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Comment on Don’t Ignore That Little Green Flag by What am I supposed to ignore? « Pdm « SolidWorks Reseller Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana | 3DVision Technologies Blog

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:55:02 +0000

[...] However it has always been hard for me to remember how SolidWorks Enterprise’s “Ignore permissions in previous states” option [...]

Comment on Tech Tip: Network Slowdown by Tech Tip – Dedicating a Processor | Symmetry Solutions Blog

Tech Tip – Dedicating a Processor | Symmetry Solutions Blog — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:10:53 +0000

[...] by Nick Beattie on January 9, 2012. Posted in SolidWorks, Technical Tips In a previous Tech Tip, Network Slowdown, we discussed some options to help your SolidWorks performance when operating over a network. One [...]

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Waraluck — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:13:04 +0000

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Comment on iPad2? Sign Me Up Sally! by oxanna Nodd

oxanna Nodd — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:08:18 +0000

Oh, yes good, but this I have been less likely to: 3DVIA mobile app
This app is designed to take 3d models and superimpose them onto pictures taken with your device. (I wish I had this app when I was moving furniture for my grandma.)

Comment on Tech Tip: Network Slowdown by Nick Beattie

Nick Beattie — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:09:04 +0000

Hi Jeff,

There are a few options to help things out if you have files distributed across various parts of a network. The best solution would be to have a PDM system such as SolidWorks Enterprise PDM. That way components can be stored in parts of a vault, but checked out and copied locally to work with them. The PDM system would prevent others from updating those parts while they are checked out and would avoid the problems that could be created if you did a Pack and Go to work locally.

If I PDM system is not an option, using Read Only can help. If the parts on those various directories are rev-controlled or if they are not going to be changed, make them read only. this can prevent SolidWorks from wanting to write to those files and slow things down.

Working with the files lightweight will help with these type of assemblies as well as SolidWorks will load less data and not require as much bandwidth on the network.

Comment on Tech Tip: Network Slowdown by Jeff Cox

Jeff Cox — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:41:33 +0000

What do you do about large assemblies that access a lot of network shared directories? What about common libraries of components?

Comment on Tech Tip: Network Slowdown by Nick Beattie

Nick Beattie — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:16:20 +0000

Hi Gary,

It’s actually fairly easy to dedicate cores. I guess the better way to describe it is to lock a certain process to one core. To do this, start your Task Manager. Using the Task Manager you can keep an eye on your most processor intensive tasks. Once you have those set, if you right click on the process, you can “Set Affinity.” Using that option you can set a process to only run on certain cores. What you may want to do is limit all other processes to a couple certain cores, then let SolidWorks be left one or two of it’s own.

Comment on Tech Tip: Network Slowdown by Gary

Gary — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:10:52 +0000

Can you expalin how to dedicate a core to SolidWorks?

Comment on pdf in 3D by Drew Lindsey

Drew Lindsey — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:23:26 +0000

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Comment on pdf in 3D by Craig T

Craig T — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:22:32 +0000

I agree the ubiquity of the 3D PDF format, and the availability of the free adobe reader, make 3D PDF a great format to share and make your native 3D Data available to other users. No other format offers this ability.

However, the 3D PDF created by SolidWorks, does not support the ability for measurement and markup by other users. SolidWorks does not allow the ability to “reader extend” the document. something that many users over look.

3D PDF Converter from Tetra 4D, leverages OEM PDF libraries developed by Adobe, and supports the translation of SolidWorks to 3D PDF, with the ability for users of the 3D PDF to freely measure, markup and share the 3D PDF with Acrobat Reader.

3D PDF Converter also supports all of the other major CAD formats, and allows users to combine these multiple formats together to create a single heterogeneous 3D PDF. Take a look at http://www.tetra4d.com for more information on 3D PDF and the possible use cases.