With SOLIDWORKS PDM, users often like to create folders to organize data for a specific project and place all of the relevant data within a given project folder. Oftentimes, at the organization/company level, there is a competing desire to enforce uniformity and consistency within the folder structure and during the folder creation process. This article will demonstrate a simple example of the Folder Template functionality and will create a simple Template to create and serialize the naming convention of a project folder.
CircuitWorks includes basic support for SOLIDWORKS PDM, enabling it to search the SOLIDWORKS Vault for components to use in the assemblies it builds. This article explains how the integration works and how to configure SOLIDWORKS PDM and CircuitWorks to work correctly.
A file type defines the format that the file is written in, the file extension, indicates this format. SOLIDWORKS PDM Admins can use SOLIDWORKS PDM to control what to do with files types. Such as determining who can view the file, or automatically placing the file in a workflow, etc.
The following steps will show you how to set up a SOLIDWORKS PDM search shortcut on your desktop. You can create a shortcut to any search, but for this example, I’m going to show you how to create a shortcut to one of my most used searches, ECN search.