- [Narrator] In the previous video,
we took a look at Solid Works PDM data cards.
Now, if we want to edit these cards,
we have to go into the administration tool
and engage the data card editor.
So let's take a look at that.
So I'm going to go find my admin tool,
open that up, going to sign into the vault,
and here we see the card section.
Now under cards, we have file cards.
And if you look down, they have cards for
all different kind of files we can run into.
For a Solid Works part or assembly,
we share a card.
Let's open that up and take a look.
So, what we see here is the Data Card Editor.
You'll notice it looks very similar
to like a Visual Basic screen,
if you've done any coding with Visual Basic before.
Pretty simple, pretty easy to use.
And you can basically drag and drop items
wherever you like in the card.
Put in some free text, link in things like
material, add a company logo,
and have all kinds of information here.
Whatever, really, you like, you can populate in here.
You can also add more tabs to your data card,
if you want to spread out the information
between different things.
So here, just going through it real quick
you'll notice that we have a part number.
This is made with just a text box,
but we've linked that to the variable of number.
We'll talk about variables later,
but you can do this with the data card link.
It's all the different variables and attributes.
So, you'll notice going through,
I've got the revision in text, but it's linked
to the revision of the file down here.
The description is driven from the description
in the part or assembly file.
Same with the material, the vendor,
the cost, project name, author, check by,
I've linked all of these to the Solid Works PDM
variables that exist, that way, when I go
and make my part, fill in my custom properties,
or fill in my data card, it will push through
to all the other categories.
Then I can leverage that information
already being input, to put it into,
let's say, a drawing for example.
Pretty great tool, here.
Not really too much to it.
You can see up here some of the tools.
The select tool, inserting an image,
inserting static text.
I'm making a frame, so you can see
we've got a frame around this box.
Adding edit control boxes, like this,
making buttons.
You can also do radio buttons,
so if you want to have a selection in here,
so let's say we put a radio button right here,
and we'll like that to a variable,
like approved on, and there you go.
So now when it's approved, we have a radio button,
and we can edit the text right there.
So, pretty simple.
You can try out some different things,
and once you're done, you just hit save.
It saves all the controls, and as you can see,
just by doing a little refresh,
now that category is going to come up,
and we're going to have that approved.
So, pretty simple.
Not a lot to it, but you can tell you can
get pretty creative with these data cards,
and really customize them to your company.
Or if you're, for example, an administrator
working with several companies,
you can take one template of a data card
and copy it out, and then edit it
for all the different customers.
Pretty awesome tool.