Is it possible to setup up Solidworks on powerful desktop workstation with Remote Desktop and control it remotely with laptop. There has been discussion on 3dExperience Community, and there is some disagreement.
Someone said that "this is still SWC single user as the RDC actions would collide with the local actions if it were more than one person was trying to access SWC at the same time".

SWC = Solidworks Connect
RDC = Remote Desktop Connection

I run a Linux machine with a Windows partition for dual booting. Sometimes, it's inconvenient to switch to Windows just to take a quick glance at a part before switching back.

Running SolidWorks in a virtual machine is a total non-starter. I've gone down that road before. But has anyone successfully run EDrawings on Linux with a compatibility layer like WINE before?

In past versions of Solidworks, if I deleted a feature high up the feature tree, any features below it that made reference to it would not be deleted. They would just show an error. I could easily go and fix that. But in latest version all features are deleted instead. Can I change this so that any features that have references attached to a feature higher up the tree that is deleted, do not et deleted but instead just show up as losing a reference?

So for example, there is a Boss Extrude feature high up the tree. A feature below it takes a dimension from the edge of the Extrusion. In the past, when I delete the Boss Extrude, the feature containing a sketch that took a dimension from the edge of the extrusion would just show a missing reference rather than being deleted entirely.

Is there a setting I can change for this?

I assume this would not work but am I able to use my one license to run two versions on separate computers? For example, 2024 on my desktop and 2023 on my laptop. Without purchasing a second seat? Or does the license not allow that?

Hi, I've tried digging around online, and even asking an AI to write me some VB code, and I'm coming up short. I'd like to create a macro that populates a couple custom properties in my drawing file.

DRAWN BY "your initials"

CHECKED BY "supervisor's initials"

DATE "today's date"

Does anyone have a good resource to figure this out, or has anyone done something similar enough that I could swap some variables and get it to work? There are another handful of properties I want to incorporate into this macro, but if I can get the first few to work, I should be able to copy the structure for the other custom props.

I'd love to shave off having to enter this information for every single drawing I work on.

I work for an OEM company, and I’ve been tasked with updating old part numbers to new ones across approximately 30,000 engineering drawings. Manually opening each drawing to update the part numbers would be extremely time-consuming. I’m looking for a fast and efficient way to automate this process to save time and effort. Could you suggest a streamlined solution for handling such a large-scale update?

We're trying to figure out what version to purchase, Makers or Student. We have no intent on commercial use. DS14 is taking a class in high school and would like to be able to do some of the work outside of the classroom. He has shown interest in continuing on and messing around just making things to 3D print.

Are the Student Edition and Education Edition files compatible? The Education Edition is only available on the school PCs. I'd hate for him to work on something at home only to have the school PCs not able to open the file because of the watermarking. Or not being able to open the file he worked on in class. The class teacher wasn't sure. The cloud version is $free today so we can try it out I guess.

I'm assuming the Makers files can only be opened in Makers. Are we better off with the Student version and once out of school, we'll just be Titans of CNC students to keep it active?

Hello, I have recently been experiencing issues with my Visualize preview window. It was working perfectly fine as it has been for months, then after completing a render sometime last week I went back to the 3D viewport but the viewport was black. I have tried opening other files (including default example files from Visualize) and they all have the same issue. I tried changing settings but nothing seems to fix it. Certain camera overlays work, such as the Render Region and Rule of Thirds, as shown in the image below.

I can click on objects within the window, e.g. if I click on where the part might be in the viewport, it navigates me to the correct appearance for that part. I am still able to do final renders, but they are difficult when I can't see a preview of what I'm doing...

I have my laptop hooked up to a second monitor but primarily use the laptop screen for Visualize. I have tried using the monitor for Visualize, and also running it on the laptop without the monitor hooked up.

I have tried restarting my laptop, only thing I can think of right now that I haven't tried is a full reinstall. Any help would be appreciated. Please let me know if there is any more info I can provide.

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I'm considering an update to a newer version (from 2016), but I've just been informed that now it is mandatory to also buy a 2-year subscription. I just have a question - if I buy a 2024 SP5 licence and then install newer SP's / versions for two years, will I be able to keep those when I cancel the subscription after that 2 year period, or will I get bumped back to the 2024 SP5 version?

i dont understand how to do the right half where its all curved and pretty :(

Came across this: SOLIDWORKS 2019 Configuring Cut Lists for Configurations

Very neat I thought, wanted to try it by my own on SW 2020... But my cutlist table looks different, it doesn't show the different configs in the top left corner, nor does the config buttons pop up in the property fields.

