Articles by: Adam Harte-Maxwell, CSWE
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…
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…
LOCKED OUT of the SOLIDWORKS Customer Portal? (Didn’t this happen last year too!)
Typically shortly after the release of a new MAJOR version of SOLIDWORKS (fall time frame), we get calls from umpteen frustrated customers wondering why they are NOW locked out of their SOLIDWORKS Customer Portal account, when the week prior they had access to it. AND,…
SOLIDWORKS system performance with Spectre and Meltdown patch
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…
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…
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…
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…
So you received your MySolidWorks Professional serial number, NOW what?
Now that you’re the owner of a shiny new MySolidWorks Professional license, what do you do with the serial number you just received? MySolidWorks is a web page – where does this serial number go? You have have looked and haven’t located a spot. And unlike SOLIDWORKS,…
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.