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SOLIDWORKS PDM Apr 23, 2021

SOLIDWORKS PDM Permissions are adjusted within the PDM Administration Tool. To access this tool, the PDM client must be installed on the computer. You will navigate to the start menu and type in “Administration”. After launching the Administration Tool, select the Vault in which you want to manage permissions and log in. You will need to log in with an account that has adequate permissions to make changes, such as “admin”. 

In the event of a Windows user profile becoming inaccessible, whether through corruption or other means, the SOLIDWORKS Copy Settings Wizard cannot be used to recover and restore the user’s SOLIDWORKS settings on the user’s new profile. SOLIDWORKS settings are stored in the user’s registry. To recover the user’s SOLIDWORKS settings from the inaccessible profile, the old profile’s registry can be accessed from the working profile using the command prompt.

CAMWorks Jan 09, 2019

When performing a 3-axis finishing operation on the outer edges of a part in CAMWorks, the tool will not reach the full extent.The issue might be interpreted that the tool is not going low enough, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. What is actually limiting the tool’s depth is the setting Automatic Contain Area which dictates how the tool’s center behaves with the model.