I know this question has been asked before and I have ready through it. My Smart Dimensions keep displaying Meters. I've set my document to IPS, I've done the bottom right hand corner and set that to IPS(And MMGS then back), I've rebooted, I've reset the measure tool, and I've reset the settings. The moment I close SolidWorks and reopen, it resets the display to Meters. I'm completely lost on what to do about it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Bill Of Materials I have a bill of materials for an assembly and I need the bill of materials to be multiplied by the quantity of that assembly. Right now the quantity of the assemblies is a custom property tied to a drawing and it won't let me link that in the bill of materials. Any ideas?

Hi all, Hope all is well, I have an enquiry on the SOLIDWORKS premium license under the Startups programme. I have a reseller called Next cube IO that is selling me this package and the legal documents within dessault systems mentions that I cannot act as a consultant nor a freelancer. The reseller said that there will be no issues and that they got special approval from dessult systems that I'm able to use the software for freelancing due to the fact that I'm awaiting for my cousin's drones

cómo cambiar los menús a español?he hecho la instalacion en inglés y spanish

How can i evaluate the maximum long x width x height dimension of assembly

I have 4 solidwork licence. One of our pc broken and I want to disable my license. How can I do it. I write local seller and they want money. I can't use the license I paid for. Is there any clause in the agreement that states I cannot transfer my license to another computerlicence

I'm trying to recover deleted files using various programs. I was able to recover some of them, but others failed. Here's one of them, for example: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1J5_4dux0NHzr6nDDrpqJN9TOLtf4Ihzs?usp=sharing. Can you tell me what's wrong with it? Maybe you can recommend a program that would be best for recovering Solidworks files? Help, please

My window/file tabs have gotten turned off. How can I turn them back on? Running Solidworks 2023 SP2.1

I was forced to update to 2026 sp0 & one of my drawings has 48 sheets. The next sheet arrow & previous sheet arrow & scroll bar has been removed. Anyone having this issue? The only work around i found is go to the feature tree right click the sheet & activate. Is there a way to fix this? This has been a big inconvenience. Thank you,

Has anyone else experienced a REALLY Buggy user experience with routing for the last couple of releases? Some Examples: Elbows - solidworks arbitrarily deciding that elbows arent possible....... The bend angle is 90°, the radius is 1.5x nom pipe size, just like always, but sometimes it will work, then on rebuild later wont (you can only form a bend). Then randomly will again on the same route. Olets - have also been a HUGE pain. You drop them onto one pipe and then try to click a dimension, it

I am trying to automate some data card population and need this attribute. What I have found says that it is supposed to be in this SolidWorks.Interop.swpublished.dll but my copy does not contain it

The current PDM "intended" action while executing a "get latest" on a Drawing or assembly file, is to get everything in that drawing and assembly, as well as drawings and assemblies that are using the parts within this group. Example: I want assembly A that has parts 1,2,3 in it, and that's all I want to "get". Instead, I'm getting the drawing associated with assembly A, all the parts, as well as drawings and assemblies that are also using some of those 1,2,3 parts. I don't want to "get" files

I’m visiting Boston soon for a work trip and I’ll be going to a Red Sox game at Fenway. I have most of Saturday free and I’d like to plan a solid one-day itinerary that’s easy to do without rushing. I enjoy walkable areas history, architecture and museums especially anything with engineering, design, or hands-on exhibits. I also like casual local food spots and want a premium experience in travel and Game. So far I’m thinking about: Freedom Trail A good meal

I am trying to use Solidworks Maker, on the cloud to create models. I have been a Solidworks user for about 20 years. My question is, can I get Solidworks Maker to look like the fully licensed version?

As the title says, I'm trying to cut a flange out of the middle of a piece of sheet metal and then bend it so that I can put a clearance hole on it and use a screw to hold another component in place. As easy as that is to picture, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to tell Solidworks to do that. Can anyone walk me through it?

Hi, I wish to know how to measure the distance between three faces of flanges in a skid of pipes. I need to find the center of the contact's faces of these flanges to draw a schematic line. How to do it ? Regards

Hi everyone, I’m running a transient internal flow simulation in SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation 2025 for a closed-loop water piping system. The goal is to predict warm-up time due to pump work and frictional (viscous) heating. In older guidance and online references, I’ve seen repeated mentions of enabling “High Mach Number Flow” to ensure frictional heating / viscous dissipation is included. However, in my case: Fluid: liquid water Flow regime: low-speed, incompressible Analysis type: internal,

I try to figure out how to link our global variable that created in assembly to my component dimesion but it is not working

I have the 2026 SolidWorks for Makers license on my laptop. I've had it for almost a year now with virtually no problems. About two weeks ago, it stopped working. I would attempt to open the program and it would start its opening sequence. Once it gets to the "Loading Registry" splash screen it would show the blue spinning ring as if it's processing the commands to open the program. The ring would disappear after about 5 to 10 seconds then reappear after another 5 seconds and do the same thing.

