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It's See What You Mean which doesn't make a whole lot of sense, maybe it's a French concept that doesn't translate to English well. Guess they were trying to be hip. Here's an article, been almost 10 years and the platform hasn't really changed. https://www.3dcadworld.com/the-dassault-systemes-soci...

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Does anyone know what "Swym" stands for? ....wait for it.... ....wait for it.... "See What You Mean". Talk about cringe-inducing. <()> I believe it is actually Say What You Mean. You know the whole push for everyone to SAY something in this new world of collaborative interactive...

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I called it out as a pointless feature at one point given that there was no context for it, and clicking on it didn't take you to that specific message so you couldn't find out more anyway. Ah, so one of those posts that scrolled off the page into oblivion.... I still have never been able to get th...

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If you have your installation media, you can also run the setup.exe from there to modify the installation.

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You can get back to that dialog by doing a modification of the installation. If you open the Control Panel on your computer. Go to Programs and Features. Find the SolidWorks installation in the programs list. When you select it you should be given an option to Modify the installation. This will star...

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I believe those options are available with Standard version as well. You can run the option to modify the installation without changing anything if you just want to see what has been installed.

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You should check to make sure that you installed the options required for the shell integration. For SW 2019 SWExplorer.png for SW 2020 or later SWFileutils.png You can modify the SolidWorks installation from Programs and features in the control panel or Apps in settings and verify that these featur...

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I wonder if it would be possible to automate a message to an account after it seems to be inactive or not engaging for a certain period of time where a reply to the message can confirm the account belongs to an actual human. Wouldn't work for accounts who are not logging in but it might for people w...

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You can get some value from it if your SW BOM is THE BOM. You can view the SW BOM as it appears on the SW drawing from the PDM BOM tab but you have to select it every time from the drop down. image.png Other than that, yes the PDM BOM tab is useless if for no other reason than the BOM shows no item...

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AlexB wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 2:41 pm I caught the SWYMP banner at a funny moment today

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I wonder if this is what drove the enhancement
Remove the last message that appears below community names for a cleaner view

I don't seem to recall anyone on the forums asking for this one...

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What version of SolidWorks are you using? In SW 2019 or earlier, these shell integration options are installed with SolidWorks Explorer option in the Installation Manager In SW 2020 and later, these shell integration options are installed with the SolidWorks File Utilities option in the Installation...

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Site: https://cadforum.net/ 2012 Edit : @matt tagging you in case you'd be interested in knowing. The Site qualifier can also be added after the search term: What I am looking for site:cadforum.net The Site qualifier can also be used to exclude a site from the search results What I am looking for -...

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There are a few enhancement requests that are open for the Delayed in State feature. Here are the general summaries I have from my notes. 679884 - Only notify people who were notified when the file went into the state 748292 - Add options for only file creator and only last state modifier 796324 - A...

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...They should at least remove or change the extensions. That is just a temptation or a target for people who get curious. No one but Administrators would be able to see that the archives use file extensions on the versions. I'm not sure it would be any more secure by removing the extensions. If a ...

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Ok, one more question. Does - let's just call it Conisio - allow multiple "archive servers" as you are calling them? The marketing movies keep talking about multiple global locations, so this sounds like multiple "archive servers" for the managed data. Yes, "Conisio" h...

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I did not know that it was the last hex digit in the docID that determined which folder they went into. I did notice that they were not evenly loaded (disk space), this would explain why. The archive folder is the hex converted DocumnetID number and is organized by the last number in the hex number...

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The file versions are renamed into some cryptic scheme. So if there's file A.sldprt in the users' vault view and it has 8 unique versions, then there will be 8 files in the archive server in some folder by some filename. If a file has 8 versions, there may not be 8 physical copies of that file depe...

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I don't know how SolidWorks PDM works, I was assuming it puts the CAD in the DB like other sophisticated PDM products do, but that sounds like it's the wrong assumption. The defunct PDMWorks didn't do that, in fact, it just used a big text file for meta data instead of a real database, and just ren...

