The preview tab in a SOLIDWORKS PDM vault view is a great way to get a sneak peek at a selected file. By default, this tab is split into a simple file preview and a card preview. Most users don’t realize there are several options to change the appearance of this tab. In this tip, we will explore the available options of the SOLIDWORKS PDM Preview tab.
Starting with the release of SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional 2019, a PDM administrator can now set up the option to allow users to log in as both Microsoft Windows users (by means of Active Directory) and SOLIDWORKS PDM users, essentially enabling mixed login types. Previously, the administrator had to select a single login type for all vault users.
In a previous article, we discussed and demonstrated adding users to a SOLIDWORKS PDM vault. The section Adding PDM Login User contains a mistake in the spelling of the login name for the user Ender Wiggin. The login name should have been Ewiggin, not Ewiggen. In this article, we will explain editing users in SOLIDWORKS PDM after an account is created.
There will be times when a PDM administrator needs to block users from being able to log into the vault. This article covers how blocking SOLIDWORKS PDM log-ins and why one would want to block PDM log-ins. An administrator would need to block log-ins when an upgrade on the server is planned for over a weekend or is going to be moving the archive server or the database server to a new location, or if there is some extensive maintenance that will be going on.
This guide will cover adding and using the SOLIDWORKS PDM duplicate file name report. SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional comes with a tool called Report Generator, an SQL query embedded in a PDM format (.crp).
SOLIDWORKS PDM users must be created in order for individuals to be able to access and navigate in a PDM vault. Each vault will have a set of users who can be unique to that vault or also exist as users in other vaults. This article will cover adding a user to a SOLIDWORKS PDM vault via Windows login and PDM login.