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With every new release of SOLIDWORKS, there are small improvements that are basically undocumented and sometimes pretty invisible, yet they are very handy and can offer quite a bit of time savings if they are just known about. With the release of SOLIDWORKS 2015, this is no exception. In this article, I'll show a few of these small enhancements.

So, it is time to upgrade your SOLIDWORKS PDM and SOLIDWORKS. Along with SOLIDWORKS, you will need to upgrade the Toolbox. In your case, your company has multiple clients to upgrade. Prior to SOLIDWORKS PDM, you had the Toolbox in a shared location on your network. In this situation, the first client to be upgraded would also upgrade the Toolbox in the shared location. As other clients are upgraded, they will begin to upgrade Toolbox, realize it has already been upgraded so will skip the Toolbox upgrade as it is unnecessary

 

While modeling in SOLIDWORKS, users can quickly and easily speed up the building of assembles by making a selection of parts into a subassembly. Learn how in this SOLIDWORKS tutorial. First, you have a standard collection of parts built into a simple assembly. Over the course of building multiple assemblies of a similar style, you notice that the combination of the Bolt-1, Nut-1, and Washer-1 are always used in the same grouping.

 

Undo Check out can be performed on any checked-out file located inside the SOLIDWORKS PDM vault to release ownership to allow another user access to work on the file. A user may have left the company, taken an extended vacation, or a computer may have crashed and the hard drive is no longer available and files are checked out to their PDM profile. 

SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard runs on SQL Express – a free version of SQL. As such, it doesn’t have all of the features that SQL has. In full SQL a Maintenance plan can be created in order to automatically make database backups. This functionality isn’t available in SQL Express. If a database backup is desired, then it must be made manually.

Currently, eDrawings Markup is available for SOLIDWORKS drawings but not part or assembly files. Here are the steps to show eDrawings Markups or any other tool in eDrawings to show in SOLIDWORKS Drawings files. In this example, we will focus on the Markup tool but this process can be applied to any of the eDrawing tools.

 

The official decree came from SOLIDWORKS on July 1, 2015... the long-anticipated announcement that Workgroup PDM is at end-of-life. In the SOLIDWORKS community, this has generally not come as a surprise, given that premature rumors of Workgroup’s imminent departure have circulated for years.

Have you ever had technical documentation that was out of date simply because it was too hard to update all of the images? Did you know that Microsoft Word is capable of creating associative links to image files? Using SOLIDWORKS Composer in combination with Microsoft Word will allow us to update technical documents when that inevitable design change occurs.