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Pernils wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2025 9:38 am I vote for stop feeding the VAR's...

The sooner they get out of business the quicker Dasault will terminate this ...

Have a nice weekend everyone ...

By "this" you mean Solidworks desktop?

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I'm disappointed SW hasn't come up with a better way to manage this, since PDM and simulation don't play well together. There's a lot of SW and PDM that don't play well together, things that were just never finished, but I'm convinced it's not because the PDM dev team isn't trying, there's other ro...

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like some video files 500MB in size into the vault or, before I changed the root folder rights we had entire "my documents" (or download) folders dragged inside pdm... You guys must administer a much, much better vault than I've been able to manage; nobody here puts extra files into the v...

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I did a quick test (we're on 2023SP5 as well) and duplicated the behavior in your first screen shots by turning off permission to read file in Released state and granted permission to read file in WIP, and had to turn on show working versions. Both in search and vault view that user would see an old...

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Can you explain the permissions for the group with limited access? Maybe screen shot of the State(s) permissions and Folder(s) permissions?

Also, what version of PDM are you using?

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A couple of things come to mind. First, is it looks like you have search all versions enabled. Thankfully you have the "Found In Version" in view in your screen shot so this can be seen. Note it in the upper right corner, version 2 state = WIP and version 5 state = Released. The data card ...

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A dirt (untested) solution could be to create proper groups for all your regular machines and use cases inside the admin image configuration tool and put the "no group" default setting (close) to nothing installed and have a preinstall batch killing the install process itself cancelling t...

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You can put the admin image in a location they don't have access to and then push the image installation to them: https://help.solidworks.com/2025/english/Installation/install_guide/c_prerequisite_auto_deploy.htm They can't install what they can't see. I've tried the push method in the past with ve...

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I used to police this with a batch script that would kick off the admin image. It would first check if the user was in a approved user list before proceeding. That still wouldn't stop a determined person who figured out where the hidden shared network folder was located but probably stopped 99% of ...

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Hello,
Is there a way to prevent an admin image from running if the machine it's installing on is not listed in any of the groups? I would like to prevent people installing SW or PDM on machines that are not assigned to a specific group.

Thank you.

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We just updated from 2019 to 2023 and there's serious delays in various nodes of the Admin Tool. I'm mostly notice in the tasks and Task List window to open. Transitions and States open within a second or two. Ping latencies to servers are all consistently < 1ms from the machine running Admin tool.

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I don't know if anyone cares, but I'd like to mention a bit of character reference for Amen Jlili. We've had no direct correspondence outside forum conversations, but I've only seen professional behavior from him. He has contributed so much to the public domain in regards to SW API content. Much of ...

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As much as I think Onshape is doing cloud right, I will defend 3dx in this case and just say that comparing Onshape's PDM/Data management to 3Dx (Enovia) PLM is no comparison. The functionality is not even close. Of course, if you can't navigate and find what you need, maybe the point is moot. Agre...

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peterbrinkhuis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2024 4:33 am I wrote something you guys might enjoy
37 things that confuse me about 3DEXPERIENCE: https://cadbooster.com/37-things-that-c ... xperience/

I just stumbled on this response. Thought it worth linking.

https://www.onshape.com/en/blog/design- ... native-cad

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We've been using Solid Professor for new hires. Based on this I feel like I have to go through them myself, if this is representative of the rest of it I think we'll be looking elsewhere.

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The constraints are not shown in the image because it's an exam, it's made to test your knowledge. When you draw a line with your pencil on a sheet of paper using a ruler, do you see a mate appear? I was thought in school that a line that looks straight is straight unless identified otherwise. Agre...

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No side effects yet. Been running since early December. I like making use of the result value of records modified to identify if something unexpected happened, as I knew how many there should in there unless that user edited that value outside of that API. I have noticed some files that have differe...

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Just a wild hunch, but isn't a big part of a "Platform" is that they get all your stuff in their domain? I don't see where third parties fit into that plan.

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Solidworks just signed my up to receive all of their spam emails. Even after "unsubscribe from all" they keep coming. This is rather unremarkable. I set up spam filters for most of DSS/SW stuff a while ago. Unsubscribing is useless, it may be that they are required to remove an email addr...

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Wow! Just Wow! So if I understand that post correctly the only thing that was changed was a dimension & it lost the concentric mate! <()> I think maybe that it doesn't matter what was changed. It's the import step that assigns Solidworks geometryIDs. We've seen this with other imports, every ne...

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I've run into these kind of videos. I didn't think they were AI generated, just some non english speaking writer using a program to read it with the recognizable "robot" voice. The voice software is getting better but still off a little. The content sounds professional at first, but when ...

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When it was on the old forum the TTL was VERY easy to access and VERY popular. Since moving to the 3DSWAMP it is not worth the trouble! Early on I think the TTL was actually listened to, but now that the software has matured there isn't as much low-hanging fruit and your third point is most likely ...

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In case anyone cares, what I settled on is calling this function. I use the id of logged in user (a user account only used for automation) in the sql statement. The return value is compared against the number of files expected to have been edited. private static int ClearLastActiveDateHistory() { in...

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FIFY When it was on the old forum the TTL was VERY easy to access and VERY popular. Since moving to the 3DSWAMP it is not worth the trouble! Early on I think the TTL was actually listened to, but now that the software has matured there isn't as much low-hanging fruit and your third point is most lik...

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Broken links happen so I'm not too concerned with that if they can get it fixed in a timely manner. I think their bigger concern should be that this link was posted 3 weeks ago with little to no feedback from the community. Not sure if they know or care that the community that they had with the old...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 11:42 am Welp, here we are.

