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You can share custom styles with other SOLIDWORKS Composer users. This helps ensure that annotations and other collaborative actor’s appearance won't change when opened by different users. To set this up, it will require manually editing file locations for custom styles in an XML file since this cannot be changed through the Composer user interface. Below is an outline of the steps that will be followed.
This overview is to help you create documents that conform to your company's ANSI title blocks. SOLIDWORKS PCB has a few basic templates that for some companies or users are good enough. However, if you are one of the majority of companies that have standardized on ANSI title blocks this will help with uniformity between your electrical and mechanical documents. Here are the steps to create your custom template.
This post will help you give labels to multiple instances of the same component inside a SOLIDWORKS assembly. On your assembly design tree, filter the component instances by typing in the name of the file. Right-click on the first component instance (either on the design tree or graphics area) and go to the Component Properties.
SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM 2015 (now known as SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional) includes a Microsoft Office add-in for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint that allows you to perform vault operations on documents opened in the Office application. Normally, you would select the Office add-in (Microsoft Office Integration) option during the client installation if Office is detected on the system.
Use the following instructions if you want to move the physical SOLIDWORKS PDM database files (.mdf & .ldf) from one local drive to another on the SQL server system – for example, when space is running out on the main hard drive. While performing these relocation steps there should be no SOLIDWORKS PDM users accessing the PDM system.
Starting with SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional 2016 SP4, you can create a task to convert Office documents to PDF. This tutorial will outline the steps to install the task when creating a new vault and adding the task to existing vaults. When creating a new PDM vault, you can select to install the Microsoft Office conversion task on the configuration details page.
Say you purchased SOLIDWORKS Premium only due to budget constraints. Over time, once your budget expanded, you realized that having SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation (or other SOLIDWORKS software) would help meet your business' profit initiatives. So now you have SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation, and you have the correct files installed on your computer. All you need to do is activate them with the new serial number provided to you by your reseller so that you can activate Flow Simulation (or other SOLIDWORKS license) to help further your business.