- [Instructor] Now up until this point in the video series,
we've been focusing mainly on our server location
and all the installations and preparation
we have to do on that end.
We looked at requirements,
we looked at professional versus standard,
and all the things that go into creating our initial vault.
Now it's time to start connecting our local workstations
that our users use to this vault on the server.
So at this point, I'm working on my local workstation.
This would be your normal office workstation
where you do your work day-to-day.
You can see that I've got SOLIDWORKS 2017 installed on it,
and I've got SOLIDWORKS Premium.
So we can pop this open real quick.
I'm going to go ahead and activate my license on this.
You'll notice before when I opened it up
my license wasn't activated.
Which is fine.
We can just do that very quickly
using the Activation Wizard.
You'll want to make sure that your SOLIDWORKS is activated
for all of these operations.
Now if we go up top and look at the add-ins
that we actively have right now,
you'll notice we've got all the normal players here.
We've got motion, routing, simulation,
toolbox, everything that comes with premium,
but we don't have any PDM or EPDM or workgroup PDM
buttons visible here yet.
So what we're going to have to do is
go back into the installation manager
and start doing this process.
The first thing we'll want to do
is look at our client requirements for the installation.
Now if you've got SOLIDWORKS running on your machine,
more likely than not you meet the requirements.
SOLIDWORKS PDM doesn't really require too much
other than a stable network connection.
And that's the thing that's critical.
You can use SOLIDWORKS all day every day
without having a connection to your server
or necessarily a connection to the internet,
but for PDM to work, you have to have a constant connection
through your local network so that PDM can communicate
back with the server and the archive server
and then push that information back to you constantly.
So I'm going to go ahead and cancel right here.
I'm going to close SOLIDWORKS.
Now at this point we can go ahead
and begin the client installation.
So I've already downloaded
all the files that I need offline.
So here you can see I've got my SOLIDWORKS setup,
and I've already extracted it.
I'm going to go ahead and run that application.
Now new in 2017 they've actually added the PDM Client
into the SOLIDWORKS installation itself,
so instead of going down to server products
and using install server PDM products and choosing Client,
you want to do a modify to your installation.
So we're going to go ahead and keep modify.
Go next.
We've got our SOLIDWORKS serial loaded
in there automatically because we've already
installed SOLIDWORKS previously.
You can see here we've got a list of options
that we can choose from,
but the one we want to focus on is adding
the SOLIDWORKS PDM Client,
and we're also going to add the Item Explorer.
So we choose those two items,
keep everything else as it is.
If you needed to install any other components right now
you can do that as well.
But we're just focusing on the PDM Client.
So let's go ahead and click next.
So it's noting here that we need more files.
So it's got to download the SOLIDWORKS PDM Client,
which is fine.
So we're going to go ahead and let that happen.
Here we've got our summary again.
We can go through and edit things if we need to.
We're not removing any products.
For our download options we're going to download and install,
same as before.
And our installation location,
which is locked in,
and then our SOLIDWORKS PDM Client options.
So here we want to go in,
change this to SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional,
because we're using Professional.
We're going to do it as a SOLIDWORKS PDM CAD Editor.
As we mentioned before, CAD Editor
is the highest level user.
Contributors can add but not edit CAD data,
and viewers can simply view the data.
For this installation I'm also going to include the
Microsoft Office integration,
the SOLIDWORKS Add-in, and the DraftSight add-in.
If you're also using Inventor you can turn that on
and use the Inventor add-in as well.
In previous years you used to have to install
the Microsoft Office integration as a separate installation,
but in 2017 they've started rolling everything
back into the installation manager,
so it's your one-stop shop for download files
to do your installations and upgrades.
So we're going to go back to our summary.
We've accepted the terms.
We see what our estimated download and install size is.
Let's go ahead and click download and modify.
This is going to run through the download
and installation process similar to before.
All right, as usual the installation manager
is giving us the option to pause the installation
if we want for some reason,
but we're going to go ahead and click install now.
All right, now our installation is complete.
I'm going to deselect the show me what's new
because personally I don't like it when you're done with
the installation it pops up the PDF from the website.
So you can just unclick that.
The what's new is always available online
or right through your help.
Also once again, if you click the yes I want to join
to the Customer Experience Improvement Program
your CAD admin will be able to use the CAD admin dashboard
to monitor your system.
If you don't want to do that, you can say no thank you
or remind me later.
You can always turn this option on
right from the systems options dialogue box.
So I'm going to click finish,
close this window.
Now let's open up SOLIDWORKS and see if we've got
PDM Client installed.
We just saw PDM Client in the flash,
so that's a good sign.
Go to our add-ins, and now we can see
we've got PDM Client activated.
In the task ribbon on the right
they've also added a tab for the blueberry.
So we can go over here and open that up,
and yes we have the PDM Client now installed.
So let's go ahead and close SOLIDWORKS,
and that completes our PDM Client installation.