For one of assembly, we are having total 8 versions in SolidWorks EPDM . Let's say the name of Assembly is Abc.sldasm and this file is having version 1 to 8 . Version 8 is latest version .
I checked in Archive server folder structure only some physical files are present .
00000001.SLDASM.gz (file for version 1st)
00000002.SLDASM.gz (file for version 2nd)
00000003.SLDASM.gz (file for version 3rd)
00000006.SLDASM (file for version 6th)
So it means files only for version 1 , 2, 3 and 6th is present then where are the files for version 4th , 5th ,7th , 8th are stored ? Is it default behaviour ?
At list for latest version 8th Physical files should be there. If it is not there from where EPDM will open the file ?
Thanks in advance .
Have a look at the index.xml file. You'll see that some versions will reference older versions, meaning the only change to those files were with the metadata of the file, not the file itself. When you request version 8, PDM will pull version 6 if they're identical.