Jumping the Corporate Ship (looking for advice)
Jumping the Corporate Ship (looking for advice)
(OP)
I have been laying the ground work for a long time and I think I'm ready to make the leap into self employment and working from home. Seeing as I will be starting out on a limited budget, I will not be able to purchase a PDM system for a while and I was wondering what suggestions everyone has as far as running a home business without the PDM system. What's the best way to maintain the file system? For a while I'm going to be running SW2007 & 2008 to build up the client list. Hopefully sooner rather than later I will be about to work with just a single version. So I guess I'm looking for advice and suggestions from those who have already made this jump. I already have a dedicated home office, copier, fax, scanner, Dell Precision 670, and a small client list.






RE: Jumping the Corporate Ship (looking for advice)
1 assemblies
2 drawings
3 parts
4 superseeded
this makes it easier to find files, aswell as organising ur files!
http://swcontractor.co.uk
RE: Jumping the Corporate Ship (looking for advice)
Store old files in zip files to keep them from getting sucked into SW assemblies by accident.
Learn to use SW Explorer and Save-as and Pack-and-Go to rename all the files in an entire assembly (i.e. change a rev or date stamp suffix in a file name).
RE: Jumping the Corporate Ship (looking for advice)
PDM Works--if you're not patching into someone else's network all the time--wouldn't pay for itself. (I don't see how it would be useful.)
Good luck with the new endeavor.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
What did you dream? It's all right--we told you what to dream.
--Pink Floyd, Welcome to the Machine
RE: Jumping the Corporate Ship (looking for advice)
Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group
RE: Jumping the Corporate Ship (looking for advice)
Thanks again
RE: Jumping the Corporate Ship (looking for advice)
RE: Jumping the Corporate Ship (looking for advice)
RE: Jumping the Corporate Ship (looking for advice)
Health insurance insn't as big a deal as I once thought. Even with my rowdy, accident-prone, or once invinsible kids visiting the emergency room often. Try Humana.
There is a lot of work out there if you know where to look. It may not always be what you are used to doing, and it may not always be "engineering" work, but whe you are a tiger hunting in the jungle sometimes you will eat almost anything.
Being on my own is the best job I have ever had. In a society where job security is a thing of the past, private contracting seems to be the most secure thing for me. At least I can see a hiccup or problem coming and I can do something about it. Also, I don't have to worry about finding a new job every few years since I am always looking for jobs. The good thing is, once you create a reputation for yourself, most of the jobs come to you. At least that has been my experience.
Good Luck!