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1. Because I shouldn't have to. This is a bit like a former co-worker who would say things like 'SOLIDWORKS should just know what I'm trying to do'. Every operation will have corner cases that don't behave. This one is a combination of the small (relatively) radius and the width of the text causing...

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You can use the 'File Comment' field to help remember which is which. The comment shows up below the image in the post as well.

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JSculley

Jogging is an option. But why not just drag the dimension arrowhead to the radius on the right side of the part where it looks like you have more space?

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Diaval wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 11:46 am SPR 1105056 - 'Modified' column in search result shows date and time in UTC format (not the local format) if the search columns include '<Version Number>'

So it's been like that for years and neither me or my users noticed until yesterday. Crazy.

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Found this in a post from 2021: https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=1084 In my mind I can see a scenario where the bug is caused by some edge case in your vault-specific configuration. I found the relevant SPR: =========================== SPR1159044 Add Conditional Notification tab in SOLIDWOR...

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I've got the Support Administrator role so it's not just for VARs. Won't pretend to understand why, just the cards I've been dealt. I posted a question on the Help forum for the 3DSupport App and a rep from my VAR (shoutout to Nadia Shea from MLC CAD Systems) saw the post and created a ticket for m...

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SW2022SP5 The other day I was playing with my test PC resettIng the registry to default and switching back and forth to our company settings and somehow when creating a new file from the file menu I got a template dialog with 3 templates named "empty" (or probably "blank" as I a...

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Found this in a post from 2021: https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=1084 In my mind I can see a scenario where the bug is caused by some edge case in your vault-specific configuration. This would be the second 2019 SP5 specific bug to bite me. The first one would quietly create duplicate custo...

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I set up our workflows years ago, long before conditional notifications were a thing. I have a new workflow where I'd like to use a conditional notification, but they don't seem to exist. This is a PDM 2019 SP5 vault: image.png The Help file explicitly describes adding Conditional Notifications: ima...

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Can you give me a little more of a hint? I still can't find it. image.png So, with the 'Support Restricted' role you can view and search for you own support requests, just like the old system, but you can also create and manage requests for yourself, which previously had to be done through your VAR...

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I'm on SW 2021 SP5. When I'm in an assembly and use the filter to find a part it takes FOREVER for the part to reload when I clear the filter. By FOREVER I mean 3-4 times longer than what it takes to initially load the part. I remember this not being uber fast in 2018 but nothing near this slow. Is...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2023 1:13 pm I am also unsure what to think of the "support restricted."
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It's explained in the FAQ:

https://www.3ds.com/support/discover-3d ... customers/

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You made it further than me: image.png I see the dedicated 3DSupportApp forum is polluted with general SOLIDWORKS questions and replies telling people "Hello, this Community is dedicated to the 3DSupport App questions. For any question on a specific DS product or process, please contact your l...

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One more, just because I can't help myself. I click on this link: image.png And I get this: image.png I feel like I'm in the middle of a Monty Python sketch. image.png You made it further than me: image.png I see the dedicated 3DSupportApp forum is polluted with general SOLIDWORKS questions and rep...

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gupta9665 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 12:09 pm The old portal may not be working. So you will have to use the one from the 3DSYM dashboard.

We haven't been moved to 3DSWYM for support. From what I can tell, the transfer is happening for non US customers first. We haven't even received notification of the switchover.

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Before I go to the trouble of writing an add-in, I just want to check that I'm not missing something. I have a data card with a 'Need Date' field on it. I need to verify that the need date is not in the past before allowing a transition to take place. I don't see a way to do this out of the box.

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For those of you still using the original customer portal, is it working for you today? I'm getting the dreaded 'lock' icons on everything:

Our subscription is active, so before I get my VAR involved, I wanted to make sure it isn't everyone having the issue today.

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The DLL and instructions on how to register it are now here:

https://github.com/jsculley/MaterialSea ... es/tag/0.4

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The API Help is a good place to start.

https://help.solidworks.com/2021/Englis ... AddIns.htm
https://help.solidworks.com/2021/Englis ... eactor.htm

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Yes it is possible. You could go a step further and create a PDM add-in that does all of this in response to one or more of these events: EdmCmd_CardButton 37 = The user clicked either OK or a button whose command is enclosed in brackets ("<...>") in the file data card EdmCmd_CardInput 38 ...

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From the original post: Now in assembly level I try to fix or even add a pattern of fasteners to a hole that is in the base part/weldment, and I get the following error: For what's its worth, I was able to get the error message if I created a hole pattern in the original weldment (say a tap drill fo...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 3:30 pm When you insert the part in the part, do you have "hole wizard data" checked?

The pattern succeeded, regardless of whether that option was checked or not.

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Hi, This is all that is in the tree from the original part(weldment) image.png as you can see no holes to grab in the tree items. Regards, Jim There is something wrong with that model, unless I'm missing something in your description of what's happening. Here's what I did: 1. Create a multibody wel...

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Do you have more than one transition into the state? In other words, is there a chance that the admin user is getting the file into this state via some other transition that isn't setting the revision?

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loebotomy@gmail.com wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 11:51 pm Yes, I can do that (so far). That would be great! Thank you.

I will upload the DLL file next week. You should be able to open it in SW with File...Open and it will add itself in the Registry.

