Default values for card controls are a powerful tool that can be leveraged in SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard and Professional data cards to automate the population of values without the intervention of the user. When editing a control in the data card editor, there are many options for selecting a default value for a given control, such as text, a value from the parent folder’s data card, or even special values such as file name, the user’s initials, or the current date.
In SOLIDWORKS PDM, it’s common to have the PDM data card display metadata describing the model beyond its basic geometry—Description, Part Number, Revision, and many more are popular and useful pieces of information to track about a file. It’s often the data card itself that is the driving force behind the formatting of this type of data entry into the destination file; however, thanks to the magic of Variable Mapping, this behavior is a two-way street between the file and SOLIDWORKS PDM.
In this tutorial, we explain the steps to create a Local view file (.CVS) for both SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional and SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard. This is an extremely useful tool for distributing and automating the creation of local views when setting up new PDM clients by providing a (nearly) one-click alternative to the traditional View Setup Wizard.
In this guide, you'll learn the steps and procedures required to design and implement a full Revision Table on the face of a SOLIDWORKS PDm data card that updates rows as part of the workflow as well as the Revision Table found on the face of the drawing. With a typical example of Revision Table integration with SOLIDWORKS PDM, only the most recent row is still editable and in sync with the drawing file. We have now added additional rows that showcase and store previous row values as read-only—similar to how the table might work on the face of the drawing itself.
This article outlines the steps required to define custom columns in a revision table that is populated by inputs from a PDM data card and actions in the PDM Workflow. To complete all these steps listed below, you will need SOLIDWORKS to create revision table templates and administrative permissions in the vault to create variables and update data cards.
This article outlines the steps on how to switch a named instance of SQL Express from the default dynamic ports to static port 1433 as outlined in S-051981. When an SQL Express server communicates over a dynamic port, it is allocated a free port number by the operating system rather than communicating exclusively over a specified port, also known as a static port.