PHLYX,
If you have a part that is used on several machines then does your example mean there are several copies of the same part?
No. PDM/Works allows a document to exist in only one folder but it can be referenced in an "infinite"(Theorically) a amount of places. This holds true...
I might be wrong but Thread559_45542 did not appear to cover folder structuring in PDM/Works. Based on my limited experience here is my advise. We too design and build custom machinery mostly one of kind automation machinery. We have components folders oranized by vendor and a folder per...
There appears to be a significant adavantage to updating the format of Solidworks documents to the latest version of Solidworks you currently run in the PDM/Works Vault. My question is - What is the best way to do this? I am already familiar with getting a copy of all the files from the vault...
Re: Deleting documents.
When you delete a document it deletes the document and all revisions(versions) of that document from the vault. There is a way (atleast i have been told)to recover a deleted document so long as as a particular folder in the vault is not deleted. I may be wrong but there...
Re: orig question
Itlooks like PDM/Works was not grabbing the dependent files required for the assembly. Although using the checkout does in fact grab all the dependents by default it also takes ownership of the assembly which may not be what you intend. It appears to me that when you selected...
