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In the 8 months I’ve been at CADimensions, I’m really amazed by the dedication and culture of the company, management, and my coworkers. However despite my time here, I have still not figured out how to conduct an accurate thermal fluid analysis to save my life! I suppose this is because I’m not an engineer, and most
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SOLIDWORKS Education Edition (EDU) 2016-2017 was just released and for those of you on Active Subscription, upgrade kits are on the way to your school. I have been working on the Education team at CADimensions for over 10 years now. Even though the new version is released around this time each year, our phones don’t
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One of the benefits of being a current SOLIDWORKS Subscription customer is that you are entitled to any major version and service pack releases of the software. The quickest and easiest way to access new media is to download it via the Customer Portal. If you have not already registered for a SOLIDWORKS Customer Portal
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Growing up, my dad was usually “at work.” I had some vague concept of what this meant, but really struggled to understand what exactly my dad was doing all those hours during the day. In kindergarten, I told my teacher that my dad was a “sailor” since he worked in sales. By 4th grade, my
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With the recent release of SOLIDWORKS 2015 comes the process of upgrading your machines. If your licenses are on a network, it will be necessary to first upgrade the SolidNetwork (SNL) Manager prior to upgrading the client machines. Updating the SNL Manager allows clients to access the latest, as well as any previous, entitled versions
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As a SOLIDWORKS user, having an online account provides you with 24/7 access to a variety of SOLIDWORKS online resources such as MySolidWorks, Forums and the SOLIDWORKS Customer Portal, with a full range of information and resources that can help you get the most out of SOLIDWORKS. Some features of a SOLIDWORKS Online Account include: Access to the
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It’s always exciting to install a new version of SOLIDWORKS and start diving into the new features and exploring new functionality. Rarely, though, is an upgrade completely without surprises. Many upgrade issues can be directly attributed to incorrect File Location paths. For instance, the path to your Design Library may be “C:\ProgramData\SolidWorks\SolidWorks 2014\Design Library”, but
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It has been brought to our attention that an update of the Kaspersky Anti-Virus on April 9th, 2014, may cause the SOLIDWORKS Toolbox and/or HoleWizard to stop working. If you are experiencing this error message, “Unable to open master database due to the following access error: Cannot open the Microsoft Jet engine workgroup information
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I’ve been working this gig for two years now, and I think I’ve figured out what I like the most, and what I like the least. Seemed a little silly to me to call it the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, because this is surely the coolest job ever – so we’re going with
