xDesign is no longer available for me. Why is this? Also xMotion seems to be gone as well..

I've written a macro which does several updates to parts, including ensuring that the latest gauge tables are assigned and control the bend dimensions. However, several parts are resulting with errors in Closed Corners or Flat Patterns. It seems to be a result of the gauge tables not processing fully, because if I edit the multibody Sheet-Metal folder or the Sheet-Metal body feature within it and only hit confirm, I see the Excel gauge table appear briefly, the part regenerates, and then the

Failed to continue. Cannot reinstall in this directory. Another version of the same media is already installed here. Technical details: Installed media level: 428.1.8 can someone help me it wil not update what do i need todo i am so done wifh al this bulshit why does is never work

Recently been practicing assembly for exam…normally in exam some distance x or centre of mass type answer have to be derived…But apart from that one thing that are clicking in my head when i check my assembly against some reference assembly,what parameters i need to check that will determine my assembly is a well structured assembly… One things that intuitively comes into my mind is least number of mates…but any other parameter that i should look for…..i guess answer matching is not everything..

Hello, how do I set up a cable box or channel/line through the Route Component wizard? Tools> Solidworks Electrical> Route Component Wizard Do you have any videos? Please help me. Best regards, Arthur

Hi Team. Has anyone else noticed that SW 2024 SP5.0 appears to no longer allows the ability to reattach a dimension leader in a drawing. This was an easily achieved feature in EVERY previous release I have used. But so far, in the couple months I have been using 2024 SP5.0, I have been unable. I think I am doing it correctly... Or am I missing something in a new workflow "feature" that I can turn off in a setting somewhere. Interestingly, as I was typing this out, the very helpful ai on the

hello, just checking if they already integrated Copy command on tables such as BOM, that would allow copying cells, columns, rows, or whole table to clipboard, in plain text, columns separated by tabs... or do you still need to export and work with it manually?

Hi everyone may I ask how can one get a CSWA Voucher in order to take an exam

Hi all I am new to this platform what is it about

I am new to solidworks and the basic fundamentals of drawing automation is being able to control the drawing scale automatically without user input. Is there a way to do it in solidworks? I want the drawing view to always stay the same size. The size of the part changes from very small to very large, but is always different in size. This was easy in Autocad with some programming.

Whenever I am in a feature or a sketch it is exited unprompted seemingly at random. Really annoying and making everything take way too long. frequently happens when in-putting data for linear patterns, whenever I am trying to mate parts, or when selecting wedlments. Has anyone experienced this or found a solution? It will exit the same command 3-4 times in a row.. For more complicated mating I have to do it in multiple stages.. it's just not efficient and its driving me a little crazy. My

Bonjour à tous, Je travaille sur Solidworks Xdesign for makers (sur 3D expérience), je ne trouve pas le paramètre pour modifier la précision d'une cotation ou messure ? Par exemple, je souhaite qu'une pièce soit à 55.655 mais ca me l'arrondi à 55.66 quelque soit l'unité. Pouvez-vous m'aider ? Merci.

Admin, can you put this where it belongs or tell me how to address it. I was trying to verify my email was given this error message: 429 Too Many Requests You have sent too many requests in a given amount of time. I hadnt even attempted any

サブスクリプションサービス加入者ですが，現在発行されているSPR，BRの一覧を参照する方法を教えてください．

I am using SOLIDWORKS Electrical and have created macros from complete schematic pages. My project contains approximately 20 schematic pages, and I created one macro for each page. These are not PLC-only macros. Each macro represents an entire schematic page and contains various electrical components such as relays, terminals, sensors, wiring, and in some cases part of a PLC. The PLC itself is a single physical PLC, but its I/O modules are distributed across several schematic pages. Therefore,

Hello everyone, I am a freelance mechanical engineer looking forward to invest in a SolidWorks licence. I wanted to know if with a budget of 1700 euros, I can have an annual license (just the CAD standard at this point to start with some clients projects) ? I have a small micro company in Europe/AfricaSOLIDWORKSsavlicense . Thank you

Are there any limitation (i.e. number of parts, assembly, etc, certain functions or processes)? in the maker version that would prevent me from opening a file created in the standard version of solidworks into the desktop version of Solidworks Maker?

Hi, I would like to be able to add etch lines to a sheet metal part for the purpose of alignment with another part. How do I do this so it shows up on DXF export?

Previously, I had a student version which expired (2025 SP0). The software would never let me renew the license, so I downloaded a new student version (2025 SP5). It downloaded and installed ok - I thought. I got the serial number in an email from SW, and activated it online, but the software still thinks that I am running the old version, or the old serial number. The .exe file and date suggests that I am running the new version (2025 SP5). Just as before, the SW software won't let me

I downloaded the codestack dxf file export for assemblies. It worked great for the first couple of times I used it. My models utilize Global Variables at the top level. I use these top level models as a project template, but using pack n go's, then find and replace the naming convention. After doing this a couple of times, the macro now fails and will not complete. Any ideas or insight would be greatly appreciated. The code below: '********************** 'Copyright(C) 2025 Xarial Pty

Hi, all! I'm struggling with a very strange problem with .EASM files. I have an assembly which contains other subassemblies. In the subassemblies and in the main assembly I have made needed display states (it touches only hide/show and transparency properties). In the main assembly to build a display state I activate a predefined display state in the component's properties for each subassembly. When I switch between display states in the main assembly in SolidWorks everything works fine but

File explorer crash when I right click on a SW file since I updated to SW 2026 SP2.1 any other file is fine, i recently updated from SW 2025 my system win 10 64bit thanks in advance

I need to make a motion study of a stp file can this be done

Is there a way to enable viewing old version of file from the history dialog that's opened from the Solidworks PDM Add-in? Or should I enter an Enhancement Request?

Back when I started using solidworks (2018), it felt much easier to double click on a feature from the part or assembly left, then double click on a dimension to edit it without having to open up the relevant sketch. Holding shift seemed to make it even more reliable. Something happened around SW2021 that made it so that it is very hard to actually select the dimension. It seems that the pickbox for the dimensions is very small, or potentially not in the right place. I can click the line

Hey everybody, I need your assistance with a mild barrier. I have an assembly created with multiple equations and I imported those Custom Properties tab. Now there are contain values that I want to be displayed while I am viewing the assembly, and the title block should always stay parallel to the screen so I can always look at it no matter what view I am looking at the assembly from. I already did some research and found out that the Notes under Annotations in the Tree items, is supposed to be

When we create a multi-sheet drawing, each sheet is in its own separate SLDDRW document. We don't just balloon one view or one drawing. We duplicate ballons on several views and drawings. As a result, we need the balloon numbers to be the same across different SLDDRW files. The item numbers cannot be assigned automatically by Solidworks and they have to be assembly-specific. So far, we have been achieving this by making assembly-specific copies of library parts and setting a custom item number

I'm trying to see if there's a way to iterate over the ordinate dimensions on a drawing and check that the 0's of all ordinates are attached to the same set of entities. The idea is to prevent errors where I think I've selected the same edge/point/axis in a different view's ordinate, but actually I've selected some other feature by mistake. So far, I've found a method to iterate over all the views and the Display Dimensions within them, but I nothing's jumping out to me that would indicate

I'm having problems renaming parts and drawings in 2026. When I rename the part file in explorer, it locates the drawing, but when I rename the drawing in explorer, it doesn't locate the part and the part is in the same folder. Didn't have that problem with 2024 or 25. Do anyone have a solution? I'm running SP2.1.

I'm trying to make a macro behave similarly to the regular features so I can hit enter or ok(the shortcut ok) for completion. The macro brings up a window of options, that is usually left unaltered, and executes once the OK button in the window is clicked. Anyone knows how to make it react like this? Option Explicit Private Sub Swap(ByRef a As Double, ByRef b As Double) Dim temp As Double temp = a a = b b = temp End Sub Function BuildMacroFeature(swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks, swModel

Hello, i instaled solid a while back but because of something i now dont have it, how can i instal it on a new place?

When using the Windows desktop version of eDrawing Viewer, is the data saved to the cloud? Or is it only saved locally?

Hi, I am using two resistor components, and with this option when try to probe after the results, I am getting three temperatures visible (junction, board and case), I want only junction temperature to be visible. Pls help.

