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SOLIDWORKS PDM users often experience popups that come up upon executing a command such as opening a SOLIDWORKS file. In this case, by default, PDM launches a popup that wants to know if you are opening a file with the intent to modify or make changes to it, or if you are simply opening it to view the file. The prompt, shown below, asks the user if they would like to check the file out. At this point, the user has a choice and is encouraged to decide if they intend to make changes to the file, and thus, check the file out.  

To specificity how a part is bent for the part to function correctly in SOLIDWORKS, we need to create something commonly called a “Process Plan Drawing”. Follow these steps to create an efficient drawing to communicate the part as it is meant to be used.

SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2017 introduced the capability of offloading an analysis to another system to run the computation. The following is required to run an offloaded simulation:

CATIA V5 PLM Express lets you bundle various configurations into a single package. This makes it easier to get what you need from CATIA in a single bundle, generally at a lower price point. In this blog, we'll go over how to install CATIA V5 PLM Express. The process is very straightforward and you can get through it with only the standard administrator permissions on your workstation.

When cleaning up your PDM vault from excess groups because of company mergers which result in importing different PDM vault administrative features like groups. You may desire to merge two groups together. Though there is no administrative merge feature you can easily use the current PDM group interface to get all desired users into a single group so the old group can be removed.

With the release of SOLIDWORKS 2019, a new option called ‘Include specified components’ has been added for saving an assembly as a part. Formerly, when saving an assembly as a part, the only options available were to Include all components, Exterior components, or Exterior faces. This new option now allows the user to specify which components are included in, or excluded from, the SLDPRT.