SOLIDWORKS has made some big moves recently. One of those moves is the transition of customer Enhancement Ideas (formerly called Enhancement Requests) to the 3DEXPERIENCE Enhancement Ideas Community.
If you’ve added a new license of SOLIDWORKS since July 1st, 2023, you’ve probably noticed that your SOLIDWORKS license also contains Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS. This license connects your SOLIDWORKS to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. A major benefit of the role is the ability to share SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies, and drawings with other users without sharing the physical files or downloading large and complicated external software. The only requirement is a 3DEXPERIENCE ID login.
It is important to know what happens to SOLIDWORKS data when it is saved to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform or when it is updated for compatibility with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform as per the System Option > 3DEXPERIENCE Integration.
The foremost item to note about this migration is that the license software itself syncs with the SolidWorks Activation Server and directly checks the license out from the system. The process requires a transfer of the license off the old server back to the SolidWorks Activation Server before the new server will be able to be activated with the SolidWorks Activation Server and allowed to administer licenses to client machines.
SOLIDWORKS is an impressive 3D modeling software widely used in the engineering and design industry. While it excels in creating 3D models from scratch, there are times when you need to work with existing physical objects. In these cases, 3D scanning technology and software come to the rescue. In this article, we'll show how to 3D scan inside SOLIDWORKS using the Geomagic for SOLIDWORKS add-in.
3DEXPERIENCE World 2025 is heading to Houston, TX, from February 23-26, and we are excited to be a part of it! As always, GoEngineer will host a Customer Appreciation Night and offer a variety of technical sessions led by our outstanding technical team. There will be many opportunities to learn, network, and have a great time. This guide will provide a brief preview of this year's event and give you a glimpse of what to expect.
Onshape vs. SOLIDWORKS is perhaps the most top-of-mind 3D CAD rivalry at the moment. Onshape is the nimble, cloud-based newcomer, and SOLIDWORKS is the world-leading champion of the last couple of decades. Onshape makes an undeniable splash – it’s easy to sign up and get started – but your needs on day 1 aren’t the same as on day 90 or day 365. They aren’t the same as every other designer, or the analysis department, or manufacturing, or any of the other contributors that work with your software ecosystem.
One of the most useful features in SOLIDWORKS is the ability to use Microsoft Excel to build various tables. However, an update began producing an error in SOLIDWORKS that left many users unable to open their Excel design tables. Some users could open and edit the table inside SOLIDWORKS, but trying to launch Excel in a new window would produce the error that reads: Failed to connect. Link may be broken.
Whether you’re using PDM Standard or PDM Professional, you can interact with SOLIDWORKS files in two ways: directly in the PDM vault or through the PDM Add-in fly-out panel in SOLIDWORKS. This interaction includes, but is not limited to: checking a file in and out, reviewing a file’s version and associated file versions, and getting previous versions of a file*.