For us, its all in PDM. We don't use the Property Tab Builder but built our own custom property editor which is also in PDM. The folder is set to cache, about 165mb. We also cache our standard parts (fasteners, purchased parts) folder which is fairly large (850mb) but is needed if you want to drag ...

For those of you that are refreshing cache on login, are you refreshing for just template folders? I was thinking that I would set up the folder structure as "Library" and "Projects". Should I refine that to be "Library", "Templates", and "Projects"...

Nice workflow. There seems to be big jumps in your prototype revisions. Your history shows an AA then a later jump to DA. Just curious about the logic there. Yeah, our documentation requires that we start a new prototype primary letter after each numeric release. It's a bit convoluted but achieving...

If I know which component the mate belongs to, I will isolate the part and then edit the mate. This way, I know only the face that I care about is being shown so I can de-select the face and then pick the new locating face before finishing the edit. The other indicator is the naming scheme. If you k...

This one: 1,2,3,4 during concept but switch to A,B,C on moving to production I had to set up something similar in a test vault while we evaluate moving to production. Our scheme is complicated from a programming perspective. Prototype is AA, AB, AC and then released to numeric 00, 01, 02. If we nee...

Too bad you can't do a conditional notifications for the "Delayed in state" notification. I don't know if it's an added feature in 2021 or one of the older releases, but when I was demoing 2021 there was an option to "remind" the notified parties after a number of days until the...

I caught the SWYMP banner at a funny moment today

We store all templates in PDM. The folder is set to cache on login so the user has the latest version. Even if the user loses connection, they should be able to operate in PDM offline mode since the files are cached. @bnemec Not sure what's happening in your case, we've been operating this way for ...

MJuric wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 11:55 am Ok, which one of you is responsible for this?

Literally 6WTFTags

It's possible to set your workflow to notify approval groups in parallel. Additionally, you can set it up to email them daily after a certain amount of time until it's complete. If you go that route, I recommend getting the emails forwarded to your user's email inbox rather than the PDM inbox. PDM i...

This seems like a good candidate for either a custom SQL query or an add-in to introduce the feature's your looking for. The only downside is that the result would really just be a data table (likely excel) making it much less visually interesting to the user.

The only thing I can think to suggest is that using the split bom feature. It doesn't really solve your issue of having each table start at 1, however it should allow you to keep things in sequential order. Select a row, right-click and select Split -> Horizontally Above/Below the row you've selecte...

I'm using 365 and am having no issues with design tables at all. Everything works as expected. The only issue that I ran into initially was that our IT department had installed 32-bit 365 apps on my PC for compatibility with some other systems and the 32-bit version does not work at all with Solidwo...

Maha Nadarasa wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 2:26 pm My file path lists different items.

It should be in your solidworks installation folder. I'm guessing that you've installed it somewhere other than the default location.

If the launcher isn't listed, you may have to go and right-click on your file and select "open with -> choose another app" as others have suggested. If on Win10, select more and scroll all the way down then select look for another app on this pc image.png Select swShellFileLauncher.exe and...

Does this help?
It sounds like you just need to reset the settings to default (for opening files and file associations) and then adjust them again.

https://www.goengineer.com/blog/paralle ... lt-version

1. Without testing it, I'm thinking that a structural member sketch is a sub-feature of the structural member feature so it may be needed to add another while loop inside the current one to iterate through those looking for the same "ProfileFeature" & "3DProfileFeature" names...

This depends on where you're ECO is. We have them in PDM as .cvd files so we can query for "open" ECOs directly from PDM. As for remembering the ECO the user is working on, you could default and check the box if the user's name is a variable on the ECO. You could also store it in a DB som...

I envision something like this (I feel some regret that we aren't staying with PDM and can't actually develop it now that I'm thinking about it). In this wireframe mockup, the user would attempt to open a file and get this dialogue before the actual open operation. They could check which ECO they a...

That's the other issue that I'm trying to figure out. How do I know who needs what files? Before I can really program any logic, I need to figure out what that logic will be. This may take a little while but the points that you've both brought up will be quite helpful in laying things out. If I figu...

I get the same error with some of my controls but it appears to be a WPF thing. The following link might help, but the errors are "harmless" according to a few sources I am finding.

https://weblogs.asp.net/akjoshi/resolvi ... ors-in-wpf

You are out there!!!! I was beginning to think I work for the only company in the world that does this. Or at least the only company that does this while trying to use some kind of PDM with version control! We were discussing this very thing again this morning in our bi-weekly "PDM Punchlist M...

I don't know of a way OOTB. Major shortcoming in IMO. If you have groups that never need to see "in process" versions you can adjust the state settings so they only see "Released". So when getting "latest", they only get latest Released even though there are newer in p...

I know there's a way to set up the PDM "Get File" dialog to either 10 - get the latest version, regardless of workflow state 10 - get the version of the file that was used when it was last checked in What I am wondering is, how can I get the latest version of all assembly components that w...

I would consult with your VAR on changing the format on an existing production vault, I've never done it. I'm assuming it just means dates are stored in the new format for new data only. Which may or may not cause an issue for you.....mostly when sorting dates and it's mixed. Some of the date searc...

I have to agree with @Rob that SelectByID2 is the least robust way to make a selection.

This has always been a helpful site for me since Artem has put together so many useful examples:
https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-ap ... selection/

The local PDM installation on your machine is able to keep track of the CurrentVersion(highest version number in the database) as well as the LocalVersionNo(cached version no). The API makes these readily available through the IEdmFile objects, which is essentially what the PDM add-in is using to ge...

The built in editor and VBA macros are extremely useful in situations where repetition can be automated. 10 "I wish I didn't have to select this folder and file format every time I want to export a PDF" 10 "It'd be nice to hide all the visible sketches in this document without having ...

One way that you may be able to get around this is to do the following: 10 1. Perform a search of the vault with filename "%.sld%" specified. 10 2. Iterate through each of the results adding them to a dictionary where the key is the filename and the value is the path. 10 3. For each of the...

I've worked at companies that do both and there are definite pros and cons to each. My main issue with smart part numbering: What happens when you decide to modify the customer, manufacturing method, or supplier? The end item literally does not change. Does the "smart" part of the part num...

I did it again (with out loop) and a single beep command, and yes it makes a sound BUT I think it is just a sound that is a standard sound when a message box is displayed and it, the macro, wants a user input. Is there a way to have a macro run, pull, or retrieve a sound, say a "wav" file...

How about CSWE? 8-) I had finally thinking of trying out CSWE (after barely passed surfacing few months ago) and wonder how should i start preparing... To be honest, I had a much harder time with the surfacing exam than I did with the CSWE. It touches on a lot of the same areas as the CSWP with mor...

Here are a couple that I like: - using TAB and Shift TAB to hide and show bodies or parts This one is amazing! I think I had heard of it before but forgot about it. Thanks @matt! To build on this, if you hold CTRL+SHIFT+TAB, it will show a ghost image of all the hidden parts and you can click them ...