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Undo Check out can be performed on any checked-out file located inside the SOLIDWORKS PDM vault to release ownership to allow another user access to work on the file. A user may have left the company, taken an extended vacation, or a computer may have crashed and the hard drive is no longer available and files are checked out to their PDM profile. 

SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard runs on SQL Express – a free version of SQL. As such, it doesn’t have all of the features that SQL has. In full SQL a Maintenance plan can be created in order to automatically make database backups. This functionality isn’t available in SQL Express. If a database backup is desired, then it must be made manually.

Currently, eDrawings Markup is available for SOLIDWORKS drawings but not part or assembly files. Here are the steps to show eDrawings Markups or any other tool in eDrawings to show in SOLIDWORKS Drawings files. In this example, we will focus on the Markup tool but this process can be applied to any of the eDrawing tools.

 

The official decree came from SOLIDWORKS on July 1, 2015... the long-anticipated announcement that Workgroup PDM is at end-of-life. In the SOLIDWORKS community, this has generally not come as a surprise, given that premature rumors of Workgroup’s imminent departure have circulated for years.

Have you ever had technical documentation that was out of date simply because it was too hard to update all of the images? Did you know that Microsoft Word is capable of creating associative links to image files? Using SOLIDWORKS Composer in combination with Microsoft Word will allow us to update technical documents when that inevitable design change occurs.

 

Starting with 2015, SOLIDWORKS PDM uses the SolidNetWork License (SNL) Server to handle PDM licenses, just like SOLIDWORKS network licenses. As a result, companies must install the SNL server when they upgrade to PDM 2015 or later. Because it is a first-time installation of the SNL server, connection problems can pop up once the upgrade is complete.

 

Workgroup PDM Server: SOLIDWORKS installation discs/download files can be used, the option can be seen under ‘Server Products’ in the installation manager. Clicking on ‘CHANGE’, then, ‘Get code’ buttons directs you to get a Validation Code.

This article outlines the steps on how to switch a named instance of SQL Express from the default dynamic ports to static port 1433 as outlined in S-051981. When an SQL Express server communicates over a dynamic port, it is allocated a free port number by the operating system rather than communicating exclusively over a specified port, also known as a static port.

Have you seen unexplained errors in your SOLIDWORKS models or user interface? These errors may be caused by your graphics card or graphics card driver. SOLIDWORKS has created an easy-to-use tool, SOLIDWORKS RX, to analyze your system, capture data, and diagnose problems with your graphics card.