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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.

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.

Starting with 2015, SOLIDWORKS PDM uses the SolidNetWork License (SNL) Server to handle PDM licenses, just like SOLIDWORKS network licenses. As a result, companies must install the SNL server when they upgrade to PDM 2015 or later. Because it is a first-time installation of the SNL server, connection problems can pop up once the upgrade is complete.

 

Workgroup PDM Server: SOLIDWORKS installation discs/download files can be used, the option can be seen under ‘Server Products’ in the installation manager. Clicking on ‘CHANGE’, then, ‘Get code’ buttons directs you to get a Validation Code.

This article outlines the steps on how to switch a named instance of SQL Express from the default dynamic ports to static port 1433 as outlined in S-051981. When an SQL Express server communicates over a dynamic port, it is allocated a free port number by the operating system rather than communicating exclusively over a specified port, also known as a static port.

For SOLIDWORKS drawings, you can map a variable to a custom property of the model that the drawing is based on instead of a custom property of the drawing so the property value of the model is copied into the drawing’s file card. When the drawing is saved in SOLIDWORKS, the linked properties are copied from the model and updated in the drawings file card.

In this SOLIDWORKS PDM tutorial, learn what the difference is between saving, checking in, and getting the latest version. Saving a file to the local file view ONLY SAVES THE FILE LOCALLY, it does not save the file to the vault. 

 

 

 

Sometimes a computer may crash and stop functioning at the most inopportune moment. Files that you have checked out and have been working with are now trapped in the bad computer. The purpose of this article is to provide a procedure to restore files affected by this scenario.

This article will introduce the concept and use of default values within SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM (EPDM) (now SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional) search cards. Search setup can be a major time sink for users from a productivity and efficiency standpoint when using mal-adapted search forms.