Get to know SolidWorks PDM Standard - Webinar - Darin @ DASI

[@camrob1973]

Darin, thanks for your excellent presentation on PDM Standard. Great work.

[@63Ducati1]

When comparing PDM Standard to PDM Professional, you didn't mention the difference in cost, which is big. As far as setting up, the SQL is only 1 of the 3 servers that you must install. It needs SQL or Database server, Vault server, ack! and something else, which I have forgotten at the moment. Like you, I am a one-man-shop, and I'm hoping that Standard is sufficient with only one workflow and 10 possible steps in that workflow. It is severely limited, 10 steps to unlimited? I tried to set Standard up around 2019 and I could not handle the administration of it. I'm trying again in 2024 and hope I can find enough information in videos like yours to get it done! Thanks for your video. I saved the URL because I know I'll be watching again. Thanks for enunciating and not talking too fast. Those of us who are hearing impaired appreciate that.

[@thecrazykartbyAJ]

Thank you very much for this excellent video, from start to end it got me hooked and you covered all the topics, from installation to usage. Thanks again! Best regards.

[@tchaikovskygoss7410]

Great video. It cleared up a lot for me.

[@GJ_0008]

Great intro presentation on PDM. Clear and concise. Thank you very much for putting on KZbin! Couple of questions on leveraging PDM to gain performance improvements if I may? ... 1. You talk about the benefit of using PDM so files are not constantly bouncing back and forth from a server. As a freelance designer all my files are saved on Microsoft OneDrive (with files 'kept on my device' but of course synced to the cloud as and when things change on my machine). I only put things 'just in the cloud' when jobs are done and dusted so as to free up space on my machine. I have been wondering if using OneDrive may be slowing things down for me, even though my files are, as said, kept local and only synced as a form of back up (kind of!). Any advice or thoughts on this? 2. You talk about the way PDM uses a database system to handle references rather than file paths. Does this mean for an assembly with many references (in context, .text file global variables etc) that the database handling would also help speed up these references calculating/talking to each other? I have been suffering VERY slow performance (mainly when coming to doing detailed full assembly drawings with sections and detail views etc) and am on a journey to learn where I need to change how I do things and where improvements can be made! I may of course just need a better machine but I'd like to understand some of the mechanics of what's going on before splashing out the mega bucks! :) Thank you so very much in advance and kind regards.

[@GJ_0008]

Or I guess my question for number 1 (just to be clearer) is can I use PDM with OneDrive and if so will this help speed things up as per your server point? Thanks very much! :)

[@gavbrum]

Great presentation

[@alijasim7724]

Thank you very much.

[@markmangum4948]

Darin, Great tutorial, I found it very helpful. Question though on the "Tasks." I don't see "Tasks" in my administration window listed under my vault. Is this because I didn't click the "tasks" box during setup of the PDM Standard vault, or because it's not available unless I am installing PDM Professional? It looked like the vault you created in this video was a PDM Standard, like mine. That being the case, how do I add in "Tasks" after the vault has been created?

[@idrisselalami]

Great tutorial , thanks.

[@coreysimmons2079]

Darin, I would like to set up my own at home PDM Vault. Can you direct me to some material that could help me understand what components I would need to act as a server and what the set up procedure would be?

[@LalithaSrilale09349]

I am bit confused with checkin and checkout procedures. Currently I am using standalone PDM (server and client at the same workstation). And I have some questions as follows and really glad if you could supply some insights regarding. When I am trying to checkin in the assembly, the dialog box asks for the checkin other parts files and drawings too. If i check in parts then this process will only update some parts if those are only modified right? or else what is the correct method of checkin in and checkin out? should we need to checkout each parst before assembling or after assembling? As per my understanding, each time I pressed save button (as a practice in normal solidworks in case file closed, but in this specific case there is no any * with the file name) in assembly it shows that the new modification have done(in pdm task pane) and it allows to enter new comment even there is no any such modification. Is that the general case? should we avoid to press save if there is no such *adjecent with the file name? In my understanding the checkout process will allows me to edit the part, and checkin process will allows to update and place all the modification in valute which is accessible to others (can they edit during checkin by my self?), in case of checkout by myself then the other users can not access the parts for modification right?

[@cadtoby3300]

Your mic sounds SOOOO good!

[@daringrosser6242]

SolidWorksToby The Yeti Blue! I love this condenser mic. Plugging my headphones into it give me direct monitoring so I feel like a radio DJ. :)

[@63Ducati1]

One of the things that irritates me about PDM is the use of "version" to mean something other than it has for the previous 20 years (or so, I think THIS PDM has been around since around 2016 or so, when everyone using the previous version of PDM - Workgroup something - HAD to change, and my VAR charged to update the vault. I refused to pay and have been without PDM since.) meant the SolidWorks release year. When I went from 2018 to 2019, I had the task scheduler update all the SolidWorks files to the newer "version." Hence, my request for you to define terms as you use them. What does "Version" really mean?

[@63Ducati1]

It appears that you think I can see what you are typing on the form. I have a high resolution monitor 2560x1440, but all I see is a blur on the check-in at 11:58. It would be nice if you would tell us what you are typing as you type. The only way that will happen, because this is not live, is for GoEngineer to re-record this. Doubt that will happen. Maybe someone will see this and remember on later videos. That is, if someone actually watches what has been made on youtube, instead of the computer it was created on. I am a Solidworks Professional subscriber and GoEngineer is terrific, especially Tech Support! Please don't take this as anytjing other than constructive criticism.

[@sciencepolitique6443]

Is it possible to show how to install PDM Standard?

[@sciencepolitique6443]

I hop to sea soon that webinar