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3DVIA Composer: Configure Multiple Users to Use Shared Server or Library Location
This tip is especially useful for users with a Floating Composer license! If there are multiple users of 3DVIA Composer that would like to share a common library location, it’s not obvious how to go about configuring them all to do this. With a bit…
3DVIA Composer Plug-in for SolidWorks: How to Configure Default Export Settings?
For those users of 3DVIA Composer that periodically need to ask a SolidWorks designer to export files into the native Composer file type, this tip is for you! This is a very specific scenario where the users of SolidWorks do not have 3DVIA Composer installed on their…
Licensing of Composer is done though a FlexLM license service which is very common in the software industry. All licenses of Composer are Node-locked to a computer “MAC” address (even Standalone ones). Activation is common with SolidWorks but not Composer. Whether you have a Standalone…
When installing SolidWorks Composer there some things that are good to know before you start the install. Here is some background information. If you visit the SolidWorks Composer download page through the SolidWorks Customer Portal, you’ll find that there are a few choices. We’ll go through what…
3DVIA Composer: How to Set the Default View that an SMG Exported to PDF Opens To!
When exporting an SMG project to PDF, you may want to have a certain view (of many in the project) active by default when the PDF is opened. Before exporting the file to the PDF format, the “Launch in View Mode” option needs to be…
Occasionally when trying to move actors to make an exploded view, you may run into a situation where the default directions that the “Gizmo” offers you to move the actor do not match what is needed in reality. See the example below. Desired view
3DVIA Composer Create a Walkthrough animation using Fly Through
A quick way to create a walkthrough style animation in 3DVIA Composer is by using the Fly Through Mode tool and capture various “stops” along the way. Here’s how: 1. Go into animation mode in Composer. 2. Set the timebar in the timeline at the…
In SOLIDWORKS Composer we have different selection methods to either select a sub-assembly or the parts within them when performing a function such as a translate. The difference is subtle but important. If we select a sub-assembly using the Assembly Selection methods, the translate (or…
How to insert additional bodies into 3DVIA Composer – Part 2
In a previous tip, a method of inserting additional bodies using the File -> Open dialog, was presented. In this tip we’ll mention another way. To add additional bodies into a Composer document you can right-click at the top of the Assembly tree and choose: Product…
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