DISQUS

SolidSmack: PDM Assassin: Combine the Best, Eliminate the Rest (Could it Ever Be?)

  • Devon T. Sowell · 1 year ago
    Hi Josh-

    RE:"Hopefully, one day, the resource and data management will happen behind the scenes and data can be generated dynamically not matter if we start from a spreadsheet or a 3D environment. think it can happen?"

    One of my favorite PDMW Enterprise tools is the ability to create Project Template Folders and SolidWorks Template files within the Project folders. Creating a 'new' Project, then using the SolidWorks Templates within the new Project is a powerful way to manage data on the fly.

    How's the family? Gettin' any sleep?

    Devon
  • Chris · 1 year ago
    You're preaching to the choir from my side. I've been developing programs to steal raw data from various places to generate a report (similar to how Cosmos works). It would be nice if someone out there already had this mousetrap figured out and all I had to do was license it. ;)
  • Design Engineer · 1 year ago
    I've always thought that solidworks should be able to keep track of revision changes to models and have the ability to role back and view previous revisions.

    What do other people think? Or will someone tell me that it's all ready there and I just didn't know about it all these years?!
  • Pete Yodis · 1 year ago
    Josh,

    It will be interesting to watch and see how much "PDM" will be buit into the web and also to operating systems. I am pretty sure that a version or two of Windows Vista will allow you to rollback to a previously saved state of a file. Within the OS itself, it is beginning to provide some PDM like capabilities. I am using FolderShare from Microsoft as a means of sharing data in multiple sites - way cool and previously would have cost a ton of money. These tools are not offering all the things needed and are not necessarily "CAD Central", but its neat to see the gap close somewhat...
  • Josh · 1 year ago
    Hey All, thanks for consoling me. I think it's going to have to be thought of differently. It's weird to think about but the people using cad/computer/etc. later on are the kids texting on mobiles, accessing all their info and friends info online, moving around in computer games without having to think about load times and where/how things are stored or related. It's gotta change.