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We had some not so big assembly taking like 90 seconds to save with SW freezing. It was caused by some bad import data inside the components part. diagnostic and simplification for six components allowed the top assy to shrink from 42MB to under 20MB and to save in a few seconds...day and night. I h...

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Our hard paid PDM maintenance dollars is going to the 3dx coffers. Really sucks that we don't get much new functionality, just a few small items and a new version to stay current with the latest Solidworks version. after me complaining for years they started fixing broken things in the pdm administ...

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When users just put anything and everything in PDM.......no.....just no. grumph image.png @bnemec Surely you never have this happen? like some video files 500MB in size into the vault or, before I changed the root folder rights we had entire "my documents" (or download) folders dragged in...

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We had to reactivate sw2023 has it started a lousy popup that made our users panic. thank you dassault.

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The fact that Electrical and MBD were pushed to the top within a few days exemplify the need for a vote down button. I think the downvote is prone to abuse. They could ask VARs to downvote to rig the whole thing more than it could be now. Also there are people that downvote for many reasons, like t...

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New servers are almost up, but not yet ready for production. HPE DL360 with a raid1+0 on pdm db server and raid6 on pdm archive server both with 6 active ssd and 2 hot spares in the array. Pulling a disk while running or before the boot is the only reversible way to simulate a fault? (obviously I do...

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Hello, Is there a way to prevent an admin image from running if the machine it's installing on is not listed in any of the groups? I would like to prevent people installing SW or PDM on machines that are not assigned to a specific group. Thank you. A dirt (untested) solution could be to create prop...

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Interesting... I've never occurred to me to notice that an assembly might not save with a rollback'd part. And so I actually just tried this, and my mileage varied greatly. Or I did it wrong. My assembly did save without any issue despite purposely setting up a rollback'd part. No error or warning ...

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If you don't group mates, they will re-order themselves on their own. Right click to unsuppress a mate. Go to right click again and realize you are now hovering over a different mate. I would say 2022 was the best recent release. I've seen no improvements (that affect me) in 2023 or 2024, but I've ...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:14 am Without being identical, it's very similar in Canada and I believe in the US also.

I meant we have to pay a sepatate annual fee: license maintenance for CAD and PDM plus another fee for cad support and pdm support.
No additional fee equals to no meetings or calls to solve issues.

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I'm not aware of a bug reporting or call/issue limit in the US. We've had VAR support in calls and meetings to help resolve issues. Sometimes these problems could be infrastructure related, hardware, API code errors, user error, or software. The only push back we might get is if the questions are m...

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I further digged the contract and asked our Japanese VAR. The subscription service entitles us to: - solidworks new versions and SPs - access to the KB If we want a more detailed Q&A session we must pay two separate subscriptions: one for the cad and one for the pdm side. it entitles ONE person ...

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system option→export is partially broken. Export format changed in the drop down menu is not reflected in the export option screen. Still testing the UI and the installation process, and I am just tired of the stupid things they broke this time. what a pRoFeSsIoNaL sOfTwArE. BR10000370684 STL/AMF/3M...

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First day playing with a rough admin image and I stumped already into a bug. I have a machine with two Hot Fixes installed and the install process stopped after the pre install batch. I preventive uninstalled one HF with a preinstall batch and still a popup stopped the deployment. It seem that the s...

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Like last year I am testing sw 2024 sp5 before installing it in our company. This time I have also the PDM two server to rebuild so I have more time until the final deployment. Like last time I am going to post 1 reply for every bug i encountered and the KB references I am aware of. every other cont...

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Just to make sure that I understand: You are doing this? image.png image.png If that isn't working, sometimes I have to run a CTRL Q on large assemblies for it to update properly. UU Yes I tried to set hidden lines for a specific component from both the tree rmb menu and the view property. I said a...

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We do it all the time with latest overwrite. If the correction iscatched quickly a rollback is also ok, but you must be careful of some PDM bug. Correction workflow is a good idea, and that is the way to go for the whole organization and making minor edits. But I wanted to mention that there are two...

