- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to discuss
the differences between versions and revisions
when working in SOLIDWORKS PDM.
So, as we've discussed in some of the other videos,
versions are really the incremental steps between revisions.
Now, the main differentiation between the two is,
versions come just from simply checking in
and checking out files, you can have
many versions of a file, I've had several
that have gone up to near a hundred.
But in order to change revisions,
you have to implement a workflow,
which causes it to show this major change.
I'm going to open up SOLIDWORKS real quick here,
open up this part I've got open.
Now, this is just a water filter
that's used in the marine industry
that I downloaded off of a vendor's website.
If we go over here we can see that there's six versions
of this part, so let's take a look at the list.
Here we see that we've got six versions,
one from when it was created, the first one
from when it was checked in, several others
where I changed the colors, changed the glass,
changed some more colors again,
and then finally made the top with a copper appearance,
so many different versions but no revision changes.
Again, that's simply done by checking in and checking out,
so let's change this again, I'm going to just grab
a random appearance file, how about this nice, glossy blue,
we'll take this glossy blue and apply it
to the face of that top, so we made our change,
hit save, I'm going to go back into the task pane,
select my item, check it in, add a little note here,
alright go ahead and check in,
and you see we've got another version created.
Now, if we want to update the revision,
we have to initiate a workflow change,
so for this one I'm going to change
the state here to Submit for Approval,
so I'm putting this up for approval.
Now, because I'm the administrator
in this system I can go right ahead
and change the approval status myself,
so I'm going to go back up into here and say Passed Approval.
Add some comments, and hit OK.
Now you can see our version number is gone up to eight,
and if we go down to this list for the Get versions,
you can see that we've also got this new blank eight,
but also an A, so that A is our revision, so all
of these changes are captured up until point A here.
So that's the simplest version of
going between versions and revisions.
You can add all kinds of complicated steps
or uncomplicated steps, what you would do
is go into your Administration tool,
I'm going to click on my vault, and you
control this down in the Workflows area.
So you can see here the process where
we can make a flowchart, so our part began under editing,
I sent it out for approval, it was waiting for approval,
it passed approval, and then once approved
certain actions are started, so here
our Alpha Revision is incremented
once it reaches that stage, so there's a lot of
customization you can do in here,
but workflows are really a course all on their own,
we won't be covering too much here,
but just know that some of the default workflows
that you get, pretty easy to work with.
So going back to our part, we now see
that we've got all of our versions,
and in our dropdown we've also got our revision.