SOLIDWORKS PDM
Easily Find SOLIDWORKS Files with a Clean User Interface | SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard
Take a look at the User Interface for SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard and how files can be previewed without the need for opening them in SOLIDWORKS along with viewing Properties, Bills of Materials and Where Used information.
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Let's look at the user interface of SolidWorks PDM. We'll explore the preview file card and the bill of material information, but we'll also look at the contains information and where it's used. The interface in SolidWorks PDM standard makes it really easy for both SolidWorks and non SolidWorks users to have access to data when they need it. When we browse into SolidWorks PDM standard, it gives us this Windows Explorer style interface where we can define what columns of metadata are displayed based on the user or group of users. Logging into PDM. When we browse into a file, we can get a full preview support for an assembly without the need for opening this inside of SolidWorks. As this uses E drawings to view the file, we have all the common commands that we typically see. Any drawings where we can jump between different views, animate each, and we can start to hide and show components. We also have the ability to measure between entities, which can be really useful. And we have the file card information that displays metadata. So this information applies to the particular files that we have selected. And these data cards can all be customized to suit the key information that you want to use and search for inside of SolidWorks, PDM. We also have the ability to view the bill of materials inside of PDM, and the metadata that is displayed when we view the bill of materials can also be customized to suit the user's role within the business. So then we're not overloading them with metadata. Instead only presenting them with the metadata that is applicable for their job role. We also have some great tools and that we can compare versions of bills of materials. So we can see that this component here was added in version two, and that this component has been deleted in version two. So we can compare one version of the bills and materials to another. And this builds a materials tab also enables us to focus on just a particular assembly configuration. The contained list shows us every file associated with an assembly, whether used on a particular assembly configuration or not. We also have the ability to include where files are located in PDM, but even without the found in column information, as we can simply right click on a file and browse to that file, and it will take us immediately to the file without us needing to know where that component is stored. We also have the ability to click on the where used information. So very quickly and easily we can see where components have been used between iterations of a design. We can see version one of this component hasn't been used anywhere, but when we look at version two, we can see that it's used on this top level assembly. So SolidWorks PDM standard makes it really easy for both SolidWorks and non SolidWorks users to gain access to the information they need when they need it.