It strikes me as odd that PDMWorks isn't on the Office
Products tab. Toolbox, Photoworks, 3D Instant Web made it.
I move components with the mouse (a lot). I'm pleased that no menu selection is required for that. Why is Rotate buried under Move in the Command Manager?
I keep searching for the option that allows me to set the top level entry for a "flyout" menu.
Even better, I'd like the flyout to remember the last one I used.
I move components with the mouse (a lot). I'm pleased that no menu selection is required for that. Why is Rotate buried under Move in the Command Manager?
I keep searching for the option that allows me to set the top level entry for a "flyout" menu.
Even better, I'd like the flyout to remember the last one I used.
On this one, we don't put a button in the SolidWorks Office flyout/toolbar to turn the Workgroup PDM add-in on/off because generally people either want it on or off and don't want to toggle it during a session. In fact, administrators want to try to make sure people are using the PDM so prefer not to give it a level of visibility that makes it easy to disable. As for the 4 Workgroup PDM buttons that are on that toolbar (login, logout, Check In, and options), login and logout are not used often as buttons since again, users usually leave the add-in turned on and it asks you to login when you startup (and you rarely logout). You can also login through the vault view in the task pane. The most common button used is Check In and instead of burying that under the Office Products tab, we have defaulted it to be present on the top menu bar next to the Save button so it has a higher level of visibility. Are you not seeing it there? If not, perhaps it is because you ran versions of SolidWorks 2008 during beta and we had not yet defined it there. It wasn't until later that we put it on there by default (and we don't change the toolbar setup later since we can't tell what the user has customized).
You can also rotate components without a menu selection. Similar to left mouse button dragging a component to move it, you can right mouse button drag a component to rotate it.
I hope this helps,
Jim