Posts in Category: Technical Communications

For PDM to connect properly to all components of the application, all necessary PDM ports must be opened and unblocked. This guide will explain what ports to open and how! The following ports must be open and whitelisted: PDM Archive Server: TCP and UCP ports 3030 SQL Server: TCP port 1433 and UDP port 1434

Today we’re going to be talking about creating a drawing template. This process is fairly quick and easy and will save you lots of time in the long run. Your templates are found on the Advanced tab. The novice tab will just use your default template. To start, we need to open up a blank

Sometimes we have models that need an estimated number of parts or amount of fluids. A lot of users would fill this in with an “As Required” or simply A/R in the quantity column. This may become cumbersome after a certain amount of parts, because building a manual BOM is not the best way to

Due to a recent Microsoft update, you may be receiving the error “The operating system is not configured to run this application” when closing SOLIDWORKS. This occurs when you have the CAM add-in installed, and are active on SOLIDWORKS 2020 SP4. Below is a screenshot of the error. This is caused by Windows quality updates

Upgrading versions of SOLIDWORKS is usually a quick and easy process. But once in a while, a thing or two needs tweaking in the upgraded version to get things working as they should be. One of the most common things we run into here at CADimensions is customers mentioning that they upgraded versions and suddenly