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DriveWorksXpress is a free, design automation software that can speed up your design process. Whether you’re creating a simple, five-feature model or a complex assembly, DriveWorksXpress can benefit virtually anybody. For a simple model, you can quickly automate your designs and get a model and drawing in seconds.

SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2017 introduced the capability of offloading an analysis to another system to run the computation. The following is required to run an offloaded simulation:

If your organization uses SOLIDWORKS PDM, you have taken a step in the best direction to avoid data duplication and enforce revision controls during the product design process. Considering these benefits, your team may have stumbled across this conundrum – Do I manage my simulation results in the PDM vault?

What tip and build sheet combinations work best with your Stratasys FDM 3D printers and in what configuration? Locate in GrabCAD Print and Insight software. Get a better idea about what the tip numbers mean, how they correlate to a resolution, and how that resolution translates to a width of material being extruded out.

CATIA V5 PLM Express lets you bundle various configurations into a single package. This makes it easier to get what you need from CATIA in a single bundle, generally at a lower price point. In this blog, we'll go over how to install CATIA V5 PLM Express. The process is very straightforward and you can get through it with only the standard administrator permissions on your workstation.

It can be hard to determine how much data will be needed as time goes on; and considering the rate at which new CAD data is added to the SOLIDWORKS PDM vault, this quantity is likely to increase. To reduce the stress on server hard drives, there are a few techniques to managing PDM archive.

In this blog, I highlight several handy techniques for creating and managing changes to an assembly created as a multi-body part in SOLIDWORKS instead of the traditional “bottom-up” method to design the overall assembly.

When cleaning up your PDM vault from excess groups because of company mergers which result in importing different PDM vault administrative features like groups. You may desire to merge two groups together. Though there is no administrative merge feature you can easily use the current PDM group interface to get all desired users into a single group so the old group can be removed.

Have you ever upgraded SOLIDWORKS and started receiving file location errors? Maybe your templates are invalid, or you see instead of the diameter symbol? In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to find missing file locations in SOLIDWORKS.