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If you need to borrow a SOLIDWORKS license, navigate to the SolidNetWork License Manager on the Client from your Windows Start icon, select All Programs, then go to your version of SOLIDWORKS' folder, then SOLIDWORKS Tools.
Recently, you added new licenses to your existing SOLIDWORKS network serial number. For those licenses to be active on your server, you will need to update the server’s license information. Please take the following steps to update license information on a SolidNetWork License Manager.
Fatigue studies simulate the life and damage of a part or assembly due to repeated loading. SOLIDWORKS Simulation has a powerful tool called Variable Amplitude Time History Fatigue that simulates the damage due to loads of, you guessed it, variable amplitude. These studies can help to understand the expected lifetime of a design using realistic variable loads.
There's no doubt that 3D printing has changed the way products are developed, tested, and manufactured but do we fully understand how a part goes from concept to production? In this article, we'll look at how a company can utilize 3D printing, from prototyping to design validation and even tooling. While this is a hypothetical story, it is a scenario we've seen repeatedly in the real world, and if you develop products, it's likely relatable.
SOLIDWORKS Composer lets you apply colors and textures (e.g., wood grain to simulate a finished product) to parts and assemblies. Colors and textures can be applied to individual parts or the entire assembly. You can also take advantage of hierarchy that overrides part-level colors with assembly-level colors.
When it comes to metadata, it can be very important for business systems to stay in sync. Updating this data can be a long, grueling process, sometimes involving long weekends and late nights. Using SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional’s XML import function can reduce the need for manual input when updating metadata to match ERP/MRP.
This article explains the options available for modifying the appearance of SOLIDWORKS Simulation Plot Legends. Legends are the color charts that appear when showing result plots. When viewing the chart, these options allow users to customize the look and have better flexibility to store these settings any time a new study is created.
If it's necessary to have multiple versions of SOLIDWORKS installed on your computer, it can be an inconvenience if every time we double click on a SOLIDWORKS file, it is opened in the wrong version. In this article, you will learn how to change which version of SOLIDWORKS opens your files when double-clicking on them in File Explorer.
The engineering team has finally completed the preliminary version of a complex assembly and has pushed the design to the Prototype Review State in SOLIDWORKS PDM. Now, you want to get a head start on creating the technical documentation so that the documentation is ready at the same time the design is ready for the final release.