Comments on: PDMWE API 201 – A Simple Addin To Pull Document Numbers On Demand

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:04:34 +0000

Hi Patrick,

There are two customers using this add-in with very positive feedback and there is another customer that is just now implementing a version of this add-in that pulls the numbers from a SQLServer database instead of from the PDMWE serial number sequence.

Thanks for the positive words and I will be in San Diego next month. See you there?

By: patrick

patrick — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:53:29 +0000

Jeff, this is great stuff. Feedback from customers using it? I assume you will be in San Diego next month?

By: Daniel Rohats

Daniel Rohats — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:13:19 +0000

Great Add-In. Just what I needed to use to create part numbers only when needed. It is a shame that the API does not support direct writing to the data card or the input card. Perhaps that needs to be an enhancement request.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:20:34 +0000

Josh,

This Addin is written for PDMWorks Enterprise, which runs on a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database. It is an excellent tool for managing your windows files, especially SolidWorks, Autocad and Microsoft Office files. PDMWorks Workgroup, which is I think what you were referring to, does not use a relational database such as Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Although, a flat file is technically a “database,” just not a relational database.
However, even without a relational database as a backend, PDMWorks Workgroup is still an excellent tool for what it is designed for which is managing SolidWorks data for a small (~10 or fewer) engineering group that is located at a single site.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:23:59 +0000

seeing post like this make me wonder if I should try out PDMWorks. I’ve never liked the whole vault thing though. Does it really just use flatfile instead of databases to store info?