Mass Drawing Check-Out through PDM?

[Trogdor0]

Is it possible to transfer all drawings under a high-level assembly from PDM to a local drive at once? With the assemblies you can select to open the top-level assembly and then select all of the files to transfer. Is there something similar that would do the same thing with drawing files for those parts? Right now we either have to open each drawing or drag & drop each drawing file from PDM to the folder that we want them in, which is a very time consuming task.

 

[CADGemini]

If you want to do anything in batch mode in PDM Works you have to have the PDM Administrator do it for you. The PDM Administrator is the only one who has rights to do this.

Best Regards,
Jon

Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Solidworks 2005 SP1.1

 

[Trogdor0]

Thanks

 

[engAlright]

Pdmworks 2005 will do this for you when you pull the assembly level drawing.

There is no bulk check-out feature for PDMWorks 2004 in the adminstrator tool, just bulk check-in.

 

[EvanBasalik]

The API code to do this pretty easy. Just remember that the Save function only saves the target document, not all of its references. You need to recursively loop through the references.

You can find more in the PDMWorks API help.

Evan T. Basalik, MCSD
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It's all about prioritization...

 

[Standing]

Trogdor0,
What version of SolidWorks are you using?

Bradley

 

[Trogdor0]

We are using 2004/4.1 right now and plan to switch to 2005/1.1 in a few weeks. We also have our VAR coming in tomorrow to check why our PDMW's server is performing so slow and to answer so questions that we have. This Q is among the ones to be asked. Thanks for the replies guys...

 

[Standing]

1. Check NetWork card speed
2. Use fiber optics
3. Clean out your working directory and
4. Clean out your temp folders.

These things will speedup PDM.


Bradley

 

[engAlright]

Som other random thoughts on PDMW performance

-disk I/O - the faster the better, SCSI if you got 'em
-fast RAM - DDR2?
-as Bradley said, gigabit LAN at least on the server end
-documents and service on the same box

 

[SBaugh]

The IDE Ultra ATA drives run just as fast as the SCSI do and at half the cost.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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faq559-716 - SW Fora Users

 

[Trogdor0]

Well our VAR just left and I am left with an overview of what he and our admins talked about. Basically he thinks that because we still have a few folders with 3000-4000 files in them that they are slowing down the vault. We are in the process of getting another server and moving PDM to it's own server. I do know that the server is running GB cards. PDM doesn't seem to hang while sending, it's always after the data is sent that it wants to hang. We demonstrated a typical check-in of an assembly that we have issues with and he wasn't exactly sure what is causing it and recommended us to reduce the folder sizes. The total check-in time was around 10 mins. During this time, it hangs for all users. I'll report back with any new info. Oh and btw...he said that you can mass check-out drawings on 2005 when you check-out the assembly drawing.