How can we export the deformed shape, (with scale factor in order to obtain a predefined absolute deformation), of a linear buckling analyses, in order to use this as geometry input for further non linear analysis. We are using Solidworks simulation premium

I've been having trouble adding connectors to preexisting wiring harness. The two main ways I've found to add connectors is either edit the harness and then drag in from design library, but then I get issues with mates like SW saying the component is fixed when it has no mates and isn't fixed (there is the option to fix when I right click). Then when I try to use the insert connectors and fittings it makes an external reference and the C point doesn't show up or work. All I want to do is add a

Many of the packages or whatever are failing when installing, I keep clicking keep going to download the other stuff but more stuff fail, I don't know why it keeps failing. I was using solid works fine literally yesterday, but this morning I tried turning it on and there was an error and it said reinstalling would fix it. So I uninstalled everything and reinstalled solidworks 2025 and it just wont work. I need help.

@MH If caught in time, ESC/edit cancel keeps the existing images, but still can't add any new ones. Google Chrome. Win11 Pro.

I want to use a sketch text linked to body names in a multi body weldment part to engrave the body names into the lasercut tubes. So far i only find a way to link part properties to that sketch text. Can anyone help we wit this?

Hi, ich habe ein Bauteil und das habe ich in verschiedene Baugruppen verbaut. Wo finde ich die Anzeige um zu sehen in welchen Baugruppen das Teil überall verbaut ist? Danke und Gruß

Hello all — I’m hoping to sanity-check a persistent GPU TDR issue that seems hardware/platform related, but only shows up reliably during Solidworks use. I have plenty of experience with solidworks itself crashing, but not this situation where the whole system crashes repeatedly. System Laptop: Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 GPU: NVIDIA RTX Pro 3000 (Blackwell) OS: Windows 11 Pro SOLIDWORKS: 2024 (majority), 2025 (also occurs) Simple / Basic software install. Nothing unusual. All undocked use,

Hello, I purchased a SOLIDWORKS Student license, but an incorrect email address was entered during the purchase. As a result, I did not receive the serial number. The purchase was completed successfully, and proof of payment is available. Please assist with correcting the email address and resending the serial number. Thank you.

When I download the The 3DExperience installer (.msi) and run it, it installs 3DExperience Installer but it doesnt not then install Solidworks Design. I recently had Solidworks (Student Edition) installed and uninstalled that version (though I doubt i unistalled it cleanly). But I am surmising that may be my issue. Any advice one how to get around this issue and be able to install SolidWorks Design?

Hi i have a lenovo ryzen 7with a gpu4070 and the launcher gets installed but never open it open a page very quickly and then closes it. thanks in advance

What is the point of having a Remember Password/Remember Me checkbox when it doesn't actually do it? This is the most persistent password-entering for any program I have ever used and it is beyond frustrating to the point where I have a MACRO set up to enter it for me.

I'm new to Solidworks but have experience with other cad packages. I'm ok creating design tables and adding configurations for parts but when those parts are put into an assembly the table refuses to populate. I've tried many suggested fixes over several days but to no avail. I think my problem is using Excel 2024 with Solidworks 2026 on Windows 10. I don't want to upgrade to Windows 11 at the moment so it seems my only option is to downgrade to Solidworks 2025 SP5. My questions are:- Is there

Is it possible to create the creo part from Solidworks part & vise versa. I mean to say, full data transfer including all the features, sketchs and dimensions. Basically editable file.

We use an assembly that's driven by a design table to make custom layouts for customer drawings. In some cases, brackets will wind up interfering with each other. I know SolidWorks has a collision detection tool. Does anyone know if SolidWorks can automatically adjust a part location when certain collisions are detected?

Hi, I need help for this toolbox of Swe, every time that i add a card on the configuration i have to assig manually the addresses (ex. E0.0, A2.3 etc...) there is another way for the assignement or some automatism?

i have a model with parts organized into different folders - i have a folder with dozens of parts in it and i need to individually change the configuration on each one. i expand the folder, change the config of the first part, right click on the next part, change the configuration, and when i hit the checkmark to confirm, the folder collapses, and i have to expand it again to change the configuration on the next part. it keeps collapsing the folder every other time i make a change - how do i get

Hi, Has anyone done this recently? And if so, could you please give me some tips to get started? I just installed the latest Visual Studio Community Edition (2026), and the API help file for creating PDM add ins in C++ is woefully out of date, to the point that the instructions just don't work. Trying to follow the instructions in the API help file, I have gotten to step 2.9: Implement Interface, selecting the Edm.tlb. I did that successfully, found the library and imported it, managed to select

Not much changed between 2025 and 2026 in Houston, so the list of things to do while in town is the same too. Maybe you can checkout attractions you missed last year! Check out the story:

