Solidworks Vault Use Instructions, Standard Operating Procedure?? 1

[Berndog12]

Hello,
We have PDMWorkgroup and we are rapidly bringing more and more new Solidworks users into the Vault. Does anyone have a step by step guide or SOP written for how to use the vault that is easy to follow and could help get my users up to speed quicker than trial and error? I want to try to get more control over the Vault and have less errors and "oops!" mistakes. Thanks so much!

Bernie

Bernie
SolidWorks 2008 SP3.0
Windows XP Pro SP2, Pentium4 3.00GHz
2GB RAM, Nvidia Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI

 

[Standing]

Bernie,
Look at FAQs faq559-1227

Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2009 x64, SP1.0
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

 

[ctopher]

I have followed these steps in the beginning, but each company is different.
Start with the basics that Bradley suggested (FAQs), then have weekly or monthly user meetings at your company to show all users the steps. They will eventually get it. This will eventually turn into your own company standard.
I did this for 20+ users and it worked well for most of them (there are always stragglers).

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
SolidWorks Legion

 

[fcsuper]

Training, training, training.

Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group

 

[macduff]

Berndog12,
Here try this. I just wrote this for our company, but is not formally released yet. The spec is a guideline for internal filing and naming conventions.

Hope this helps,

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2008 SP 4.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer

 

[fcsuper]

Ok, and in addition, here's some general ideas:

http://www.fcsuper.com/swblog/?p=37

(Creating CAD Standards)

Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group

 

[Standing]

Matt,
Very well done on the CAD Standards for SolidWorks.
A star for you.

Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2009 x64, SP1.0
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