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Joe Medeiros, CSWE
How are unused SOLIDWORKS PDM Serial Numbers handled?
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on December 14, 2020
While helping a customer with an issue they were having with their SOLIDWORKS PDM serial numbers, I came across an article on how unused serial numbers are handled. This article really helped me understand the way serial numbers are doled out and I believe others…
A Quick Way to Log In and Off (Out) of SOLIDWORKS PDM
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on November 2, 2020
I’m sure that most reading this article are familiar with how to log in to the SOLIDWORKS PDM Local Vault View, by means of the PDM icon in Windows Quick Access or from Windows Explorer. It may be that you have even added short-cuts to…
Datum Targets now available in SOLIDWORKS MBD 2021
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on October 19, 2020
In SOLIDWORKS MBD 2021, Datum Targets are now available. Previously only Datums were available, but now in MBD 2021, Datum Targets can be added to a Datum. The Datum Target command is available from the MBD Dimensions tab but is greyed out if no Datums…
DS SOLIDWORKS does not officially support the use of Microsoft Office 365 and similar outsourced mail servers. SOLIDWORKS does provide a Knowledgeable article that offers a possible workaround. This article contains a link to a utility for creating a E-MailRelay , as well as a…
Setting Up a SOLIDWORKS PDM Test Environment for a New Major Release
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on August 12, 2020
When there is a new release of SOLIDWORKS PDM, it is wise to first test the upgrade so that you can identify and address any problems, before updating your production vault. SOLIDWORKS PDM uses the SolidNetWork License Manager (SNL) and this needs to first be…
Creating a Story for 3DEXPERIENCE Dashboards
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on August 4, 2020
Stories facilitate navigating a 3DEXPERIENCE Dashboard by providing a description for a dashboard, tab and widget. You can add a story to provide the users of your dashboard a quick overview of its content. The Dashboard creator/editor decides where to add a Story and the…
Dashboards are the interface that users interact with when accessing the 3DEXPERIENCE WORKS Platform. The Dashboard is populated with Widgets that allow access to apps and links. Dashboards can be associated with a Role or custom created. All Dashboards contain the same common elements. These…
The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform is Dassault Systèmes foray into cloud-based collaborative design, and the gateway to the platform is the 3DEXPERIENCE Compass. The Compass consists of four quadrants, each containing a variety of Apps, Links and Online Resources. The North point of the Compass is…
Sizing the Microsoft SQL Primary Data (mdf) and Transaction Log (ldf) files
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on June 8, 2020
A Microsoft SQL database consists a primary data file (mdf) a secondary data file (ndf) and a transaction log file (ldf). For this article, we will concern ourselves with the mdf and ldf files. MDF stands for Main Database File and contains all the information…
Could not add a Vault to the SOLIDWORKS PDM master database?
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on May 29, 2020
You’ve had to reinstall Microsoft SQL on the same server. The installation of Microsoft SQL and SOLIDWORKS PDM went off seamlessly, but when you try to create a vault you receive this error message: “Could not add vault ‘[VaultName]’ to the SOLIDWORKS PDM master database…
Using Shrink to address SOLIDWORKS PDM Database Free Space
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on May 13, 2020
The recommended free disk space for an SQL Server (SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional database), is 15%. If free disk space reaches levels below that, problems can occur. Lower levels can lead to PDM can becoming unusable. There may not may any notification of low disk space,…
Why SOLIDWORKS Link Values is better than a Global Variable
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on April 30, 2020
Back with the release of SOLIDWORKS 2010, SOLIDWORKS introduced Global Variables. A nice little utility, to define a constant that can be used to drive multiple dimensions. And for many situations this works well but the one downside is that a Global Variable has to…
How to find a Corrupt SOLIDWORKS Component
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on April 29, 2020
If you find that a SOLIDWORKS Component in your assembly or drawing has become corrupted, there are a couple of common causes for a file corruption: A SOLIDWORKS file became truncated while being saved. This can occur when the drive the file is being saved…
How SOLIDWORKS Design Tables work and why they are still relevant.
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on April 14, 2020
For those who have been using SOLIDWORKS for a while you may remember how Design Tables were used to create configurations. Of course this can now be done more efficiently using Modify Configurations in SOLIDWORKS. But there are situations where Design Tables are still required…
How to link Balloons to Custom Properties in a SOLIDWORKS Drawing Template
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on January 28, 2020
Recently a customer wanted to know if it was possible, in a SOLIDWORKS Drawing Template, to link Custom Properties to balloons, without the need to edit each balloon? After providing a solution to this customer I thought that other users may find this useful. Link…