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With that in mind, going on the "SolidWorks Enhancement Ideas" community and using the same filter gives us quite a good perspective of how little work has been done towards SolidWorks since the platform's existence. image.png 2111 ideas still in the "process" since the migratio...

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Former mold engineer here. NX with moldwizard and I confirm that direct modelling took a good chunk of our daily work....... Curious, have you used the Solid Edge ST? I don't know that I could compare it to "Direct Edting". Regular Solid Edge has direct editing functionality, a bit more t...

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That's the plan. I just need to figure out how to firewall the Windows box and still be able to pull files and such from my NAS box You sound smart enough to self teach these things. If you have access to the firewall on your router/gateway (if it's managed by your ISP then this may not work) then ...

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This is an evolution brought about by Agile Product Development where software is developed in short Product Increments (PI's). It also depends on a rigorous quality assurance (QA) program to insure zero regressions in each release. This process is utilized for cloud apps (3Dxperience) as this is c...

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My latest SW achievements!

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Is that a different version from the Community Edition. I have SE Community Edition 2022 installed. Show about another year before it expires. image.png To be honest, I didn't look close enough to know for sure. Maybe crude, but I've learned to not try to keep up with what each version can do with ...

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As an FYI, When Solidworks made a hash of the deal they made with EAA members that had been making use of the benefit pointed out their displeasure with what Solidworks did. The EAA does try to listen to their members, combined with Siemen's willingness to swoop in and "save the day" for s...

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I'm kind of excited about this additional functionality. Although I feel it's usage is mostly limited to helping PDM Admin trouble shoot or track down quirks in what users are doing/perceiving. I have SSMS open most weeks for something or another anyway, saving a query on that table is likely how I'...

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Bradfordzzz wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:05 am Makes you wonder what "value" the "value added resellers" are actually adding.
Might as well just put Solidworks in a box, and sell it at Staples, or Best Buy Amazon Wish or Etsy.

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It took ST a while to get moving. The first 3 versions I didn't get it. But they made some changes and eventually it started to make sense to me. You might have been involved too early on. I don't remember the details of why I didn't like it originally, but early versions were not good. It has impr...

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Neanderthal posting here. One of the big reasons we considered moving away from Solid Edge was the huge push to ST. We used to make great use of the tutorials Solid Edge provided on their website. By the time ST9 was released there were maybe a total of four tutorials for ordered mode. I must flat o...

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Wonder if its related to the long standing bug with launching the login from the standalone search tool. If the user clicks on a shortcut to the "search.exe" in the PDM folder, the login prompt comes up but it doesn't cache the files. You have to logout and back in. This is really old.......

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That's what is driving me to look into this. We keep having trouble where assemblies are grabbing the local files in the project folder instead of the files in library folders in the vault. From what I've seen in our use case I think checking the box would help you. These project folders, I assume ...

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We've had that turned on since early on. I remember it wasn't checked for a while and the local caches were getting some lint, but the real problem is SW doesn't understand that PDM Cache is special, so it happily uses the file as long as the file name matches. Yeah, there's a thirteen step process ...

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Do you plan on keeping, using, maintaining, copying this assembly and or it's parts for years to come? If no, then whatever is simplest, probably what Scott and Alex said, or since you won't be maintaining them, what's wrong with dumb solids.(1) If you will need these models for years to come then, ...

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Windoze is about a decade behind in multiple tabs in file browser, Linux desktop environments have had that since maybe 2008?

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The .NET suggestions, are you still doing macros or toss macros all together and do stand alones and add-ins?

Edit: Sorry, I just read the second link and see Jim's opinion on that clearly.

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dave.laban wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 10:51 am If you're just trying out a specific feature there's the browser based trial version. https://my.solidworks.com/try-solidworks

yeah...

Not worth the hoop jumping to test it.

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jcapriotti wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:20 pm What OS is your server?

sorry, typo/wires crossed. SW2024 does not work on server 2016 which is what we have.

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Because it will get lost in the swamp and noone will really vote on it next year if it's lost so might as well hold on to it. I would agree with that most of the time but to be fair, Alin must have done some digging to put together the list in his blog. I know a couple were lost in the swamp but he...

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Thank you Alin.

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Check to see what the new subscription includes. Most likely they added several new tools and services to justify the price increase. I am not saying that this will make you change your mind, but I hope they did not increase the price without offering extra benefits. Alin, Looks like it includes ac...

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I downloaded it. Went to update our license server and no can do. 2024 needs server 2016 and I'm not moving the license server for this. Might try to get trial license from VAR...

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This is seriously atrocious and renders the forum unusable... Hopefully the host can find the issue soon I agree that it's bad. Not sure I was say "unusable" I'm used to other systems that prompt "multi-tasking" (do other stuff while it loads) so this isn't unusable. I'll keep u...

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Hello, we use network licenses and the SNL server is on our PDM SQL Server instance, which is Windows Server 2016. It will likely remain that way until our next update in a few years. (We are updating to 2023 before long and likely skip 24 and possibly 25, time will tell.) I was going to test out so...