My new setup includes a Lenovo laptop with 2 external monitors that I use for Solidworks. When I am working, I typically have multiple models/assemblies pulled up at one time on my monitors. However, if I ever try to "Cascade" my model windows, they completely disappear off the screen while my main Solidworks window remains in place on the main monitor. The only way to bring those model screens back is if I move the main Solidworks window to my laptop monitor, then the cascade function works as

I created an exploded view by adding sub assemblies. I want to remove a component that is in one of the sub assemblies. How can I do that?

I purchased the xDesign platform last Wednesday and I still have not gotten the get started email. When should I expect it by?

I cannot permanently enable the multi-user environment in SolidWorks 2023. I can check the box in the options, but after every restart of the program, the checkmark is removed again. Does anyone know this issue and can help?

Our university has a SEK500 license for Solidworks. So there are 500 license we can give to our students, researches and colleagues; i'm not sure how many licences are still available. Is there a way to check this?

I created a 3D sketch of a rectangle to use it as a plane in the wire routed part file. When I had to make a change on the wire routed assembly file, the sketch dissapears in the wire routed part file. Why does it do that and what steps do I do to keep the sketch in the wire routed part file?

When I try to pattern a shape along a 3d curve with "curve driven pattern" I'm prompted to enter a face normal: "Please select the face on which the curve, specified in the first direction lies". What does that mean? Solidworks is astonishingly remarkable lacking in user interface, especially regarding help and feedback on functions. Maybe it's not allowed (or you need to use a different function) to use a curve in 3d – but why then is it eligable in the frist place? SW should implement the idea

My SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE for Makers installation is not working. When I click the install button, nothing happens. I have already purchased a 1-year subscription. Could you please help me resolve this issue so I can install and use SOLIDWORKS Design on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

On opening an assembly i get the message, "Instance of the following were suppressed or opened from new location when this file was opened". It does not appear in the feature manager design tree and has never been part of the assembly. How can I remove this file when i can't see it?

hoe kan ik de popup menu bij meldingen op mijn hoofdmonitor nr 1 krijgen, het 2e scherm is ivm afmetingen hinderlijk.

I'm installing Solidworks on my computer, and when I try and run View Setup to connect to my company's PDM, I get the error "The socket was closed gracefully on the other end". Has anyone had this issue before, and know of a way to fix it?

Until recently, I was able to export my xDesign projects as STL files without any issues using the normal “Export” function. Now, suddenly, every export attempt immediately shows the message: “Export not allowed. You are not authorized to export from this Collaborative Space. Contact your administrator.” The important point is: I AM the platform administrator. I also tested this with newly created parts. I created a completely new private Collaborative Space (“Andreas Space”) and saved the part

My part has a flag note which applies to several different surfaces. When I try attaching a balloon or note annotation it seems to only attach to CAD features individually, and won't attach to a DimXpert collection feature. Ultimately, I just want one flag note bank annotation which is linked with (and highlights) the several different surfaces it applies to. Is there a way using MBD to apply balloons/notes directly to DimXpert features instead of individual CAD features?

I am stumped... I have a Screw Model with a config for each size. I want to set a color for each config. No matter what I do all the configs change to the new color? I have checked and unchecked the "Use Configuration specific color" and it has no effect. I go to a config and set a color then change to a different config and it has the new color. I then open the design table and see that the color column has changes to all have the same value. (I had a value set for each color). I have the

Hello, We have one problem statement for that we need to creat a macro for solidwork the macro need to look in to assemble make a parallel/ coincident/ distance mate from the already existing or placed plane to assemble planes with out changing the or movement of the part from existing place It is possible to create a such macro?

Hi we have several custom material libraries’ the problem is that they have not been audited in a long time. I would like to extract the data that I need to check using a excel power query. I know this is more of an Excel question, but I am hoping that someone has had this problem before.

It seems even when saving to an external drive, all my files are corrupted when I attempt to open them. This is only an issue that occurs when using solidworks, and no other software for me

Any one having frequent crashes since last update on 3D experience?

Hello, please could you help me where I can find someone who is able to use Solidworks Swood and help us with some projects? We are looking for some cooperation with projects or some employes who knows how to work in Solidworks Swood. Thank you for any help

I am exporting SolidWorks models as STEP AP214 files for use in another CAD type tool and the material definitions are not readable after export. Is there a way to configure the export in SolidWorks so that the material information is retained?