The curved stress graph is smooth overall, with larger irregularities at a few nodes. The maximum Von Mises stress on the corner U-beam 195 is 491 MPa. In this case which stress should be consider for E410 grade material

I am working on UPVC and HDPE piping systems in SOLIDWORKS 2026. However, I cannot find the built-in library for UPVC and HDPE pipes and fittings (such as elbows, tees, reducers, flanges, couplings, etc.) in the Routing Library. Could you please let me know whether SOLIDWORKS 2026 includes a UPVC and HDPE piping library? If available, where can I find it? If not, what is the recommended way to obtain or create UPVC and HDPE routing components and fittings for use in SOLIDWORKS Routing? Thank

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I'm working with PDM archive data and trying to understand whether there's a practical way to extract this information into SQL for analysis, reporting, or internal tools. Every document folder in the SOLIDWORKS PDM archive has its own `index.xml`. It contains information about the different versions of that document, and sometimes a version points (`ref`) to an older version instead of having its own archived file. The idea is to have a SQL table that can show, for every document version: *

I haven't opened SW in weeks but today when I open SW wants to update 3d Experience from HotFix 3.10 to 4.12 ... I click UPDATE and nothing happens. I logged 3d Experience and downloaded it and installed and still when I click on SW nothing happens. Thoughts?

Hi users, I'm having an issue with items not saving to the current time. This happens for parts, assemblies and drawings where I will save the work but it doesn't update the time in explorer, and stays at the previously created time. Sometimes when I go to re-open it's either updated the model and kept the old time, or actually not saved work at all. So my safeguard it to 'save as' with 1 digit difference as a backup, but obviously this is not sustainable. It's actually happened in the past

Hello, I am currently using SOLIDWORKS and would like to ask whether my current laptop specifications are suitable for SOLIDWORKS. The PC I am currently using is a laptop, not a desktop, with the following specifications: CPU: Intel Core i7-14700HX RAM: 32GB DDR5-4800 OS: Windows 64-bit I currently use SOLIDWORKS for automotive component design, and I experience long processing times during the following operations: Long loading times when working with medium-to-large files Long calculation

Not so much a technical question as much a question for the users. If you did get your CSWA and used the practice problem database, what'd you think the worst problem was?https://www.solidworks.com/solution/education/practice-problemsFor me, it was 10.1. I hadn't made my own planes before that so I kept banging my head against the wall.

Hi, Coming back to the SolidWorks ecosystem after a while, now as a hobbyist, I am getting this message on my xDesign tab... @@userNotAllowed@@ Did I screw up something? Should I just wait for a bit since the subscription is only a couple of hours old? I am also at Geneva, Switzerland, near the border with France... I don't know if that has an effect. I used a French VPN to check and cleared the browser cookies, and it was still no go. Using Vivaldi, but the same happens in Safari. My

Hi Folks, I'm admin using Solidworks & PDM Professional 2025sp5. I am familiar with how to add/remove which columns to display in the PDM file explorer, but there are some attributes that I would like to display, even if just for myself, that are not available choices for columns. I'm currently looking for a quick and easy method of identifying all sldprt files in our vault that have a high to very high shaded image quality setting, without having to use Solidworks to open assemblies and use

Hi working in SW 2023 and in assemblies when mating the mates used to move to their mated spot right away when I picked them but now for some reason I don't know they don't move until I am completely out of the mate command. I can't seem to find a setting for this. thanks

I haven't opened SW in a few weeks, now when I go to open it I get a couple flashes on the screen then nothing. After a reboot of my system, I finally got the Hotfix 4.12 message. When I click to update I get 3Dlauncher not installed (but of coarse it is). Now I'm going round and round trying to figure this out . I log in but can not find anything on the 3DExperience website about any Hotfix, the only thing I get from the web is click on the compass scroll down to the SW design and click on the

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Hi guys, My current CNC/SWOOD labels are currently exported to one full A4 page of labels, therefore, I can't print each label individually through my label printer. How do I change my settings to only print one label per page? Thanks, Lachlan

Hi, is anyone having issues with mate, the relationship between components (concentric, to be exact)?

