By combining The Logic Factory’s deep knowledge in supply chain optimization with GoEngineer’s cutting-edge design, engineering and manufacturing solutions, the partnership will help businesses streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and improve overall performance.
Documents are some of the most powerful features available in DriveWorks, greatly expanding the capabilities of your projects. With these documents, you can create an Excel file that contains your Bill of Materials, shipping labels, quotes to send to your customers, export data to a SQL database, and so much more. There are three types of Documents: Files, Data, and 3D Documents. Each corresponds to different pieces of functionality.
SOLIDWORKS PDM administrators can configure user and group accounts in such a way as to control which users have access to the full history of versions, just the latest version or only versions that have been released as revisions. This article explains the settings involved and how to create the access a user or group should have.
As additive manufacturing continues to emerge in the medical sector, companies like Stratasys have developed advanced 3D printers and digital anatomy materials that replicate human bone and tissue characteristics. Surgeons use this technology for patient-specific pre-surgical practice—raising concerns about validating the accuracy of 3D printed anatomical models.
DriveWorks Data Management is a component of DriveWorks Pro that allows control over the data stored in a DriveWorks shared or individual group. With Data Management, users can directly control project files, CAD files, specifications, etc., which are being accessed by the other DriveWorks applications such as Administrator, Live, Autopilot, and User.
The foremost item to note about this migration is that the license software itself syncs with the SolidWorks Activation Server and directly checks the license out from the system. The process requires a transfer of the license off the old server back to the SolidWorks Activation Server before the new server will be able to be activated with the SolidWorks Activation Server and allowed to administer licenses to client machines.
Whether you’re using PDM Standard or PDM Professional, you can interact with SOLIDWORKS files in two ways: directly in the PDM vault or through the PDM Add-in fly-out panel in SOLIDWORKS. This interaction includes, but is not limited to: checking a file in and out, reviewing a file’s version and associated file versions, and getting previous versions of a file*.
On December 2, 2024, GoEngineer announced its partnership with Formlabs, a leader in 3D printing, to deliver the latest commercial and dental solutions in desktop SLA and SLS 3D printing across the U.S. and Canada.
As with any Windows-based program, sometimes database files, registry keys, dlls, or many other files can get lost, deleted, or corrupted; SOLIDWORKS is not immune to these problems. Fortunately, when these problems do arise, SOLIDWORKS has a built-in repair mechanism that can rewrite the program files and registry keys back to the original install state to help get you back up and running.