4 Replies Latest reply on Jan 15, 2018 3:07 PM by Bobby Penland

installing 2018 PDM and deploying SW 2017sp5

Dennis Schallert Jan 10, 2018 11:11 PM

I am thinking about installing 2018 PDM Server sp 1 and deploying SW 2017 sp5 to all of my users has anyone had any issues with this setup or even tried it? I know it supposed to work but wondering if anyone has real life experiences with it.

Re: installing 2018 PDM and deploying SW 2017sp5

Martin Solem Jan 11, 2018 4:49 AM (in response to Dennis Schallert)

Hi!
I havent tried 18/17 combo, but 17/16 worked fine, and as you say, it is supposed to work, and i would not hesitate setting this up. PDM is guaranteeing backwards compatibility 3 years back. More than that you start getting problems with add-in in SOLIDWORKS.

Martin
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Re: installing 2018 PDM and deploying SW 2017sp5

Michael Dekoning Jan 11, 2018 7:18 AM (in response to Dennis Schallert)

Like Martin Solem we haven't yet upgraded PDM to 2018. However, we always have some period of time between our PDM upgrade and SOLIDWORKS upgrade and have never had problems. In fact, we ran PDM 2017 with SOLIDWORKS 2015 for a while.
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Re: installing 2018 PDM and deploying SW 2017sp5

Craig Schultz Jan 15, 2018 1:28 PM (in response to Dennis Schallert)

We're running that combo. No issues to speak of after ~6 weeks
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Re: installing 2018 PDM and deploying SW 2017sp5

Bobby Penland Jan 15, 2018 3:07 PM (in response to Dennis Schallert)

We are evaluating an upgrade to our system so I have bookmarked this page to stay tuned to this thread.
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