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我在使用SOLODWORKS 2021 SP5.1的时候发生一个问题。不直接打开solidworks软件，直接双击零件的时候会打开上一次打开的零件，比如先打开了零件A之后关闭整个软件后双击零件B，实际打开的是零件A，再次关闭软件，双击零件A，打开的是零件B，再次关闭，双击零件B，实际打开的是零件A，而solidworks软件中“启动时打开上一次所使用的文档”这个选项我勾选的是从不，但是这个选项我认为并没有产生作用

I just got my SolidWorks for makers license a few days ago. I upgraded from SolidWorks 2024 and I have noticed that my sketch picture transparency is broken. I found a few other people online with the same issue. If I want to use this feature asap would it be best just to rollback to a previous version where this is not broken? What would be the best course of action here?

Can someone from the SolidWorks enhancement requests team please look into updating the spellcheck feature in drawings? Can you make it so the spellchecker is always active? Every single chatbot or text messaging app out there has active spell checking in real time. AutoCAD has had that feature for almost 20yrs. now.

Hi all, Is there a way to automatically create an offset (the offset command; makes more lines) from the part's bounding box in a SLDDRW?

Is there a way to ling the Volume results to the Design Table? Thans

I updated to the latest release and now while positioning or mating items in assemblies machine crashes. On restart a tech message pops up telling me there is a hotfix HF-1549338 and to contact tech support rep but I cannot find any reference to that hotfix or how to talk with a support person. Im using a personal professional edition of SW2026. I tried to uninstall this version to rollback but uninstall stops with an error. Any thoughts?

Last two weeks, I tried to access solidworks for makers, (I'm paid up) and it keeps asking me to update the 3D Experience: "An incomplete installation has been found in this directory. You can restart the installation, or exit the installer and uninstall. Depending on the underlying issue, restarting the installation may not work. In this case, you will need to uninstall the application." I've tried removing the 3D experience and reinstalling but no go. I've restarted the machine. No go.

I wonder if anyone has encountered such a problem? I had to work with ScanTo3D, I launched it in 2026, I can't get surfaces except flat ones. I launched 2025, everything works, and round surfaces and flat ones work. The same with getting curves.

I want to use solidworks to model woodworking projects and have no interest in using the 3Dexperience stuff. is there anyone in the Sterling Heights MI area who can help me get to the training stuff and then the modelling area?

where can I download a .swp file for weldment macro

How to create a full radius on this wrap profile?

I am working on an assembly and just learned I can add holes with hole series and hole wizard. Pretty cool. I'm learning it as I apply it. I messed up on the locations of a couple holes. I tired editing the location in edit feature, but it leaves the original hole that was already made. I have tried deleting the features in the assembly tree, but the hole stay there. Does anyone know how to delete these features?

Hallo zusammen, ich möchte aus einem SolidWorks-Teil per VBA eine DXF erzeugen. Manuell funktioniert folgender Ablauf problemlos: Rollback vor Feature Kontur_fuer_DXF-EXPORT Körperfeature Abspalten2 anzeigen Ebene Ebene rechts_Zeichnungsansicht Normal auf (Strg+8) Datei > Speichern unter > DXF Die DXF wird korrekt erzeugt. Per VBA funktioniert die Vorbereitung ebenfalls: Rollback setzen ✅ Abspalten2 anzeigen ✅ Ansicht ausrichten ✅ Rollback zurücksetzen ✅

I am struggling with Mates in an assembly where I want the upper Probe rack to move forward and back to specified dimensions for show and tell. If anyone can look at my assembly and help me out with Mates it would be appreciated. The zip file is a Pack N Go with an image of the slide movement I am trying to achive. When I try to move it now, things get a bit out of alignment. FYI The upper Rack design is proprietary (My design), and I am taking a leap of faith here. Edit: Zip files removed.