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As admin I rollback or latest overwrite to make the correction myself. Never trust the end user... We have a "Correction" workflow that increments the revision by 0. So we end up with two or more of the same revision letter sometimes. This workflow is only for small model issues that need ...

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The other day one of our engineers tried to make a drawing from an assembly. Inside a sub assembly he made some of its components hidden edges visible inside the top assy view with hidden edges not visible. A couple of the components (pipe like fittings) in the subassembly were not showing at all. T...

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it sounds like overstiffness due to volumetric locking or similar artifacts. what kind of elements are you using? we had a young guy making fea with inventor. he used all solids with a bad mesh for a very big structure he got like 3mm deflection, while we had calculated like 20mm both by hand and so...

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Grateful for the submissions and opinions from some of the community with far greater weight than I.... :) SW User since 2005, currently working on 2022. Used some Pro/E, NX over the years, but 90% SW for a variety of solid, surface, assembly, engineering drawing & simulation tasks for a variet...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2024 2:58 pm It was submitted in the SolidWorks Enhancement community I believe a little while ago. You could post it and then link it here and we could vote on it, I could post it for you if you think it will bring more attention to it.

If you can find it, please post it.

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I wanted to submit something like " do not activate by default new options and software features that potentially modify legacy workflows" .
I think it was already sumitted or at least I saw it somewhere, probably sinked at the bottom of the swamp.

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If anyone's looking to make the "Top Ten" an actual useful tool for both users and developper, please go and vote on these. Give us a Vote Down Button https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/community/swym:prd:R1132100503382:community:NuvjIL0QTDKJKkb2P1AjjA?content=swym:prd...

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I am accessing this site and the 3dexperience from my Android smartphone and while this forum is usable and I get minor annoyance due to the touch keyboard mainly, the platform my company pays a lot of money for is a utter pain, even with the official android app... I tried to post an enhancement id...

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In the last few years there was some Turkish VAR employees up voting a bunch of MBD stuff and other outlier stuff few use. IMO, MDB will not gain traction as long as they keep charging for it. MBD was meant to replace drawings however drawing functions are free and MBD is not. mbd is a possibility ...

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We use PDM and we have all the libraries and templates into a folder updated at the vault login time.

I deploy sw with admin image and some custom scripts since admin image tools and the settings wizard have their own shares of issues.

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I do not know how standard is supposed to work, but professional pdm server keeps track of pdm user and which host it was used to check the files out. What you were doing is not a normal use case for PDM. A few questions What is the point of cloning a vault view on another PC? Maybe do You want to w...

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As a separate question to RAID experts: do you think it would be better to have all 8 disks in RAID6 and partition them as c: d: e: or setup only the core 5 disks under the RAID6 and leave the 3 disks used as a internal backup on a separate RAID?

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At this point we have 1.5Tb of data inside PDM. We robocopied them for years on another storage, but it is not a good solution and we are looking at a tape device to have also an offline copy in a safer location. Thanks to the previous admin that botched our workflows we cannot use cold storage as o...

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Hi @mp3-250 , I hope you don't mind me asking, but could you elaborate on how you succeeded in updating in your Print to PDF script to print into a single file with all sheets from your drawing? When I try using your provided code: Dim swPrintSpec As SldWorks.PrintSpecification Set swPrintSpec = sw...

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jcapriotti just wanted to say that VBA can be used with PDM, I have made a custom task in VBA that replace the bugged version up tool of PDM: I can login into our vault, get latest, checkin, checkout and the only issue is (for a non IT person like me) the lack of documentation (to use an euphemism)...

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Toolbox is a database you need that interface to update it.
If you want to add some thread and holes you could check one screw and import/export the excel table used for threads you need to customize.

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Sorry to bring up another issue, but I was told by my VAR that it was not needed to remove HF before instaling a new version of SW. Now I see that popping up here and there on the KB... We used admin image and a batch file to install HF and it would be a pain to customize our deployment environment ...

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Thank you very much for the feedback. Similar to CarrieIves we have a sort of premium support, which entitles us to a personal "assistant" at the VAR that follows us and (more or less) understands our PDM system implementation without explaining it from the beginning every time. They keep ...

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thank you for the batch, I was usually killing edmserver and explorer after checking if sldworks was in execution to avoid a registry overwrite when it closes. I will lookup the othet exes to better understand what they do. Do you think it is better to delete the whole vault folder and remake it? If...

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I have been looking at the invoiced costs from our VAR for some time. TLDR: we feel paying too much to maintain our sw pdm system. var is milking us a premium to offer us a sort of preferential hotline which imho should be normal for a rather big customer with 100 licenses. what kind of service does...

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I think our company is in its 10th year with Solidworks, PDM was introduced later in a "suboptimal" way and workflows are convulted, overly complex and the previous admin got the revision process wrong. The mess extendend to user rights, file rights that allowed everybody to delete 3d data...

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We have to move the servers to new machines with new IP and host name and I would like to make a one click script to handle a smooth setting for all our workstations. I have searched the KB and the closest Q&A I found on the topic says that it is not possible to batch destroy a vault view. I am ...

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not folder related, but do you have a documents section (iirc) in your dispatch to allow multiple files selection?
all the dispatch statements should be inside that section to be applied to each selection properly.

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@mp3-250 What CAD package do you recommend? I'm all ears. Seriously. it depends on a lot of factors, what kind of projects you do and your budget. I came from NX and it was a way better than SW: less memory leaks, more stable, more responsive 3D in general. plus a coherent UI. it is not for all, to...

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generic specs cpu with single core clock 5ghz or more 32gb ram enough for most applications 64-128 for heavy simulations pci express 4.0 or higher with videocard with 12gb vram 500gb fast SSD optionally leave solidworks for a better CAD... We use HP Z series workstations, quite noise and decent setu...

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This is a graphic glitch, a strange one. It seems related to the BR below. Tried with graphic acceleration OFF and with the SW empty templates. Step to reproduce: 1. Create an empty assy1 2. Save it on disk 3. Create an empty assy2 4. Save it on disk 5. Insert a couple of assy2 into assy1 6. Select ...

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I managed to get back to this. Effectively, when no SolidWorks is installed, only one Description column is available and it's the one that doesn't work. Once SolidWorks is installed, the second Description column is available... I think it was discussed a while back, that you need the document man...

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I just searched the KB for "hole wizard" and the number of BR and malfunction in general is quite a clown show. Every time is the same story and the devs do not learn. I said and repeat: NX uses the best and most stable approach. If a command changes the way the model behaves they just mak...

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I'm wondering which would be worse. Using a SQL command "DELETE FROM [Vault].[dbo].[HistoryVerFreeVarChanged] WHERE UserId = 2 and Name = LastActiveDate" after running Batch variable update. Or using UPDATE on the VariableValues table. just an idea I do not know if it is silly or it does ...

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I think this is just a terminology difference with the third party PDM system we use, I am not familiar with SolidWorks PDM but I believe this one works a bit differently. In this system checking out just means getting a read only copy of the file onto you local hard drive. This file could be work ...

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PDM server edits and saves the files when it needs to match the db reference info without user intervention. That said the date the physical file was updated and the date the version in the pdm was edited are a slightly different concept. so I expect those date to be different. user A check out the ...

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I do not think it is possible. We get a lot of history entries from action performed by the pdm system when a user open a file, probably because we transitioned the variable from custom properties to db only and from history to history free.(which was a mess of a choice imho.) Not logging those acti...

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It is inexcusable that there is no tool to port, or even record, the customizations in your templates. If upgrading to new templates were easy, think about how much load that would take off of the VARs and programmers. A whole bunch of these issues would just go away, because most people would upda...

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