Hello to all,
Welcome to this new edition of the SOLIDWORKS Support Monthly News, coauthored by members of the SOLIDWORKS Technical Support teams worldwide.
By David Heywood
Have you ever been unable to delete a file or folder because it was open in another program? Join the crowd. But you don’t have to be stuck and forced to reboot your computer to that file or folder gets released. The Windows Microsoft® ‘Resource Monitor’ be used to end a process currently holding on to a file (or folder) you are trying to delete.
The steps below describe how to do it. In the example, a folder (containing a temporarily cached SWPDM plugin) needs to be deleted in order to test the reload of the plugin file in SOLIDWORKS PDM.
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Last month, Brian discussed the topic of Correlating Simulation to Physical Tests. This month, Brian comes back to talk about Linear Static Productivity.
Next month, Brian will discuss the topic of Shell strategies.
Why does the SOLIDWORKS® 2017 SP4 software stop responding when I close files?
An issue with the SOLIDWORKS® 2017 SP4 software may cause SOLIDWORKS to become unresponsive when closing documents with add-ins loaded, such as, the SOLIDWORKS PDM Client or possibly 3rd party add-ins.
For a hotfix and other solutions, see Solution Id: S-073387.
Is it possible to use a mobile device to access or manage a SOLIDWORKS® PDM vault?
It is possible to use the browser on a mobile device to access or manage a SOLIDWORKS PDM vault. To do so, you must be able to establish a secure connection to the network that hosts the SOLIDWORK®S PDM Web2 application.
From Solution Id: S-073286.
How do I configure the SOLIDWORKS® PDM Web2 application pool to use a local non-administrative Windows® user account for the application pool identity?
The SOLIDWORKS® PDM Web2 application on Internet Information Services (IIS) will use the SOLIDWORKS PDM client Application Program Interface (API) to access file vault information. For the API to be able to access the file vault, the Web2 application pool must run under a Windows® user profile with sufficient access to the local registry and application data folder.
For more, see Solution Id: S-073130.
In a Motion Analysis study, how do I create a ‘Trace Path’ for the ‘Center of Mass’ of a component or assembly?
It is not possible to create a ‘Trace Path’ for the ‘Center of Mass’ of an assembly or sub assembly.
For information about an existing enhancement request for this functionality, see SPR 1029979.
In SOLIDWORKS 2017, you can only create a ’Trace Path’ for the ‘Center of Mass’ of a component. To do so, see the example and follow the steps in Solution Id: S-072940.
In a SOLIDWORKS® Flow Simulation animation with the NVIDIA® 375.63 or 376.84 graphics driver, how do I resolve slow performance or a crash that occurs following the NVIDIA OpenGL Driver message ‘A TDR has been detected’?
This problem is due to instability in certain NVIDIA® graphics drivers during graphically intensive functions of SOLIDWORKS® Flow Simulation. This issue is reported as SPR 1031804.
To solve this problem, see Solution Id: S-073462.
That’s it for this month. Thanks for reading this edition of SOLIDWORKS Support News. If you need additional help with these issues or any others, please contact your SOLIDWORKS Value Added Reseller.
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