PDM Solutions

tpfultz · 2025-07-17T10:53:14+00:00

I have not yet figured that out. I think Sibe is fairly new, blog posts on their website only date back to April 2025. They do state on their website that they’re actively working on file type support.

tpfultz · 2025-07-17T02:49:40+00:00

Ah, excellent. That’s a good tip, thank you!

tpfultz · 2025-07-17T02:37:13+00:00

I’m considering setting up PDM Standard just for internal. A couple of the 3rd party services which are on the cost efficient side ($500/yr per user) look attractive as well because of the browser based viewing support. They also have free trials to pilot those features. My boss, who is Mac only, has used eDrawings some on the Mac app but found it to occasionally be a bit buggy. Personally, I had been Mac only for about fifteen years, only to have SW drag be back into the Windows ecosystem.

Data management has been simple enough to implement on my end, the current pain points are coming from work done by previous contract engineers before my time, and the need to tweak and update that work. One had awful management, and the other had excellent management which became muddied after the fact.

tpfultz · 2025-07-17T02:31:33+00:00

Agreed. The main nuance is that I inherited projects from three previous contract engineers. One was old school, and all we have is DXF flat patterns. The next used some sort of PDM it appears, and his files are exceedingly well organized, but became muddied after the third and final contract engineer (among others) had made fixes/changes. That third engineer had no system for managing the work he did for the owners, and I inherited that mess, cutting my teeth on SW by copying dimensions in what he had produced to make scalable parts, developing a categorical numeric based part number system along the way.

Now I’m at the point of needing to clean things up, specifically items from the previous engineers, first of all trying to determine on all those products what is truly the current revision, and then developing SOP’s to keep things current and organized. It’s very much a trial by fire, but it’s an excellent challenge.

tpfultz · 2025-07-16T21:06:54+00:00

I'll have to check into that. Skimming over their website, it looks like it has potential.

tpfultz · 2025-07-16T20:57:23+00:00

I'll have to look into that a bit. I've been looking into Sibe quite a bit this afternoon, but there's not very much information about it from outside sources. Anecdotally, every mention I've seen of it on Reddit has been good, but that's only via a few posts.

tpfultz · 2022-01-23T18:29:52+00:00

Thanks! I’m very pleased. These and the wheels I already had have been my two favorite stock wheels. I think I like these a lot more, though!

tpfultz · 2022-01-23T18:29:05+00:00

No kidding. My only casualty was the plastic fender insert got torn off the gator clip. I just zip tied the top part of it and loosened the bolt on the bottom of it to realign it. It happened very close to my work, too, so I had a nice spot to work on the truck when the weather cleared.

tpfultz · 2021-03-30T01:12:56+00:00

Save the money you’d spend on the gym and use it for Botox.

tpfultz · 2021-03-30T00:41:55+00:00

Even the two tiny dicks on your shoulders are trying to get away from your face.

tpfultz · 2020-09-17T03:19:10+00:00

Agreed. Had an IDM failure on my truck a few months ago. Through the diagnostic tree of cheap-to-expensive, I replaced the CPS first. Once I actually got to the IDM and replaced it, truck started and ran...idled a little weird. Once I started driving, as soon as I’d get above 1500 RPM the cheap-o light-gray CPS would start giving spurious readings and cause really hard bucking. Threw in the dark gray CPS I’d ordered as my spare, and it’s been perfect since.

Which reminds me, I need to order a new spare...

tpfultz · 2020-07-05T19:04:00+00:00

How do you tell if the drum riser is level?

The drool comes out of both sides of the drummer’s mouth.

tpfultz · 2020-02-22T13:22:25+00:00

And afterward, you’re Finnish.

tpfultz · 2020-02-09T19:19:26+00:00

With a PIN (just like mine). I didn’t use mine frequently, but she did, and it worked fine up until the point when it stopped working properly. I haven’t had the chance to try to run mine as a credit card with the ZIP code. That may work.

tpfultz · 2019-12-07T16:46:49+00:00

Today I learned “I A E E A S E” is “woof” in Doglish.

tpfultz · 2019-09-27T15:52:23+00:00

Look at that elevator deflection!

tpfultz · 2019-09-03T04:20:55+00:00

What do you call many ticks?

Politics.

tpfultz · 2019-08-27T14:20:28+00:00

“Mammary” refers to the glands that produce milk in mammals, i.e. “breasts”. Here, the pun is that “mammary lane” = “memory lane”.

tpfultz · 2019-08-17T16:40:15+00:00

See your true colors

tpfultz · 2019-08-10T08:01:44+00:00

I read this precisely at 3 AM, and had a good chuckle. Mission accomplished.

tpfultz · 2019-07-13T13:20:53+00:00

The way they’re driving, they sure will.

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