SW 2007 & PDMWorks 2008 1

[macduff]

Any folks out there running SW 2007 with PDMWorks 2008? The reason I'm asking is we're getting upgraded to SW to SW Pro (finally, hurray!). I was wondering if the 2 versions play well together.

This is what I'm thinking:
Since PDMWorks is new to everybody here (except for me) I was thinking of loading PDM 2008 and get everyone trained and up and running in the software and still use SW 2007 for now. Then switch to SW2008 once the bugs are worked out.

Or do you think it would be better just to stay on SW 2007 and PDMWorks 2007 for now?

My goal is to have this be a seemless installation and not to introduce any bugs or problems.

Thanks

Macduff
Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 4.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB

 

[SBaugh]

No you can't have PDM08 and SW07. You have to run the same major version together.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

"If it's not broke, Don't fix it!"

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[ctopher]

Since you are getting SW Pro, I suggest upgrading everything to 2008. You will have the disc to install everything, no use keeping the 07 version. But, I also suggest keeping 07 running on one pc for backup.

Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
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[dgowans]

Scott,

I know you can't run PDMWorks '07 w/ SWX '08, but I thought you could have it set up vice versa. Is this a new restriction on installs? I seem to remember running a newer version of the vault w/ an older major release of SWX.

 

[PDMAdmin]

Scott,

A few years ago, my company was running SW04 and PDMW05. That setup was fully supported by SolidWorks. Is that no longer the case with the newer releases?

 

[SBaugh]

If you get it to work I know its not recommended.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

"If it's not broke, Don't fix it!"

faq731-376

 

[macduff]

PDMAdmin,
What's you're thought with SW & PDMWorks 2008?

ctopher,
2008 is that clean huh? No bugs in the software?

Macduff
Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 4.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB

 

[dgowans]

Any reasoning behind why it wouldn't be recommended? PDMWorks just manages documents - why would it care where they come from?

Granted, you may have issues with the plugin for PDM2008 working properly in SWX2007, but you could still manage the data via the standalone PDM client, couldn't you? I haven't installed 2008 so I'm assuming a standalone PDM client is still part of the install.

 

[JMirisola]

macduff,
Of course '08 has bugs. So does '07, '06, '05, and pretty much any other software out there. I will say that '08 has been a stable release so far. I've gone through PR1, PR2, EV0.0 with no show stoppers and I'm now moving on to SP0.0.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP

http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog

Dell M90, Core2 Duo
4GB RAM
Nvidia 3500M

 

[ctopher]

I don't have 08 running yet, but Jeff's comment is correct about bugs.
With SW pro, I never mixed versions. I have always done a complete install with the whole package. When I know it is running OK, I wait a couple weeks then uninstall the old revision.

Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 10-07-07)
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[macduff]

Ok, it looks like I'll run with SW2008. It looks like I'm be the ginny pig then. I guess I'll save some time redoing installs from SW2007 to SW2008.

Is any of you folks out there running SW2008 and PDMWorks 2008?

Macduff
Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 4.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB

 

[PDMAdmin]

Still on '07 for now... probably upgrading to '08 next year. The plan is to upgrade both SW and PDMW to '08 at the same time. The only reason we ran SW04 with PDMW05 a few years ago was because of a specific PDMW check-in issue we were having. SW recommended that to us as a work-around and fully supported the setup. Otherwise, we always use the same release and service pack of SW and its add-ons whenever possible.

 

[dogarila]

Colin, that's Guinea pig. Can't you ask your VAR about this issue?

 

[macduff]

dogarila,
I have a call into our VAR, just waiting to hear back from them.

I thought I was spelling Guinea Pig wrong. But I can see you knew what I meant.

Macduff
Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 4.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB

 

[Cheeseburger]

From what I've beeen told (and experienced) ... PDMWorks 2008 will only play with SolidWorks 2008. And vice versa ... SolidWorks 2008 will only play with PDMWorks 2008.

I've seen this happen because I have to hold off installing/upgrading all of my company's seats of SWx until we have the proper server for the PDMWorks 2008 Server (we're currently running MS-Windows Server 2000 ... need to upgrade to MS-Windows Server 2003).

Brian Mazejka, CSWP
Documentation Control Manager
Microline Pentax, Inc.

 

[macduff]

Cheeseburger,
We're sticking with SW2007 SP 5.0 for both SW and PDM.

Regards,

Macduff
Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 5.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB