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AlexB

It's possible to use a command string as shown here if your information is available in the given options. This google searches your file name for example.

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Here's a very rough concept of how it may work. While the user form is active, you can hide whatever components you want When you're done, click Stop and it will revert any display state changes (hidden -> visible / visible -> hidden) and then close the form GIF (click to view): TempHide.gif This co...

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The workaround I usually use, mainly because of selecting contact surfaces for simulation, is to us the section view tool. If you create a section view through part or all of the assembly, then select the "Section By Component" with "Include Selected" set. This way I can select t...

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There are two categories of SW programming. The first group is macros programmed in VBA (this is not the same as VB.net). Some support for c# was added for macro creation but I could never get that to work well. The second group is add-ins and external standalone programs. These require being writte...

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After looking at it further, the geometry created is close, but not identical. I will have to print one and see if the differences still allow it to rotate on the way it is supposed to. image.png I was unaware of the ability to use a body during a swept cut. (Am I correct that this functionality is...

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I've probably overlooked something obvious, and you guys are going to make me feel silly. A helix still seems like the logical solution, but I couldn't make it work. I did try a sweep with a twist, but that didn't seem to work. I also tried a straight extrude and applied the flex, but it did weird ...

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Have you looked into a solid swept cut? I am trying to attach files and screenshots but it seems to be broken...

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I would say it's possible with PDM, but not out of the box. You could implement a custom task add-in and schedule it to run daily to do any file cleanup or destruction I suppose but you would have to code that all from scratch and test it to meet all your use cases. As for other options, I'm really ...

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I've duplicated our production vault but didn't bring any files with it. The only files I copied over were the add-ins from the vault\0\plugins folder in the archive server. I was able to follow a tutorial I found where I create an empty vault and then restore the production database onto the new va...

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The ID within the sql server is the same as the IEdmFile5.ID property. Convert this value to hex and you have your folder name.

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I may be misunderstanding but would increasing the hole major diameter or decrease the threaded rod major diameter help? It would essentially keep the same thread profile but create clearance by changing the diameters of the mating parts.

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I hadn't realized how much of a difference small changes like this would make. Good work!

AlexB

Macros for exporting to flat patterns can get a bit complicated. In the past, I've approached this by creating a drawing and hiding/removing all of the title block information, border, etc. Then I add a view to the drawing using IDrawingDoc:CreateFlatPatternViewFromModelView3 to place my flat patter...

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In my opinion, the engineering drawing should be a separate resource than what the assembling personnel use. They should have a work instruction that details each step in the correct order with callouts for torque, loctite, and other process specific information. I understand the thought process beh...

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@alexb I took the argument as supplied by sw kb solution in the task script sample. when I looked at the api help I was a bit perplexed as there should be 4 arguments, while the sw devs were supplIng only tje last two, but it works perfectly and the comment is left in the file history after the che...

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Unless the admin account missed that permission on the status I am testing that macro on, the problem could be ...elsewhere? If the permission is not a problem do you think setting 64 alone would be sufficient to trigger the latest version overwrite? Yes, if used as the 3rd argument for the UnlockF...

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You'll have to check and make sure you have permissions in PDM to do so. Can you verify this settings is checked for your PDM account via the admin tool? image.png Additionally, you are using the arguments in the incorrect order. You've passed 64 in as the window handle, not the flag argument. Funct...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:14 pm I typically do all of my simulation work outside of PDM to avoid this problem.

It's also a good idea to make sure the place your simulation files are being saved is not also being backed up by OneDrive or something similar.

AlexB

How do you link a BOM to multiple configurations? I only see a drop down list that allows you to select a single configuration. image.png You would un-check this options. It appears to only work on "top-level only" BOMs though as others have mentioned. image.png Then you will have the opt...

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The BOM may also need to have multiple configurations activated in order to reference parts in a second config that may not be present in the original configuration.

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the settings reverted back every time I closed the option screen. This is my experience as well. It's happened with several settings in both the image options editor as well as the admin settings tool. The admin image stuff needs to be completely assessed by SW but I don't see that happening with a...

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I had found that if an installation was using an administrator settings file from a previous admin image then that essentially overrode the one for the new admin image that I was trying to deploy. This was apparent when the hole wizard location wasn't updated between versions for a few users. After ...

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Yeah my file names are not the default either and it's pointing to PDM so they're not in the "Default" location. I've removed the default location from the "File Locations -> Document Templates" file location setting as well.

This is an odd one to sort out for sure

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They do not use the default templates defined in system options, I just tried and it used the default SolidWorks template rather then my custom one. That's interesting... I'm using 2023 SP5.0 and those open my defined default templates. Do you still have the default templates listed in c:\Program D...

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That's a bit odd. Do you have any more details on what was involved in the delete and recover operation? I've restored vaults in the past and never encountered anything odd like this so I'm curious about how it was done. This will help me reproduce it if possible. Also, I highly recommend against di...

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Those buttons open up the default templates that you define in your system options (Tools -> Options -> System Options -> Default Templates). If those point to a custom template of each type then there shouldn't be too much of an issue. Otherwise, clicking "Advanced" will show all the temp...

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This example shows how to get a component within the drawing view. You could also explicitly select it and use the GetSelectedObject functionality and cast the current selection as needed. https://help.solidworks.com/2018/english/api/sldworksapi/get_components_properties_in_drawing_view_example_vb.h...

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Instead of enjoying the nice weather here in NC, I did something stupid and got to spend the last few hours in the ER waiting to get staples in my head. Did it involve cutting down a tree? I heard a few horror stories today about people trying to cut down trees resulting in injuries or ER visits...

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I think this is what you're looking for. You would have to pre-select the components you would like measured before calling this method.

https://help.solidworks.com/2016/englis ... ties2.html

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Thanks @AlexB and @jcapriotti. Now for my next question... Has anyone used that information to create a kind of report (dashboard) of this information? Or could someone direct me how to accomplish something like this? It depends on what you want to see in the report, but it's possible. If you can w...

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It appears to be a table in the SQL database. I can't recall if the table existed before but I doubt it.

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I think you'll want to check this section of the Performance options

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Duplicate ideas are generally caught and filtered as "out". Yeah, I had one in there telling them that the "Settings Editor" for the "Admin Options Editor" to configure Admin images doesn't work. The options you set aren't the options that get applied. It's been this w...

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A quick hack to restart the PDM process that I've used before is to:
1. Kill the EdmServer.exe task in the task manager
2. Select the Explorer.exe process and restart it

This is similar to logging out of your windows account and then back in.

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This could also help KB QA00000122248

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SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 11:50 am It is not hidden, I have all icons showing.

Is "EdmServer.exe" showing in your task manager details page?

Also, is it still enabled in "Startup Apps"?

AlexB

Right click taskbar and choose "Taskbar Settings". Browse down to "Other system tray icons" and make sure that either "Hidden icon menu" is turned on or that "Solidworks PDM" is turned on.

Edit: messed up on vs off

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The remarks section on the help page explain the scenarios where the resolved value can return false
https://help.solidworks.com/2018/englis ... ~get6.html

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I've migrated all of my projects to c# using visual studio community for development and github for version control. Github is a game changer when compared to storage of copies on a network drive. I do have some .swp macros and those are stored in a PDM folder that users cache latest on login. Macro...

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Hello, I have a drawing assignment for university and I've never had any doubts about drawing from 3D perspectives, but now I have one because I really can't imagine this in 3D. This is probably intentional to make it look like an envelope in the upper left view. However, the upper triangular porti...

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dave.laban wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 9:16 am I don't think I'd be very happy if my VAR posted my name, company and full license number online for all to see.

That's just... wow.

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I haven't encountered anything major, however I just switched to a Win11 system from Win10 at the same time so that part wasn't much fun. We've been using 2023 for about 3 weeks as a company and I haven't had any issues from our users. Minor quirk - Design checker files no longer work when they're s...

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We just got our invoice to renew and the Solidworks licenses all have a 25% increase. It was 15% last year as well. All of this is ridiculous. Our renewal cost is twice what it was 7 or 8 or so years ago...

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Prior to using PDM to perform these conversions, we actually had a custom add-in that output everything to a common directory on a server. This did require the engineer to run it and export these files when it was "done". It allows the user to select multiple file formats to export from th...

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I don't think you'll get around the need for a license to create PDF, STEP, etc. files. The way we handle things is that we trigger a PDM Task on a standalone virtual host PC when a drawing is issued. It automatically creates the PDF and places it where it needs to be. Any part file that is issued w...

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Yeah, their website shows that Server 2016 support stops prior to SW 2024.

In the past, I've reached out to my VAR and they gave me a 30 day license key for a trial of the next version of SW. That may be the easiest method.

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If you have any suggestions on how to solve this, I would love to hear it - it would be great to have individual revisions for different configs, but I just don't know how to implement that. The way that PDM does this is to load the latest referenced version and hope for the best. There's no good w...

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I don't remember what exactly I was doing when I discovered that it's possible to have certain states that users can see and others that they cannot by toggling the "Read File Contents" permission. If at least one state gives them permission to "Read File Contents" then they can ...

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I don't think there's a way to disable a menu command. I would recommend performing a validation of the selection once a user clicks that command before running the STP conversion on a file. A couple of examples: 1. If the selection contains a non-sldprt file then pop up an error that says the user ...

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The only one that I have any history with for and document revision control functionality is called MasterControl. Now, I don't know the pricing since it's not freely available so it may not fit your budget. The key things I remember it doing are allowing approval workflows based on document type / ...

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