The SOLIDWORKS PDM error message "No database is connected to this view” occurs when a PDM user tries to access a vault view, but the software can’t locate the necessary vault information in the registry. This is often due to missing or corrupted information in the registry, which results in PDM being unable to access the database and prevents the vault view from opening.
SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional and SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard client can be installed at the same time as SOLIDWORKS. Installation uses the SOLIDWORKS Installation Manager located on the SOLIDWORKS DVD or downloaded from SOLIDWORKS.
The Update References tool in SOLIDWORKS PDM allows you to correct broken references of assemblies and drawings while giving you control over what is being updated, and getting it done in a much easier way compared to your standard slog through suppressed components.
As more SOLIDWORKS PDM users continue to make the leap from Windows 10 to Windows 11, our Technical Support Team has noticed a rise in reports of extreme slowness when loading a new File Explorer window.
If you use the tools built into SOLIDWORKS Electrical to produce non-CAD documents and you use SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional, AND you are planning an upgrade soon, this article is for you. While add-ins are (and have been) available to integrate SOLIDWORKS Electrical with PDM, this article refers specifically to the options that don't require those tools. These are found under SOLIDWORKS Electrical Tools > Link to PDM Configuration.
To search for a SOLIDWORKS PDM variable and have it appear on column sets, it needs to be in your data card first. But what if showing it adds no value to your data cards? This article demonstrates how to include the variable in the data card while keeping it hidden.
Before beginning, it is important to note that one of the more widely encountered issues for deleting a vault view in SOLIDWORKS PDM is the error Attached: Missing information, which effectively means the vault view has been attached at some point (perhaps the computer was imaged from another user’s machine or was another user’s machine and the vault view happened to carry over incomplete information). This is generally encountered when trying to set up the vault view for a user and looks something like this:
When troubleshooting connectivity issues in SOLIDWORKS PDM, creating or modifying a Windows local hosts file can be an effective way to bypass DNS problems and verify that a client workstation can communicate directly with the archive and database server. This is a plain text file that is used to map domain names to IP addresses manually and allows you to control how the machine resolves server names.
If you use SOLIDWORKS PDM, you likely receive notifications, through the database or through email, about file activity in the vault. SOLIDWORKS PDM notifications are often a crucial part of document management and the lifecycle of a project. As such, it’s important that they work correctly. Among many other things, notifications are managed by the Database Server Service. Whether you’re using built-in notifications or SMTP, a healthy database service is the cornerstone of functional notifications.