PDMWEnterprise and Workgroup both seem to more focus on
managing documents. We sort of view it the other way with our
existing home built mainframe system of "Parts" with one or more
documents attached.
How does or can PDMWE handle this or rather does anyone have a similar setup? We often have one "Part" represented by several files. Sometimes this may be an Excel file followed by a SolidWorks o Autocad file. Sometimes it may be all 3. Usually they are different sheets of the same drawing.
We also have situations with very large assembly drawings were we had to break out the drawing into multiple files because its too unmanageable to work on one drawing file. Takes too long to load and too large a file (over 100mb).
How does or can PDMWE handle this or rather does anyone have a similar setup? We often have one "Part" represented by several files. Sometimes this may be an Excel file followed by a SolidWorks o Autocad file. Sometimes it may be all 3. Usually they are different sheets of the same drawing.
We also have situations with very large assembly drawings were we had to break out the drawing into multiple files because its too unmanageable to work on one drawing file. Takes too long to load and too large a file (over 100mb).
Pat,
This is almost completelyirrelevant from the topic
But I am an I-DEAS userand the system admin. We are looking to go to SW and arelooking for a PDM solution to go along with it. How doesI-DEAS TDM,and/or TeamCenter stack up to PDMWE?
If you converted fromI-deas to SW, do you have any info you can share?
Thanks
We have also written an add-in to SolidWorks that will allow a user to enter the part number, retrieve the file or files and open them from the task pane.
Jeff
I have some suggestions on this if you want to discuss.
You can contact me at dburmenko@solidworks.com
Thanks
Dan