PDM User Installation

This guide covers installing PDM on a clients computer. Troubleshooting for PDM can be found here

Table of Contents

• Creating A PDM User Account
• Installing PDM

Creating A PDM User Account

You will need PDM/SolidWorks installed on your local machine to achieve this. 

1. Open the Administration application. Log into the PDM Vault using the bitwarden login under Solidworks PDM. (PDM username at the bottom)

2. Expand the Users and Groups Management and then right click Users -> New User.

3. Add a login name firstname.lastname. Then add a password that is the same as the username.

   

   pdm-add-user

4. Afterwards, open the user the in the lefthand menu select Groups. Add them to the General User group.

Installing PDM

Installing PDM is reliant that you have first installed SolidWorks.

1. Inside the extracted folder from downloading SolidWorks there is a PDM Vault.cvs. Copy the file path.

2. Open an administrative powershell prompt and run this command.

   • Update the path_to_cvs_file_here with the path from step 1.

   & "C:\Program Files\SOLIDWORKS Corp\SOLIDWORKS PDM\ViewSetup.exe" path_to_cvs_file_here /q

3. Test login in the SOLIDWORKS PDM Search app.