When PDM Professional 2021 was released in October of 2020, there was also an announcement that after 2021 SP5, Microsoft SQL 2014 for PDM Professional and Manage would no longer be supported. That version of SQL was the last version to be delivered with the purchase...
Your Workday Without SOLIDWORKS PDM It happens every day. As we are engaged in our daily activities we need to create or reference documents that are stored in various methods and locations throughout the business. We set off to find the information not thinking about...
In the manufacturing of plastics parts, many decisions are affected by your ability to cool the plastic part in a mold. The time it takes to cool the part will have a high impact on cycle time, so many mold designers look very closely at how the part can be cooled as...
“We can do this the easy way, or the hard way”. This line can be found in movies like 1964 hit Goldfinger and many modern favorites from Gone in Sixty Seconds, Little Man, Night at the Museum and my personal favorite Blindside. I...
When you look at most organizations who design using CAD tools, almost all use the .PDF format to share files with others. The .PDF file format is easy to share, works consistently and most everyone has access to software to open them. The problem that most companies face with this process is that someone has to manage these files. Doing this requires someone to know where it needs to be placed, whether to overwrite and old version of the .PDF or, move it.
I make many visits to customers and run across a common theme. Their SOLIDWORKS Licensing requirement needs are constantly changing. SOLIDWORKS Engineering teams and startups have one thing in common: they both need to be able to add capabilities and licenses of...
Dassault Systemes 3DEXPERIENCE Platform has enabled a new world of applications that will allow you to stay connected with others during the design process. SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer and SOLIDWORKS Conceptual Designer have new innovations that align the way you...
Renaming Files in the Feature Manager in a PDM Environment. It happens all the time, during the development process we name files based upon their function like bracket, plate or handle. Then as the design progresses closer to manufacturing release, you often want to...
The Toolbox add-in is installed with over 2,000 components with multiple size variations. If you multiply that by the number of standards, you will get millions of possible components that can be created. But what happens when you have a new component type that you...
While meeting customers and prospects, I regularly hear that "we make products that can have different paint or material options, but I don't model them all." It is understandable to not want to model every combination of material and paint on a product and manage...