Can anyone please explain to me how the PDM external references (e.g. the folder path that would show up in the contains tab in the vault view) are related to SolidWorks external references (e.g. the folder path a drawing file would look to for it's associated part)? For example, say I have a drawing file in folder A which has a reference to a part file in folder B (both files in the vault). When opening up the drawing file in SolidWorks, is SolidWorks using the PDM reference to folder B or is there a completely different reference path embedded in the drawing file that SW uses?
I'm asking because the reference between my example drawing and part files looks good/not broken in PDM, but the reference looks broken when I actually open up that same drawing file in SolidWorks (i.e. it appears that the PDM references are different than the SW references).
-Sally
We have had the same issue... here is what I understands happens.
EPDM and SolidWorks both keep track of file references.
When SolidWorks opens a file and it needs to load an external reference it follows the standard rules for finding references - See help.
EPDM keeps track of the external references of all files and 'attempts' to update the references in the SolidWorks files when they are cached to the local disk. Normally that works just fine but sometimes not.
I have not been able to trace exactly why EPDM cannot update the references of certain files. We only had an issue with files that were migrated to EPDM and then renamed / moved but not with all files. The most common issue we have is a Drawings.