EPDM vs Autodesk Vault Manufacturing

[tigermoth]

Anyone got any comments on the user-friendliness of PDM Enterprise vs Autodesk Vault Professional in a mixed Solidworks/AutoCad drawing office? Anyone tried to use either on a Novell Netware network?

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

You may already be aware of this, but;

Taken from

http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/SystemRequirements.html

(8) Novell networks and non-Windows based network storage devices are not tested or recommended.

 

[ctopher]

I was not involved in details, but my last company did a compare between PDME and Vault, PDME was a better value. But, they went with Vault because the ACAD nuts b*tched too much. Management's CAD ignorance was on their side.

Chris
SolidWorks 10 SP4.0
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[fcsuper]

Enterprise PDM was originally designed for AutoCAD products.

Matt Lorono
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources & SolidWorks Legion

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solidworks & http://twitter.com/fcsuper

 

[AnnaWood]

To expand on Matt's comment EPDM was a product called Conisio before SolidWorks bought them a few years ago.

Anna Wood
Core i7 EE965, FirePro V8700, 12 Gb RAM, OCZ Vertex 120 Gb SSD, Dell 3008WFP 30" Monitor
SW2011 PR1, Windows 7 x64

http://www.solidmuse.com

http://www.phxswug.com

 

[tigermoth]

Thanks all. We have a nice solid Novell netware network and are reluctant to depart from it, but sounds like we'll have to in order to use either PDM (EPDM or Vault).
ctopher - did Vault talk nicely to Solidworks in actual practice?
fcsuper & AnnaWood - Yes I was aware of the Conisio origins of EPDM, in fact we evaluated Conisio way back when Autodesk were selling it as their PDM package. (Shows how long we have dithered over a PDM decision). I've always been a bit wary of Swedish software after a bad experience with something called Mechslide (an add-on for AutoCad).
Autodesk seem to be promoting Vault Manufacturing very well - their YouTube presentations seem streets ahead of EPDM. You struggle to find interesting and relevant equivalent presentations of EPDM. I get the impression Autodesk ditched Conisio in favour of building something better, and have done a good job of it.
However, my feeling is that we should probably go with EPDM because the integration with Solidworks will be better and more complete.

 

[ctopher]

Anna and Matt,
Thanks, I had forgot about that.

tigermoth,
<did Vault talk nicely to Solidworks in actual practice?>
We didn't try much with it, but I was able to checkin a couple SW parts. PDMW was more intuitive IMO. But, I had been working with PDMW for several years before the test.
Autodesk also gave us a runaround with version capabilities and prices, so we didn't pursue much further.

Chris
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