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Multi-Site SolidWorks with PDMWorks
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- Jan 14, 2002
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Robbo1971,
We keep all our parts in PDM Vault. Then our other locations go over the intranet to get to the vault. It is very slow for them. Maybe your IT department could replicate the vaults in all locations every night. Bad idea I know, just thinking out load.
Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2009 x64, SP2.0
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
HP xw8600,
64-bit Windows Vista Business
Service Pack 1
Intel Xeon CPU, 3.00 GHz, 16 GB RAM, Virtual memory 166682 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 4600 Driver 7.15.11.6956
We keep all our parts in PDM Vault. Then our other locations go over the intranet to get to the vault. It is very slow for them. Maybe your IT department could replicate the vaults in all locations every night. Bad idea I know, just thinking out load.
Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2009 x64, SP2.0
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
HP xw8600,
64-bit Windows Vista Business
Service Pack 1
Intel Xeon CPU, 3.00 GHz, 16 GB RAM, Virtual memory 166682 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 4600 Driver 7.15.11.6956
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- Jan 14, 2002
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Yes, that maybe true. Doesn’t SmarTeam cost a lot and training time is high. Also SmarTeam I think is always a year behind SolidWorks, that is what I heard several years ago.
Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2009 x64, SP2.0
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
HP xw8600,
64-bit Windows Vista Business
Service Pack 1
Intel Xeon CPU, 3.00 GHz, 16 GB RAM, Virtual memory 166682 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 4600 Driver 7.15.11.6956
Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2009 x64, SP2.0
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
HP xw8600,
64-bit Windows Vista Business
Service Pack 1
Intel Xeon CPU, 3.00 GHz, 16 GB RAM, Virtual memory 166682 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 4600 Driver 7.15.11.6956
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- Jan 14, 2002
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Yes Enterprise-PDM can replicate the vaults.
If I had it to do over again I would go for Enterprise-PDM.
Our VAR says the transition and cost is to high to switch.
Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2009 x64, SP2.1
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
HP xw8600,
64-bit Windows Vista Business
Service Pack 1
Intel Xeon CPU, 3.00 GHz, 16 GB RAM, Virtual memory 166682 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 4600 Driver 7.15.11.6956
If I had it to do over again I would go for Enterprise-PDM.
Our VAR says the transition and cost is to high to switch.
Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2009 x64, SP2.1
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
HP xw8600,
64-bit Windows Vista Business
Service Pack 1
Intel Xeon CPU, 3.00 GHz, 16 GB RAM, Virtual memory 166682 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 4600 Driver 7.15.11.6956
Bradley's comment about SmarTeam is correct.
I would go with PDMWorks Enterprise.
But, if you are working on aerospace products and need to transfer files to/from your customers/vendors, check to see if SmarTeam will benefit you. A lot of large companies use SmarTeam.
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08; CATIA V5
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
SolidWorks Legion
I would go with PDMWorks Enterprise.
But, if you are working on aerospace products and need to transfer files to/from your customers/vendors, check to see if SmarTeam will benefit you. A lot of large companies use SmarTeam.
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08; CATIA V5
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
SolidWorks Legion
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