Hi to all of you!
I work from some days in a new company, with this scenario: 4 SW Professional seats inside the company and 2 SW Professional seats in another country, at this moment not in communication.
The files are all on the server and the 4 seats work directly on them, with the usual problems of lost files and limitations, so my purpose is to pass to a PDM. They never used it, so they asked to see if Workgroup could be a good solution, and in the future thinking about Enterprise. During next days we will install the WPDM, and i need kindly some suggestions:
- a lot of files are duplicated; i mean, in order not to lose anything, they create a folder for every assembly where they put all the parts, even the common ones. you can imagine that we can have of the same xxxx.sldprt 30/50 copies. Big problem... Also, some assembly have problems, with wrong ID.
- they will pass to Enterprise, hopefully, during next 3/5 years, so i want to configure the things considering it.
Can you kindly give me some suggestion of how to proceed? I used only Enterprise in the past, and i would begin in the right way.
Thanks in advance for the help!
Alvise
Hello Alvise;
you are up against a very large, but very common problem. I am assuming you are the "pdm admin" in this situation. First step is to determine if the multiple copies are simply "duplicates"; if yes, find the latest copy that represents the best model/drawing.
If the copies are not "duplicates" meaning each one has differences from the previous and next, than these would be "versions", and you would need to determine which version came 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. Put them in order, then check them in one at a time to your Vault, working from the oldest one first to the newest one at it's current Revision.
Time consuming yes, but that Rev history is helpful and important and you don't have to lose all of it moving to a Vault.
"duplicates"
filename.sldprt
filename.sldprt(2)
filename.sldprt(3)
filename.sldprt(4) = I would check this one in because it was the last one used
"versions"
filename.sldprt (2006) = check in as Rev 1
filename.sldprt (2008) = check in as Rev 2
filename.sldprt (2010) = check in as Rev 3
filename.sldprt (2013) = check in as Rev A
Hope this helps.
!
MattP