- [narrator] In this file, I want to show you
what you can do with a .cex file.
Now, let's go right into the
solid works PDM administration tool.
So you'll notice, if you click on one of your vaults,
connect, login, and then right click,
we've got an import-export option here.
So, what this allows us to do
is to copy all of the settings.
Now, that includes things like groups we've created,
users that we've listed, workflows we've created.
All of the data that's really part of
this administration tool.
So, if we want to create the export file,
we right click, go to export,
click on the save button,
and then we'll just drop this on our desktop.
So we're going to say test.
So you can see here, we've got our blueberry icon,
with the little notepad.
If we right click and check the properties,
it's a .cex file.
So this is the administrative PDM file.
Now, to import it, this is just as easy.
You just right-click, click on import,
select the file, and hit open.
Now you'll see here, I've done this a couple times.
So it's saying, we already have a different version of this,
and we do want to overwrite it, so we say yes to all.
And now we've copied all of our settings around
in a little circle.
But let's say we're making a new vault,
and we want to copy the settings.
So, let's right-click, create new vault.
Same steps as before, when we create a vault.
Except for right here.
So, when it goes to configuring the vault,
we're going to choose use a configuration
based on administrative export file, a .cex file.
So we can browse, I've got it set to the desktop.
Open up that file, click next, finish,
and now it's replicating all of the information
that we had from this file into our new vault.
So let's let it do its thing for a minute.
All right, all finished, close.
We see the new vault here.
We're going to log in and take a look.
And just to verify I'm going to take a look at my users list,
and you can see, I've copied a list of users
from my office here.
All right, so that's what you can do
with a cex file, an administrative PDM file.
You can use it to copy all your settings,
and kind of replicate your vault settings.
Now, this doesn't replicate any vault data,
any of your files,
just the settings that you use in your vault.