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For the searches: Rapid Dimensioning

https://help.solidworks.com/2021/englis ... ulator.htm

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Don't you want to have the model's revision number in the model's custom properties? I'm assuming you're expecting to keep your drawing and model at the same rev. Unless, your model files are not rev controlled by PDM?

Are you using PDM workflow to control the PDM revision?

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Why would these users need to be able to find or see a file that has been superseded and should not be used? Out of sight out of mind would be a good thing, no? One option is to alter the SE files so that it is blatantly obvious to anyone opening it that it is not to be used. Before implementing PD...

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It is an interesting problem. We are no where big enough to have that problem, but someday there will be more than just me using PDM, and it is clear to me that PDM is a great solution for SW files, but not so much for everything else. It is also fairly clear that the two options I am aware of that...

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@SPerman I have to ask, is there a reason you liked my question other than accidentally clicked on it?

A use case maybe?

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We kind of handled this by only allowing those types of groups to view the "PDFs" of finished drawings. If we were staying with PDM, I'd probably start publishing 3d viewables in additional to our 2d PDF viewables.(eDrawings or maybe some other 3d format). Since we create a 2d pdf viewabl...

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This probably sounds like a bad thing to try to do, but I believe it would be nice if we could set permissions for some users (not design eng, but sales or purchasing for example) so that they can see that the file exists in pdm, but cannot access it. Reason: It's straightforward for CAD users to un...

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It's the other way to "innovate". Take something that already exists (spatial relationships) and couple it with an idea that few use (kinematics) and BOOM... a new innovation was born! Then defend it because otherwise there is nothing new. Example: It's no longer a turning indicator, to s...

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The 2023-2024 Solid Edge interface. Just started using it and it's >>> Everything is so close to the same color image.png If only the marketing team wouldn't have gotten ahold of the interface... I'm getting used to it though... I read a while back they were aligning icons with NX. I wonder how man...

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I hate hackers and evil people in the world. Ever since our company decided to open our networks to global teams and vendors.... I have to "authenticate" multiple times a day on my phone. I feel like I'm wasting 5% of my day playing authentication roulette every single day of my working l...

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I am trying to save a newer version as a step file and the convert that step file into something that is editable in the older version. Many parts and subassemblies to convert. Dumb solid is useless in that case. The Featureworked files I'm speaking of were imported from Solid Edge (Parasolid trans...

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After seeing what feature works is capable of, I wonder what use case would produce desirable results running feature works lights out. 99% of what I've seen the dumb solid is more desirable than the automatic FeatureWorks.

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Thanks for answer Gupta9665. I gave name to all faces and edges, created copy of the part, replaced cut-extrudes with hole-wizard holes and gave same names to those faces and edges as in original cut-extrude. When I replaced the original part in assembly with the copy, all mates to edges remained c...

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It's conditional. For some variables like Drawing Number, it should be unchecked since the number doesn't change ever. For "ECO Number" it should be checked since each revision has a different ECO number. Unfortunately there isn't way to control the check / uncheck condition. Been trying ...

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"Search in all versions" is checked. I'm searching in the "Drawing Number" which has the same value in all configurations across all versions (It never changes). Normally if no configurations have ever been deleted, it always pulls the latest versions of all other variables and ...

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I can get the same thing for a part model with a deleted configuration. A search on the "Number" field was pulling version 3 of 6 "VariableValue" data in the search. I'm guessing version 4 was when it was deleted. There are a couple of SPRs where they fixed similar cases but thi...

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This may be be relevant: https://support.3ds.com/knowledge-base/?q=docid:QA00000109905 ================= QUESTION Why do custom properties only ever populate a SOLIDWORKS® drawing's SOLIDWORKS PDM® data card '@' tab and not the drawing sheet tabs even when 'update all configurations' is used? ANSWE...

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We have an interesting case where the PDM add-in is showing values for variables that cannot be found on data card. After a bit of investigation I'm fairly certain the add-in is getting info from an old config (sheet) that has been deleted. Then the @ and main sheet variables were updated. Everythin...

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KennyG wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 12:35 pm And how do you know which one needs to be resolved?

Sort by the errors/warnings column, brings them to the top (or bottom).

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Might want to talk with instructor,not certain where I stand with him. While he is good at teaching, he comes off as very stand-offish and neutral and hardcore to me at times. Not sure if it's just my perception or if it's just him. Thanks, guys. Thinking back I cannot say that I can find a correla...

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Did you check the display driver?

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:51 pm Damn, I ran over a box of cereal.

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Okay, I'll be frank. Saving DXF is part of my macro, but that's no problem. What I'm really trying to do is check the ASM to make sure the designers have done everything necessary for the project to be considered complete. Namely, I check all the components (Component2) of the assembly. For example...

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Sorry, I didn't understand what this was about. You talk about saving DXF but this is not important at all. I want to find the best algorithm to determine that this part is sheet metal and that it has a flat pattern configuration (or not). I guess most of us assumed you are trying to save a dxf of ...

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Yep. This is literally the worst thing about SW. The way it handles drawings. I ALWAYS use HLR views on my drawings. (Unless there is a very specific and/or compelling reason). One thing I find soooo often when using weldment profiles. It will almost always default to the inner face of the box tube...

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