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Solidworks Option File
Do you need the ability to control your Solidworks Network licenses? Then the Options file is the solution. The options file can control many variables. Some of the most requested include Reserving specific licenses for specific users Returning a license when…
Bianca
23 June 2021 -
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Silhouette Entities
SOLIDWORKS introduced the Silhouette Entities in 2020, it allows you to create multiple sketch entities by projecting the outline of the bodies in a part or components in an assembly onto a parallel sketch plane. To create silhouette entities: Create a…
Tianshuo Sun
29 April 2021 -
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Edit Registry on a Secondary Hard Drive
SOLIDWORKS settings are stored in registry files. You can find a lot information in the registry files about your current SOLIDWORKS installation. But what if the computer crashed while the hard drive survived and you need to recover your SOLIDWORKS serial…
Tianshuo Sun
21 April 2021
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Hiding Faces with Alt Key while adding mates in an Assembly
There are several ways to select hidden faces when adding or deleting mates. One option could be using the Alt Key…
Nikesh
23 February 2022 -
Tips and Tricks
DriveWorks Web Theme
DriveWorks has three types of live themes that are used to publish your projects over the web: Web theme integration theme…
Ahmed Lasheen
14 February 2022 -
Tips and Tricks
Special Dimensioning Technique With Revolved Features
Revolved geometry is dimensioned like any other with one additional option. Dimensions that measure diameters on the finished feature can be…
Nikesh
10 February 2022 -
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How to Manually Clean Up and Delete Orphaned or Leftover Solidworks® Pdm File Vault Information for a File Vault That No Longer Exists on the Archive Server?
You should be able to manually clean up orphaned or leftover SOLIDWORKS® PDM Professional file vault information for a file vault…
Nikesh
2 February 2022 -
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Changing the Sketch colours
Solidworks allows you to make your sketches appear in different colours so that you can make a visual difference between your…
Nikesh
27 January 2022 -
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Friction Coefficient Values for Contact Interactions in SolidWorks Simulation
The friction coefficient can be defined for both local and global No Penetration contacts for static, nonlinear, and drop test studies…
Jalal
1 December 2021 -
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Understanding Contact Interactions Settings in SolidWorks Simulation
Even for advanced FEA users the definition and analysis of contact interactions is not quite straightforward and is vulnerable to modeling…
Jalal
24 November 2021 -
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Reducing Size/Optimizing Large Step Files in Top-Level Assembly
Sometimes large step files imported in a top-level assembly are for references and mating purposes and the features themselves are not…
Jalal
18 November 2021 -
Tips and Tricks
Tip to Increase SOLIDWORKS Part Performance and Reduce File Size
At Central Innovation we are always looking for ways to increase SOLIDWORKS Part Performance and reduce Part File Size to help…
Jeeno Chandrasekaran
3 November 2021
