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Re: native Solid Edge files in SWX PDM and 3D Interconnect
According to the 2018 PR1 documentation, the full version of SE must still be installed to manage SE files.
I like what you are thinking, if SW can read these values without SE, why does PDM need it?!
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Re: native Solid Edge files in SWX PDM and 3D Interconnect
If you have to access SE API in any manner you have to have a seat of Solid Edge.
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Re: native Solid Edge files in SWX PDM and 3D Interconnect
Edge resellers would probably double their business, if all discharged Edge customers, switching to SWX, would re-buy additional seats to be able to migrate the whole CAD bunch PDM managed.
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Re: native Solid Edge files in SWX PDM and 3D Interconnect
I think the point to be made is that the current EPDM is limited in its ability to handle multi-CAD environment. Technically, the same can be said about Windchill.
The fact that it is only a PDM tool and not a full fledged PLM tool. Why lock your business into a tool that can't grow with your company? ;-) If you can't agree with that comment then you are not agreeing with Gian Paola Bassi's comments. “Bingo! Yes. In fact, this is our fundamental strategy as a part of Dassault Systèmes. And the centerpiece of that strategy is the 3DEXPERIENCE platform,”
No EPDM in that statement or in the 3DX environment!
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Re: native Solid Edge files in SWX PDM and 3D Interconnect
I assume, that product definition, product management and development is widely seperated for MCAD, ECAD, PDM, PCB, etc. So it´s clear, that the (old) PDMPro is using another piece of code than the (new) 3DIC. That´s ok so far. But I would strongly recommend to push the 3DIC code into PDMPro. In 2017, 3DIC itself was introduced, in 2018, 3DIC is able to read props without any Edge on disk + PDMPro is able to recognize non SWX xRefs ... the next logical step is to bulk load PDMPro with non SWX docs and to read xRefs + props of different native files. This is compellent to use PDMPro + 3DIC for an on demand migration with explorer based source files. The other way would be to enable task scheduler to bulk load native Edge files by using 3DIC in a big bang scenario. This would be much more complex, I think ...
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Re: native Solid Edge files in SWX PDM and 3D Interconnect
This has been the case since the beginning of EPDM. SW doesn't know EPDM exists and EPDM doesn't know SW exists. They just happen to have tools that allow you to see each others data and launch functions.
