Hi Everyone,
Our company had been using SW 2015 with the 2015 pdm and it was working great. Having the vault built into SW made it easy for our group of engineers to manage the data. There are only 4 of us.
We just switched to SW 2019 and thus, 2019 PDM (file explorer type PDM). This doesn't work well for us since we don't have a CAD data administrator. Checking in parts and assemblies is taking hours instead of minutes.
My question: are there any 3rd party CAD data management programs that are like the 2015 version of SW PDM?
Thanks!
I would say that you have something setup extremely wrong. Did you have your VAR assist you in setting up PDM standard that comes with SW Pro & Premium? I have used PDM at 2 companies so far and we are getting ready to set it up here as well. The last job had 15 engineers and our CAD Admin spent about 2 hours a week on it. And much of that was things like fixing formats and templates. Depending on how you setup the checkin process you could do it in less than a minute.