Hi, I have a part with multiple configurations (12 configurations), and all of them represent the same physical part. The only reason for the configurations is to display different QR code labels. In my assembly BOM (Parts Only), I would like this part to appear as a single line item with the total quantity summed across all configurations. I know that enabling Parts Configuration Grouping in the BOM groups all configurations in the entire BOM, but I only want this behavior for this specific

I am attempting to write a C# add in for Inserting a SolidWorks block from a file. It mostly works except it always comes in at the drawing origin (0,0,0). Here's the important part of the code - what am I doing wrong? swDoc.SketchManager.AddToDB = true; MathUtility swMathUt = default(MathUtility); swMathUt = (MathUtility)iSwApp.GetMathUtility(); Double[] originPt = { 0, 0, 0 }; MathPoint blockDefInsPt = (MathPoint)swMathUt.CreatePoint(originPt); MathPoint swMathPt =

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I prefer hidden lines to be green because they have much better contrast against my background. I have set the Hidden Lines color to green in both my part and assembly templates. A new part keeps the green hidden lines after saving and reopening. However, as soon as I assign or change the material, SolidWorks resets the hidden lines back to grey. The option “Apply same color to wireframe, HLR and shaded” is disabled. What I need is: Keep the function Apply appearence of "selected material" - ON.

Hi all! I am trying to make a speedpak of a small assembly where one of the components is supressed. I would like for the suppressed component/body to not be shown visually in the Speedpak but remain in the Assembly file. I had previously done this in 2024 by just suppressing before making it, but upgraded to 2026 today and it seems to have broken. It currently displays the suppressed component's geometry, though not its attached appearance, no matter what I try. Any thoughts? Thanks!

How do I create a correct ISO thread representation in a SolidWorks 2D drawing without using cosmetic threads?

SolidWorks' license management assumes the machine holding an active seat is available to release it. That assumption breaks the moment hardware fails — and hardware fails constantly. A dead motherboard, a fried drive, a stolen laptop: none of these are exotic scenarios, yet the system offers no path forward when they happen. Right now, a company running SolidWorks can be brought to a complete stop because a machine died. Not because of anything the user did wrong. Not because of piracy or

I think I found a bug where when you save a section view as a view orientation and drawing annotation view. It saves the name until you close the model. After opening the model, even if you save just before closing. The section view feature is saved in the Feature Manager Design tree in the Annotations folder, but the name just gets set to "Section View" where is before it might like "Section View D-D". It still saves the orientation and cuts, just not the name. Have others experienced this?

Hello everyone, I found the API example for Pack and Go and it shows that the Pack and Go process can be controlled through a macro. I am wondering if the workflow can be extended with the following steps: Use the currently opened drawing (.slddrw) as the source document. Execute Pack and Go through a macro. Create the new drawing with its new file name. Close the originally opened drawing. Automatically open the newly created drawing. Has anyone implemented something similar? I am particularly

I signed up to the 2027 Preview Community several days ago...and still no response, can anyone that is not on holiday allow people in so we can provide the feedback it deserves?

2024 solidworks had Real View as an option, I've recently switched from my student account to a maker account as student has run out. My issue, is 2026 does not allow me to activate Real View. I've spent years using Real View and to have it taken from me is upsetting. Can I install 2024 to get it back or somehow enable it in 2026? I have 2024 installed but it will only look at my student code instead of my maker sub.

Hi, I'm trying to write a VBA macro in SolidWorks to automate my DWG export. My goal: Scan drawing views, find the material assigned to each parts inside an assembly, create matching layers in the drawing (BRASS, STAINLESS STEEL, etc), and ensure that when exported to DWG, all 2D geometry lines end up on their respective material layer in AutoCAD instead of Layer 0. Do you think it's possible? Thank you, PS: I used Gemini to help me.

A couple of mixed questions for the experts in SWE: I use automatic wire numbering (usually Process/Renumber wires gives me more control than Process/Number new wires) to start our wiring number process, but usually leave some empty number, because it is never easy to have a 100 % defined schematic which is not subject to some feedback form our electrician, new wishes from our customer, etc. For example, I just numbered a first scheme using the automatic numbering and I had 1 to 13 numbers

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Hallo Gemeinde, ich brauche Hilfe beim Erstellen von Helix. Am Besten auf Deutsch und über Teamviewer. LG Roland

Hola amigos, soy Alfredo, les comento que soy estudiante de ingeniería mecánica y hasta hace un tiempo atrás tenía por parte de mi universidad el servicio de solidworks2020 sp5.0 licenciado para usar a través de un VPN, pero sucede que recientemente mi computador tuvo problemas con el disco duro y tuve que formatear el equipo, perdiendo todos los programas. El tema es que he tenido diversos problemas para volver a descargar el software desde mi universidad y también a causa del mal tiempo se

