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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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so while saying there should be no problem with templates, they admit some problem could indeed arise. like that time around 2014-2019 when sw was crashing like crazy, but nobody at sw dev team was even aware? they even said something like "we use sw to perform real world mechanical design duri...

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Found it Question In the SOLIDWORKS® CAD software, how do I determine if I am using an old template? Answer Making sure that you use the correct template version for your version of the SOLIDWORKS® software is fundamental in avoiding unexpected behavior in the Sheet Metal, BOM, Cut List and other en...

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I've got the task created in the admin tool in PDM but I'm unsure on how to modify it to get it to work as it fails every time during the transition. I'm guessing it needs some additional code but I'm unsure on what or how to add it. Thanks What is the error? Beware You need to checkout the file to...

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AlexLachance DennisD We had all strange things happening with SW, our template was made with SW 2012 and not updated only until SW 2022 update, 10 years later. SW had at least 3 major updates of incompatible feature in the meanwhile. We had weldments bodies changing material on their own upon rebui...

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The opposite is true, DS hid the problem for years - we only found out after reporting major bugs (caused by old version templates), at which point our VAR confessed all. In the end DS made the VARs say to us: "Hey you did not know you needed to remake ALL your templates at every SW version up...

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I take it back. A second file i tested (after the initial single file quick test with a file i could remember easily) still has the bug. 50% strike rate? I think that's good when it comes to SW bugs (i want to laugh... but i just can't bring myself to at that joke). First file was last saved in SW2...

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Vertices, Smaller Edges are the usual most painful culprits in drawings as well whilst trying to dimension. Also selecting dimensions can get janky AF sometimes to. Like... you can't select a dimension because the location of the selection cursor seems to have moved by some random offset amount and...

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Well I do know one thing. Yes the saving to previous versions is a blessing but it is also a painful bind. Saving 2024 files to 2023 you have to be really careful with the hole wizard or it won't be compatible. It's so easy to trip up every time you use hole wizard, you forget to untick one box and...

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Not in office right now, but iirc most epdm api do not return values the usual way. you need to use an epdm dll that handles exit codes instead. it is supposed to be used with external applications not macros. Honestly I do know how to call it from a VBA macro if even possible... https://help.solidw...

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In case of emergency you can access your vault view without login with file managers like total commander, free commander, double commander or even with the command prompt and zip your checked out files in a backup folder. Otherwise when you delete your vault view do not check to delete all files: y...

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I have been using an assembly with a weldment (Using a 3D sketch) for the piping and adding flanges / fittings. It makes it easier to adjust the lengths and the weldment table gives you the pipe lengths. We don't do a lot of piping, mainly use it to make railings, so I didn't have to make to many t...

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NX has a selection by boundary I wish I could use in SW. You select only the face SURROUNDING a certain area of your part and all the faces INSIDE your selection are selected. you could fine tune the tangency requirements and other stuff. I have never got the smart selection (the one that pops a flo...

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We tried SW routing for our pipings in the past but: 1. a premium license is needed and our licensing costs with Pro+PDM+simulation are already too much for what we get in return, let alone all the unsolved bugs we face every day. 2. we do not support configurations inside part files anymore as it l...

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I have seen it happen in a few occasions, but it was not worth the trouble to replicate as restarting sw was quicker and nothing valuable was lost. Sometimesit is a single part, sometimes a component of an assy, probably when you enter a sketch and switch to another component without exiting. it doe...

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So, that happens to me with Detail views on SW 2022 SP$. I thought it was only me. Glad I am not the only one. UU At the begining it made me nuts as I thought I was just missing to click the option, but I have a macro to extract in plain text all settings saved into a template so it was clear that ...

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Have anybody faced / solved this kind of issue? I have made a definition in the Document Properties -setup for cutting line format, but it does not work. What is wrong here? there is a bug into the document property UI (at least in sw 2023 sp5) you need to click around and switch back and forth fro...

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You can just right click the first plane in the tree and select properties from RMB menu. it shows the user that made the template on which that file is based and from the date you could guess the sw version. To avoid problems we export everything in parasolid and re impory in out templates. at leas...

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I looked around the web and it seems the timer function is just low priority and in case the CPU is very busy it could lag behind. It seems like my macro was asking the cpu too many things at once: I added some Doevents and the macro runs a lot smoother being able to begin a task before starying ano...

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I am experimenting right now with one assy. Not so big, but it took about 90 seconds to save, with SW freezing all the time and other performance issues. It now saves in 5 seconds and its file size is HALF it used to be, it opens 50% faster, the drawing takes one third of the time to generate the vi...

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I am trying to benchmark in a reliable way SOLIDWORKS to compare some modification we perform on assembly components and measure their impact on performance. I am trying to get a macro running time using the timer function before and after I launch a command. like this pseudocode starttime1 = timer ...

