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rodface

I attempted a markup of what I am referring to.

One thing I also noticed is that the product (at least in the photos I have seen) seems not to cut "flat" at the end, rather the rectangular(-ish?) sections are left whole, producing that pointed end as it wraps around.

rodface

Thank you for the responses, I'm studying in detail. Dennis Bacon the result in the 7:20 post looks almost dead-on to the real thing. One observation I made (I did not use a real photo for confidentiality reasons) is that the seam lines for the individual sections appear to "rotate" along ...

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One of our groups that uses Solidworks is asking to try out NX because they don't believe that Solidworks is capable of modeling their product, which is a very large spiral-wound steel cylinder made from curved rectangular (?) plates. Picture a paper towel tube but made from short lengths rather tha...

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What you could theoretically do is: 0. Install PDM archive server on the new server (B) but do not replicate the vault to it 1. put the system into maintenance, disconnect all users, block logins etc. 2. copy the archive folder from old server (A) onto B 3. Make a copy of archive server settings on ...

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Greetings, I have recently started exploring the XML stream functionality of the SWDM. I was curious if anyone is aware of a reliable means of identifying virtual parts in the XML file. For example, a file reports 0 references through conventional API methods; but open extracting the XML, it contain...

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One cannot rule out odd network-related corruption as files go to/from client and server. We observed this very thing happen during check-ins and traced it to some settings in our VPN (Zscaler), the file would corrupt during the check-in to the server so the file creator had the only good copy, the ...

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I would check the reference/file locations/search paths for the 3 different PCs. Are there any differences in them? Could some of the PCs be opening the file not from PDM but from another location? Could it be that one of these users has a difference in their permissions that is causing them to be u...

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I am told by a user who has encountered what I believe is this same issue, that you need to be careful about the character ` vs ' in the equation string:

={1}`Weight`*'Qty.'

Perhaps try making it:

={1}'Weight'*'Qty.'

rodface

Hello all, Our company likes to have all applications on Citrix as much as possible. So far Solidworks and our PDM standard setup have avoided that, but I know the day will come when we have to try the change. Apart from performance issues, my biggest worry is regarding PDM client. Since every user...

rodface

Are any 3Dexperience add-ins disabled or removed? And are there any 3Dx-related services running on the machine?

rodface

I wrote a tool that runs as a scheduled task on our CAD machines, it calls lmutils.exe, consumes and parses the output then stores that in a couple SQL tables. That' works well but the GUI I wrote to view the SQL data is crap. But it's the logs that we wanted to monitor license utilization. That is...

rodface

We use OpenLM to manage all of our network licenses and it provides the sort of visibility that you are looking for.

rodface

It would be interesting to see if something like this is easier to get set up in a VFX/mesh modeling application like Blender than it is in an engineering CAD package like SW. My intuition is that SW's simulation would make it easy to simulate the individual portions of your idea with high fidelity,...

rodface

Thank you, the event page did not appear to reference any webcasts but I may have missed it.

rodface

Is anyone planning to attend? Disappointed to learn that there will evidently be no hybrid or virtual attendance, in-person only. The most recent Autodesk and PTC conferences had their content available live or shortly after the presentations, and were available behind a free registration. In-person...

rodface

Thanks for the replies. We performed our usual procedure 2 weeks ago and there was no screaming. Nice clean vaults!

rodface

This is some interesting testing. I had no idea about the \ appending to the path allowing you to view local even with PDM running, I will need to test that. I am not sure that there is any way that activity performed directly on the vault view folder is capable of causing the server to lose data. T...

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During upgrades, our procedure is generally as follows: - Perform undo checkout on any files that have been left checked out, this includes private state files - If undo checkout fails (usually because the file has the same name as a vault file), delete from vault - Backup PDM system - Upgrade PDM s...

rodface

Please translate the error message into English.

rodface

Good for you, with such a well defined process it should be simple for them to identify and fix the bug. And I agree that this is quite critical.

rodface

the whole thing can be summarized as "with 2d drawings we had not to check all the assemblies as our educated guess was always right. even when we were terribly wrong and costed us an eye to fix the mess once in advanced state of manufacturing" Ah yes, the good old days when everything ju...