I've seen this question asked before but they were all years ago and those solutions don't work for me. I have a PDM task (a copy of the default Convert task) that converts drawings to PDFs and saves them in a vault folder. I want to instead have these saved outside of the vault in a network folder. When I try to replace the Output Path with a non-vault path, I get an error: "Output path must be inside vault location". When I try and circumvent this by using the Advanced Scription Options button

A known and verified, macro-generated plane has been created in Solidworks. Measuring to this plane, two coordinate systems were inserted as follows: Coordinate1: Origin of assembly Coordinate2: Surface of an inserted component mated to an inclined and skewed surface. Measure tool: reports three predicted rotations as follows: Φ x-rotate (intrinsic) Ѳ new y-rotate (intrinsic) Ψ new z-rotate (intrinsic) these are known as TAIT-BRYAN rotations. Here is my CRAZY question. FIRSTLY: I want to

Hi, my name is Franco. I am a mechanical engineering student and a teacher at secondary schools in Argentina. I have never used design software in my life, and I wanted to know the best way to get started. Thank you very much. Iam with the student free version.

I need to call out an external NPT thread on a drawing. I can just make a note, but I was hoping that I would be able to add a feature to my model that would help me with the specifics. I can't find NPT threads in the cosmetic thread feature or the thread feature. Am I missing something? I feel like this should be easy. I've found a lot of posts about people modeling the thread so that they can print it, but I don't need to get that complicated. Advice appreciated.

I recorded a macro to create a simple model that includes a Linear Sketch Pattern. However, I found that the macro does not replay the step that creates the Linear Sketch Pattern. As a result, the macro fails to complete the model. Is there a way to resolve this issue?

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how to make roller support in one direction only Example ( -x) only and free in the (+x)

Bonjour! depuis la version 2026, Visualize bug dés que je lance un rendu d'une animation dans laquelle il y a 2 mouvement différents, c'est a dire un mouvement de caméra et un mouvement d'objet en même temps. J'ai tout essayé mais impossible de comprendre...une idée ?

How do I make my assembly more manageble?

Prioritise Professional 2D Drafting Workflows in SOLIDWORKS Drawings SOLIDWORKS needs to recognise that, regardless of how advanced 3D modelling becomes, the final deliverable in many engineering environments is still a 2D drawing. The drawing is the document that goes to manufacturing, inspection, fabrication, purchasing, and the shop floor. Drafting efficiency and control should therefore be treated as a core priority, not as an afterthought. A fundamental drafting requirement is the ability

So I use the Edit in Context function to open the part file that is being insert but this only works when the references aren't locked. I'd really like the ability to just open the part by right click the feature regardless of if the feature is locked or not assuming the reference isn't broken and I have access to the file. Mostly sometimes I'll be working through the feature tree on the part that's being inserted and I don't want the roll back to propogate into the other model but its a pain to

How do I modify, and save a template so when I create new drawings, I can select that size / template, instead of having to change it each time I create a new drawing? I modified a drawing sheet, and hit save as template but that didnt work.

This is a point of annoyance and really problematic when I'm adjusting the definitition of my planes. For instance I have a reference plane defined by being coincident to a line in a 3D sketch and perpendicular to my top plane. I then decide I don't care if its perpendicular to the top plane but rather want a point to be on the plane instead so I change the perpendicular constraint to a coincident with the point. But now the sketch I had on the plane is rotated 90 degs. It doesn't seem like I

Hello everyone, I would like to create a macro for SolidWorks Composer. I’ve checked the documentation and the forum, but there isn't much information—specifically regarding which DLLs to use to control Composer. Could someone shed some light on this for me? I am looking for the DLL(s) to enable in VS Code, and if possible, documentation with existing code examples. Thanks in advance.

There are very good SOLIDWORKS books for training. The books have an Exercises section and for some lessons you can separately download Exercises in PDF format to my.solidworks (in the eCourses section), but not for all. Where can I get, for example, SolidWorks Simulation?