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Why doesn’t Excel work for Design Tables now? Office 365 is not supported by SOLIDWORKS and has been known to work or not work sporadically. You will have to install Office 2016 to be compatible with SOLIDWORKS. However, that being said, there is a workaround. Not the most elegant workaround, but you can get there from here.
This tutorial explains what to do when your CommandManager is grayed out in CAMWorks. When you first connect to the FlexLM server for CAMWorks, the floating license by default has the CAMWorks Modules turned off for your license. With your modules inactive your CommandManager will be grayed out.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create and use a Split Line to quickly constrain a CAMWorks toolpath. First, decide what the largest size ball end mill can be used without being too large of a diameter that it gouges the part. You may want to hog out the extra material with a larger diameter and then change to a finish diameter, which you can do by simply creating a Split Line to stop the larger diameter end mill from gouging the part.
SOLIDWORKS PDM Data Cards are a convenient way to display and modify the metadata values stored in PDM variables. Many PDM users and admins don’t realize that data cards are a great way to ensure that newly created files have the right information in the right place right off the bat. They can also help prevent errors in metadata that can occur when a design is re-used, which is a real time saver.
If you look in your Windows 10 Start menu programs directory, you’ll find the SIMULIA (Abaqus) folder system to be a little silly… One of those folders will be called Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA FlexNet, and in there, you will find FlexNet Licensing Utilities.
When applying a Chamfer (or Fillet) to an edge in SOLIDWORKS that is tangent to another edge, the software will partially extend the Chamfer/Fillet into the tangent edge as well. With the release of SOLIDWORKS 2019, users can create Partial Chamfers and Fillets, allowing us to control the length of the Chamfer/Fillet from each end of the edge.
SOLIDWORKS PDM Branch and Merge tools help the design process by allowing users to branch out design ideas from the source and then merge the ideal design back with the source.
Every year, SOLIDWORKS 3D Interconnect helps companies working with multiple data types streamline their product development process in SOLIDWORKS. Gone are the days of long, complicated file translations.