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S-071657 Question:. : When I check in an assembly in the SOLIDWORKS® PDM 2016 SP4 and later software, why do I see the warning ‘Missing data necessary for BOM, needs resaving in SOLIDWORKS’? Answer:. This is a new warning that was introduced in the SOLIDWORKS® PDM 2016 SP4 software. This warning occ...

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loebotomy@gmail.com wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 8:58 am Because of my company's security policy, installing an MSI is difficult/impossible for apps that are not trusted. Is a standalone version possible?

Can you read/write to the registry via the Registry Editor? If so, I can provide instructions on how to manually 'install' the add-in.

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You can use P/Invoke to get the handle of the SOLIDWORKS window

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bnemec wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 11:57 amFIFY

Fair enough. SW considers it to be working as designed (S-053776). Surfaces are considered reference geometry in parts but are considered bodies in assemblies.

There's an SPR (725625) requesting consistency between the two document types.

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bnemec wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:17 am Unless the part goes to an assembly that has a drawing in which you do not want to see the surface.

A display state solves that problem.

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How are you performing the replace? If you do it via the 'References' button in the open dialog, all the features are renamed correctly:

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Rather than create a sketch, you can create a small circular planar surface in the model. It won't show up in the drawing, but it will prevent the dimensions from disappearing when you hide the sketch. As an added bonus, you can hatch the surface to make it look like an actual point:

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I'm still fumbling my way through it. Still on topic for staring PDM, I look back on a metaphorical Venn Diagram. I've stated this before but you're on it again. There were two circles; what knew about PDM and the other represented what our VAR knew of our usage. Unfortunately, they were barely tou...

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What's the issue there, bnemec? Manually altering the 'Read-only' flag on a file controlled by a PDM system is generally a big no-no. Most likely, the system has no idea that you manually tweaked it, and still thinks the file is read-only. Setting/unsetting that flag may be only a small portion of ...

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I just started with a new company. We are using ADesk products (2D and some 3D), Solid Edge, and have some legacy Catia files. As we grow and our SE maintenance expires we will be moving to SWX Professional, which includes SWX PDM Standard. We see that PDM Standard can be converted/migrated to PDM ...

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Long time, no update, but we've been busy here. Setting materials for bodies turned into a bit of a mess due to a deficiency in the API. Essentially, you cannot set the material for a body for any configuration other than the active configuration via the API. So, if bodies are selected I have disabl...

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Out of curiosity, does SolidEdge fail that exercise in the way that FreeCAD does? Because SOLIDWORKS does not.

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You may want to try this: ========================================= Solution Id: S-078432 Product: SOLIDWORKS 2020 Network Installation Created: 9/30/2020 Technically Reviewed Date: 10/15/2020 Area: Part Sub-Area: Draft Question: Why does SOLIDWORKS® crash when I click the 'Draft Analysis' command e...

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After a a little more searching, I'm pretty sure it was probably Tim Webb. It's basically his specialty and it looks like it's just

1. Write a database query
2. Hook it up to your data visualizer (Excel, .NET, Prometheus, etc) of choice.

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Several years ago, probably in the old forum, I recall someone posting that they had created a PDM dashboard of sorts where one could see a summary of things about various files. For example, if you had an ECO workflow, you could see a dashboard of how many ECOs were complete, or in process or whate...

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What SOLIDWORKS version and service pack are you using?

Also, if you switch from the FFEPlus solver to some other solver (e.g. Intel Direct Sparse) in the study properties page, it may solve:

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1. Open RegsitryEditor 2. Go to Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.SLDPRT\SldPart.Document\ShellNew 3. Right click ShellNew and select New...String Value and name it FileName 4. You need a 'template' file for Windows to copy. So, create a new part document in SOLIDWORKS and save it somehere 5. Double click...

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The only issue, or quirk really, that we get is via the PDM add-in with the Get Version dialog. It will stop showing who the user was that checked it in if they're deleted. However, the file's history shows everything correctly. Nice. Looks like that is SPR 1108127 --- Inconsistency with how a dele...

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Thank you for looking into this issue. I didn't know a special hotfix would be available through my VAR... well I hoped to bypass my VAR as the process to interact with them is quite painful. I don't know if an actual 'special' hotfix exists for this. It's just a possibility. Some hotfixes are more...

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I am wondering if it is only me or my browser, but I am experiencing the same at home, on my mobile and at work with different setups... my problems: - I must login with 3dxperience before Customer portal otherwise I cannot use the KB I had this problem in September 2022. About a month later, the w...

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Our PDM Vault has become cluttered with users who are no longer employed here. A quick check shows me that 64% of the users are no longer employees. It looks like I can safely delete them and the only side effect is that the file history dialog with add (deleted MM/DD/YYYY) beside the username. Are ...

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There does not seem to be a 2022 hotfix to address this issue. There are only 3 general hotfixes listed for SW2022 and none of them are for this issue. If it is a special hotfix, you may have to contact your VAR.

The SPR states that the problem is fixed in SW2023 SP1.

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Rather than closing Excel each time, perhaps you can use GetObject first (to attach to an existing Excel instance if it exists) and if it fails, then call CreateObject. See this link for details.

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Can you upload your entire macro?

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Ok, I use a subroutine to do all the setup before writing. sub template_setup(xlApp as Excel.Application, xlBook as Excel.Workbook, xlSheet as Excel.Worksheet) It's a little strange to pass these three objects to the subroutine and then initialize them. Why not simply Dim the three variables in you...

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