, Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 4 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB, nVidia 3400
RE: Solidwors Explorer & PDMWorks access control
Look a this program called "Syncback" which is free for the basic version. The regular version is inexpensive and offers more capabilities. http:
With Syncback, you can set it up on the server running PDMworks to scan and copy files to a folder of your choice. You can filter it so it only copies PDF files....or whatever format/filename combination you want. It will even setup a Windows Task scheduler task to run automatically, say at night...or every hour...whatever you want.
I use it (free version) at home to backup files on my hardrives....basically it just copies selected folders between the two drivers. Lot of cool options.
Jason
UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
UG NX4.01.0 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2007 SP3.1 on WinXP SP2
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