EPDM vs Autodesk Vault Manufacturing
EPDM vs Autodesk Vault Manufacturing
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Anyone got any comments on the user-friendliness of PDM Enterprise vs Autodesk Vault Professional in a mixed Solidworks/AutoCad drawing office? Anyone tried to use either on a Novell Netware network?






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RE: EPDM vs Autodesk Vault Manufacturing
ctopher - did Vault talk nicely to Solidworks in actual practice?
fcsuper & AnnaWood - Yes I was aware of the Conisio origins of EPDM, in fact we evaluated Conisio way back when Autodesk were selling it as their PDM package. (Shows how long we have dithered over a PDM decision). I've always been a bit wary of Swedish software after a bad experience with something called Mechslide (an add-on for AutoCad).
Autodesk seem to be promoting Vault Manufacturing very well - their YouTube presentations seem streets ahead of EPDM. You struggle to find interesting and relevant equivalent presentations of EPDM. I get the impression Autodesk ditched Conisio in favour of building something better, and have done a good job of it.
However, my feeling is that we should probably go with EPDM because the integration with Solidworks will be better and more complete.
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Thanks, I had forgot about that.
tigermoth,
<did Vault talk nicely to Solidworks in actual practice?>
We didn't try much with it, but I was able to checkin a couple SW parts. PDMW was more intuitive IMO. But, I had been working with PDMW for several years before the test.
Autodesk also gave us a runaround with version capabilities and prices, so we didn't pursue much further.
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