Recently, the forum search hasn't been working well for me. When I try to search for threads that I have previously commented on, it cannot find them. I restrict the search to posts by me, and then search for terms, sorting by date. The recent posts I have written do not show up.

But never fear, there is another option. You can use Google to your advantage. Simply search for the following:

Google.com search criteria:

This will allow you to search the solidworks forums with the best search engine ever designed.

For example. I tried to search for "send as email" restricted to "Charles Culp" sorted by "date" on the forums. It could not find this thread: https://forum.solidworks.com/message/145264 .  This post was a few days ago, so Google had time to index it. I did a search on Google for . The first search result that popped up was the page I wanted.

I will probably always try the SolidWorks forum search first, but I think the site specific google search is something that many people are unaware of, or underutilize.