PDMWorks Workgroup folder structur
PDMWorks Workgroup folder structur
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Hi
In our company we are about to start using PDMWorks Workgroup, we have to decide how the folder structure should be, how many folders, project folders, standard part folder ect..
The advice from the Solid Works supplier is to have as few folders as possible, 5 to 10, however from reading on Eng-Tips I don’t think it is as good an idea as the supplier says.
What is your experience with this, how have you organized your folders. ?
Regards
Beltoft
In our company we are about to start using PDMWorks Workgroup, we have to decide how the folder structure should be, how many folders, project folders, standard part folder ect..
The advice from the Solid Works supplier is to have as few folders as possible, 5 to 10, however from reading on Eng-Tips I don’t think it is as good an idea as the supplier says.
What is your experience with this, how have you organized your folders. ?
Regards
Beltoft






RE: PDMWorks Workgroup folder structur
Joe Hasik, CSWP
SW 08 x64, SP 3.0
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
RE: PDMWorks Workgroup folder structur
As a side note keep the Project name and Project descriptions consistent. In our Vault we have several projects as “Project name” using numbers, then we also have “Project name” using text descriptions. All of our projects have numbers and then a text description.
Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2008 x64, SP3.0
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
Dell XPS Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 3400
Use SolidWorks BOM
e-mail is Lotus Notes
RE: PDMWorks Workgroup folder structur
Inside those folders are project folders. We only use 1 folder per project and throw all parts, assemblies, drawings of that project into that folder.
It is very simple (at least for us) to use.
Flores
RE: PDMWorks Workgroup folder structur
There is a sub folder for each product that we produce that contains all the files for that product and that is over 150 at this time. We have not experianced any proglem with speed.
RE: PDMWorks Workgroup folder structur
Joe Hasik, CSWP
SW 08 x64, SP 3.0
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
RE: PDMWorks Workgroup folder structur
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: PDMWorks Workgroup folder structur
Lets make a decision,
more projects with fewer files or fewer projects with more files????
RE: PDMWorks Workgroup folder structur
I am now sure that we will have a folder structur in PDMWorks Workgroup that is similar to our network structur conserning standard parts.
Our project folder structur we will have to change a little we have to many sub folders.
Thank you all for the input.
Regards
Beltoft
RE: PDMWorks Workgroup folder structur
I'm going to hold to fewer projects, though I know there is a ceiling to how many parts PDMWorkgroups can handle before it becomes to unwieldy to work with practically.
Joe Hasik, CSWP
SW 08 x64, SP 3.0
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600