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Windows Explorer interface

Windows Explorer interface - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Windows Explorer interface

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- [Instructor] In this video we're going to take a look at the interface for PDM in Windows Explorer. Let's jump in and check it out. Right here on the side in the left you'll notice that we have the vault that I installed previously. You can always tell by the little blueberry icon. So I'm going to click on this, and I'm already logged in. And you'll see here the interface. So this is everything that's going on. This is PDM, when we talk about PDM in the Windows Explorer. So let's start at the top and then we'll work our way down and across. So first we have a set of actions that we can do. So for each file we can do things like edit it, check in, check out, get different versions. If you accidentally check a file out and don't make any changes you can undo a check out. You can also generate some items or browse to a specific item. If we move over we can modify things. The typical Windows copy, paste, type items, but then we also have, related to our workflows, changing states and…

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