SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
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Any folks out there running SW 2007 with PDMWorks 2008? The reason I'm asking is we're getting upgraded to SW to SW Pro (finally, hurray!). I was wondering if the 2 versions play well together.
This is what I'm thinking:
Since PDMWorks is new to everybody here (except for me) I was thinking of loading PDM 2008 and get everyone trained and up and running in the software and still use SW 2007 for now. Then switch to SW2008 once the bugs are worked out.
Or do you think it would be better just to stay on SW 2007 and PDMWorks 2007 for now?
My goal is to have this be a seemless installation and not to introduce any bugs or problems.
Thanks
This is what I'm thinking:
Since PDMWorks is new to everybody here (except for me) I was thinking of loading PDM 2008 and get everyone trained and up and running in the software and still use SW 2007 for now. Then switch to SW2008 once the bugs are worked out.
Or do you think it would be better just to stay on SW 2007 and PDMWorks 2007 for now?
My goal is to have this be a seemless installation and not to introduce any bugs or problems.
Thanks
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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






RE: SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
Regards,
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RE: SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
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RE: SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
I know you can't run PDMWorks '07 w/ SWX '08, but I thought you could have it set up vice versa. Is this a new restriction on installs? I seem to remember running a newer version of the vault w/ an older major release of SWX.
RE: SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
A few years ago, my company was running SW04 and PDMW05. That setup was fully supported by SolidWorks. Is that no longer the case with the newer releases?
RE: SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP![[pc2] pc2](https://www.tipmaster.com/images/pc2.gif)
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RE: SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
What's you're thought with SW & PDMWorks 2008?
ctopher,
2008 is that clean huh? No bugs in the software?
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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
RE: SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
Granted, you may have issues with the plugin for PDM2008 working properly in SWX2007, but you could still manage the data via the standalone PDM client, couldn't you? I haven't installed 2008 so I'm assuming a standalone PDM client is still part of the install.
RE: SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
Of course '08 has bugs. So does '07, '06, '05, and pretty much any other software out there. I will say that '08 has been a stable release so far. I've gone through PR1, PR2, EV0.0 with no show stoppers and I'm now moving on to SP0.0.
Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog
Dell M90, Core2 Duo
4GB RAM
Nvidia 3500M
RE: SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
With SW pro, I never mixed versions. I have always done a complete install with the whole package. When I know it is running OK, I wait a couple weeks then uninstall the old revision.
Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 10-07-07)
ctopher's blog
RE: SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
Is any of you folks out there running SW2008 and PDMWorks 2008?
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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
RE: SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
RE: SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
RE: SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
I have a call into our VAR, just waiting to hear back from them.
I thought I was spelling Guinea Pig wrong. But I can see you knew what I meant.
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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
RE: SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
I've seen this happen because I have to hold off installing/upgrading all of my company's seats of SWx until we have the proper server for the PDMWorks 2008 Server (we're currently running MS-Windows Server 2000 ... need to upgrade to MS-Windows Server 2003).
Brian Mazejka, CSWP
Documentation Control Manager
Microline Pentax, Inc.
RE: SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008
We're sticking with SW2007 SP 5.0 for both SW and PDM.
Regards,
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 5.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB