PDM Vault1
PDM Vault1
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Corresponding to my last post: thread559-195171: Hard Drive Question?, I was wondering about PDMWORKS. I would like to know how to use it. Albeit, I am the only draftsman/designer here right now. We are looking into adding a few new faces to my department. We are going to be upgrading to a server in the near future.
As for my questions:![[ponder] ponder](https://www.tipmaster.com/images/ponder.gif)
Would it be advantages to install on my new drive to get the feel for setting it up and using it?
Is it even possible to install on a stand-alone workstation?
Thanks in advance.
As for my questions:
![[ponder] ponder](https://www.tipmaster.com/images/ponder.gif)
Would it be advantages to install on my new drive to get the feel for setting it up and using it?
Is it even possible to install on a stand-alone workstation?
Thanks in advance.
B. Long
Dell Precision 380
P 4 2.80 GHz
2.5 Gig Ram
Solidworks Office 2007 Sp. 2.2
AutoCAD 2005






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Colin
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 4.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
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Macduff![[spin] spin](https://www.tipmaster.com/images/spin.gif)
Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 4.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
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You can install it on any machine but are only going to be able to familiarize yourself with the administration of the vault if you install it on your personal machine. I personally think you would see conflicts if you tried to check out a drawing from a different hard drive on the same machine.
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There are several different ways of using it, and chances are good that after using it a bit you will wish that you had done a couple of things differently. Changing it will be easier to swallow if it is just you and a couple of projects that you were practicing with.
As mentioned above, training will be helpful, and you can typically get help with the initial set-up as part of the training. You will want to think about how you manage projects within your company and whether you want to use PDMWorks for just file management or use the revision and life cycle management functionality as well.
Eric
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You can install the vault on a machine other than yours and still do administration on your machine. You just need to install VaultAdmin in your workstation.
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As far as where to place the vault? Place it on your local machine if you want. Then when you get a server, it can easily be moved to the server. The vault folder contains all the information about setup and functioning, so if you move the vault folder and re-connect at another location then all the settings have just moved with it. It is no problem to put the vault folder on a separate hard drive. I have done it many times. With PDMWorks the license agreement allows you to place 1 vault on each machine. You could have a vault for every machine. You wouldn't want to do this for proction data, but for fooling around with and trying different setups its a great way to proove things out. We have our vault on our engineering server, but I also have a separate vault on my local machine that I use to try out things we may want to change. I can evaluate things on my local test vault before I make the change to the company production data vault. I also use a test vault to evaluate Solidworks Beta software and find out how to use the newest functionality before we install it around th e company. Good luck with you process. Its definitely worth installing and setting up PDMWorks even it remains just one person in the department.
Pete
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Pete
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B. Long
Dell Precision 380
P 4 2.80 GHz
2.5 Gig Ram
Solidworks Office 2007 Sp. 2.2
AutoCAD 2005
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You can also look at FAQ559-1227: PDM Rules to Live by: for ideas to look for when making your own set of rules.
People here do not follow the rules, for example #12 (Do not check-in junk names; get a part number if it needs to be in PDM.). We currently have part1.sldprt, part2.sldprt thru part5.sldprt checked into the Vault. Several plates?.sldprt, brackets?.sldprt, and etc. You get the idea.
Bradley
SolidWorks Premim 2007 x64 SP4.0
PDM Works, Dell XPS Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB, nVidia 3400
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B. Long
Dell Precision 380
P 4 2.80 GHz
2.5 Gig Ram
Solidworks Office 2007 Sp. 2.2
AutoCAD 2005