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Joe Medeiros, CSWE
Adding your Company details and logo to the SOLIDWORKS Manage UI
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on October 31, 2019
Once the SOLIDWORKS Manage Server and Client have been installed, you can add your Company Details. Your details can appear in various areas of the SOLIDWORKS Manage user interface, including SOLIDWORKS Manage Login and Reports. To enter your Company Details, from the Options pull-down or…
SOLIDWORKS Manage Users Area (System Administration)
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on October 29, 2019
The Users Area of SOLIDWORKS Manage System Administration is where Users and Groups are added imported and edited. System Administration is available by selecting Administration Options. Selecting the Users Area, located at the lower left of SOLIDWORKS Manage System Administration will give access to the…
SOLIDWORKS Manage Administrator Interface
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on October 23, 2019
The Administrator Options of SOLIDWORKS Manage, can only be accessed if the user has sufficient permissions. The Administration Options can be accessed from Options pull-down Or the Tools tab. Selecting Administration Options, will launch SOLIDWORKS Manage System Administration, in a separate Window. At bottom of…
Connecting SOLIDWORKS Manage to a SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional Vault
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on October 17, 2019
SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional can be easily connected to SOLIDWORKS Manage. The close relationship between SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional and SOLIDWORKS Manage, is evident in the fact that SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional, is included with SOLIDWORKS Manage. In this article we will look at how to connect SOLIDWORKS…
Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Standard for SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on October 4, 2019
In this article we will look at installing Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Standard, which ships with the SOLIDWORKS installation media disks (not the downloadable installation file set). SQL Server 2014 Standard must be installed before SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional can be installed. SQL Server 2014 should…
After the SOLIDWORKS Manage Server installation, the clients can then be installed. The SOLIDWORKS Manage install can be launched by clicking on the SOLIDWORKS Manage msi, located in the SWManageClient folder, of the SOLIDWORKS Installation file-set. This will start the SOLIDWORKS Manage Client InstallShield Wizard….
SOLIDWORKS Manage Log-in Process for Users and Administrators
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on April 17, 2019
Once the SOLIDWORKS Manage Client has been installed, both Users and Administrators, can access the same Manage interface. This is done by launching SOLIDWORKS Manage from a Shortcut, entering SOLIDWORKS Manage in Windows Start or the SOLIDWORKS Program Group. When SOLIDWORKS Manage is launched for…
How to show Material and Mass in a SOLIDWORKS PDM Data Card
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on April 17, 2019
Information about a file can be added and accessed through metadata. In SOLIDWORKS this metadata is referred to as Properties. In SOLIDWORKS PDM, this metadata is contained within Variables. By the use of PDM Attributes, we can map a Variable value to a File Property….
Reduce time and mistakes with a SOLIDWORKS PDM Design Checker Task
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on March 27, 2019
The SOLIDWORKS Design Checker is one of the most underutilized utilities in SOLIDWORKS and this is unfortunate, as this utility can help eliminate costly mistakes due to errors in a SOLIDWORKS document. Design Checker can also reduce the amount of time to check documents, by…
How to flip the Bend Direction of a SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal Part
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on March 25, 2019
The stated Bend Direction in a SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal drawing is based on the defined fixed face of the model. Editing the Flat Pattern feature, in the Flat-Pattern folder, will display the currently defined “Fixed face”. To change the Bend Direction, select a face that…
If there is a mismatch in the Back-up settings of the SOLIDWORKS PDM Archive Server Configuration application, the message ‘Failed to Make Backup!’, will appear in the Archive Server log. If the error message is opened from the Archive Server log, the below description will be…
SOLIDWORKS Routing Fixed Length Coverings
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on March 1, 2019
New to SOLIDWORKS 2019, is the ability to add Coverings of a Fixed Length. This works with routes that use splines, such as tube and electrical routes. To use this tool, edit a route and select a spline route segment. The Fixed Length Covering command,…
Clearing the SOLIDWORKS PDM Archive Server Log
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on January 25, 2019
When viewing the SOLIDWORKS PDM User Log, clearing the log is straight forward. You simply left-click, on the ‘Empty the log’ icon. This is available from the User Log menu bar, located at the top-left of the Log. But how do you accomplish this for the…
How to Split a SOLIDWORKS Manage Auto Number
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on January 11, 2019
A delimiter can be added, to the display of a Number (Part Number, Project Number, Document Number etc.) created by Auto Number. This will not change value in the system, but only how the Number is displayed. Splitting of an Auto Number, is accomplished through…
How to split Splitting Projects into Stages with SOLIDWORKS Manage
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on January 7, 2019
If there is a period of time where no work is being done on a SOLIDWORKS Manage Project, the Project can be Split, so that time is not included in the percentage completion of Project. To do this, after creating or editing a Project, select…