Solidworks PDM to ION

Getting started

Follow the instructions below to automatically sync data from Solidworks PDM to ION.

1

Create an ION integration

First, connect ION and create your integration (instructions here). You can specify things like:

• the types of data you want to fetch into Violet (parts, purchase orders, procedures and runs, etc.)

• how often data should be fetched (up to every 10 minutes)

2

Connect Solidworks PDM and create an integration

Next, connect Solidworks PDM and create your integration (instructions here).

Violet fetches part and assembly data from Solidworks PDM by connecting directly to your PDM server's SQL database. Alternatively, you can manually upload a BOM in .csv format that's been exported from Solidworks.

3

Configure data sync

Last, configure how data should be synced to ION by specifying:

• the types of data you want to sync to ION

• any specific rules for what should be synced (for example, by release status, prefix/suffix, etc.)

• any custom fields or attributes

One-time data syncs

Alternatively, you can push assemblies to ION on a one-off basis.

1. Navigate to the desired Solidworks PDM assembly in Violet. Under Automations, select your target app and click Push.

2. Once successful, you will now see this assembly in both Violet and ION. Any future pushes will update existing parts and/or create new parts intelligently (it will not duplicate data).

Observability

To learn more about monitoring performance and health & status of your data syncs, head to Observability.