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Solidworks Option File
Do you need the ability to control your Solidworks Network licenses? Then the Options file is the solution. The options file can control many variables. Some of the most requested include Reserving specific licenses for specific users Returning a license when…
Bianca
23 June 2021 -
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Silhouette Entities
SOLIDWORKS introduced the Silhouette Entities in 2020, it allows you to create multiple sketch entities by projecting the outline of the bodies in a part or components in an assembly onto a parallel sketch plane. To create silhouette entities: Create a…
Tianshuo Sun
29 April 2021 -
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Edit Registry on a Secondary Hard Drive
SOLIDWORKS settings are stored in registry files. You can find a lot information in the registry files about your current SOLIDWORKS installation. But what if the computer crashed while the hard drive survived and you need to recover your SOLIDWORKS serial…
Tianshuo Sun
21 April 2021
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Suggestions how to successfully deploy your .NET (C#/VB.NET) SolidWorks add-in to your users
Any SolidWorks API developer can run into the scenario when the SolidWorks add-in doesn’t start on the client’s machine. Here is…
Peter
14 December 2015 -
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Assigning a Material to Toolbox Parts
Want to assign a material to your SOLIDWORKS Toolbox parts? Here’s how to do it. Launch the Toolbox configuration setup. Select…
Bill
9 December 2015 -
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Tips and tricks – Pre-Processing STL files
Tips and tricks – Pre-Processing STL files 3D scanning and scanned data has been a hot topic for a while around…
Logan
25 November 2015 -
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Check Boxes – The Unsung Heroes
Check Boxes – The Unsung Heroes Each year SOLIDWORKS introduces so much new functionality that it’s almost impossible to take in…
Logan
18 November 2015 -
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SOLIDWORKS Electrical Portal Gold Access
SOLIDWORKS Electrical Portal Gold Access As a part of your SOLIDWORKS Electrical subscription you are entitled to free gold level access…
Logan
11 November 2015 -
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Breadcrumbs – The best thing since sliced bread!
Breadcrumbs – The best thing since sliced bread! It was interesting to see at our recent Innovation Days around the country,…
Logan
4 November 2015 -
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Automatically adding mass to the weldment cut list properties
When you create a new weldment part the mass of the weldment is not included in the weldment cut list properties,…
Bill
19 October 2015 -
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Upgrade Assistant – Before migrating to a new version
Upgrade Assistant was formerly a part of the Beta releases of SOLIDWORKS but in 2016 it is available as a tool…
Mark Duggan
19 October 2015 -
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Angle dimension of a single line in a sketch
How many times have you wanted to dimension the angle of a line in a sketch, but there is no reference…
Bill
12 October 2015
