Solidworks Workgroup PDM Serial Number 2012: Tips and Tricks for Managing Your Data

2- Enter your SolidWorks serial number on the following page. With SOLIDWORKS Professional or Premium licenses you do not need to enter a serial number for SolidWorks Workgroup PDM. But, if you have a SOLIDWORKS Standard license then you need to purchase and enter your SolidWorks Workgroup PDM serial number too. Press Next after you have entered your serial numbers.

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3- With Professional or Premium you do not need to select SolidWorks Workgroup PDM, just click Next. But, if you have a SOLIDWORKS Standard license then you need to purchase and enter your SolidWorks Workgroup PDM serial number too. Press Next after you have entered your serial numbers.

The serial number first needs to be set up in the Administration tool. Open the Administration tool and connect to the vault. Then navigate to the Serial Number node, right-click on the node, and select New Serial Number.

Now that the Serial Number has been set up, PDM needs to have a place to use them. This is done through a field on the data card. When this field is configured, PDM will assign a number to the field from the serial number series.

Once the card is open in the card editor, the link to the serial number needs to be established. Select the number field, and in the right column under the Default Value section, you can choose Serial Number and then choose the part number serial number.

Under the Vault Settings (SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional Only) section, select the vault, then under the part, assembly and drawing tabs select the serial number to use and check the option to automatically name new files with serial number.

You can also choose the option so that when a file is saved using save-as it will pull the next serial number. In order to set these options, the Admin needs to be signed into the vault view on the machine. This is the only user that has the permissions to set these options. 2ff7e9595c