EPDM Tech Tip: Hyperlinking to Documents in the Vault
(Note: The links listed are meant to be examples only, and will not work unless you have a vault that mirrors the vault the links were created from.) There are times when you want to use document links. Perhaps you are sending an email to a colleague. Maybe you have a master list of specifications [...]
SolidWorks EPDM Admin Tech Tip: Undo Checkout
Hopefully your users will remember to check in their documents regularly, and particularly when they will be out of the office. What happens when this is not the case and someone else needs to work on them? Enterprise PDM protects documents from update if they are checked out by another user. Here I’m logged in [...]
SolidWorks EPDM User Tech Tip: Remember to check your documents in!
Enterprise PDM provides a secure vault for your documents and the check-out / check-in process prevents more than one user from making updates at the same time. Until you check your changes back in, other users are unable to see them and they don’t have the ability to apply other changes. Since one of the key benefits of Enterprise PDM is multi-user collaboration, documents that are unnecessarily checked out can introduce bottlenecks.
“Crazy Little Thing Called Cert” – An EPDM Story
We posted a great article last week about the world’s first husband-and-wife team to pass the CPDMP exam together. This fabulous couple is our very own Mike LaFleche and Elba-Gloria LaFleche-Erazo (EG). EG was so pumped about becoming certified that she wrote a song for it, called “Crazy Little Thing Called Cert” based off of [...]
Top 10 Reasons why 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 CAPINC, our Sales and Engineering teams love our customers! We always remember that YOU and your success are why we [...]
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 reason to do this is most prevalent on process sheet drawings. A company may execute a workflow that approves each process of making [...]
Convert your files to SolidWorks 2011 format
When you are ready to upgrade SolidWorks and Enterprise PDM 2011, the number one thing that comes to mind for most users is that when SolidWorks 2010 and prior version files are opened in SolidWorks 2011, SolidWorks and Enterprise PDM think that some change has occurred to the file. This is indeed the case, as SolidWorks 2011 has [...]
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: Manage a new project, which undergoes design changes and ensure a secure and auditable environment for keeping track of revisions. As a bonus, the contenders [...]
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 of an existing assembly. During the conceptual design process, when you frequently experiment with and make changes to the assembly structure and components, [...]
Mates: The Wild Kingdom of SolidWorks
You don’t have to be Marlin Perkins of Wild Kingdom to appreciate the number of ways to pair parts together using “Mates” in SolidWorks. However, if we take a page or two from Darwin, we might make sense of the classifications of mates in SolidWorks. Let’s think of how Darwin classified the kingdom of plants [...]
