DDi Tech Center

On your 3D printer have you every need to find out who did what and when? This Tech Tip is a quick way to find out and get a copy of the History Log.

This tech tip is straight out of the SolidWorks Knowledge Database on the requirements for 2010 SolidWorks. If your just loading SolidWorks most of these will load for you, but if the program is not working correctly then it might be worth working through this list one by one and  uninstall and then reinstall.

In 2009 SolidWorks consolidated and relieved the need to establish colors and textures for both rendering with RealView graphics and normal SolidWorks rendering.  In 2010 it has improved the handling of this information for legacy files. 

When working on Casting or Forging parts usually it will require some machining processes to finish the part, so what is the best way to tackle this in SolidWorks?  To use Configurations or not to use Configurations, that is the question…

SolidWorks is not prompting me to find the missing parts, why?

Have you ever opened an assembly, and all the Toolbox components were huge?  But last time you opened this assembly it was correct? 

Collaborating with vendors and other clients, it is often necessary to provide a place holder to them for your product.

There is an automated way to populate file properties across multiple files at once through the SolidWorks Task Scheduler.

How to manually populate file properties to existing files.

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