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Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP
How to place an Image (texture) on the cylindrical face of a Geometric Actor
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on February 27, 2019
If you are a SOLIDWORKS Composer user, you must have come across using textures within the views, whether that’s on the geometric actors or the background in the view port. In this article I will discuss how you can use your own logos or textures…
How to Reorder Components in 2D Cabinet Layout Drawings
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on February 26, 2019
If you are a SOLIDWORKS Electrical user you must have accidentally added the electrical components before adding the dinrail or before adding the cabinet layout. It doesn’t matter in what sequence you add the electrical and non electrical components. Order Tool on the Cabinet Layout…
Fastest way to create and edit properties of Explode Lines in SOLIDWORKS Composer
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on February 25, 2019
SOLIDWORKS Composer Explode lines indicate the path from the assembled position or the neutral position of an actor to it’s exploded position. These paths can be associative or non-associative paths. Associative paths are the paths that update when the geometric actors are moved after explode…
How to change the SOLIDWORKS Composer SVG highlight colour
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on February 18, 2019
SOLIDWORKS Composer helps your organization, including nontechnical users, leverage 3D CAD data to create dynamic graphical content that clearly and effectively depicts even your most complex products. One of those contents are SVG images which are saved using the Technical Illustration within the Workshops pane. Most users…
Description option missing on Save as dialog box. How to fix it?
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on February 15, 2019
Recently, a few customers have contacted me to report that their SOLIDWORKS Save as dialog box is missing the description field? When saving a part, assembly, or drawing document, you can add a description for the file via the Save As dialog box as shown…
How to restore SOLIDWORKS file shortcut options in Windows Explorer
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on February 13, 2019
Many SOLIDWORKS users are used to access SOLIDWORKS which appears when we right click on any part, assembly or drawing file within Windows Explorer. This SOLIDWORKS file option has various sub-options such as Pack and Go, Rename, Replace and Move. Hence, it allows user to…
How to get the best performance from SOLIDWORKS Composer
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on November 22, 2018
While carrying out technical support, customers report different types of issues related to SOLIDWORKS Composer performance in which Composer doesn’t behave normally. Most of these issues are graphics related; and many occur when a different version or service-pack of Composer is installed on a machine…
“Could not initiate the transaction…” error at SOLIDWORKS start-up?
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on November 15, 2018
Recently I was helping a customer on tech support to download and install SOLIDWORKS on a new machine but when we tried to launch SOLIDWORKS it showed a “Could not initiate the transaction” error message: “Could not initiate the transaction (66, iActTransactionStartFlxActivateApp() /flxActAppActivationReqCreate()errored [8,41013,00)” Once…
How to import Product Manufacturing information (PMI) into SOLIDWORKS Composer
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on November 13, 2018
SOLIDWORKS Composer can directly import Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) data from SOLIDWORKS models. PMI conveys attributes that are necessary for manufacturing a product component. The attributes include geometric dimensions and tolerances (GD&T), datums, dimensions, Special symbols such as diameters and degrees and surface finishes. To import…
SOLIDWORKS 2019 Recent Documents dialog box improvements
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on November 11, 2018
SOLIDWORKS 2019 introduces some great new capabilities that not only improve the user experience, but also increase your daily productivity with new SOLIDWORKS 2019 Recent Documents functionality: The SOLIDWORKS 2019 Welcome page now lists up to 100 of your recently opened documents. Each document is displayed…
How to embed SOLIDWORKS Composer files into Microsoft Word
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on November 8, 2018
SOLIDWORKS Composer data can be published into various external tools such as a PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and HTML. Sometimes when you want to show your content to other users who do not have Composer or the Composer Player installed on their machines, publishing…
Problems when changing SOLIDWORKS Electrical Application Settings from Local to Server Setup
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on October 15, 2018
As a SOLIDWORKS Electrical Technical Support Expert I come across a lot of cases when electrical users change their SOLIDWORKS Electrical Application Settings from the Local Setup to the Server Setup and vice versa. For a Local Setup the electrical projects are saved on the local machine…
Why are my SOLIDWORKS Thumbnails and Previews missing? [PART 2]
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on September 3, 2018
If SOLIDWORKS thumbnails in Windows Explorer or in the Preview Pane of the Open dialog are not visible, there are several reasons that could cause this problem. Please follow the solutions listed below: STEP 1: Firstly, follow all the solutions mentioned in Part 1: Why are my SOLIDWORKS…
How to fix: “Cannot load SOLIDWORKS settings information from [username]”?
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on August 29, 2018
When using Copy settings wizard to copy the SOLIDWORKS settings from one CAD machine to another, sometimes this procedure can not be followed smoothly. While saving the settings you will see the message stating: “Cannot load SOLIDWORKS settings information from (username) “. What causes this…
What causes the error: ‘Cannot initiate license for SOLIDWORKS Electrical. Error = 3’?
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on August 24, 2018
Sometimes while launching SOLIDWORKS Electrical schematic software you will see an error: ‘Cannot initiate license for SOLIDWORKS Electrical. Error = 3’. This message means that the file ‘swsecwrap.dll’ could not load properly. Various reasons can cause this issue. One possibility is that the root certification of the…