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SolidWorks Enterprise PDM

Whats New in 2014

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Themes for Enterprise PDM 2014

Focus areas for this release:

Flexible cache management
Improved user Experience
Performance

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EPDM Whats New

Cache Management
Clear cache during logout

Refresh cache during login

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EPDM Whats New

Flexible Reference Retrieval

Enable the get version command in
SolidWorks
Auto select reference files to get
latest when checking out
Show Reference Selection Controls

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EPDM Whats New

Version Comparison of Referenced Files

Column for Reference version
Quick info icon for outdated references

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EPDM Whats New

Improved Column Controls

Easily display variable data
Reorder columns
Affected Dialogs:
Contains
Where Used
Check In/Check Out
Copy Tree
Change State (reorder only)

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EPDM Whats New

Expandable/Collapsible Reference Trees

Expand and collapse tree structures
Show Top Level or All levels control
Jump to warning controls
Affected Dialogs:
Contains
Where Used

EXPANDED

Check in /Check Out

Copy Tree
Change State

COLLAPSED

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EPDM Whats New

Dynamic Notification User Selection Filter

Quickly find and select users

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Microsoft Office Integration

Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Check out, check in
Get previous versions
Search
Workflow transitions

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EPDM Whats New

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Performance
Improved browsing speed on high volume folders
Change state in WAN environments
Large assembly related improvements

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Summary of Themes and Projects

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Focus areas for this release:

Flexible cache management
Keep latest file versions cached in specified folders on log in
Automatically clear cache on specified folders on log off

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Improved User Experience

Reference dialogs (i.e. Contains, Where
used, Copy Tree, etc)
Custom columns to display variable values
Reorder columns
Expand/collapse structure in reference
dialogs
Parent Node Check boxes in reference
dialogs
Buttons to cycle through file warnings

SolidWorks Add-in
Permit getting older versions when always work with
latest is enabled
Quick Info Icons propagate to top level
Referenced version information display
New icon to indicate when a file reference is not to the
latest version

Microsoft Office Integration (Word, PowerPoint and

Excel)
User filter for dynamic notifications
Disable Get latest for reference files in Check Out
dialog

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Summary of Themes and Projects

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Performance
Change state in WAN environments
Large assembly related improvements

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