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Poor Brad. He seems nice.

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jcapriotti wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 2:00 pm Probably because the platform requires an account to read anything whereas the blog is accessible to anyone.

By "accessible to anyone", do you mean like the forum used to be? The forum that functioned.

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We've used the "save as html" from edrawings of the sldasm or sldprt. I don't know what it is exactly but looks like it embeds the eModelViewer into an html file along with the 3D data as it loads in the browser just like edrawings. In our testing, quality is much better than 3Dpdf (it's s...

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TL DR, We jumped from a slow boat to a sinking boat that the captain had abandoned a while back and a puppet had been put at the wheel in his place. The jump was painful and I'm not sure if it's worse to jump ship again or just tread water. We switched from Solid Edge (another red headed stepchild &...

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I never used SW eXplorer, it was on it's way out as we started with SW. But if it were at all like Solid Edge's Revision/Design Manager, then removing it would cripple a substantial part of the user base. It was a Move Tree, Copy Tree, mass data card editor, part swapper, Swiss Army Knife of SE file...

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Investigating a SolidWorks assembly performance issue: 800 parts 90 unique 30 sub-assy 9 unique sub-assy 860 top level mates :o I was thinking, why so many mates? Fasteners mostly it turns out. There are sheet metal parts with lots of holes, some round, some hex, some key slots. The user built the ...

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Model saved in 2024?

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I don't have any issue with bend lines showing whether display states are linked or not. We always hide them and usually we have displayed states unlinked. At the risk of hi-jacking thread, but hopefully it's relevant and points out how use cases affect many things. Hiding the bend lines in the fla...

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Looking for critique and input. TLDR. Can't you just spoon feed these to me as I need them? Honestly though, pretty good list. About a 1/3 of it applies to our use case and I think are nearly universal. Some of it is use case specific; ex. using mirrored configurations and parts are always specific...

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I'm assuming that you are expecting the thickness to vary nonlinearly across the span, matching the nonlinearity of the chord? This is just a guess, but the loft is solving for optimized curvature gradients rather than keeping constant aspect ratio of thickness/chord. I think because of that you wil...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2024 7:33 am Siemens just launched a product that maybe nobody asked for, a cloud-based version of Sold Edge, Solid Edge X, as it will soon be known, SE-X.

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What price difference would that be exactly? The NX license i have is half the price of the SW one... FYI. That's strange. Back when we purchased NX (~10yrs ago maybe) price was something like 3x of Solid Edge Classic purchase and maint. I don't know current prices of NX or which version of SW you'...

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Its is a bit of a joke. Just for information's sake... i use NX and SW daily and i haven't had NX crash for... i can't recall. I'd be lucky it crashes critically once or twice a year. SW will $#!+ the bed just doing normal mundane tasks like... opening a dialog or whatever else. further to what mp3...

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I confuse myself when testing pdm add-ins. I should really know better from the last time, but I still make idiotic mistakes. Should probably keep this to myself, but. I just learned that I can launch a task using one version of an add-in then run the task on another version of the add-in. I launche...

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So this date for these files actually change daily? Some do, it depends on orders. The intent is to filter out, mostly automatically, CAD files that are not in use. Explaining the why would take me a while, I'm not good at summarizing. Several of us came up with a plan to try. Step one is keep a &q...

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just an idea I do not know if it is silly or it does not work in your peculiar case, but there is the possibility for a field in the PDM datacard to be updated at a fixed interval from an external db with a temporary table and a sql query. I tested only once with a drop down menu and it indeed fill...

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Is this updated every few minutes actually changing a value or is the value the same most of the time but the program updates it anyway? If this is true, can the import program be made smarter and only import when the value changes? Well, the plan was to run once a day. The query to eternal DB and ...

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I'm wondering which would be worse.
Using a SQL command "DELETE FROM [Vault].[dbo].[HistoryVerFreeVarChanged] WHERE UserId = 2 and Name = LastActiveDate" after running Batch variable update.
Or using UPDATE on the VariableValues table.

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I do not think it is possible. We get a lot of history entries from action performed by the pdm system when a user open a file, probably because we transitioned the variable from custom properties to db only and from history to history free.(which was a mess of a choice imho.) Not logging those act...

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I would like to set a version free variable on files without creating an entry on the file history. This will be set on several two or three thousand files a day and will make using file history difficult as there will be hundreds of irrelevant rows. I tried both settings on the version free variabl...

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We work with a third party PDM. The date in the windows file properties is the date the file was checked out of the vault which is essentially creating a new file on the local drive so that is as expected. The unexpected bit is the last save date in the SolidWorks Summary Info and that it is saying...

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I just checked and most that I checked don't match either. Vault and non-vaulted files all have significantly created date, like years different. The Last Saved more often close to the Modified date, but off by an hour and a second. I'm guessing SW has it's own metadata values for the created and la...

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We have had all of the files you list except Appearances and Custom Properties in PDM vault since we started ~4 years ago. It does work nice to set up a category for them other than the default bin and regular CAD files, then give them a workflow. Our workflow just has two states, one where file can...

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When working on a part, inside of an assembly, Solidworks ALWAYS picks an external reference. For example, if drawing a circle on the face of the part I am editing, it could reference the origin of the part I'm working on, or it could reference the origin of the assembly. Picking the origin of the ...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 10:15 am 2019 stung quite a few people

Stung us bad.

It's the only version we've used so far.

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