Major Bug in Pdmworks 2006?

Windows XP pro
Solidworks 2006
Pdmworks 2006

1, Check-out a document into your local working folder.
2. Go back to the vault and try to check-out the same document into the same
folder.

The "get local copy" tick box , (when ticked), stops you getting the Vault
version and reopens the local copy version.

Un-ticking the "get local copy" tick box, stops you opening the vault
version by deselecting the item tick box in the listing!

Delete the document(s) from your working folder, to get the documents from
your vault, you need to have the "get local copy" box ticked!!!!!

Huh?????

 

Well, I think that you do not understand the theory behind PDM systems.
The reason this behaves this way is to eliminate the need to overwrite
files. If you check-out a file, then close it. Why would you need to
check-out the file again? Just open the local copy, the only time you
need to go back to the vault is if you check-in the file, someone else
checks it out makes changes and checks it back in. Then you would need
to get the latest version.

In the future please try to ask a general question before you cry
"MAJOR BUG!", esspecially when this is not one.

 

Firstly, if you had looked at the message heading, it was a question, not a
statement.
Secondly, the whole post was asking questions.

But to continue,

For an example, you have checked out an assembly and you make some changes
to it.
Solidworks promptly crashes and corrupts the local copy assembly, rare, but
it happens!

"The reason this behaves this way is to eliminate the need to overwrite
files."

With Pdmworks 2005, you were able to re-checkout the assembly and over-write
the local copy assembly.

With Pdmworks 2006, you don't have that option, as the "get local copy" tick
box has to be selected. Now as I understand it, "get local copy" means
exactly that, the local working copy in your working folder. Now if I want
the vault version, why do you still need to have "get local copy", selected
to open the vault version?

The only safe way that I can see, is to delete every document in the working
folder first, then you will be able to get the vault version.
Then there is no local copy so that option is redundent.

So please explain this theory behind "get local copy" has to be selected,
when you require the vault version, that I don't seem to understand.

Thank you

 

Get local copy, does just that it gets a local copy of the file. So if
you already have the file in your working folder and it is corrupt, you
can check-out again and select "Get local copy". This will prompt you
to overwrite the existing file.

 

Thank you both, I have finally grasped the meaning of "get local copy"
whilst in the check-out dialogue!

When working in the vault check-out dialogue box "get local copy" refers to
the vault local copy, as in "local to the vault" and not the "local" copy
stored in the "local" working copy folder.

This seems to be a bit confusing, I think it should say, "get vault copy" as
the Solidworks file management book, states that "production files may be
kept on a local drive", also the Solidworks Pdmworks book talks about "local
view" showing the local drives and vault views, two entirely different
views. this book also talks about "local work space" referring to the
folders on the local drives.

Terminology at it's best, lol