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Samony Riyaz
Many times when working within SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional or Standard, you may want to create a Task that can be used to speed up your workflow. One such example of this could be the task titled “Convert to PDF”, which Converts SOLIDWORKS Drawing files (.slddrw)…
Navigating large assembly reference trees within SOLIDWORKS PDM can be difficult, especially when Checking a file In/Out, performing a Copy Tree function, or Changing States. Let’s look at the dialog box when checking out a file: When checking out a file, the dialog box above…
SOLIDWORKS Electrical uses attributes to represent information pertinent for the project including those in the title block, cover page and to describe component information in the schematics. This information is easily represented in a single line of text, but occasionally, you may have text going…
What’s the Difference between SOLIDWORKS Macros, Add-Ins and Executables?
By Samony Riyaz on April 7, 2020
When working within SOLIDWORKS, there are a lot of processes that can become repetitive and take quite a long time to complete and most of us see if there’s a way to streamline the process and reduce time. Lucky for us, there are three ways…
SOLIDWORKS 2020 Application Program Interface (API)
By Samony Riyaz on February 6, 2020
SOLIDWORKS has a lot of tools that allows users to model a simple part design to mount a VFD all the way up to simulating a real life flow simulation task and even extends out to data management capabilities. Given the above range of events,…
SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2020 Reporting Enhancements
By Samony Riyaz on November 26, 2019
Have you ever been frustrated with SOLIDWORKS Electrical Reporting, and how the Rows and Columns properties cannot be easily controlled? In SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2020, you can now have a column that not only specifies the row number but also controls the row height in reports….
SOLIDWORKS Macro to create Drawings for All Configurations with Updated BOM
By Samony Riyaz on November 21, 2019
Have you ever had a part with tens or hundreds or thousands of configurations? And you’re responsible for creating a drawing for EACH of those configurations with a correct BOM? Well fear no more! We’ve got a SOLIDWORKS Macro for you in which all you have…
Using Search Operators and Wildcards in SOLIDWORKS PDM 2020
By Samony Riyaz on November 19, 2019
New in SOLIDWORKS PDM 2020, when performing a complete search, you can now use Search Operators and Wildcards such as “AND”, “OR”, or “NOT” separated by a space. From previous releases, we know that you can refine your search using various parameters including file name,…
Reorder Columns in Search Results with SOLIDWORKS PDM 2020
By Samony Riyaz on November 13, 2019
Whether you’ve just created your vault view and added files into your vault, or if you’re a long time user of PDM. New in SOLIDWORKS PDM 2020, you now have the capability to reorder columns right in your search window and have that change automatically…
Have you ever ran into a situation where your SOLIDWORKS Macro is not running? Or it looks like it runs but nothing happens and it doesn’t give you an error message? The most common reason for this is that you’ve recently performed an upgrade on…
Ever encountered the Microsoft Visual Basic error “Run-time Error ’91’: Object variable or With block variable not set” when opening a SOLIDWORKS file? Or if you’re creating a new SOLIDWORKS Macro, and while running it you see this pop up? Lucky for you, this is…
SOLIDWORKS VBA Macro Code to Save Drawing as a PDF
By Samony Riyaz on September 4, 2019
Usually when we want to speed up process tasks in SOLIDWORKS, we tend to search for Macros that can do the task for us so we can decrease our process time. A lot of these Macros are published online by various users, but be mindful…