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Joe Medeiros, CSWE
SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard Client
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on November 27, 2015
The SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard Client, is the user portal for your vault. This portal provides users access to the files in your vault, with the ability to view or modify the files depending on user permissions. Users can interact with the vault through a Windows Explorer interface, or…
SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard Client Setup
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on November 26, 2015
Once SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard has been installed, the vault has been created and configured, it is time to connect users to the vault. In SOLIDWORKS PDM Administration, right-click on your vault and select Connect. This step can be skipped, if you are already connected. If this is the…
SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard Server & Client Administration Setup
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on November 26, 2015
After installing both the PDM Standard Server and Client components, the server/computer where the database was installed, needs to be identified in SOLIDWORKS PDM Administration. From Windows Start > All Programs > SOLIDWORKS PDM, select Administration. Right-click on SOLIDWORKS PDM Administration and select Add Server. The default port…
SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard Server Installation [UPDATED]
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on November 23, 2015
The SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard installation consists of three components, SQL Express, PDM Server and the PDM Clients. In this post we will install SQL Express and a SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard Server Installation. To learn about the PDM Client installation read our next post. Installing SQL Express and the PDM…
SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard and Professional Comparison
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on October 28, 2015
SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard is a document management product offering included with SOLIDWORKS Professional and Premium versions, that is based on the same architecture used by the current SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional (formerly SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM) product. This makes SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard 100% compatible with SOLIDWORKS PDM…
SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional 2016 Installation
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on October 22, 2015
SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional 2016 installation is now carried out through the SOLIDWORKS Installation Manager. The installation can be selected from the Installation Manager Welcome page, under Server products as shown in the figure below On the summary page click on Change to configure the PDM installation. Choose…
What is SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard?
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on October 6, 2015SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard is the new document management tool that is being released with SOLIDWORKS 2016, it works in a similar manner to SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM, which has been renamed to SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional for the 2016 release. SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard replaces SOLIDWORKS Workgroup PDM, which is…
How to reset SOLIDWORKS EPDM Admin Password
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on October 6, 2015
Here are the steps to reset SOLIDWORKS EPDM admin password if it is lost or forgotten. Login into the archive server, as a local system administrator. Open Windows Regedit Delete Admin in the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SolidWorks\Applications\PDMWorks Enterprise\ArchiveServer\ConisioUser. Delete Admin in the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SolidWorks\Applications\PDMWorks Enterprise\ArchiveServer\Vaults\[vault]\ConisioUsers. Open Archive server Configuration tool….
SOLIDWORKS 2016 Installation Manager
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on September 30, 2015
The SOLIDWORKS 2016 Installation Manager is different from previous releases. Separately purchased SOLIDWORKS add-ins are now grouped under expandable menus. Once the menu has been expanded, a serial number can be entered for the required add-in. Product Selection Under product selection you can choose which products…
SOLIDWORKS EPDM Data Card Configuration Setting
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on August 11, 2015
When viewing an EPDM data card for a file, by default the active configuration is displayed. This behavior can be controlled, to display the as built (@) configuration instead. This is done by clearing ‘Set focus to active configuration‘ from Display > Options.
Checking for Index Fragmentation in SOLIDWORKS EPDM
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on August 6, 2015
This article was originally intended to introduce the Reorder and Reorganize tasks in SQL. These tasks will be discussed in other articles, but while researching for this article my mindset on the aforementioned tasks, has shifted somewhat. First let’s look at how to check for fragmentation. Check…
SQL Tasks for improving SOLIDWORKS EPDM Vault Performance
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on August 3, 2015
While helping a customer to resolve SOLIDWORKS EPDM performance issues, I came across an SQL query in the SOLIDWORKS Knowledge Base, which can help determine if Rebuild, Reorder, or Shrink SQL maintenance tasks can be used to improve SOLIDWORKS EPDM Vault Performance. I found this utility…
Hole Wizard Thread Data Not Found When Using Newly Created Hole
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on July 15, 2015
The ‘Hole Wizard Thread Data Not Found’ error message may appear when using a newly created Hole Wizard hole. This is usually the result of a mismatch between the Size in the Sizes Tab… …and the Full Size in the Thread Data tab, as shown below…
SOLIDWORKS EPDM SQL Maintenance Task Shrink Database
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on July 3, 2015
The Shrink Database task reduces the size of SQL Server database data and log files. This task can cause index fragmentation and is not recommended by SOLIDWORKS. SOLIDWORKS does note that “on large databases or environments with hundreds of users, shrinking the SOLIDWORKS® Enterprise PDM…
SOLIDWORKS EPDM Search Previous Versions Variable
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on June 22, 2015
The Variable “Search Previous Versions” may provide unexpected results if checked while executing an EPDM Search. This option will search each version of each file for the search string. When files are copied, the initial version of the copy, will have the same variable values as the…