Viewing Versions and Revisions
The revision management function keeps track of old versions and revisions
of all files. When you check out a file and modify it, a new version is
created and stored in the vault. To save the file changes to the vault,
check
in the file. A version stores the changes that were made to
the file after the previous version was modified. All files have at least
one version, the original file, version 1.
You can assign a name to a version to identify
it easily. See Identifying
Versions Using Labels.
When you finish editing a file, you can assign it an official revision
number automatically or manually. Automatic assignments must meet the
conditions defined in the workflow. Permissions can be customized to grant
access to all versions or only to official revisions of files.
Revisions can contain alphanumeric components.
Viewing Versions and Revisions
You can open any version or revision of a file to recover it exactly
as it was at that earlier stage. You can read the file version notes,
roll back to this earlier version, and make it the latest version, deleting
all subsequent changes.
To view versions and revisions of files:
Select the file.
Do one of the following:
Click File,
History or right-click and select
History 
. Select
the version or revision and click Get.
Right-click and select
Get Latest Version 
.
Right-click and select
Get Version to view any previous
version or revision.
SolidWorks Enterprise PDM copies the master
file from the vault to your local working folder (cache), overwriting
the version in your cache. The Versions tab shows the version status on your
local cache.
You can choose to Always
work with latest version (see Setting Options).