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While it is possible to manually move your notes and dimensions around so that they look neat and evenly spaced if you’ve ever attempted this, you’ve probably thought to yourself, “Man, it’d be nice if SOLIDWORKS would do this for me.” Good news—it will! This article covers aligning and grouping parallel/concentric and collinear/radial dimensions in SOLIDWORKS drawings. 

 

If you’re having issues downloading/installing a SOLIDWORKS program (like PDM) or having trouble connecting to or pulling files from your vault, you’ll want to know if your network is experiencing high latency.

In the event of a Windows user profile becoming inaccessible, whether through corruption or other means, the SOLIDWORKS Copy Settings Wizard cannot be used to recover and restore the user’s SOLIDWORKS settings on the user’s new profile. SOLIDWORKS settings are stored in the user’s registry. To recover the user’s SOLIDWORKS settings from the inaccessible profile, the old profile’s registry can be accessed from the working profile using the command prompt.

There are a number of reasons why you might need to change the serial number that is installed on your computer. Maybe you were given an evaluation license to start out and now your permanent license is available. Perhaps there was already a permanent license installed on your computer, but it’s the wrong license and it needs to be changed.

Sketches are the foundation of any model in SOLIDWORKS. Oftentimes, you may need to copy or reuse an existing sketch for another feature. As with anything, there are multiple ways to copy a sketch in SOLIDWORKS. Let's go through a standard "copy/paste", convert entities, an creating a derived sketch.

In one of my recent SOLIDWORKS training classes, a student asked, “Can I use an Excel file to create a 3D sketch that can be then swept?” The answer is yes, and I decided to show him and the entire class the cool feature in SOLIDWORKS called Curve Through XYZ Points. The feature allows you to make some amazing parts that might otherwise cost you many hours of consternation.

The SOLIDWORKS Admin Portal is a web-based asset management system that allows a company administrator to assign serial numbers to end-users and manage online licenses. To find members in the Admin Portal, click Members and browse for the user’s name. You may also enter a name in the search fields and click Search at the bottom. Select the member you wish to assign a product.

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?

Are you starting to notice that when rendering a file or when rotating an assembly in SOLIDWORKS that the image becomes pixelated or hangs up? It could be a couple of things … but let’s see if we can narrow down the cause by doing some analysis on the graphics card.