If you're running out of disk space on the drive that you installed your archive server on, you may want to relocate the archive files to another drive or split the archive files across multiple drives. Follow the steps in this article to relocate SOLIDWORKS PDM archive files to another drive or split them up across multiple drives.
Starting with SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional 2016 SP4 you can create a task to convert DWG\DXF documents to PDF. This article will outline the steps to install the task when creating a new vault and adding the task to existing vaults. The task uses DraftSight to perform the conversion process and therefore requires a DraftSight Professional or Premium license.
You can share custom styles with other SOLIDWORKS Composer users. This helps ensure that annotations and other collaborative actor’s appearance won't change when opened by different users. To set this up, it will require manually editing file locations for custom styles in an XML file since this cannot be changed through the Composer user interface. Below is an outline of the steps that will be followed.
Starting with SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional 2016 SP4, you can create a task to convert Office documents to PDF. This tutorial will outline the steps to install the task when creating a new vault and adding the task to existing vaults. When creating a new PDM vault, you can select to install the Microsoft Office conversion task on the configuration details page.
This article outlines the steps necessary to upgrade Web2 from 2016 SP0 or older to 2016 SP1 or newer. When upgrading Web2 from 2016 SP1 or newer, the existing application and application pool will be upgraded automatically by the SOLIDWORKS PDM Installation Manager and the following steps do not need to be performed.
For SOLIDWORKS drawings, you can map a variable to a custom property of the model that the drawing is based on instead of a custom property of the drawing so the property value of the model is copied into the drawing’s file card. When the drawing is saved in SOLIDWORKS, the linked properties are copied from the model and updated in the drawings file card.
Toolbox Setup with SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM (2010 and Newer) This document outlines the steps to set up SOLIDWORKS Toolbox in SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM (EPDM). Managing Toolbox completely in an EPDM vault requires SOLIDWORKS version 2010 or later.