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The Thickness Analysis tool may prove helpful to those needing to ensure a plastic part will not have sink marks in thicker areas or assist in the placement of vents and gates within a mold. Knowing where the thin areas of a part are may also assist in machinability issues.

SolidWorks 2009 Service Pack 4.0 introduces the ability to view decals dynamically.

For those of you that use routing and need to know how to make a clip that can be used in your Electrical routes.

This tip is for the IT administrator that would like to control the level of license borrowing of their users. For example, you have a design group and you don’t want them to use the 

Having the ability to determine where an item is used is an obvious benefit of using a PDM solution. PDMWorks Workgroup and Enterprise both have features which allow a user to do this but approach the answer in separate ways.

There is a great embeded command in eDrawings that can help you when you need to explode an eAssembly even when it was published without an exploded view.

Many times when you have a shared toolbox installation you will need to update the shared database location manually after updating your local installation.

The toolbox flag is a hidden property in a SolidWorks file that causes the file to be recognized as a Toolbox part by SolidWorks and PDMWorks.