I need to create 500+ SolidWorks parts representing concrete wall penetrations. Each part is a simple wall block with a cutout (rectangular or round opening varying in size). Dimensions come from Excel. Current manual process: Receive Excel sheets with opening IDs, wall thickness, and penetration dimensions Manually create each part in SolidWorks Generate drawings with company template Export PDFs for field crews Repeat 500+ times What I'm Trying to Automate Read Excel data → Extract

Bei welcher konvertierung von SW nach Catia werden die meisten Infos mit Konvertiert (Material, Infos)

Hello, After I use the web2pdm web client, navigate around, logout, the server memory keeps rising until it maxes out. I have to shutdown IIS for the memory to come back to normal. Has anyone seen this before? 3005 An unhandled exception has occurred. 1/27/2026 8:22:11 PM 1/28/2026 2:22:11 AM bec1cce9611d4fb48951f32d73e9ec43 2403 1 0 /LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/SOLIDWORKSPDM-1-134140399090102352

I am experiencing technical issues with SolidWorks Electrical. Unable to insert 2D Footprints (Cabinet Layout) I cannot insert any manufacturer parts from the component tree into a 2D Cabinet Layout drawing. Symptoms: When dragging a component (e.g., Fuse, Terminal) to the drawing, nothing is inserted. The software does not even generate a generic bounding box (rectangle), even though the manufacturer part has defined dimensions (Width/Height/Depth). Verified: The drawing type is correctly set

I've made a part using Hole Wizard to add the holes. Whenever I make a drawing & use Smart Dimension on any of the holes, instead of bringing up all the info about size, threads, number, etc it just shows the hole size. The Hole Callout Format File folder in system options (C:\Program Files\Solidworks Corp\Solidworks\lang\english) contains calloutformat.txt and calloutformat_2.txt, neither file appear corrupted when I open them. I don't have a callout variables button either. Manually adding

There is a use case where files are checked out and checked back in via the SolidWorks PDM APIs. We’ve observed that the check-in is blocked (leaving files in a checked-out state) in the following scenarios: There are missing references in the file structure One or more referenced files are checked out by another user One or more referenced files are located outside the vault Are there any additional scenarios where an API-based check-in can be blocked or fail, resulting in files remaining

How do I search for files with unfilled fields on their file cards in SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional?

I am just starting to create prints from SolidWorks. In the past, using a 2d cad program, I would balloon everything in order in the 2d model. I would place balloons manually so the BOM would be alpha numeric in order. Then I would enter the items in PLM in that same order. If I had 5 parts and on page 1 I show part 1 and part 5. My BOM for that page list Item 1 and Item 5. Then on page 2 I show part 3, the BOM for that page list Item 3. Then on page 3 I have parts 1, 4, 5, BOM for

When working with a multi body sheet metal part when I try to insert a drawing view of one body, about 1 in 4 times, the drawing updates itself and i have to start over inserting the view. Is there a way to stop it from interrupting view creation? It happens when I use the select bodies button in the view creator, then select a body in the part, then as it brings the drawing back up, the rebuild dialog pops up and stops view creation fully.

Wondering If buying the Student edition requires me to join a school network or something like that. Currently I use Maker edition and I'm hoping to upgrade in order to access the more advanced tools and features.

using 2024 and PDM 2024, my company keeps all sheet formats and symbols etc.. in the vault so when things changes all users don't need to copy paste the newest format or symbol into their local files. however it gets really frustrating when i clear my local cache and solidworks forgets all file locations. when i check the options and look all the file locations are the same. i will reset the entire PC and will still not know where anything is. i clear local cache as some bigger assemblies

Hi, I've made quite a few different exploded views for an assembly, which I've used on a drawing. However, now I want to create a mirrored version of my assembly, and i want to have a mirrored version of all these explode steps. Is there any way to do this or do I have to manually do all the mirror steps again

We have a user who is using remote desktop to connect to a workstation at the office that is running SolidWorks 2025 Premium. Through remote desktop, the right-click menus do not work - specifically in the model tree. The right-click menu works fine locally from the workstation and also through other remote access tools such as ScreenConnect and TakeControl. Is this an incompatibility with Microsoft Remote Desktop?

Hello i need a MRO training video that how to do in IQMS

When adding text to a sketch, I often need to find a font and font size that fits properly and looks like what I need. To do this, I have to keep going back and forth between the font chooser and the sketch because it doesn't update the sketch until I press OK. This is a very time consuming process as I have to reselect the Font button to bring up the Choose Font dialog box every time I need to change to a different font or change the size. I think an extremely useful enhancement would be to

I am unable to use visualize add in. Everytime I run the render Solidworks freezes and infinite load something. I also checked the GPU load, it is 0% at that moment. Any thoughts?

I have Windows 11, 32 Gig of RAM, purchased directly from SolidWorks, can't find any tech support, very frustrated, any ideas?

How to i get my file to open when receiving this error

If I install Solidworks Connected Premium, the link to the Flow Simulation help and tutorials will no longer work. Where can I find help and tutorials for Flow simulation on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform?

Is Aura available for Maker? Simple Question.