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The way that we brought our new servers online was to install everything fresh on them (SQL, PDM, etc.) I installed a blank vault view and then restored the SQL database from a production copy to the new server onto the blank vault view's table structure. This required that I modify a few tables in...

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The replication thing was more a curiosity of mine, I was wondering how big organization could handle In a smooth manner the transitions from a server to another minimizing the down time. Having multiple server in parallel and retiring one of them seemed the smoothest option, but I agree that is onl...

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The replication thing was more a curiosity of mine, I was wondering how big organization could handle In a smooth manner the transitions from a server to another minimizing the down time. Having multiple server in parallel and retiring one of them seemed the smoothest option, but I agree that is onl...

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We are going to upgrade our servers to be able to use SW2024 so archive, sql and license servers will be installed from scratch with latest supported OS etc. We are thinking to put the new servers online and copy the archive just to be able to sync only a small portion of data before we put the old ...

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2022 and 2023 have some very annoying, productivity killer bugs.
you need to download quite a lot of hotfix patches as well otherwise there are some parts of SW that simply do not work anymore...

if you are using PDM there are even more bugs I would gamble on 2024...

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we will wait for SP5 and our servers OS update, but the new hole wizard reference geometry (on by default?) is going to be annoying.

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I finally analyzed the file and it was a user made problem. First during checkout I looked at the confirmation screen and the first thing to notice was the "total files" involved in the operation in the bottom left corner of the window: it was three files instead of two (assy and its drawi...

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2024 will give you an "Incompatible items" report and won't let the save continue. So you'll (theoretically) never end up sending junk data, but you do have to be always keeping an eye on limiting operations to those of the intended target seat. Would be nice if they had a switch that wou...

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I would like to add the our catalog parts and hardware even for things without download 3d dats we had to model in house get exported in parasolid and inported again as dummy solid performance wise is the best. load and regenerate faster.

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I would like to see the impact of updating our components and correcting topology errors on imported geometries over our drawings. I am thinking about a reliable way to measure the SW operation time. I have some sample assembly data and I would like to make a simple drawing with the 3 main views, is...

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Check to see if any part in the assembly has an in-context feature that references the other assembly that is loaded. I suspect it is the case, but our settings disable the update of external references and they should not be loaded at all. I will check the system options and from the assy tree RMB...

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A while ago one of our engineers called me to show what is happening with a certain assy and its drawing. he opens the drawing and check it out together with its assy from within solidworks. At this point the drawing disappears and another assy shows up and when it is fully loaded disappears and the...

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When was the last time they actually added a feature? I mean one that people use? Really. It's a weak argument obviously decorating over the fact that the "reverse compatibility" mockery is at root a crass financial trap. Subterfuge - even crass and obvious subterfuge - is easier and more...

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I've worked in 2023 in a model that was saved from 2024. No butchering present. It was a surface model. There's been 2/3rds of FA development on surface features in recent years which means it is now possible to pass a model from a newer date code backwards. what I meant if a feature does not exist...

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Jim Elias wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2024 3:03 pm At least they didn't implement it as SW-premium only.

...or SOLIDWORKS ULTIMATE

https://www.solidworks.com/media/first- ... s-ultimate

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I've been thinking about the addition of this feature and I concluded that a reason we are seeing this now is because the addition of new features (not just new ways to achieve the same thing, ie, SW2025 sketch colour change etc...) is definitely slowing down. Has anyone had an issue with saving to...

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That does sound like a very creative and clever way to gain usage data. I would be quite interested in learning a bit more of this tool, and perhaps, how I could get my IT department to implement it as well. My understanding is that FlexLM log file parsing is a widely used method. we have a softwar...

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https://www.solidworks.com/media/first- ... s-ultimate

https://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworks ... imate.html

the version nobody asked for, focussed on the platform nobody likes.

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In the end the CADDashboard is indeed broken, but they solved the update issue for us. The reason of the session not updating was THEIR SYSTEM WAS NOT RECOGNISING OUR SOLIDWORKS 2023 WITH 2 HOTFIXES APPLIED AS VALID AND SORT OF TRASHED THE DATA. As a bonus I now see that the video driver version rec...

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I did some injection molding project in the past and the imported surfaces are the bible. at least for aesthetic components for vehicles. you can thicken them add ribs on the hidden side and propose a design modification with a well argumented reason. Having a dummy body was easier to identify our m...

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Check your graphics drivers on the various machines. Not talking about the typical "certified driver" cop-out. It might be worth while to try various driver versions, depending on which version of SW you're running. We have mostly identical CAD work stations throughout the department. Tha...

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I have found other bugs with PDM administration. AGAIN another bug that causes the settings to NOT be saved... It happened multiple times when adding removing users from & to PDM groups, or enabling & disabling PDM access. It seems that if you have the user search opened and you modify the p...

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