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SOLIDWORKS CAD Oct 09, 2024

The GoEngineer Customer Portal is a great tool for managing your users, training, assets, and other resources that GoEngineer has to offer. Two of the strongest assets available are the ability to manage users and then assign/access training from either your success plan or the classes you have purchased. This article is a guide for users with Professional admin-level access (typically CAD admin or IT) to utilize these assets fully. Let's start with how to add users to the customer portal.

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Sep 12, 2024

This article covers the SOLIDWORKS Electrical Save Environment command and two very important reasons why you should use it. The Save Environment command is located in the File tab and is used to save your SOLIDWORKS Electrical settings, projects, and libraries. This command allows you to save all or specific settings, configuration, and library information to a file (similar to a ZIP file) for backup purposes and/or transferring your settings to another computer.

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Jul 29, 2024

In SOLIDWORKS Electrical, attributes are used to represent pertinent information about components. Typically, this information is represented in a single line of text, but occasionally, the text becomes unreasonably long and requires multiple lines. This article explains how to to wrap attribute text in SOLIDWORKS Electrical using the Multiple Attribute command in the Symbol Editor.

3DEXPERIENCE Design Mar 06, 2024

In 3DEXPERIENCE, a dashboard displays content and resources for any topic or activity you are a part of in your company. Every dashboard is made up of Tabs that contain Widgets/Apps that are used to perform different tasks. The Widgets/Apps listed in each of these tabs depend on what Roles you have access to.

 

SOLIDWORKS CAD Nov 27, 2023

Some SOLIDWORKS users are experiencing an error stating: The current computer identifier does not match... when activating SOLIDWORKS 2024 on a machine that has previous versions of the software installed. This error is due to an update to the FLEXnet licensing service included with SOLIDWORKS 2024

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Oct 06, 2022

In this tutorial, we go over how to add custom cables in the SOLIDWORKS Electrical that do not already exist in the library. With SOLIDWORKS Electrical open, go up to the library tab, and open up the Cable Reference Library Manager.

 

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Sep 26, 2022

In this article, we discuss using locations in SOLIDWORKS Electrical. We'll cover not only what locations are and how to use them, but how they can be used to organize SOLIDWORKS Electrical projects and bring more intelligence into a design to realistically convey as much real-world knowledge of the Electrical system into schematic drawings.

 

In this tutorial, we'll take a look at a few of the possible ways to model a Wye Pipe in SOLIDWORKS. Wye pipes exist in various materials, from formed plastic to welded metal. In SOLIDWORKS however, the question of how to model the initial shape can be a lot more complicated. 

 

 

In this guide, see what you can do with the SOLIDWORKS Sketch text tool and how to format the text to best suit your needs. When adding text to a part, the first thing to do is make sure there are some sketch entities to use to place the text.