Articles by: Adam Harte-Maxwell, CSWE

Director of Technical Support at Javelin Technologies; I manage a team of 25+ support technicians who provide technical support and training for SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD, STRATASYS 3D printers, PDM file management, SIMULATION FEA/CFD, ELECTRICAL and PCB design, COMPOSER and VISUALIZE, and more, to our customers across CANADA. My first exposure to SOLIDWORKS was the 98Plus version in my prior life as a mechanical designer prior to January 2005 when I joined Javelin.

PRODUCT RETIREMENT: CATIA® V5-SOLIDWORKS Translator

CATIA V5 SOLIDWORKS Translator

The CATIA® V5-SOLIDWORKS Translator is no longer supported and can no longer be renewed. This tool is also not available in SOLIDWORKS 2019 or newer. Replaced by SOLIDWORKS 3D Interconnect The CATIA V5-SOLIDWORKS Translator was replaced by 3D Interconnect, which provides direct integration of native…

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Why might a Video Card Driver not install, causing an incompatibility warning?

Video card driver

Microsoft has announced a new video card driver structure for all hardware manufacturers: “DCHU (Declarative, Componentized, Hardware Support Apps, Universal API compliance) “. What does this mean for SOLIDWORKS? Towards the end of 2018, hardware manufacturers began shipping new systems with the new video card driver…

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SOLIDWORKS system performance with Spectre and Meltdown patch

Spectre and Meltdown

DS SOLIDWORKS is performing extensive testing in an effort to determine the potential impact of any solutions that are issued to mitigate the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. The SOLIDWORKS Knowledgebase solution S-074167 discusses the potential effect on performance upon systems that have employed the Microsoft® Windows® Update…

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Updates to the End of Life (EOL) plan for SOLIDWORKS and other products

SOLIDWORKS End of Life Plan

SOLIDWORKS has updated their System Requirements to include SOLIDWORKS 2018. This includes updates to the End of Life (EOL) plan for SOLIDWORKS and other products. In addition, the SOLIDWORKS Product Data Management web page has been simplified to update many notes for clarity. We strongly recommend that…

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Our Tech Support EMAIL Not Arriving?

Email

On Friday SEPT 22, our support ticketing system, NetSuite, changed their email domain. Many of you have probably experienced problems in the past receiving email from our tech support, i.e. emails being caught by a SPAM filter or going into your JUNK folder, which is…

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Why is SOLIDWORKS 2016 PDM Standard not available to install?

SOLIDWORKS 2016 PDM Standard

Now that SOLIDWORKS 2016 SP0 is available, a NEW PDM tool is also available to eligible customers, SOLIDWORKS 2016 PDM Standard. We’ve been receiving calls from customers wondering why they cannot yet install and begin using PDM Standard. SOLIDWORKS has yet to “enable” PDM Standard…

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Do you use a HP Z800 with 64GB or more of RAM? PLEASE READ…

If you use, or are planning on purchasing in the near future, a HP Z800 workstation running Windows 7 x64 that has 64 GB or more of RAM installed and NVidia Quadro graphics, you could run into a driver compatibility problem that will prevent SolidWorks from running unless Software OpenGL mode is used.

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“SOLIDWORKS has detected that your system resources are running low” message explained…

NOTE: An updated version of this information can be found at https://www.javelin-tech.com/blog/2018/03/solidworks-resource-monitor-warning/   Anyone who works with large SOLIDWORKS files has very likely received the warning: SOLIDWORKS System Resources Running Low. Of course your initial response was to check your RAM usage in the Task…

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SolidWorks 2011 adds IFC file export

Are you a SolidWorks user who collaborates with architectural or building construction design?  If so, I have good news!  SolidWorks 2011 now provides Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) export based on the latest International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) IFC 2×3 data exchange standard.  This export type…

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