We're going to look at how SolidWorks
PDM standard manages toolbox
and standard library components.
It's a great idea to control
and manage your toolbox and standard
library components within SolidWorks PDM,
as this eliminates the need for users
to store any data on their local drives,
which we often find leads to problems
with different file sets being open.
When people have different
customized tool boxes,
they're not synchronized across each
other's drives.
SolidWorks PDM standard
allows us to synchronize those toolbox
and standard libraries
across all of our users PCs.
So if any changes are made
to any standard components, each user
then gets that update pushed out to them
automatically.
Let's look in our local vault view.
Here we have our library folder
and we also have our toolbox components
stored here.
If we look at the administration tool,
we can see that
PDM is configured
to use the toolbox within the vault.
And what that means
is that when users come to work
with toolbox components
inside of SolidWorks,
this is all controlled
within the administration tool.
All users with
toolbox pull
the components from the same location.
So when we look at using our toolbox,
we're going to be using libraries
from within the vault.
So everyone is pulling
in the same fasteners.
Well that also means
is that we can control
who has access
to making changes to the toolbox.
So we're not allowing every user
the ability to change different
components.
Instead, it's changed
within a controlled environment.
But we also have the ability
inside SolidWorks
to set up our library components.
In here we've got our standard parts.
And these components
don't have to be cached onto the user's
vault view
in order to use them inside of the design.
If we take a look inside of our local
vault view, we can see that the files
don't actually reside on our machine, but
we can still pull them into our design.
Within SolidWorks.
What that
means is we're not having to cache large
data sets for standard components
on each user's PC by enabling SolidWorks,
PDM to manage our standard components
and toolbox files.
It means everyone with access to the vault
is pulling
from the same pool of fasteners.
We're also able to exclude
toolbox components and fasteners
from the copy tree function.
So when we're copying data, we're not
duplicating any of our library components.
We can see here any files
within the library folder.
And we can exclude them using copy tree.
So we're not duplicating fasteners
standard components and so on.