Hello
I'm New to EPDM and trying to learn a few things.
We are running the 2011 enterprise version of PDM with Solidworks 2009 and will soon be upgraded to the latest and greatest versions of each. I've been asked to determine the size of the current vault.
Can someone please direct me to the best way to accomplish this task?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Hi Matthew,
Ask your VAR for the 'Enterprise PDM Status Report 2014' tool. It can generate graphs and tables like in the picture below. It also works for EPDM 2011.
Arie
Arie,
This looks like a great tool for PDM.
I don't remember seeing anything like this from SOLIDWORKS, so I'm guessing it was developed by another company.
Do you know the name of the company that developed the tool in the image from your post?
Thanks.
Rhyc
Hi Rhyc,
It's a tool developed by Solidworks. I don't think it is on the CD-rom. You have to ask your VAR for it.
Arie
Hey Rhyc,
Adrian Pop demo'd it at SolidWorks World last year, he should be able to get you the latest version.
Also his presentation here (Sorry about the link, just look for his name as I can't direct link it):
SOLIDWORKS World :: SOLIDWORKS World Presentations
explains what to do with all those metrics.
Hi Charley,
Thanks for the input. But I was not able to find any presentations from Adrian Pop. I searched the 2013 & 2014 proceedings (and the 2015) but it comes up with 0 results. I'm probably missing something obvious!
Rhyc
Rhyc,
Use "pop" in the presenter name search for 2015. it just showed up for me. The session name is Solidpractice: Enterprise PDM Performance.
Hi Matthew,
You are probably looking for the file size of the archives folder. You can only check that by logging into the archive server and browsing to the archive folder (By default it's C:\Program Files\SolidWorks Enterprise PDM\Data\) and right clicking and pulling the properties. That should give you the size in MB of the vault, the number of folders is actually the number of files in the vault and the number of files is an estimate of the number of versions in the vault. The name of the archive server you are looking for shows up at the top of the administration tool and you can find the archive folders in the Archive Configuration tool that's installed on the server (you'll need to remote in before you can open it),