Good morning! I was just curious if you might have a tutorial on how to add the PDM file version to the SolidWorks Drawings? I have a variable mapped to the custom property “Version” but can’t quite figure out how to map the current file version over to the variable. We are still using EPDM 2015. (Planning our upgrade to 2017 now, but it will be a few months off.)
John,
Here's briefly what you need to do:
Here are a couple screenshots of my drawings that have a text block on the sheet format set to the value set to Version: $PRP:"Version"
Hope this helps,
Tim CEPA
Great tutorial. Thank you. Unfortunately, on check in is where I really need it. There have been a number of incidents recently where people were looking at old versions of drawings during rapid review/update cycles in the same day, and so the date and revision on the drawing were of little help.
I was able to get this working via a dispatch using this tutorial:
Display the Enterprise PDM File Version in a SolidWorks Drawing | InFlow
I quickly created a dispatch script for you that does this and tested it in my vault in case anyone finds this useful in the future.
1. Download the "Set File Version.acn" file
2. Open the admin tool
3. Expand the add-ins node
4. Open the Dispatch administrate actions window
5. Click Load and select the "Set File Version.acn"
Give it a try.
Hope this helps.
Tim CEPA
