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March Customer Spotlight
PermabanPermaban is the trusted international brand of armoured joints for large-scale concrete floors projects around the world since 1983. They provide industrial concrete floors from damage, with a...
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Top 3 Enhancements to 3DEXPERIENCE Platform 2023x FD01
#1 - Enhanced Open DialogThe SOLIDWORKS Open dialog is where most of us head first thing after starting SOLIDWORKS, to quickly access recent work and design projects.The Open dialog was enhanced a few...
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How to Find SOLIDWORKS Xpress Product Codes
WHAT ARE SOLIDWORKS XPRESS PRODUCT CODES?Xpress codes are generated by SOLIDWORKS so they can monitor how many people are using these applications and keep them relevant and updated.There are 5 Xpress...
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Why are SOLIDWORKS Dimensions Yellow?
WHAT ARE DANGLING DIMENSIONS?Dangling dimensions are dimensions that have lost a reference. This might be to a sketch entity, model edge, vertex, or face.This often happens when a sketch or dimension...
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How the 2023 UK Budget Affects Your Business
Capital AllowancesThe temporary 130% super-deduction is due to expire on 31 March 2023, however, changes to capital allowances taking effect from 1 April 2023 were announced in the Budget.“Full...
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SWOOD Licensing Explained
HOW TO ACTIVATE AN ONLINE LICENCE | 3010 For 3010 licences all that is required to make a PC active in either SWOOD Design or CAM is to go into solidworks and go:Tools > SWOOD CAM/Design > Help...
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How to Use the Draw Tab Tools in SOLIDWORKS Electrical
In the creation section we can find all the tools to create sketch entities such as lines, circles, rectangles, arcs, etc. These tools are typical of any 2D CAD software.It is worth highlighting the...
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April Customer Spotlight
Zeus HydratechEstablished in 2004, Zeus Hydratech supply quality hydraulic components to a diverse range of clients. With their extensive hydraulic experience, they can transform initial concepts into...
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Why is SOLIDWORKS Crashing?
IS MY SOFTWARE UNSTABLE OR CRASHING?Firstly, let’s separate and define instability and crashes, as they can have different causes. It’s helpful to know the difference between the two when communicating...
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How to Recover SOLIDWORKS Files After a Crash
SOLIDWORKS AUTO-RECOVERYTurn on the Auto-Recovery tool by ensuring the ‘save auto-recover information’ checkbox is selected and set the interval value to 1 or more.Then, when you restart SOLIDWORKS...
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How to Install and Use SWOOD Editor
HOW TO ACTIVATE SWOOD EDITOR LICENSEOn receiving the SWOOD Editor, you will need to add the license for it to the Solid Solutions Licensing app.Browse to the DAT folder in the appropriate SWOOD Data...
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What is 3DSWYM? A 3DEXPERIENCE Platform Tutorial
The 3DSwym app is contained within the 3DSwymer role, and is accessible by any member on the platform through an internet browser. This is the main Social and Collaborative app within the role, and...
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How to Connect ERP Databases to SOLIDWORKS Electrical
First, let’s associate this SQLite database to the existing Manufacturer Part library.We can associate up to 20 user data with cables and other 20 user data with manufacturer parts.Below we can see...
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Parts & FeaturesFrom single-line fonts to equations, there are plenty of new features to improve your experience and help you design efficiently.[DAM-VIDEO-35372]AssembliesAssembly configurations...
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Modelling Curing of Composite Structures
Simulating manufacturing processes is one such area which couples structural and thermal simulation to examine, for example, the distortion due to welding for a ladder frame. [DAM-VIDEO-35732] A step...
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Superelements in FEA
How do they work?Let’s look at this with an example. Let’s say we produce test equipment for fatiguing wind turbine blades. We want to perform detailed stress and stiffness analysis on our system to...
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The Answer to Parallel Processing
There's three main ways you can go about getting your results faster. 1. Reduce your model size. There are legitimate ways to reduce the size of the problem without effecting accuracy, some of which...
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May Customer Spotlight
The Bradbury Group The Bradbury Group provides bespoke steel doors and physical security solutions for various industries.They offer design, testing, certification, installation, and maintenance...
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6 Reasons Why You Need Cloud Data Management
#6 - CLOUD-BASED, SECURE & MOBILEThe 3DEXPERIENCE platform securely stores and manages all your data, with access available from any device, at any time.You can avoid hefty overheads from replacing...
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Zoom Modelling will Save You Time
So how is this done? We firstly create a system level model using appropriate mesh sizes to achieve a good deflection result. We then create a detailed mesh of a localised area and use the displacement...
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