Tips for Automatic File Generation (Tasks)

I was having issues getting tasks to execute on our PDM archive server. In the end it was because of a conflict in user rights.

On the task, I correctly set it to execute as admin:

However, when I was remotely connected to the server, I was logged in using my windows username and id....ie corey.hinman.

So the task was to execute as Admin, but the vault was logged into as corey.hinman. I turned off automatic login based on current user id, and logged in as Admin. Tasks are now running nice and smooth.

~Corey Hinman, CEPA

ePDM users Beware of the Rev Table!!

If you're linking your PDM controlled revisions to your titleblocks using $PRP Revision, then make sure you create a new General table to be used instead of the solidworks rev table. If you insert a new row in the rev table it will increment the "solidworks" revision of the file.

As an example: we put + after revisions that are being modified. I had a drawing that was rev 01+, I did NOT swap out the rev table for my new general table. I added a new row and typed in 02 into the rev column. When I checked the file into the vault PDM displayed the file's revision as C.

Make sure you replace the rev table!

~Corey Hinman, CEPA

Pasting as Reference to a Weldment Issue

If you paste a file as reference onto a Weldment item you WILL NOT be able to modify the QTY on the computed BOM in ePDM.

~Corey Hinman, CEPA