With major upgrades, do most people update the vault files to
the current version? I looked in all the documentation I could find
and never saw that this was required but it seems like it should
be.
I can't decide which is scarier- running the update on all the files (at least all the "latest versions") in the vault or leaving the files in the older format. Or maybe I'm missing some documentation stating that we need to update?
Thx!
I can't decide which is scarier- running the update on all the files (at least all the "latest versions") in the vault or leaving the files in the older format. Or maybe I'm missing some documentation stating that we need to update?
Thx!
You don't "need" to update. Here are some things to think about. You probably already have if you are asking if it is required. I am going to update the part and assembly files in our 2006 vault when we rollout 2007. I have been conducting testing of the vault update on a copy test vault on my local PC (2007 version). I choose only the latest revision to update - it would take quite some time to update all the file revisions. I have had bad experiences with updating drawing files in the vault, particularly assembly drawings with BOMs. I have seen Item numbers on the BOM change, and thats a bad thing for us as they must match our ERP/MRP item number. So for that reason I won't update drawing files. I have yet to see a problem with part and assembly files updating in my testing with 2007 SP 1.0. The benefit to updating part and assembly files is that the PDMWorks icons will be true to form when looking at your local copies outside the vault when working with the next major version of the software. And, each time you copy files out from the vault (part and assembly) they won't need to be updated to the latest file format which takes extra time to do this. Also, we tend to work read only most of the time, so this file update notice would keep occuring each time we would open the files and might never go away as the files are read only and would not get saved once they are updated. There will be some file size reduction with the files in 2007 (my test vault shrunk from 33 GB to 30 GB and most of these files are not SolidWorks files, so the percentage shrink might be greater for you). Also, if you don't update files now, when would you do it. 2008, 2009, 2010.... Would it be safe then to convert say 2004 files all the way up to 2010? Would you get speedy support if you ran into a problem updating a file that old? I don't know the answer to these questions, so I would rather not go there. Hopefully as I rambled, it made sense and gave you some things to think about.
Pete