1. Not having adequate user permission on some of the files contained within the folder

• Double check your user permissions or make sure to login as system admin. Sometimes the files could be in a private state that requires users to have permissions checked for “may see files before initial check-in (Private State)”

2. Orphaned files in the folder

• Sometimes, “orphaned” document records still linked to the folder in the database could prevent the delete.
• Add a new temporary text file (*.txt)  to the folder which you are not able to destroy/delete. Doing so will activate an orphaned record cleanup process, which should let you delete the folder.
• or, if the previous step does not help then you can use the “CleanupOrphanDoc80.sql” script to try to remove such records. (refer to KB Solution S-028962).

Nikesh Shrestha

Applications Engineer Central Innovation

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1) First verify if your Office version is 32-bit or 64-bit. The best method is to open the Office application and go to File, Help, and view the About information. It should state if the application is 32-bit or 64-bit.

An alternate method is to start the Office application and view the process details for the application. If it shows 32 next to the process name, the application is 32-bit. Otherwise it is 64-bit.

2) Browse to ..\SWPDMClient\ folder on the install media and locate the Office add-in .CAB file

3) Open Office.cab for 32-bit Office. Extract epdmlib.dll and office.dll into the SOLIDWORKS PDM 32-bit program folder location (c:\Program Files (x86)\SolidWorks PDM). OR, Open Office64.cab for 64-bit Office. Extract epdmlib.dll1 and office.dll1 into the Enterprise PDM install folder (c:\Program Files\SolidWorks Enterprise PDM) and rename the files to epdmlib.dll and office.dll.

4) Start a command prompt using the Run as Administrator option.

5) Step into the install folder where the two files were extracted and type the following commands (followed by Enter keystroke): regsvr32 epdmlib.dll regsvr32 office.dll

6) Start the Office application and the SOLIDWORKS PDM add-in tab should now show up.

7) If it does not show, go to File, Options, Add-Ins, Manage COM Add-ins and press Go…

8. Make sure the SOLIDWORKS PDM integration add-in is listed and enabled. If it is not listed, try starting the Office application using the “run as administrator” option, then use the Add… option in the COM Add-Ins dialog to locate and load the office.dll file.

9) If the SOLIDWORKS PDM tab still does not load, try restarting the system.

Nikesh Shrestha

Applications Engineer Central Innovation

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[*WARNING – Only make these manual modifications if you are certain the file vaults no longer exist*]

If you are seeing traces of a deleted file vault in the SOLIDWORKS® PDM Administration tool or when refreshing a listed archive server – Try the following steps to clean up any orphaned file vault information:

The SOLIDWORKS® PDM Administration tool “caches” the server connection info and any vaults it has previously been connected to.  To make sure you are not seeing any cached info:

• Close SOLIDWORKS® PDM Administration tool
• Using ‘Regedit’ delete the following registry key:  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\Applications\PDMWorks Enterprise\ConisioAdmin
• Start SOLIDWORKS® PDM Administration tool. Only the archive server and vaults that you have a local file vault view to will show up.  To refresh the information for the archive server, right-click the archive server > select “refresh” – it will then show all vaults hosted on that archive server
• Note: If the “orphaned” vault shows up again – the archive server registry still has some data left in the registry. Please verify and remove as appropriate.
• Check the following registry key, the “Vaults” multi-string entry should only contain the actual file vaults you have on that server. If the orphaned vault shows up, delete it. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SolidWorks\Applications\PDMWorks Enterprise \ArchiveServer\Computers\\Archives
• Check under the following registry key – each file vault will have a subkey named the file vault name. If the orphaned vault has a key, delete it. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SolidWorks\Applications\PDMWorks Enterprise \ArchiveServer\Vaults

NOTE: If you have some orphaned local file vault views, to delete them without logging in, right-click the view > and select “delete file vault view” > then when the login dialog appears > press ‘Cancel’ and proceed with deleting the view.

Nikesh Shrestha

Applications Engineer Central Innovation

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To view the Treehouse structure ,select the assembly  navigate to ‘contains’ or ‘where used’ tab  

You can multiselect files and use any operations like check out , execute tasks etc .

Like the table view you can export this to excel or print it.

Mithilesh Kapre
Applications Engineer SOLIDWORKS
Central Innovation, Sydney

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