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This is part of a series of documents aimed towards providing the basics of creating queries for SOLIDWORKS PDM vault databases. Administrators will be able to collect data for their own purposes that are not attainable from SOLIDWORKS PDM out-of-the-box search features.

Thermal stress analyses can be performed in various ways using the SOLIDWORKS Simulation and SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation packages. A thermal stress analysis entails defining thermal conditions and analyzing the stresses that develop in components due to thermal expansion. This guide will illustrate the different ways of performing thermal stress analyses.

This article will show you the different techniques to save documents in SOLIDWORKS. It is up to the user to decide what kind of save is required to accomplish the end goal. Each technique is different, but all techniques can be useful at some point in time. However, not saving correctly (not understanding the saving method) can create adverse consequences.

This workflow was developed in response to GoEngineer customer requests for a universal, semi-interactive, SOLIDWORKS Composer document that could be opened by nearly every computer with Adobe Acrobat Reader installed. This is one of many options for distributing rich 3dvia Composer content. The following steps illustrate the simple journey from the SOLIDWORKS Composer smg file type, to Flash FLV file type required for insertion into a PDF document/template.

DriveWorks Pro 11 can now pack your “individual group” with all of its project information and referenced files. This document will guide you through the process of unpacking a DriveWorks Package.For a guide that provides the steps to successfully create a DriveWorks Package file, please read our GoEngineer article How to Create a DriveWorks Package File. 

 

DriveWorks Pro 11 can pack your “individual group” with all of its project information and referenced files. You may need to send an individual group and project with all its referenced files to another Administrator or Technical Support. This guide provides the steps to successfully create a DriveWorks Package file.

This article will cover the steps to install and use a SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM Report Generator file (.crp file) to query the SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM database as well as the steps to export the result to Microsoft Excel.

If you have ever run into an issue accessing, deleting, or installing a file where the path is over 255 characters, then this is the article for you. This error typically presents itself as either File is too long or Inaccessible. 

 

 

This article is a high-level look at considerations and recommendations for the well versed MAC user that wants to install SOLIDWORKS. Disclaimer: Dassault Systemes and SOLIDWORKS do not officially support installing SOLIDWORKS on MAC hardware.