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Joe Medeiros, CSWE
How to enable Rich Text in SOLIDWORKS Manage Memo Fields
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on January 3, 2019
When editing or creating an Object Memo Field, within the Administration Options. From Options tab, the SOLIDWORKS Manage Administrator can enable Use Rich Text Format. Once enabled, a user can copy an image file or rich text into a Memo Field.
How to define SOLIDWORKS Manage Working Days & Hours for Projects
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on December 30, 2018
To help determine the total time available to complete a project stage, a SOLIDWORKS Manage Administrator can define the company default working days and hours. A user can then refine these hours based on their availability. In this way a total amount of available hours for a…
How to handle Duplicate BOM Line Items in SOLIDWORKS Manage
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on December 25, 2018
For situations where instances of an item contain variants, such as colour or finish, Duplicate Line Items can be added to a SOLIDWORKS Manage BOM. Before thus can be done though, the Duplicate Line Item functionality must first be enabled by the SOLIDWORKS Manage Administrator. This…
SOLIDWORKS PDM SQL Server Statistics and Query Plans
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on December 24, 2018
SOLIDWORKS PDM SQL Server Statistics is information about what is stored in SQL Tables. This information is then used to generate optimized query plans. Great, but what does that have to do with SOLIDWORKS PDM? To understand that, we first need to understand what a…
SOLIDWORKS Manage Configuration File Utility
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on December 18, 2018
The SOLIDWORKS Manage Configuration File Utility can be used to test the connection to the SolidNetWork License Manager and resetting the SOLIDWORKS Manage Admin Password. During the installation SOLIDWORKS Manage Server, the *.swmc file is created and its location is noted in the SOLIDWORKS Manage Log-in screen, by…
Adjusting the SOLIDWORKS Manage Bill of Materials Performance
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on December 16, 2018
To increase SOLIDWORKS Manage performance when a large BOM of Record is selected for the first time, an administrator can specify the number of BOM levels that will be loaded. To do this select Administration Options. Next from the Advanced options, select the General and…
SOLIDWORKS PDM Reorganize Index or Rebuild can increase performance on a fragmented database. If fragmentation is between 10 – 30% then Reorganize is recommended, when above 30% a Rebuild would be best. For fragmentation values lower than 10%, or for smaller databases, Reorganize and Rebuild may not increase…
Selecting a source to be used as a SOLIDWORKS MANAGE Document Template
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on December 8, 2018
When creating a new Document or Record in SOLIDWORKS Manage 2019, a user with sufficient permissions, can select a source to be used as the SOLIDWORKS MANAGE Document Template. The new Document or Record source can be an existing SOLIDWORKS Manage document object or a SOLIDWORKS PDM file….
Working with Autodesk Inventor Files in SOLIDWORKS PDM
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on December 5, 2018
In order for Autodesk Inventor files to be managed in SOLIDWORKS PDM, the client system needs to have either the full Inventor application or the Inventor Viewer installed. The reason for this, is that the Inventor files are read/written to, using the Inventor API. The…
SOLIDWORKS PDM could not find the Standards Database?
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on November 19, 2018
If SOLIDWORKS Toolbox is managed by SOLIDWORKS PDM then the swbrowser.sldedb Toolbox file must be cached locally and users must be able to access it. Here are some questions and answers to help you troubleshoot a SOLIDWORKS PDM Standards Database Error: Could not find the…
What are the SOLIDWORKS Routing Component Grouping BOM Properties?
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on October 29, 2018
SOLIDWORKS Routing Component Grouping BOM Properties are a number of options in the Bill of Materials Property Manager which are specific to SOLIDWORKS Routing: Show only routing Components in BOM: will exclude components that are not part of a route, from the BOM. Group pipes or…
How to add Slope to a SOLIDWORKS Routing BOM
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on October 26, 2018
SOLIDWORKS Routing Pipe Slope can be easily added to a Route and the information pertaining to the Pipe Slope can be displayed in the associated Route BOM. The first step is to define the Pipe Slope. This can be done by picking Add Slope from…
How to add Spool References to a SOLIDWORKS Routing BOM
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on October 25, 2018
SOLIDWORKS Routing Spool References are defined in a Route Assembly and can be referenced in the Route Assembly BOM. The first step is to Define a Spool. The Define Spools command is available from the SOLIDWORKS Command Manager Piping menu. Once defined, the Spool will…
Install SOLIDWORKS PDM Server Components without using the Installation Manager
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on October 8, 2018
Starting with SOLIDWORKS 2016, the SOLIDWORKS PDM file set was incorporated into the SOLIDWORKS Installation Manager. This makes for a convenient one stop location to install all SOLIDWORKS products. Unfortunately, this also makes for a large installation file-set, that can be cumbersome to move around. There are…
Setting SOLIDWORKS PDM External References Search Paths
By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on September 11, 2018
SOLIDWORKS PDM will normally handle references, between components. If these references do not exist, then PDM will use search criteria used by the respective application, such as SOLIDWORKS. Through the SOLIDWORKS PDM External References tab, additional folders to be searched, can be specified. These folders…