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User Interface The Update Reference Tool is a handy tool for cleaning up broken references. Before we get into the nuts and bolts of how we can use this tool, a word of warning: If you check in a file [more...]

Since InFlow release the InFlow Web Access tool last summer, we have recieved quite a few requests to explain the differences between the InFlow tool and the SolidWorks Web interface. Instead of explaining in written form, I have put together [more...]

Being part of a PLM/PDM implementation team, my nights and weekends are sometimes consumed by data migration work. Just thought I would share some of my recent experience. Last week...we migrated around 30,000 versions into EPDM from a PDM application [more...]

Enterprise PDM uses two different items to keep track of a file's latest version. The first is by using "revisions". Any time a file is checked out of the vault, modified, saved and checked back into the vault, a new [more...]

If you are planning on upgrading your SolidWorks Workgroup system to version 2013, please review the following steps to ensure the upgrade process will not cause any problems and downtime. 1. Solidworks 2013 will NOT install on Windows XP operating [more...]

To demonstrate that Republicans and Democrats can work together, see the image below: We can see files checked out by Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, in the same EPDM vault! New in Enteprise PDM 2013, we can highlight over the [more...]

It is the time of year when new version of Solidworks products get released. All of us want to upgrade to the latest version to take advantage of the new features and performance benefits. With the release ofSolidWorks 2013 and [more...]

Are you using concatenated variable values in your template folder card when creating new Templates? Are you seeing the following error message? "Could not create folder. Cause: The file/key name was invalid" This is a known regression and the issue [more...]

Attention Vista Users! Following Microsoft's retirement of the Windows® Vista operating system in April of 2012, SolidWorks 2013 (including SolidWorks Simulation 2013, SolidWorks Enterprise PDM 2013, and SolidWorks Workgroup PDM 2013 products) is the LAST RELEASE that will install on [more...]