Solidworks PDM to ION

Getting started

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

1

Create a Solidworks integration

First, 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.

2

Create an ION integration

Next, set up an ION integration, following the instructions here. Configure your data fetch, specifying:

• The types of data you want to fetch (parts, runs, purchase orders, etc).

• Fetch frequency - this is either scheduled, eg. every 1 hour, 10 minutes, etc., or event-driven via webhooks.

Violet will need to fetch whichever data you wish to be synced from Solidworks (eg. parts).

3

Configure sync workflow

Head to Workflows to configure your sync, including desired trigger, property mappings, business logic, etc.

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.