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SOLIDWORKS Delivery Day 2025 FD02 brings a variety of enhancements across SOLIDWORKS, 3DEXPERIENCE, and Visualize aimed at boosting productivity, improving workflows, and enhancing user experience. From command search improvements to smarter integration with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, 2025 FD02 offers plenty of reasons to get excited. Let’s dive into the highlights.

When using Microsoft SQL Server with SOLIDWORKS PDM, you will absolutely come across situations where you need the system admin password for SQL – upgrades, backups, running SQL queries, SQL card lists for data cards, etc. If you find yourself without the SA password recorded anywhere, you’ll be left stuck and unable to access a major component of your PDM system. This article is meant to walk through the two main ways you can reset your SQL password when you don’t already have it on hand.

GrabCAD Streamline Pro supercharges the operation of Stratasys 3D printing environments by simplifying the management of single machines to large, complex fleets. While not strictly required to run your printers, it is a platform I’ve come to rely on to keep operations flowing smoothly. It’s particularly helpful when managing high print volumes, multiple materials, tight schedules, and access controls, all from a unified, cloud-based interface.

The SOLIDWORKS "Split" command (Insert > Features > Split) is a great tool for breaking a solid body into multiple sections and/or deleting sections of a solid body or bodies. This blog will review this tool and help you better understand the resulting bodies.  

SOLIDWORKS Visualize is an excellent go-to for photorealistic renderings for marketing announcements and brochures for your company’s product(s), among many other use cases. It became the standard photorealistic software offered by SOLIDWORKS following the retirement of PhotoView360. Starting in 2024, SOLIDWORKS Professional and Premium now include a SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard seat. This article provides some tips and tricks for how to make your engraved lettering stand out in your product marketing.

SOLIDWORKS Composer is a great tool for making technical documentation for your product designs, from work instructions to technical specifications. However, there may be instances during a project when changes need to be made to the CAD design. Once the mechanical design is updated, what should you do? Start the technical document from scratch using the new model and hope it won’t need further updates?

Reliable stress results are crucial for making informed engineering decisions, ensuring safety, and optimizing designs. When running a simulation, it’s essential that the results align with real-world observations, despite the assumptions and approximations present in any analysis. Careful modeling and analysis setup are necessary to avoid errors and misleading results. A sufficiently refined mesh with appropriate element choices is the best way to balance efficiency and accuracy in analysis results. This blog explores key meshing techniques to improve the accuracy and reliability of stress results in Abaqus.

When a new user needs access to SOLIDWORKS PDM Client on their workstation, it's necessary to add a Vault View, which is the user interface used to access files. To do this, a permission called Attach Access must be applied to the user on the server.

Many new administrators and users of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform often have questions about Collaborative Spaces—specifically, their visibility settings and member permissions. While this can be confusing at first, the information and tables below will help you implement Collaborative Spaces effectively.