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Have you ever come across the problem of having a flange on a sheet metal part in SOLIDWORKS? When an exterior flange is needed to have the ends of the flange mitered, it can be difficult to create that feature. Our goal in this quick tip is to produce something similar to this:

 

SOLIDWORKS Task Scheduler is a very useful tool that can perform hundreds, if not thousands of tedious tasks that follow simple rules the user specifies. One of the many useful tasks that can be run with the Task Scheduler is ‘Update Custom Properties’. This function allows you to create new or modify existing custom properties for individual files, batches of files, or entire folders.

Starting with SOLIDWORKS 2017 you can now rebuild all configurations in one step. This new feature will allow you to rebuild and load each configuration without having to activate each one individually. This feature will be most useful to users with a large number of configurations in their parts or assemblies.

In a SOLIDWORKS assembly, you have the flexibility to create assembly features. These are features created at the assembly level and only live in the assembly.

There are several ways to improve SQL server performance if it’s approaching low disk space or even entirely consumed its disk space. There could potentially be several culprits consuming more space than necessary. This document focuses on Recovery Models and the SQL Transaction Log outlining what you can do to mitigate its disk space consumption.

The SOLIDWORKS Property Tab Builder allows you to define a set of standard custom properties for your files and provides a convenient, user-friendly interface to add or modify the values. The Property Tab Builder can be found in the part, assembly, and drawing. The tab is located on the task pane that also holds your design library.

When a workstation is enabled on a to be a PDM task host it will store the host name in the file vault database table “Hosts” and be displayed under the “computers supporting a task” list when configuring tasks. The following steps will walk you through how to manually remove the workstation as a task host.

In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to print a current screen image in SOLIDWORKS. Right-click on the View in the FeatureManager Design Tree that you want to print and Zoom to Selection.