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SolidWorks 2020 Promises a host of new features and tools to make our lives easier. This new feature has been something designers and engineers have been asking for, for a long time. Brand new in Solidworks 2020 you can now add hole callouts to sections views.

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.

The value of the quantities in SOLIDWORKS PDM computed BOMs are determined by the reference count of the file. For some, you may need to show an amount or some non-integer value rather than a reference count. This document describes steps to set this up and have PDM computed BOMs display a value from a SOLIDWORKS Custom Property for the quantity rather than reference counts of the file.

There are a few enhancements and tweaks that either didn’t make it into the What’s New guide or might be placed in a section that you may have missed. This article will show the somewhat obscure changes in SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2020.

In SOLIDWORKS 2020 Assemblies you can now reuse a part that has in-context relationships to other assemblies. If you take the part and place it into a new assembly, you can remap the out of context reference using Make Part Flexible. Now, when the new assembly moves relative to the flexible part, the part updates as well.

SOLIDWORKS has done well in the last few years regarding the SOLIDWORKS PDM Web2 client. We’ve seen some pretty useful features added with a full redesign of the interface. This year is no exception to that! We see quite a few additions to Web2, bringing us closer to a full PDM experience in a browser.

In 2019 SOLIDWORKS introduced Structure Systems for Weldments. Structure systems are used to quickly model a structure using weldment profiles and sketch geometry. When using Structure systems, you start with Primary members and then use Secondary Members to connect the Primary members. The changes made in SOLIDWORKS 2020 Structure Systems pertain to the Primary members, Point Length Members.

Access to the Simulation evaluator is located under the main Simulation tab in the SOLIDWORKS Command Manager or from the right-click menu at the top of the Simulation Design Tree. New in SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2020 we have a utility called the Simulation Evaluator