Idiots guide to PDMworks

[draftsman2008]

I have the same question that this guy asked on the solidworks forum:

https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=15&threadid=10246&enterthread=y

which asks:

Is there an idiots guide to PDMworks?

I'm looking to set up PDMworks.

I have read the PDMworks rules to live by and searched the help files, but I have far more questions than that covers.

Does anyone know of something like this?

Brian-CSWA
Dell Optiplex 745
Intel Core 2 6300 @ 1.86 GHz 2 gig Ram
Solidworks 2007 SP 5 & 2008 SP 3.1
AutoCAD Mechanical 2005

 

[fcsuper]

Nothing that I know of. Given the responses I get back from an Amazon.com search, it doesn't appear like anything even remotely close is available. I'm in the market for such a book myself.

Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group

 

[draftsman2008]

maybe not a book but a document that someone has put together for inner company that could share with the community.

Brian-CSWA
Dell Optiplex 745
Intel Core 2 6300 @ 1.86 GHz 2 gig Ram
Solidworks 2007 SP 5 & 2008 SP 3.1
AutoCAD Mechanical 2005

 

[macduff]

We just had PDMWorks Workgroup training in-house here, and were very dissatisfied. It entailed client and administrator training. Everyone found it very confusing. I'm not pinning the confusing on the VAR, but SW for having convoluted manual. One of the things that drove me nuts was…..login under this ID……now logout and login under this ID………do this……now logout, and login under the admin….create a life cycle…now logout and login into the original ID. I also asked if the VAR could use our vault as a training aid, and they declined and said they have to follow the book which makes sense, but then again it doesn’t. My intent for the users is to see our drawings, parts, and assemblies under specific project folders and the lifecycles we created for our company.

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2007 SP 5.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
I'm just a little verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic. Pink Floyd, was neither Pink nor Floyd. Discuss!--“Coffee Talk” Mike Myers SNL

 

[fcsuper]

Colin,

Have you left a comment on my blog about this? I'm going to be notifying SW of my blog entry about manuals and the community response soon. Both Matt Lombard and I have recently written about this topic.

In fact, to anyone, if you have an opinion about this, please left a comment their.



Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group

 

[macduff]

Matt,
Do you want me to copy and paste my commet here into you blog?

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2007 SP 5.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
I'm just a little verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic. Pink Floyd, was neither Pink nor Floyd. Discuss!--“Coffee Talk” Mike Myers SNL

 

[ctopher]

I had admin training separate from the users. The users should not have to go thru the admin training. They will not use it and will not remember it.

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 06/08
ctopher's home (updated Apr 30, 2008)

 

[fcsuper]

Colin,

Sure, that works.

Chris,

I agree.

Matt

Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group

 

[macduff]

Training was half day for the clients, and half day for admin's. That's why there was confusion with the clients logging in as administrators’. They asked why they had to do this when there not admin's. I think it's SW intension to show everyone how the whole system works/functions.

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2007 SP 5.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
I'm just a little verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic. Pink Floyd, was neither Pink nor Floyd. Discuss!--“Coffee Talk” Mike Myers SNL