Windchill and Solidworks

The CAD community at my company is divided between Pro/E and
SolidWorks users. The Pro/E side uses Windchill 8.0 (soon to be 9.0)
for data management. The SolidWorks side is deciding between
Windchill and PDMWorks. I have heard that the Windchill Workgroup
Manager for SolidWorks is usually a revision behind SolidWorks
releases, which would mean it can not manage 2008 data. Anyone know
of a SolidWorks release limitation in Windchill? (We have a call into
PTC but are too impatient to wait for a call back.)

Also, if anyone has any opinions about the Windchill Workgroup Manager
for SolidWorks, they would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

 

You would not be hurting yourself to stay a release behind in SW.

TOP

 

I do not have any experience with Windchill Workgroup manager, but I
do have a decade of experience with SolidWorks. As Paul (TOP)
indicated, do not concern yourself with being immediatly compatible
with 2008. It is common in this industry to wait 4-8 months after a
release of SWx for an enterprise to adopt a new version ( due to bug
repair). Though some inevetibly do, (for the most part) the next year
they don't.
I just wanted to give you another data point to reinforce Paul on his
comment.
Ed

 

Thanks for the insight. A wise decision was made to go with PDMWorks.