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John Lee, CSWE
Gotta pattern something in SOLIDWORKS? Reduce your effort with a Sketch Driven Pattern!
By John Lee, CSWE on November 26, 2018
A SOLIDWORKS Sketch Driven Pattern is a great way to control instance locations, but did you know you can use the same sketch for both the instances AND the feature? You can! To demonstrate, we’re going to dive into the universe of one of my…
“SOLIDWORKS is not responding!” But will it?
By John Lee, CSWE on November 9, 2018
So you’re getting that message “SOLIDWORKS 20XX is not responding….” and are given the choice to either “Close the program” or “Wait for the program to respond”. Don’t close the program yet… Hold your horses, Speed Racer! 🙂 Your best choice depends on what is…
SOLIDWORKS crashing a lot? We feel your pain! Over the years, we have seen many things that cause SOLIDWORKS to crash repeatedly. In an effort to get some useful tips out there, we present the following set of guides. These SOLIDWORKS Crash Support Guides are…
SOLIDWORKS Crash Troubleshooting Guide (Part 3 of 3)
By John Lee, CSWE on October 10, 2018
Part 3 of our SOLIDWORKS Crash Troubleshooting Guide offers steps relating to Windows and hardware. We recommend testing after each step to determine whether it resolved the problem before moving on to another step. Are there any Windows updates pending? Sometimes implementing them solves the problem. This…
SOLIDWORKS Crash Troubleshooting Guide (Part 2 of 3)
By John Lee, CSWE on October 5, 2018
Part 2 of our SOLIDWORKS Crash Troubleshooting Guide includes recommendations for graphics cards and utilizing SOLIDWORKS Rx. Catch up on part 1 of the guide. Try a SOLIDWORKS Rx Reliability Report and Reboot Check. Try running SOLIDWORKS in the two different RX safe modes to…
SOLIDWORKS Crash Troubleshooting Guide (Part 1 of 3)
By John Lee, CSWE on September 10, 2018Experiencing a repeated SOLIDWORKS Crash? This is the first in our series of crash troubleshooting guides. Here are some recommended steps to troubleshoot the problem: If in addition to crashing you are also getting warnings about low system resources from SOLIDWORKS Resource Monitor, then review this…
SOLIDWORKS System Problem? Try creating a new Windows User Account
By John Lee, CSWE on August 20, 2018
You are likely reading this blog article because of inexplicable problems with SOLIDWORKS performance or stability. Nothing else you have tried has helped, such as you found on the Javelin blog, or trying a SOLIDWORKS registry reset. You may even notice degraded performance in other…
Perfectly Symmetric SOLIDWORKS Linear Pattern!
By John Lee, CSWE on August 7, 2018
Ever wanted to create that perfect symmetric SOLIDWORKS Linear Pattern which: Is symmetric about the midplane of the part Is driven by number of instances, regardless of spacing. Let SOLIDWORKS do the math! Does not require sketch edits when changing between odd and even number…
Protect your SOLIDWORKS Configurations from unwanted features
By John Lee, CSWE on August 1, 2018
There is a SOLIDWORKS Configuration Suppress Features checkbox in the advanced options of the Configuration Properties, and it is checked by default. What is the purpose of the Suppress Features option? If Suppress Features were unchecked, then any features added in other configurations will be…
Using SOLIDWORKS Named Views in Exploded Assembly Drawings
By John Lee, CSWE on January 29, 2018
Is the Exploded view in your drawing appearing differently to your model view? It might not be referencing a SOLIDWORKS Named View. Ever had this happen? I have created an exploded assembly configuration with all the components spaced consistently apart, but in the drawing the…
Warning – A Journal File Could not Be Created. Another SOLIDWORKS Session Running
By John Lee, CSWE on July 19, 2017
Do you receive a warning message every time you open SOLIDWORKS? The warning states there is another SOLIDWORKS session running. You probably have made sure that there is no other session running on your machine; or have performed a Windows reboot. To check that, we…
Changing the default Viewport Ground in SOLIDWORKS Composer
By John Lee, CSWE on May 8, 2012
When working in SOLIDWORKS Composer you will notice that there is a Dassault Systèmes logo on the SOLIDWORKS Composer Viewport Ground. If you want to remove this, or change it to something else you can. To change the image to one of your own, go…