We are thinking of upgrading to Office Professional(with the demise of Office)and I'm wondering peoples thoughts on PDMWorks. We started with (1) user and now have (3). We will be adding a couple more in the next year. I think PDMWorks would help us with file management, especailly with more users coming in. I'm just looking for peoples experiences with the software. Good and Bad.
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There was an issue of the PDMWorks add-in for SW2005 not being able to find a license, but that was fixed a while ago. I am not aware of any recent occurrences of that issue.
Also, this thread might be worth checking out if you are not planning to upgrade SW and PDMW at the same time:
thread559-112334
Also, this thread might be worth checking out if you are not planning to upgrade SW and PDMW at the same time:
thread559-112334
Wow...my first post in this forum. (And I was alarmed to see that someone had already used my usual forum name!) Be that as it may....
I come from and aerospace back ground. Big time CATIA v4 user. I recently left aerospace to go to a small company...that basically just welds great big steel plates together and bolts them to truck frames.
The company has been using Mechanical Desktop 5...since about 1942 I think. I have finally convinced my superior that upgrading to Solidworks would be a good idea.
We would be getting office pro. And therefore PDMworks. Being from aerospace, I am used to cumbersome drawing release processes. But now, as we are only tow engineers in the place. We essentially hold the drawing up and ask, "Does this look ok?"....and down it goes to the shop.
I'm quite torn whether I want to opne the pandora's box that is PDM....
any thoughts?
I come from and aerospace back ground. Big time CATIA v4 user. I recently left aerospace to go to a small company...that basically just welds great big steel plates together and bolts them to truck frames.
The company has been using Mechanical Desktop 5...since about 1942 I think. I have finally convinced my superior that upgrading to Solidworks would be a good idea.
We would be getting office pro. And therefore PDMworks. Being from aerospace, I am used to cumbersome drawing release processes. But now, as we are only tow engineers in the place. We essentially hold the drawing up and ask, "Does this look ok?"....and down it goes to the shop.
I'm quite torn whether I want to opne the pandora's box that is PDM....
any thoughts?
IMO, all companies should have some type of PDM software. Do a search in this forum for PDM, there are a lot of threads on this subject.
has more info.
Also check out users personal web sites in this form. A loy of good stuff for SW.
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP0.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site
has more info.
Also check out users personal web sites in this form. A loy of good stuff for SW.
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP0.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site
engAlright
Mechanical
Even with only 2 users PDMWorks can have benefits. Maybe you won't need it as much for drawing or model control, but revision tracking, history and search functionality are all very useful. For the cost, it's worth the investment.
SolidsMaster
Mechanical
MMike, don't worry about it. It's much easier than you think! And you will only say, that was a smart decision afterwards. Really!!
John
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