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 [...]
SolidWorks Enterprise PDM is the BOM!
I ran a webinar that shows how BOM’s created in SolidWorks CAD software are passed intact to Enterprise PDM, reducing rework. “Named” BOMs, which can be used beyond the engineering organization, are now associated with the SolidWorks assembly. This means that if a designer changes a part, the BOM is automatically updated. In addition, named [...]
