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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.

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.

 

Have you seen unexplained errors in your SOLIDWORKS models or user interface? These errors may be caused by your graphics card or graphics card driver. SOLIDWORKS has created an easy-to-use tool, SOLIDWORKS RX, to analyze your system, capture data, and diagnose problems with your graphics card.

If you are trying to dimension a diameter in SOLIDWORKS, but you get <MOD-DIAM> rather than the Ø symbol, it is probably due to your gtol.sym file.Most of the time this happens after an upgrade and your file location is pointing to an older version of the gtol.sym file.

 

This guide will walk you through the steps of creating a From-To List using the From-To List Wizard in SOLIDWORKS to populate cells in the table with existing component and cable/wire information. The From-To List is a compilation of components, connectivity, and wires used in an electrical route.

In this FAQ, we address several questions about SOLIDWORKS lofts. How are lofts adjusted? Sometimes a loft will not generate as desired. There are a few "tips" that can help make a loft the desired shape. When selecting the different profiles, be sure to click a place on the profiles edges most adjacent to each other so that you obtain the shortest possible distance for the loft lines, and they do not twist around the section.

Do you have multiple instances of SOLIDWORKS open each time you access another file? This article explains the step-by-step solution on how to stop multiple instances of SOLIDWORKS from opening.

This article will show you the different techniques to save documents in SOLIDWORKS. It is up to the user to decide what kind of save is required to accomplish the end goal. Each technique is different, but all techniques can be useful at some point in time. However, not saving correctly (not understanding the saving method) can create adverse consequences.

If you have ever run into an issue accessing, deleting, or installing a file where the path is over 255 characters, then this is the article for you. This error typically presents itself as either File is too long or Inaccessible.