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    Need to bring my engineering out of the dark ages...

    A few quick suggestions; first buy "Engineering Documentation Control Handbook" by Frank Watts. This will either tell you or confirm what you already suspect. Secondly; even if I were a Cad group of (1) I would still use PDMWorks specifically for control of SolidWorks source files. And lastly...
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    PDMWorks Workgroup to Enterprise conversion costs

    Thanks Jon, The approach the VAR you worked for seems reasonable. I am skeptical about so much more these days and was suspicious that the VARs had migration tools to convert the data and that the charges to the customer was all "gravy" for the VAR. The first time I looked into ePDM was a couple...
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    PDMWorks Workgroup to Enterprise conversion costs

    Greetings, Were those of you who have switched from Workgroups to Enterprise charged a data conversion fee by your VAR? If "yes", what was the cost and how did the conversion and subsequent implementation of Enterprise play out? Thanks
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    Replacement parts/kits spanning from multiple levels of the BOM

    I would not include service kits in with the product BOMs as the consultant suggests. If you're using Windchill you could create an attribute with which you could associate the spares kits with the appropriate product BOM. I have always ended up creating new part numbers for spare parts because...
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    Guidance on interchangeability guidelines for A&D

    Kit, The rules you describe regarding inter-changeability, part number v. rev level change, are correct in my opinion as well as Frank Watts "Engineering Documentation Control Handbook". If all existing material in the world is reworked, making it inter-changeable with the upcoming rev, then a...
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    Solidworks window layout problem please help!

    Try running Repair from the installation DVD.
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    Populating a Vault - Generic File Names

    You will be much better off if you check in the parts and rename them in the vault. BTW, we employ a similar technique described by Macduff re naming associated parts in an assembly where XXXXX is the assy number and XXXXX_1 would be the first part associated with the assy, XXXXX_2 the 2nd and...
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    PDMWorks 2009 Error Retrieving from server

    Reload from the vault did not work in SW2009 since SP0 but has been corrected in SP3.
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    SP3.0 Fully Released

    Looks like you're moving from 2008 to 2009? You're refering to updating older version files to newer? There's nothing wrong with updating the files as they're checked out and checked back in. I believe when you check out the older files and then check back in, it will want to bump the rev. The...
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    SP3.0 Fully Released

    We've been testing SP3 for about a week now. - There were drawings we couldn't open on SP1 but now we can. - The Reload from Vault works now. - My test users report fewer crashes than on SP1. - Edrawings is working in the vault.
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    "Repeat Last Command" macro

    Hitting Enter repeats last command as well.
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    help? first time working with two other designers with PDM

    Tom, What are you trying to accomplish? What do you mean by "alternate with read write access"? Without knowing more, you can control file access and permissions within PDMWorks using folder permissions and lifecycle mgt. Take a look at the PDMWorks Help.
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    Check out license issue

    I had a similar problem and had to stop and restart the license manager. Good Luck
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    solidworks drawing creation manual

    Check out Igetit and SolidProfessor. Both are on-line tutorials and inexpensive.
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    PDM for a Small Consulting Organisation

    I recommend you check out Omnify PLM. I've been using it for over 3yrs. now. It's easy to set up and maintain. No need for expensive consultants. Good luck
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    SW 2009 Issues?

    We've had all kinds of problems upgrading from SW2007 to SW2009 SP0. SW2009 SP2 is about to be released. I would wait for that. SW2009 was installed on a machine prior to the upgrade so we could kick the tires. During the testing, there were not any issues. Once we upgraded all users, what a...
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    Installing PDM works

    Regarding PDMWorks.. I have sent a number of users to the PDMWorks training and found it to be less than stellar for a number of reasons. One of you is going to have to act as the PDMWorks admin. I would suggest that whoever this is, contact your SW VAR and find out if there are any other...
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    Circuitworks

    I used it at my last company where we had multiple divisions designing boards. It worked well enough. The tedious part was going back through our PCB library to add a Z dimension. We were using PADS for PCB design. I remember that there was some differences in Circuitworks functionality...
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    SW UPDATES/SERVICE PACKS

    William, At the risk of getting this thread back on track, your var should be able to get DVDs with the latest service pack directly from SolidWorks.
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    Installation or Assembly drawing??

    If you don't have to show details of the parts, I would use a block diagram that represents the interconnects.

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