Is this a setting thing or how come my version looks different to SW 2019?

This is how my cut list pop-up looks like for comparison:

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I want to create a plastic conveyor by using the chain component pattern. The problem with this command is that the subassembly is rigid and doesn't adapt to the shape of the path that it has to follow. How do I go about fixing this? Thanks in advance.

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this is the tolerance dialogue box coming up after i choose for example "flatness" after making a geometric tolerance, i have tried double clicking next to the x and right clicking to see if i can expand it, it is not possible to change the size of the box. this only happens on geometric tolerance and i have issue with whatever type of geometric tolerance i make. i am using solidworks 2024 student edition SP 5.0 (this also happend in 4.0) please help me so not all of my geometric tolerances have to be 0,01.

Hello everybody,

I am struggeling to find an answer to this issue. I have made numerous SOLIDWORKS iso files specially made for our students however, I tried to make a change for 1 of our images but something funky is happening it says it can't create this HTML file (content.html) while it is already there ( I have checked this on many machines). If I just use the folder where I create an iso from it works just fine, I don't know how or why but it seems something changes when making the .iso but I find it strange because I have used this iso maker for over 5 years and never had any issue with it.

The machine is running Windows 11 24H2 Home edition trying to install SOLIDWORKS 2024 SP5. And after you get that message once you get it with every SOLIDWORKS iso file that we have made. While they have not been changed and therefore should work just fine.

I have checked for permissions that might be missing on the machines but that does not seem to be the issue, they are not blocked and if they were, unblocking them did not solve the issue.

Anything you guys can think of something why this is happening? Because at the moment I am beginning to pull my hair out.

When trying to open the StartSWInstall.hta file.

Hi im Mark, and new here, so apologies if i mess up abit,

im looking some help with a helix cut,

Im trying to create a twisted cut through a block, but i want the cylinder to start and end with a vertical orientation, i have used a 0.5 rotation in a helix.

Im trying to achieve a flush vertical entry for the inlet and outlet to be the shape of the cylinder rather than the 'x' shape where the helix starts,

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance

Mark

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Wondering if anyone knows the most accurate way to use remote forces on bolt holes in a static simulation. Whether I should select the edge of the hole where the bolt head will torque down to OR if I should select the inner cylindrical face. Also whether I should set it as a rigid or distributed force. Thank you guys, and if anyone has the reasoning behind why these settings are chosen I’d appreciate the understanding of it too

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Let me first state that it is not a document but the entire program. English is not my first language and for my education I need to have it in German. Improting the language files doesn’t work, reinstalling doesn’t work, deleting the English language made it so that it is now half German, half English. Does anyone have any idea what we could try of has someone had similar problems.

When I try to open SolidWorks connected it just says "could not obtain required license for SOLIDWORKS connected. check your roles assignments and try again" I couldn't find anything on how to fix it and I checked in the manager control center for the roles and it looks fine. I got it yesterday and would like to get it working soon.

Hi everyone,

I'm new to this software and need some help with a modeling problem. I’ve attached some pictures for reference:

1. First Picture: The particle I’m working with is a dodecahedron.
2. Second Picture: I want to place these particles inside a cylinder.
3. Third Picture: My goal is to achieve a random arrangement of particles in the cylinder, like following a uniform distribution. This means both the directions and the distances between adjacent particles should vary.

I’m thinking of using MATLAB to generate a series of barycentric coordinates and then importing them into SolidWorks or ANSYS to create the arrangement shown in the third picture.

Does anyone know how to achieve this? Any advice or alternative methods would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

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Hello everyone! I have to switch to Solidworks from NX (well before worked with Creo aswell)
How to hide even the feature in model tree? Seems like Solidworks hides only the body...I want to hide the feature aswell for better control over my model. The other softwares know to do that...so I assume Solidworks knows too.

Thank you in advance!

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so i didnt learn solidworks formally through a course or anything. I am mostly self taught. And now i need to give my CSWA within these 10 days. While i am good with all the part design and assembly questions , i am worried about the MCQ questions based on drawing views and other things. If anyone could help me out with any content from which i can learn about this then it would be great.