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[Music] my name is jim ward and i am a certified solidworks pdm technical support specialist with go engineer in this video i will be discussing how to set up a computer to run tasks such as the task to create a pdf from a solidworks drawing this will be for solidworks pdm professional only as pdms standard only allows tasks to be executed on the computer where the task was initiated lets talk about the requirements for the task server or the computer thats going to be running the task a task server is a computer that is used to run solidworks pdm tasks course thats what it is it saves engineers time for the task to run on a dedicated computer that way they dont have to wait for the pdf to generate while i mean on their own computer then they have to they cant do any work while the pdf is being generated now the most common task is to create a pdf of a drawing but there are other tasks of course you can create step files and with pdf professional you can have a task to create al