Virtual Components in the land of PDM
In the land of SolidWorks Assemblies exists a funny creature called the “Virtual Component”. Virtual components are typically used in top-down design when you need to create a new part in the context...
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Windows Explorer and SolidWorks Enterprise PDM: Cage Match
Brace yourselves for a battle of epic proportions. We have two Heavyweight contenders ready to duke it out; SolidWorks Enterprise PDM and Microsoft Windows Explorer. The match rules are simple:...
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Rev Control on Multi-Sheet drawings or Configurations
Is it possible to Revision Control a SolidWorks or AutoCAD Drawing with multiple sheets with different revisions, versions or workflow states? The answer to this question is yes, this is possible. The...
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Top 10 Reasons Why Love And SolidWorks Is Better With EPDM
They say it takes 3 things to keep that Crazy little thing called “love” strong in a relationship: Hard work Passion Always remembering the reason for why the love started in the first place. At...
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DriveWorks Pro Integration with EPDM
Many companies that need to create contract or customer specific designs will find that they generate quite a lot of valuable data and documents for each job. For that reason DriveWorks Pro, our Design...
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SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Tech Tip: History Dialog
Most EPDM users are aware that every checked in changes or workflow state changes are tracked in the document’s history and that comments can be entered (or even must be entered if the vault...
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The EPDM Preview Pane – The Unsung Hero
The SolidWorks Enterprise PDM preview pane gives us instant “quick peeks” at files in the vault. But if you allow yourself to linger just a bit, you’ll quickly discover the preview pane can do so much...
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Enterprise PDM Tech Tip: Watermark Process
Watermarks can be used effectively to easily show drawings that are not yet released or under change. This visual indicator helps prevent mistakes when viewing and printing unapproved revisions....
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EPDM Tech Tip: The Case of the Missing File
Troubleshooting tips when a file seems to have “disappeared” in Enterprise PDM… Here at CAPINC Tech Support we handle a variety of cases every day, many involving a bit of detective work. I thought it...
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EPDM Tech Tip: Implementing an Easy and Effective Backup Process
Your Enterprise PDM system contains the metadata (e.g. custom properties), file server settings information, and physical vault files. Backing this up ensures that your vital company data is secured...
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Enterprise PDM Tech Tip – Search Card Defaults
In addition to being able to create custom Search Cards in Enterprise PDM, did you know that you can set default settings on a Search Card? Example #1: Default Search Path If you want to set the...
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EPDM Group Settings: Checkboxes Accumulate, Not Privileges
Additive Permissions versus Subtractive Settings (Restrictions) When people think about setting up privileges, often they create a group with privileges that all users can share, and then create...
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How to Handle Common EPDM Check-in Errors and Warnings
When checking legacy files into Enterprise PDM, you might run into warnings or error messages like: File not found Outside of vault File name is not unique File needs to be rebuilt Fixing these issues...
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Enterprise PDM Fastest Hands in the East
Time ticks away. The fast pace of today’s design world is not for the faint of heart, nor for the slow of fingers. Today’s pace calls for fast eyes, and faster fingers. Today’s pace calls for The...
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Updating Data, One ENTIRE Project at a Time
A look at Enterprise PDM’s “Update Values in Files” Data stored in folder datacards and in file datacards create a convenient reference for searching, reports, and browsing, and Enterprise PDM makes it...
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Your Intelligent Part Numbers Aren’t So Smart
You’ll have to forgive the punny title, some version of which has already been used in many previous (and good) blog articles: here, here and here. But as we implement data management systems for our...
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Intelligent Search Options for Manufacturing
Imagine a world where you could instantly find exactly what you were looking for. We have it right now, don’t we? Search engines crawl the web and provide us with instant knowledge in an ever growing...
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Enhanced in SOLIDWORKS 2014: Customizing Enterprise PDM Interface with Columns
Enterprise PDM provides the ability to customize the columns in the Windows Explorer view (noted in the earlier Tech Tip EPDM Tech Tip: Hyperlinking to Documents in the Vault) and in search cards, but...
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Using the Enterprise PDM Search Tool
One of the benefits of Enterprise PDM is its search capability. A lot of customers forget all those fields on their data cards data can be queried on. The question we get a lot in tech support is the...
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Getting Cleaned Up – Using the Enterprise PDM Cleaner Service
If you have been using or administering EPDM for some time you probably know that the Delete function puts files into the EPDM “recycle bin” and they can be recovered. You also probably know that the...
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