New in SOLIDWORKS PDM 2016 is the ability to read and write custom properties of PDFs using the PDF plug-in. This PDF plug-in also maps any user-defined custom properties written in the Custom tab of a PDF. In previous versions of SOLIDWORKS PDM, this capability did not exist, and you could not read or write PDF custom properties for PDM variables.
SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM 2015 (now known as SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional) includes a Microsoft Office add-in for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint that allows you to perform vault operations on documents opened in the Office application. Normally, you would select the Office add-in (Microsoft Office Integration) option during the client installation if Office is detected on the system.
In SOLIDWORKS PDM, we can enable duplicate file name checking for a vault so that users cannot create multiple files of the same file type with the same name. The duplicate file name check triggers when using the following commands: