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  1. RipV

    activate-deactivate question

    we've just upgraded to SW2017. There are 2 designers here, each with a stand alone seat of SW. We also have SW on a laptop that we have in the past shared when we go on a road trip. Either He or I will take it as needed. Now that we have to deactivate one machine and then activate the laptop...
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    video card choice

    We are about to get 2 new computers here at work. I am aware of the SW approved list on their site, there are many choices. my last computer they got me a gaming card. Could someone give us the basics of what we need to run SW reliably. We do complex assy's wit lots of sub assy's etc. (machine...
  3. RipV

    Command Mangager Tabs

    I have a particularly annoying problem with SW I will try to describe concerning Command Manager Tabs. When I have an assy open I have these tabs: assembly,layout,sketch,evaluate. When I start a new drawing from one of my saved templates I have these tabs: view layout,annotation,sketch,evaluate...
  4. RipV

    weird color problem

    I noticed last Friday that my color swatch is gone. It is still gone today. On a solid part model I rightclick on the model name in the tree/select the appearances ball/select the color square/ the appearances bar opens but the color swatch is missing. The window is there but the background is...
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    hole wizard database location

    We have 5 seats of SW 2008 sp3.1 installed. We have the file SWBrowser.mdb (which has been modified to our particular needs) saved to a common spot on our server. Others can then direct their path there & use it. I cannot although I have been able to in prior versions. I am using the same file...
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    How bad is our systems? Upgrade help needed

    We are currently looking at upgrading to NEW systems. We run SW2007 now & have 2008 but have not installed yet. Here is what I have now: (taken from control panel/system/general) Dell Precision 650 series CPU XP Pro Version 2002, Service Pack 2 Xeon CPU 2.80 GHz 2.79GHz, 1.00 GB of Ram Video...
  7. RipV

    Video Card Recommendations Please

    Hello, Our company has just purchase us 5 new computers for our cad stations. We run Solidworks 2003 SP0. We are experiencing problems which we suspect is video related. Lines in sketches &/or dimensions disappear. Confirmation corner in sketches sometimes disappears. Frenquent SW crashes.Other...
  8. RipV

    problem with "View Mates"

    We have 4 seats of SW at work and 3 of us expierence this problem (4th person doesn't draw that much) I also have the same problem when using SW working at home. In our assy's (after they get some size) if you right click a part in the assy to view mates, it will work usally once or maybe twice...

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