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try to search in the KB. I found some workaround, but I am not familiar with 3d experience or solidworks connected so I could misunderstanding the issue. Workaround: Open the part in SOLIDWORKS Desktop, remove the Rebuild on Save Mark and Display Data Mark from all configurations and save. Then re-o...

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I was planning to test it sometime in the future, but it sounds like another tool like the FVUT: good on paper, incomplete and broken when you try to use it in real life applications.

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It is SW we are talking about. even something straight like "save as pdf" is bug ridden since...forever. Add to the mix all the "lightweight", "speedpak" and many half backed tricks the devs piled up and dismissed in 25 years and you could see where this mess is coming ...

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I think it depends a lot on sw settings and your workflow (and your expectations on what the software is going to do for you). e.g. if you have the option to update the external references only when the referenced part-model is fully loaded in memory (i.e. file-open) opening the assembly alone will ...

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probably I would look at the web viewer for PDM to avoid local cache of files. if you use to normal pdm client it will cache locally a copy of the pdf to open it, so instead of data saved in one place you end up with data on both the server AND each client. the pdm client cache is not encrypted and ...

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Can you please elaborate on: cache locally the latest version & deleting the locally cached version? These won't happen at check out and check in automatically? How do you do these operations? It is an automated TASK, so we have to cover a lot of scenarios and avoid assumptions. IF the workstat...

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Nothing out of the box, try asking your VAR.
ours sell an add-in package with a snl log analyzer, but I think every big VAR has its own package of custom tools.

cad dashboard is broken for us since months, and it is completely useless at the moment.

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@mp3-250 Thanks; that was a lot of good info to absorb :D! One last thing; so we always have purged configuration data un-checked by default. I noticed that if you delete configurations (say from a file that has 20 different configurations and then you delete half of it) & then save the file; t...

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Thanks; a little off topic. Say you get an Asterisk when you open an assembly; is there an easy way to quickly find out what component(s) has (have) been changed? Cause here's my issue: if I open an assembly and it has an asterisk then I say fine I save it so as to capture the latest changes and ne...

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I can not find that setting... Unfortunately, these drawings are in the same folders as their respective parts. Right-click a user or group and select Settings. Look for drawings in the entire vault (instead of only the same folder). https://help.solidworks.com/2021/English/EnterprisePDM/Admin/IDD_...

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Probably a dumb question, but can you confirm that the part.slddrw that you are trying to open from an assembly.slddrw is in local cache? In several ways, we've had issue like this where SW (completely unaware of PDM managing the local cache) cannot access a file because it's not in local cache. I ...

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If the data set has any assemblies with virtual components would those sldasm files need to be opened to get the virtual part files updated? A virtual part is saved inside the SLDASM data, and it is temporary cached inside the user temp folder when opened in solidworks. To update its properties its...

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The ID within the sql server is the same as the IEdmFile5.ID property. Convert this value to hex and you have your folder name. image.png Thank you! IEdmFile5.ID property is what I was looking for to get the file ID. https://help.solidworks.com/2023/english/api/epdmapi/EPDM.Interop.epdm~EPDM.Intero...

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Since I had enought of SOLIDWORKS PDM File Version Upgrade Tool being broken, I am writing my own PDM TASK ror my purpose, I will lauch a task that: ・open a part file (ignores SLDASM) ・cache locally the latest version ・checkout the file ・set the document properties (image quality etc) ・cycle through...

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That could be the cause, the issue I refered to related to documents not being in the same folder if I recall correctly. I don't use PDM and our drawings are in the same folders as their parts/assemblies. There is user a setting that allow PDM to search the whole vault for a drawing. The only probl...

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I am developing a pdm task to update our hardware. there is an example in the KB with a general task (i.e. different from the usual print and conversion) and you could modify it. For my purpose I will lauch a task that: ・open a part file (ignore assy) ・cache locally the latest version ・checkout ・set...

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we face a similar issue with our vault. image quality is a per document property, so you have to save it with the file. you could have it temporary set without saving if the file is fully loaded (i.e. has its own window open inside solidworks), but you can do it for a limited amount of data (less th...

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I would like to limit some variablesthat are shown in the 2d drawing to the sole @ configuration and ignore the values in other configurations. is it possible? Our legacy data was set up with user properties linked to datacard variables for each drawn, checked, approved step with its signature and d...

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I think that with multiple configurations you should be careful to force rebuild all configurations and then save your hardware file. if you switch to the configuration pane, a list of configurations and their graphic data status with "-" or "✓" is shown. the latter is when you p...

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The hatching triggers a view update if automatic view update is ON

disabling view autoupdate until the loop finish greatly speed up the process,
Less than 10 seconds seconds to process 250 faces

Code: Select all

Dim swDrawing As SldWorks.DrawingDoc
Set swDrawing = swModel
swDrawing.AutomaticViewUpdate = False

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I have been trying to disable the section hatching for every component in a section view. Disabling the material hatching and setting the area fill to none. Looping every single face in the view seems to take forever to process a single face...is there a better way to achieve this? Sample code from ...

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I found the problem: that pc was from another former employer and his folder inside the vault was moved to another place leaving a gray folder in its former pc.
the files inside that folder were not read-only so pdm has not deleted them. correctly.

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bnemec I suppose those files where locked somehow, but that gray folder is not supposed to be there anymore as it was already deleted. I browsed with explorer after I searched for the local file in the vault. I have an excel file that I mde for the purpose of cleaning up the vault. you click on the...

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We activated for all our users "delete read only files that are not part of the vault" and we are pretty much happy with this, but I discovered by accident that at least for one of our engineers it not working: gray folders are not deleted when browsing and local files are displayed. both ...

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Just stumbled across this on the knowledge base. This issue is marked "Implemented" in 2024. "Implemented" is not always synonymous with "fixed", but perhaps the situation is improved. @imaca101 , can you test with that version? SPR on Equations with a Possibility that...

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Just to better understand: are your equations inside every single component or the top assembly alone? we are using an In house made macro to design and manufacture piping for our machinery. a 3d sketches for main routing lInes inside the assy and every component sweep references those sketches. eve...

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We just updated from sw22sp5 to sw23sp5 and faced first annoying issue: If drawing view has tangent edges hidden, it's impossible to dimension structural members. When you switch to tangent edges with font, you can dimension. Anyone else has this same behaviour? image.png EDIT: Found fix SPR1254289...

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Yes, if used as the 3rd argument for the UnlockFile function instead of the first. See my edit to the end of my last post where I added the code example. @alexb I took the argument as supplied by sw kb solution in the task script sample. when I looked at the api help I was a bit perplexed as there ...

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Unless the admin account missed that permission on the status I am testing that macro on, the problem could be ...elsewhere?
If the permission is not a problem do you think setting 64 alone would be sufficient to trigger the latest version overwrite?

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The checkout is not a problem, but i cannot overwrite the latest version when checking in. I do not understand why the argument is not working.

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I am trying to check in a file with a task VBA script, but instead of overwriting the latest version a new version is created I replaced file.UnlockFile 0, "Test comment" in which 0 is the standar checkin with a 64, but it does not work. ' EdmUnlock_FailOnRegenerationNeed 16 = Fail if the ...

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cutlist are very sensitive and the data you get is taken from the weldment profile feature. any direct edit should not affect these properties afaik. I would not challenge the cutlist system with mirrors and direct edits too much. since you mentioned the mirror another thing to check is how the mirr...

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we received the notification from our VAR that the issue was solved in SW2022. indeed we could see the session graph again. Last week we updated to sw2023 and after one week the admin dashboard is broken again and I should start over again all the troubleshooting for a telemetry tool that sends our ...

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check your template file.

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The registry saves both AD and PDM users, name for both and hashed passwords for the latter. Unless you have to move one user from AD login to PDM login you could avoid touching the registry. for my test server I did both as Ido not wanted to use AD login over there. Edit: I saw the attachment and i...

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I forgot one thing: test it! Made it FAIL and test it in every possible scenario to see how SW installer reacts and in that case ask yourself what to do to cope with that error. If you have a couple of PCs it is basiallytheir problem, if you need to deploy >10Pcs is likely YOUR BIG problem. So think...

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What registry entry is of you concern?
Server side entries like usercache should be recreated.
You need to allow the access from AD adding the new user names you modified in the db in the archive server as well.

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I had to changed all our user names to cope with domain mIgration editing the sql table during server maintenance to avoid to lose all history of our legacy users 1.Close the vault for maintenance so no one could try to log in 2.Open the SQL management studio 3.Expand the tables and locate dbo.users...

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I have, but only for a single HF. it is integrated in our post install batch, but our admin image is copied and run locally on each workstation. I cannot guarantee it works running from a unc path. sw has at least two kind of patches afaik: bat files and self extracting exe. the first is a case by c...

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Change BOM type to Top Level Only or Indented and you can choose multiple configs. Each config gets its own qty column. I don't have any idea why this is not available for "Parts only" BOMs. well, the configuration in the top level is what you could select from the assy, any other level d...

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If you aren't familiar with it, I would investigate #Task from Central Innovations. I'm pretty sure it will do what you want, including rebuilding all configurations. https://centralinnovation.com/solidworks/extensions/task-v2/ thank you for the suggestion. We have a quite tedious process for intro...

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Push them again, they gave me that reply in 2016 saying it would fix an issue. It was a partial fix that sometimes worked, sometimes didn't and it caused a bunch of other minor issues afterwards. If that was what caused the issue, that "feature" would or should have long been locked since...

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The key is given free but the subscription is not. If I'm understanding his situation correctly, he does not have a SolidWorks licence and is trying to work around that to somewhat work with SolidWorks files. If his company is developing something that requires access to sw version they should just...

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as stated above sw files are encrypted so without SW installed there is no way around to extract those information in a normal Windows setup.

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we got SW official reply which sounded like: LOL everything works as expected. Still on pre 2019 files? LOL you need to open them one by one and set rebuild on save on each configuration, otherwise we rebuild only the active one. LOL no problems here get away. I may add that after their botched conv...

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do you need pdm? pdm client is likely going to break with win11 23H2 or the explorer update. it need an hotfix to replace the pdm dll on client side. in that case you are left with the old control panel trick to start the old explorer as the hf is not available for versions before sw2022. also pdm C...

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We have the autorecovery disabled in solidworks, but the file backup enable and set to 3 copies to be kept for 3 days. Honestly I have never used the backup, but I am not too fond to disable it completely. Ar least until today, when I saw one of our user with a decent workstation taking up to 4 minu...

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have you downloaded all the files? to be sure the 15+gb full image including all the prerequisites, libraries etc?

did you start the setup executable from right mouse button, run as administrator?

do you have at least 15gb free space in your c: drive? (even if you plan to install sw elsewhere)

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maintaining PDM data is already a pain with single configuration, not to mention that the file version upgrade utility is completely broken and iy is even more broken with multi configuration parts. the simpler yhe better.

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Pernils wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:54 am Hmm

This is exactly the path SE have chosen. They call it "Family of parts".

(I haven't used it my self..)

I think they took the concept from unigraphics-NX. it had family parts more than 20yrs ago

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