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When working offline, it is impossible to search the local cache in SOLIDWORKS PDM Vault View. With an increasing number of our customers needing to work offline, due to “Stay-at-Home” orders in the COVID-19 pandemic, I decided to make public a tool I created to search the cache. The process is simple and primitive, nevertheless, it works. It provides a way to search for files that you may have cached in your vault view while working offline.

“Rollback” in SOLIDWORKS PDM is the process of completely removing all versions of a file after a selected version. Note that this is PERMANENT. It cannot be undone. Once rollback is started it cannot be canceled, and it cannot be reversed. Therefore, only allow trusted people the ability to perform rollbacks.

 

SOLIDWORKS PDM 2020 has introduced some great enhancements to the search capabilities.There is now a quick search box in the in the File Explorer vault view. You still have access to the standard search, but this quick search is located near the standard search magnifying glass icon and is not tied to any search card. That’s right, you can use this without setting up a card in advance.

SOLIDWORKS Manage 2020 brings with it plenty of new features regarding processes. Here are a few of them detailed out a little more.

SOLIDWORKS Manage 2020 enhancements don’t stop with processes as outline in Part 1 of this blog article that you can read here. Here are a few more that SOLIDWORKS has given us with this new release.

The value of the quantities in SOLIDWORKS PDM computed BOMs are determined by the reference count of the file. For some, you may need to show an amount or some non-integer value rather than a reference count. This document describes steps to set this up and have PDM computed BOMs display a value from a SOLIDWORKS Custom Property for the quantity rather than reference counts of the file.

SOLIDWORKS has done well in the last few years regarding the SOLIDWORKS PDM Web2 client. We’ve seen some pretty useful features added with a full redesign of the interface. This year is no exception to that! We see quite a few additions to Web2, bringing us closer to a full PDM experience in a browser.

During a SOLIDWORKS PDM Server move, the PDM Client Windows registry information must be adjusted for the client to know the new server name. The process to adjust these keys can be found in the official SOLIDWORKS PDM Installation Guide under “Updating Client Registry Keys”. This document, however, will provide a process to copy PDM Client Windows registry keys to expedite this process and to mitigate human error that can occur while editing the Windows registry.

When you are not able to connect to the vault or log-in many things could have gone wrong. I have collected a list of common vault connection issues. These are in the general order I check, but do not need to be checked in this order. All settings are the default and should be valid for most setups, but this is not always the case.