This weekend the #3DEXPERIENCE platform updated and you received an email stating to update your apps with #FD07. If you have 3DEXPERIENCE #SOLIDWORKS for Students, you need to update your apps – including the native SOLIDWORKS app.

SOLIDWORKS files, parts, assemblies and drawings, are associative – change a dimension in an assembly and the corresponding part updates, change the number of holes in a part and the drawing updates. This associativity is one of the most powerful features of SOLIDWORKS. To take SOLIDWORKS data from Windows to the Cloud requires a smart platform, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

SOLIDWORKS #Connected allows you to take 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS native files, such as a part (.sldprt) and through the 3DEXPERIENCE platform understand, manage and modify this associative data.

By default, in the 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS native app, your SOLIDWORKS data is saved to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform (cloud). With the FD07 release, you can save SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies and drawings to your desktop with File> Save, Save to My PC. Select the correct file format. Note at this time SOLIDWORKS Composer is the default file type. For a part, select Part, .sldprt.

To open a SOLIDWORKS file saved to your Windows PC, select File>Open. From Windows, browse to select the part, assembly or drawing. From the 3DEXPERIENCE window, Select Open from My PC button on the lower left corner and browse to the correct folder.

With the FD07 upgrade, you can now save your SOLIDWORKS data locally to your PC. However saving your SOLIDWORKS data to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s secure cloud storage allows you these added benefits that you don’t get when saving locally to your PC:

• Accessing you files from anywhere on any device – all you need is an internet connection – to continue working with the most flexibility.

• Ability to move bi-laterally from SOLIDWORKS Connected to xDesign/xShape and back to SOLIDWORKS Connected.

 When saving to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, you can take advantage of the Generative Design, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning from xDesign, and the power to quickly digitally sculpt organic clay in xShape.

My friends from the 3DEXPERIENCE EDU team have created great videos to help you learn about saving data to the cloud and using great new apps. If you are reading this post, you are already using the 3DSWYM app (See What You Mean) – it has blog posts, wiki with great information and help from some of the best engineers at DASSAULT SYSTEMES.

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