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Create a SOLIDWORKS Bill of Materials from your desired view. Hover over your BOM without clicking and then click the arrow plus sign icon in the top left corner as shown in the picture below to highlight all of your BOM. Then, without moving your mouse, right-click and go to Formatting. The under Formatting, select Entire Table.

SOLIDWORKS Routing can be used in the SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional environment. The routing application is used to create special types of subassemblies that build paths of pipes, tubes, or electrical cables between components.Routing relies heavily on Design Library parts.

 

SOLIDWORKS Plastics 2015 introduced the capability of analyzing a model using a symmetric runner. Follow these steps to setup your model in SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional and SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium.

Why is SOLIDWORKS opening a new session every time I launch a part from Windows Explorer? Well, there is this thing called SOLIDWORKS Launcher, you may have seen the name lurking somewhere around in your computer. This program is what decides which version of SOLIDWORKS to launch when a file is open. Usually, accidentally, SOLIDWORKS files get associated to be launched by SOLIDWORKS itself, not the SOLIDWORKS Launcher.

This article will guide you through the installation and activation of the DriveWorks Pro 11 network licensing server. This guide also provides the steps to set up a DriveWorks client to obtain a license from the server. Before starting, download the latest software from Driveworks Customer Portal. Make sure the computer that you wish to use as the licensing server can be accessed by the client computers through the network.

When simulating large thin objects, it is much simpler computationally to define these types of objects as shell elements rather than solid elements. The problem is that most beginner SOLIDWORKS Simulation users are not comfortable with this element type because they do not know how to define a shell element mesh, and how to connect it to the rest of the parts in the analysis once it is defined. 

 

Have you ever come across the problem of having a flange on a sheet metal part in SOLIDWORKS? When an exterior flange is needed to have the ends of the flange mitered, it can be difficult to create that feature. Our goal in this quick tip is to produce something similar to this:

 

SOLIDWORKS Task Scheduler is a very useful tool that can perform hundreds, if not thousands of tedious tasks that follow simple rules the user specifies. One of the many useful tasks that can be run with the Task Scheduler is ‘Update Custom Properties’. This function allows you to create new or modify existing custom properties for individual files, batches of files, or entire folders.

Starting with SOLIDWORKS 2017 you can now rebuild all configurations in one step. This new feature will allow you to rebuild and load each configuration without having to activate each one individually. This feature will be most useful to users with a large number of configurations in their parts or assemblies.