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Have you ever imported or exported a STEP file assembly and you are missing some of the components? If so, you have come to the right place for the steps to follow to fix the issue.

This is the fourth article in the series on manually importing CAD data into PDM. In this document we will cover the “Pack and Go” method of import.

In PDM Standard users can now easily convert many drawing files to PDF’s upon a drawings release or any other transition in a workflow. Follow these steps to execute convert to PDF tasks.

The 2018 release of SOLIDWORKS PDM revision tables can be driven by the workflow in SOLIDWORKS PDM. Now revision tables can be added to drawings with no extra work by the engineers or drafters that are creating the drawings. As soon as a drawing is approved its revision table will be updated with the relevant information.

The “SOLIDWORKS PDM File Upgrade Tool” (Upgrade Tool) is a utility provided by SOLIDWORKS to help in upgrading files in the PDM vault. You make choices as to how you want to handle the updating process and then the Upgrade Tool will start crawling through the vault, checking out files, opening them in the current SOLIDWORKS version, saving them and then checking them into the vault.

A typical PDM workflow for revision controlled documents includes a ‘Pending Approval’ state for files that are being reviewed for approval. This state normally allows the reviewer to either approve the proposed change and release the new revision, or send it back for further work – the assumption here is the change would be accepted later if the required additional modifications are made.

It’s time to get that other hand ready to start using the ALT key in SOLIDWORKS. Below is a short list of great time saving, and stress relieving uses of the ALT key. Well maybe not stress relieving, but when time is saved you can spend more of it doing things you like right?

One of the best methods for improving SOLIDWORKS large assembly performance is to create simplified configurations of the individual components for use in your assembly. A simplified configuration is basically a less detailed, or stripped-down version of your model which reduces the amount of data that must be loaded into RAM.

Shortcuts help make any job or process faster and more efficient. Using shortcuts can free you from having to navigate menus and eliminate unnecessary mouse movements. Let’s look at how to find the keyboard shortcuts and make our own in SOLIDWORKS Composer.