PDMWorks Enterprise vs Windchill PDMLink

Hello all,

Our company is currently reevaluating CAD and PDM solutions. We are currently running ProE wildfire 2.0 and Intralink 3.4. We are trying to decide between solidworks/pdmworks and wildfire3.0/PDMLink. I am in the IT dept, but work closely with eng. department. They are leaning heavily toward Solidworks on the CAD side, and the logical choice for PDM would be PDMWorks Enterprise. However, we have been using PTC for a long time. From my outside-looking in view, it does seem that solidworks is where the industry is heading. However, I am skeptical about the PDM side and performance...seems like Windchill has the upper hand here . I've heard horror storis about performance and PDMworks (maybe was just the workgroup edition?). We have about 16 engineers and need to share info with users in (US-China) and other countries. Roughly 17,000 objects in our vault.

Any thoughts or experiences with both?

Thanks in advance!

Reply to
Rubin Farr
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I have no experience with the PTC product, but we have used PDMWE/Conisio for about 6 years. You could email me offline if you wish to discuss further.

WT

Reply to
Wayne Tiffany

Another option is Solidworks with DBWorks by Mechworks (Gold Partner)

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This package seems to handle configurations much better than the new PDMWorks Enterprise via Solidworks/Conisio.

Keith

PS Why the new evaluation? How much legacy ProE stuff do you have?

Reply to
Keith Streich

Thanks all for the replies!

Well...we are virtually all PTC with some autocad /various cam packages in molding. I think some issues that are causing a new evaluation are

1) end of life for intralink--we will have to upgrade to ilink 8 (have not heard good things about it) or PDMlink in the near future 2) lacking FEA abilities (using mechanica at the moment) 3) sharing/collaboration of data with int'l sites

Not to mention that the 2 guys championing the move have more solidworks experience ;) Any additional thoughts / insights are greatly appreciated.

Reply to
Rubin Farr

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