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Is anyone here with a company that is a Solidworks "MRN" account? MRN stands for Multi-Reseller Network (I believe). There is no single VAR that "owns" our licenses/serial numbers, and we have an account manager with Dassault. My reason for asking is: I contacted our VAR who is l...

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I have heard many bad things about the Solidworks Connected/3DExperience product https://old.reddit.com/r/SolidWorks/comments/pw7d8j/3dexperience_solidworks_vs_solidworks/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SolidWorks/comments/wbqe5t/solidworks_connected_3dexperience_error/ Perhaps things have improved as of ...

rodface

Have not used but figured I would chuck in some I'm aware of:

https://microsolresources.com/software/ ... tocad-pid/

rodface

I have now had the chance to spend some time in the program. I must say that it really is a "Parasolid Blender".

rodface

The Blender bridge is an incredible feature, hope to be able to try that soon.

rodface

Found this in a post from 2021: https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=1084 I talked to our VAR, and they said conditional notifications disappearing is a bug peculiar to 2019 SP5. I ended up programming my own email VBS that I can execute as a command on transition. Which is a better option, as t...

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As a side note, 2023 added the ability to restore a deleted user from the admin tool. As @AlexB mentioned, it just flags them in the DB, doesn't actually delete them. In fact, I've restored a user account manually on a couple of occasions. This is nice to see added, I've used the manual workaround ...

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This is an interesting discussion and I hope we can continue it. I get the sense that the desired feature is most closely described as > tools to automatically capture this crucial info. and what is info: > For simplicity, consider the interaction to be a 'chat' between stakeholders. So this feature...

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I would be surprised if there wasn't a third-party extension that can bring some of the needed features to Dropbox. > But it doesn't show why those changes were made, I take issue with this statement. PDM/PLM not only keeps the record of all changes ("what happened"). The "how" a...

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> a good design change cycle management tool Fortunately these do exist. > must be on the web/cloud Hm... > continue to manage the product release process we currently have. Ah. Your requirements suggest to me that your group would probably feel very much at home in something like Dropbox for simple...

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I encountered this problem recently, this post confirms what I read in the knowledge base. The user will see dialogs pop up to the effect of "the file is writable". I observed this particular user to have an astounding number of drawings open simultaneously in Solidworks, which may have so...

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The Pro/E addin appears to have been deprecated or deemphasized after SW PDM 2021. Prior to that the software was available upon request only. https://help.solidworks.com/2021/english/EnterprisePDM/FileExplorer/r_ProE_Enterprise_PDM_Menu.htm I do believe that Creo files can still be managed in PDM w...

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For large deployments (I would say 50+ machines in a single location, 30+ machines if multiple sites) deployment/management tools like SCCM and an admin knowledgeable in their use, are worth their weight in gold. Other packaging solutions exist and likely perform similar tasks. The SLDIM built-in de...

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I have often thought that I would be very happy with using PDM Standard as a version control system for not only CAD files but also for resumes, tax forms, photos, you name it. It would be nice to be able to acquire a "home use" license for it. It would be nice to find an alternative that ...

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These posts explain behaviors I've seen in my current user group. They favor Search.exe over Explorer.exe for accessing vault files; and I have seen an unusually high rate of "blue folder issues" with this group.

The automatic login sounds like it should help with the caching issue

rodface

Did you figure out your issue? I traditional think of the startswinstall.hta as being the "user-activated" deployment method. if I am auto-deploying I want to launch startswinstall.exe which appears only as a blank command prompt window if activated by the user. This path also does not mak...

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Is anyone else still having trouble viewing the replays? I am certain that I am accessing via the correct "portal" (the UI displays the top blue bar with "logout" at the far right", and the address bar is https://reg.3dexperienceworld.com/...). However when I click on a sess...

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