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Do you want to add watermarks in your electrical prints? How about a rubber stamp for Proprietary, As Built, or Final Build to show only when you are ready to release drawings? This can easily be attained inside of SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic with just a slight adjustment to the title blocks. To accomplish this, a layer needs to be created for each rubber stamp or watermark that is wanted on the drawing set.

There may be times when we have some issues with our SOLIDWORKS installations that pertain to .DLL files or other files contained within the SOLIDWORKS Shared folder. It can be anything from a start-up after an unknown bad install, an issue while browsing PDM within Windows Explorer, creating a Pack and Go, or Windows right-click menu in Windows Explorer.

 

Serial numbers are used in SOLIDWORKS PDM to automatically generate a number series. This is a great way for PDM to generate a number to use for parts, assemblies, and drawings numbers. Each series of numbers can be customized for each type of file. PDM can be set up to automatically generate the number and to use this number as the file name.

Back in February, we shared a sneak peek at new features and capabilities that were likely to be released in SOLIDWORKS 2021. We’re excited to share not only what made the cut, but everything new across the entire SOLIDWORKS portfolio.

Altair Inspire Cast is a fast, easy, accurate, and affordable simulator for early casting feasibility and process development; it’s a tool that allows you to create a metal casting such as aluminum and steel and incorporate an assortment of different components to run trial and error tests. The setup for a casting process inside of Altair Inspire Cast contains five steps. Learn how to perform a simulation and choose components here.

After creating a vault in SOLIDWORKS PDM and going live, it is best not to make drastic changes on the fly. Modifications should be tested in a Sandbox environment before applying them to the production vault. Creating a sandbox environment is simple and will not affect the production vault.  To create a new vault using the Administration tool, right-click on your server and select Create New Vault.         

 

The sink mark prediction tool in SOLIDWORKS Plastics is a potent tool in predicting sink mark locations and how deep the sink mark will end up being. In this article, I will show how to find and reduce sink marks that tend to form in injection molds at rib locations.

SOLIDWORKS PDM users often experience popups that come up upon executing a command such as opening a SOLIDWORKS file. In this case, by default, PDM launches a popup that wants to know if you are opening a file with the intent to modify or make changes to it, or if you are simply opening it to view the file. The prompt, shown below, asks the user if they would like to check the file out. At this point, the user has a choice and is encouraged to decide if they intend to make changes to the file, and thus, check the file out.  

Want to create a custom part from a Toolbox item, but SOLIDWORKS is still showing the toolbox flag in the Feature Tree? That’s because it’s still linked to the Toolbox part! Here’s how to permanently break that link and dissociate it from the original file.