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3D printing has rapidly gone from a technology only found in well-equipped facilities to devices you can buy off Amazon for a modest price. However, to actually 3D print you need a file prepared for 3D printing and that doesn’t mean your normal SLDPRT files. So how can a SOLIDWORKS user prepare their models for […]

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation, a powerful computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool, offers a comprehensive solution for analyzing heat transfer in various scenarios. In this blog, we’ll explore the concept of thermal joints in SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation. In our digitized world of smart devices that are packed with high-performance processors and memory chips, how do the devices […]

With each license of SOLIDWORKS Professional and Premium, a license of SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard Editor is included. In this article, I will provide an overview of the PDM Editor Add-in for SOLIDWORKS. First though, let’s review the different license types available for PDM. Editor: Adds an Add-in in SOLIDWORKS, which allows a user to interact with the […]

We have compiled this SOLIDWORKS 2025 hardware requirements guide to aid you in the process of upgrading or purchasing new hardware. While SOLIDWORKS provides a general list of minimum requirements  We provide the following guidance based on our experience and real world benchmarking. Common SOLIDWORKS 2025 System Requirements Misconceptions “Build your own custom SOLIDWORKS 2024 system […]

If you’re in need of a non-English SOLIDWORKS installation, the Installation Manager for SOLIDWORKS provides the option to change the language of the program without having to change all of Windows to a different language. The available, non-English, SOLIDWORKS language packs in 2024 are: Chinese Chinese Simplified Czech French German Italian Japanese Korean Polish Portuguese […]

The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform is a broad ecosystem of products to facilitate rapid design, produce change, and manufacture products. Without proper knowledge and experience, customers may make poor choices very early in their 3DEXPERIENCE life. This blog is focused on the most critical items your team will want to consider prior to uploading content and using […]

The SolidNetwork License Manager is based on FLEXlm technology to host all Dassault Systemes SOLIDWORKS network licenses (SNL). License access can be controlled by setting up a SolidNetwork License Manager Options file.  There are many option keywords available with FLEXlm. For more detailed information, review the FlexNet Publisher Administration Guide found on the server where […]

3DEXPERIENCE treats each revision separately for drawings and their model references in 3DEXPERIENCE on Cloud. This is a topic that comes up frequently during training with SOLIDWORKS users. There is no way to systematically enforce the model and drawing revisions to remain synchronized. However, there is a way to upcycle both the drawing and reference […]

SOLIDWORKS Electrical offers design flexibility when needing to create a cabinet layout. This blog, as a companion to the recent webinar on the topic, will lay out what you need to know about taking your wire schematics off of the page and into the real world, either in a 2D cabinet layout in SOLIDWORKS Electrical […]

DraftSight is a 2D and 3D CAD solution for architects, engineers, designers, and hobbyists.  It includes design and annotation tools and an API for automating tasks. Here we discuss an oft-needed technique for printing multiple sheets to PDF, specifically generating PDF output from a multi-sheet DraftSight drawing to: A single PDF document with one sheet […]