Good day to you all, I have some questions regarding the PDM part of SolidWorks:

1. Does it make a difference to freeze vaulted parts for the rebuild speed with a PDM system? Most parts are not checked out and are locked into the vault anyway. Or am I wrong here?
2. How can I change custom properties to look like

   "SW-Material@@configname@partname.SLDPRT"

   ? Is the only way a macro or do I have other options?
3. The BOMs here are basically done manually and we would like to automate things better. Any literature/courses/videos on this regarding PDM? Any additional best practices on how to deal with different materials from different vendors properly (shape stays the same, material changes, maybe thickness a bit, color changes....)?
   
   Any ideas?
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