SolidWorks Tech Tip: Hole Patterns Without the Hassle
So one of our recent Essentials training classes finished early because all the students had a lot of CAD experience and were quick learners, and I asked the class what else they’d like to learn beyond the curriculum. One of the questions that came up was “When I make a lot of vent holes in [...]
SolidWorks Tech Tip: Color Assigned to Features
Here’s a common problem that is hard to diagnose, and easy to solve, both for the same reason: It involves a setting in TOOLS > OPTIONS that is so infrequently used, and so little-known, that one tends to invoke it only by accident. Here’s the problem: You have several colors assigned to a part file, [...]
Dassault Systèmes Announces North American HQ
Dassault Systèmes North American Headquarters Are Now Located in Waltham, MA It’s official, the DS North American headquarters are now located at the award-winning 27 acre campus in Waltham, MA . The campus showcases sustainable innovation, lifelike 3D experiences and of course, it’s LEED-certified. The campus brings together employees who had previously been split between [...]
SolidWorks EPDM Admin Tech Tip: Undo Checkout
Hopefully your users will remember to check in their documents regularly, and particularly when they will be out of the office. What happens when this is not the case and someone else needs to work on them? Enterprise PDM protects documents from update if they are checked out by another user. Here I’m logged in [...]
SolidWorks EPDM User Tech Tip: Remember to check your documents in!
Enterprise PDM provides a secure vault for your documents and the check-out / check-in process prevents more than one user from making updates at the same time. Until you check your changes back in, other users are unable to see them and they don’t have the ability to apply other changes. Since one of the key benefits of Enterprise PDM is multi-user collaboration, documents that are unnecessarily checked out can introduce bottlenecks.
