Solidworks Check Out License

[Trudi Miranda]

It doesn't matter if you're new to SOLIDWORKS or a power user - errors can happen. In this quick tip, learn about a handy tool to have in your toolbox that can save the day when validating and checking your parts for geometry errors.

David has been using SOLIDWORKS since 2005 across multiple industries most notably Golf Club Design. He owned and operated a successful design and consulting company that used SOLIDWORKS to bring napkin sketches to production. The industries he's been a part of range from Medical, Aquaponics, Forging, CNC Shops, Roto-Molding factories. He is a proud father to daughter Emmaline (8) and is a husband of 19 years. He is a two-time Ironman finisher and recently qualified for the Boston Marathon.

I have a c# application that runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit OS.In my app, how can I programatically check that solidworks is installed or not on computer.If we can check it by reading registry key ,then provide me path for both 32-bit and 64-bit.Tell me if there are other ways also to check it.

This is for beginers....
I think there are many ways to check Whether Solidworks is installed or not , but according to my perspective when Solidworks is installed it creates some folders in registery.

Just follow this steps to check it...

How can you check for a SOLIDWORKS Planar Face with one mouse click? Just select a face in the graphic area and see if the Insert Sketch icon appears in the shortcut selection menu (fig. 1).

If you still have access to the machine where the files are checked out on, such as the case where someone has gone on holiday or left the company. You can log in as admin or a user with the permission highlighted above on that machine and check in the files. This way no data is lost.

in our company we are implementing Inventor files in Solidworks PDM 2022. We are using Inventor 2021 and we have implemented the PDM add-in inside Inventor. We are able to check out the files but when it comes to checking them in we get a file that the file format is not recognized. We have already stated that PDM is supporting inventor file types through PDM admin tool. Any ideas on how to solve that please?

I would suspect that the swdocumentmgr.dll is not the same in PDM SWs 2022 and Inventor 2021. Right now it is on the right version for PDM but I don't know how to check what would the Inventor 2021 require.

I did try your idea, but couldn't get it through. It appears that I don't have the choice to turn the project type to Shared, therefore I don't have the files status browser and wasn't able to get the first steps done in order to continue. (see attached image)...I have already opened a ticket to our reseller, but it would be really nice if I could have the work done. Any suggestions are really welcome...

Hi! Is it possible the iam files are relatively big due to Express mode turned on? Go to Tools -> App Options -> Assembly -> uncheck "Enable Express mode." Open an assembly and save it. Then the cache graphics will not be saved to the iam file.

Check Sketch for Feature is a tool that checks a sketch used for a feature creation. Sketches are checked according to the contour type required by the feature type (i.e. Extruded Boss/Base or Extruded Cut). If the sketch passes the checks, a NO PROBLEM FOUND message will be displayed. If there is an error, a message will describe the error and highlight the error, if appropriate.

Here is a sketch drawn on face of a part. The sketch is fully defined and there are no apparent errors in the sketch according to the feature tree but, as you can see, the Cut-Extrude1 cannot be created.

If standard SOLIDWORKS PDM add-in is used this file can be automatically checked out for editing without the need to close the file. However calling the IEdmFile5::LockFile SOLIDWORKS PDM API for this scenario would result in the following COM exception.

SOLIDWORKS API provides methods to temporarily release lock for the active document so it can be updated or changed by other applications. The model can be later reloaded with changes applied. This technique allows to have model information and visual data to stay loaded in SOLIDWORKS while file is being edited by other applications.

If the macro tries to check-out (IEdmFile5 :: LockFile) the document is opened in the Solidworks I get an error message that tells me the current file is in use by another application and does not check it out.

Hi! Ive found that mirrored blocks are essentially exploded when exporting a STP into solidworks, is there any easy way to check if a block has been mirrored in object properties or object description etc?

I am making an assumption here (not in front of Rhino) that the transformation matrix you refer to is a standard 4x4 transformation matrix and not some special annotation called that to confuse people. If I am wrong I heartily apologise for what I am about to say.

Also, on a side note, for some reason it seems to import with an additional assembly level above the imported file which is redundant. Not sure if this is just solidworks or if rhino is doing anything in the export to cause this. This ones not as problematic.

