{"id":4783,"date":"2016-10-07T11:36:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T10:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2016-10-07T11:36:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T10:36:27","slug":"whats-new-in-solidworks-2017-latest-version-overwrite-in-solidworks-pdm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/10\/whats-new-in-solidworks-2017-latest-version-overwrite-in-solidworks-pdm\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s New in SOLIDWORKS 2017: Latest Version Overwrite in SOLIDWORKS PDM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s that time again! Over the next few weeks, our Territory Technical Managers will be sharing their thoughts and walking us through a closer look at some of their favourite new features in SOLIDWORKS 2017.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/407jaRaCafA?rel=0\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Latest Version Overwrite in SOLIDWORKS PDM<\/b> \u2013 This is one for all of you managing your data in SOLIDWORKS PDM, and it\u2019s called \u201cLatest Version Overwrite\u201d. In previous versions of PDM, a new file version was created for any change to a file or its metadata \u2013 in many cases this wasn\u2019t really necessary\u2026for instance day end check in, fixing a typo on a drawing, or upgrading a file from one major release version to another. In 2017, your PDM Administrator can allow users to overwrite the current file version with a brand new setting\u2026let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2016\/10\/whats-new-2017-latest-version-overwrite-solidworks-pdm.html\" target=\"_blank\">SOLIDWORKS Tech Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s that time again! Over the next few weeks, our Territory Technical Managers will be sharing their thoughts and walking us through a closer look at some of their favourite&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,126],"tags":[25,130],"class_list":["post-4783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks","category-solidworks-epdm","category-solidworks-pdm-standard","tag-solidworks-2","tag-solidworks-2017"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4788,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions\/4788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}