Compatibility between Solid Works and PDM Works
Compatibility between Solid Works and PDM Works
(OP)
Hi,
Does anyone have experience running PDM Works Enterprise 2008 with SolidWorks 2007? Any incompatibilities between them?
regards
t.
Does anyone have experience running PDM Works Enterprise 2008 with SolidWorks 2007? Any incompatibilities between them?
regards
t.






RE: Compatibility between Solid Works and PDM Works
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 06/08
ctopher's home (updated Jul 13, 2008)
RE: Compatibility between Solid Works and PDM Works
RE: Compatibility between Solid Works and PDM Works
Doesn´t this makes it difficult to use PDM Works for document management (of Solid Works Files) in the long run?
I mean, finishing a project now (2008) you have all SW files in 2008 version. Then, if you do not change the files, but still want to keep them in the vault for some years, how would it be in, say 2015? Then you might have PDM Works 2015, but the old SolidWorks Files of 2008 won´t be supported anymore.
t.
RE: Compatibility between Solid Works and PDM Works
RE: Compatibility between Solid Works and PDM Works
The down sides of this are: once a file is converted you can no longer open it in the old version, and you have to trust SW to do the update correctly. For both of these reasons it is a very good idea to back up your vault prior to updating.
Eric
RE: Compatibility between Solid Works and PDM Works
Just an FYI, PDMWorkgroups ( comes with SW Pro) does not support major versions outside of its own. i.e. PDMWorks 2008 only works with SW 2008. I have tried this before and now it to be
Joe Hasik, CSWP
SW 08 x64, SP 4.0
SW 09 x64, BETA 1
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600