Hopefully this will give you some ideas to show how to create serial numbers for your files in PDM Professional.

Now you can test this via the right click menu inside the vault: You can copy these to card variables as well if required.įinally set the user and group permissions. Now in the files and folders tab, click on the select template button, pick the part file template you have already checked in, then set the template to the partnumber serial number as below. Because there are multiple ways to purchase SOLIDWORKS products, some serial numbers can cover two or more. The Installation Manager will automatically fill in the serial numbers of the products that you are entitled to use. Set the ‘execute as’ options for permissions, then on the template cards tab, select templatre variables and then add a new one, called partnumber, linked to the serial number as below. In the Sign In dialog box, enter your SOLIDWORKS ID, which can be your email address, and your password. Give the template a name, in this case create new part. In the admin tool, select create new template:

I have done this for a part but you could obviously do them for parts, assemblies and drawings and they would all be linked to the same serial number (assuming you wanted the naming to be consistent, or you could cretae multiple serial numbers for different formats) (You could also do this for drawing and assembly files etc) This will be the file that the template uses to create new files. The next step is to create and check in a new empty part file in a templates folder in the vault. You can customise this as required and use different strings for the serial number.

In this example I have set the counter value to have 7 digits, so it would by default start at 0000000, then 0000001 and so on. The ‘Next counter Value‘ can also be set if you want it to start somewhere other than 0. The Format of the serial number can set from the pull-down and by manually adding static text. This is done by right clicking the Serial Number node in the administration tool The first step is to create a serial number. In this Blog I will show how to set up a very basic part template and serial number so new SOLIDWORKS part files created in the vault takes a file name from the serial number.

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