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In general I haven't had any issues with any particular release. My biggest beef is that it needs more functionality and the "What's new" is rather "thin" for what we pay for each year. I guess moot now that we are going to Windchill. I can definitely understand the frustration ...

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I kinda wish I had the opportunity to work with Conisio before SW bought and integrated it. SW has made some good improvements with the original Conisio product. But it was a good product to begin with so it made it easier to improve. I've been working with it since it was first released as PDMWork...

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I would be willing to help contribute to a PDM "bible". I noticed that there is a SolidWorks FAQ area here. Maybe it would be good to start a SWPDM FAQ section? I started to compile a comparison list of differences between Pro and Standard. And I'm sure that many of us PDM admins have lear...

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I'm assuming any check in of a SW assembly will update the refs in PDM for that file to whatever are on that local machine's cache. I'm thinking of two examples where this might be unexpected. By the way, we cannot always use latest version of all components, users are to get by referenced version,...

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Yes, using the static text with the Latest revision no value will give you the current PDM revision set (not the revision variable).

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Here is a comparison chart that I created when PDM Standard first came out. There might be a few things out of date but I think you'll find it t be pretty close. Hopefully this helps, let me know if you've got any comments as I will update and repost. Regards, ~Tom This is a pretty good list. I don...

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majo wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 2:22 am You can use dispatch for this. If you want an example, feel free to contact me.

Cheers Mario

Dispatch can't be used in a PDM Standard vault.

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in order for PDM to be able to set a variable for a file through a Set Variable action on a workflow transition, the variable needs to exist on the file data card for that file type. Check the data card you are using for slddrw file types and make sure your variable is somewhere on the data card. On...

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There are a few additional things that you should know about variable mapping with PDM data cards. On the initial check in, PDM will pull the values from the file for any variable that has been "mapped" to an attribute of the file metadata and store these values in the database. But on the...

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The screenshot you added shows that you are looking for the commands under the Edit category. To find the PDM commands, either set the category to Tools or set Category to All commands and search for PDM. Please keep in mind that there are some known issues with not being able to use the same keyboa...

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You should ask your VAR to get added to SPRs 471886, 465803, and 901888. @Diaval , How in the wide world did you find those SPR numbers?! I "Voted" for a couple of them in my ERs in customer portal, the first number I could not find. Submitted support case to VAR asking to be added to the...

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Technically it already does this. If you drag a file in, it automatically uploads a version 1 of the file. It's in a private state so no one but the user and admin sees it unless you unable it for other users. The others users will see it but not be able to open it until that first check in. The ad...

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Here's a batch script you can give to the users to "restart" all PDM processes. taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe taskkill /f /IM EDMSERVER.exe taskkill /f /IM Search.exe taskkill /f /IM ViewServer.exe start explorer.exe exit You should add the /t switch at the end of the taskkill statements t...

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I am a PDM administrator and am always interested in learning about how other people use PDM. I'm looking forward to the discussions that will get started here.

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Unfortunately no. To force the check in on adding a file to the vault would probably require using Dispatch or some other API hook on the add file action that can't be done in a Standard vault. This would be a nice enhancement for both Standard and Pro, though. So many things rely on that initial ch...

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Everything on the client goes through EdmServer.exe. It is not necessary to close the Search tool or SolidWorks if you need to restart the PDM client service on the system but it's never a bad idea to restart other processes that use EdmServer when restarting that one. I would highly recommend a res...

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You should ask your VAR to get added to SPRs 471886, 465803, and 901888.

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PDM *should* automatically add to the vault any files that are saved via a Save As dialog, however some programs use custom save as dialogs that are not integrated into the Explorer shell which can cause problems with this automatic add mechanism. You can try adding your file types to the Adding Fil...

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... I found the reg key for those settings and I've tested on my own machines exporting and importing it but I haven't worked up the nerve to push it out yet. Be careful about pushing out column settings in a registry file. PDM keeps some user column set customization details in the database and ap...

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