- [Voiceover] When working in "Solid Works" PDM one of
the components that we follow are the versions.
So, every time we check in and check out a file
we create another version inside of "Solid Works".
There's also revisions as well.
Going through the workflows, we can manage changing things
that have major changes, so let's say we did
incremental changes on an assembly,
but now we're ready to release it to the shop.
We can then do a revision change.
But, going back and forth through the history,
we need to used the "get" version,
or "get latest version" features, to see this.
So let's jump into assembly and see what I'm talking about.
So in this assembly here you see I've got a combination
of parts and drawing files that are referenced to this
assembly and it's components.
I'm going to go ahead and check out just the top level.
Alright. And the part I'm going to focus on is this motor here.
So let's say that I got a few different
versions of this motor, maybe for some
different powers, our usages and outputs,
maybe different ratios, things like that,
and I've denoted that by changing the color of the label
around the motor.
Alright so let's take a look at how to change through
the different versions of this part.
So I'm going to go over to the task pane here.
If I select the part, it highlights it in the featured
tree on both sides, which is pretty handy.
I'm going to right click on it,
and I'm going to go to "Get version".
So right now we have the latest version,
so if I hit "Get latest version" it just recycles
and gives me what I have already.
But if I got to "Get", I can look back through
the various versions that were saved
and if you add comments it can be helpful so,
the first one has a red label,
the second one has a blue label,
the third iteration here has a green label.
So let's go to the blue labeled version, an update.
So you can see here we've updated the part,
we've got a different version of it,
we can go ahead and save that in our assembly,
and now that'll be here when we come back.
We can also see that it's version three.
If we wanted to change that again,
we can just go to "Get", turn on the red label version,
hit "Okay", and you can see it changes our version here,
and we've got the red label version out here.
Now these changes might be more drastic than just
something like an appearance changing.
It could be anything that you change inside of a
"Solid Works" part or assembly file so,
you don't want to just switch out versions willy nilly.
You want to pay attention to what you're doing,
follow your workflow and your design flow,
and drop these in, you know,
with some expected results in mind.
If it makes sense, so, pretty easy to get the
latest versions, and then if we go ahead and check
this whole thing again, let's say,
"Changed motor",
we now have a new version of this
with the two/four selected for the version of the motor.
So pretty simple, pretty powerful.