I am trying to determine if this is a Solidworks issue or a Windchill issue. We use Work Group Manager to manage our Solidworks files in PDMLink 10.2 m030 - randomly, when a Solidworks part file is placed into a workspace to check in to PDMLink, it becomes "Read only" and cannot be opened to modify

My drafter has saved a copy of the part on his desktop, unchecked the "Read only" box, filed - then placed part back in workspace overwriting the "Read only" part, closed out, reopened the part and it reverts back to "read only". We have checked everything on the solidworks side, making sure the part is configured properly to keep it from being "Read only", so inquiring if anyone else has seen this happen with PDMLink Work Group Manager... any suggestions?

Symbol looks like the part is being converted to a Toolbox. If you did a save as from an original toolbox part to create this custom part it will maintain Toolbox status. Here is a link to a video I found on youtube about how to separate a part from toolbox.

The Cloud Eligibility tool performs various checks and thus ensures that you are ready to run 3DEXPERIENCE platform SaaS. In order to stay up to date with the latest client requirements and tool enhancements, it is essential to download the latest version of Cloud Eligibility tool available here:

After you enable the plugin, Simscape Multibody Link option is available when you start or open a SolidWorks assembly. To export an assembly model, on the menu bar, click Tools > Simscape Multibody Link > Export > Simscape Multibody.

If your computer has more than one copy of SolidWorks, the smlink_linksw command adds the Simscape Multibody Link plugin to all installations. However, you must select the Simscape Multibody Link check box in the Add-Ins dialog box for each installation from which you want to export CAD assembly models.

Perhaps the most challenging printed circuit board design to bring to production is a rigid-flex design. Designing a flex or rigid-flex circuit is very much an electromechanical process. Designing any PCB is a three-dimensional design process, but for a flex or rigid-flex design, the three-dimensional requirements are much more important. Why? Because the rigid-flex board may attach to multiple surfaces within the product enclosure during the product assembly process, requiring careful design of how the loaded board must flex during assembly to interface to the enclosure.

To date, this tight electro-mechanical design challenge has been solved by making a mechanical mock-up, also known as a paper doll cut-out. This process must be as accurate and realistic as possible with all possible mechanical and hardware elements included so that both the assembly process and the finished assembly can be carefully analyzed.

Altium CoDesign helps solve this challenge, delivering the ability to transfer the rigid-flex design between the ECAD and MCAD domains. It does this by implementing each flex region of the board as an MCAD Sheet-Metal Feature.

There are two rigid-flex design modes available in Altium's PCB design software. The standard mode, called Rigid-Flex (or Rigid-Flex 1), supports simple rigid-flex designs. If your design has more complex rigid-flex requirements, such as overlapping flex regions, then you need the Advanced Rigid-Flex mode (also known as Rigid-Flex 2). As well as overlapping flex regions, the Advanced mode also supports: visual definition of the substacks, easier definition of the rigid and flexible board regions, bends on nested cutouts, custom-shaped splits, and support for bookbinder-type structures. The required mode is selected in the Layer Stack Manager, learn more about Enabling Rigid-Flex Design.

In Altium's PCB editor, the rigid-flex board is designed in the X-Y plane as a collection of separate rigid and flexible board regions. The Z-plane is defined by configuring the set of copper, insulation, and surface finishing layers to be created during the board fabrication process.

For a rigid-flex design, the set of fabrication layers can be different for each region of the board. For example, one rigid region might be four copper layers, a flex region projecting from that rigid region might be one copper and one melamine layer, and the flex region might connect to another rigid region, made up of six copper layers. During ECAD PCB design, a separate layerstack is defined and assigned to each of these regions.

In Altium's design software the rigid-flex board is designed flat. Bends defined in the flex regions can be applied when the board is displayed in the PCB editor's 3D Layout Mode, by sliding the Fold State slider in the Layer Stack Regions mode of the PCB panel. The bends are applied in the Sequence order configured in the panel. Alternatively, use the 5 shortcut key in the ECAD PCB editor to fold and unfold the board.

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