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Customers don't only come to TriMech to make a purchase, but also for advice and guidance to figure out the right solution that fits their business and meets their goals. Data management is an important aspect of these conversations because if you can't access your data it doesn't matter how great the software performs.

When we are working with companies who use SOLIDWORKS, the answer seems easy. Enterprise Data Solutions are the best way to manage design files. The conversation can quickly get challenging as we start throwing out more acronyms, and this is where I come in.

If you use SOLIDWORKS 2015, you may have noticed a glitch during save operations and the corruption of your saved files. This error is due to an incompatibility with any service pack older than SP2.1 which can affect your files at random. Good news: It can be fixed with a quick service pack update.

SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM Web2 is a new web client that can be used on virtually any device, including smart phones and tablets. It's also browser independent and requires no client installation. SOLIDWORKS EPDM Web2 provides SOLIDWORKS EPDM customers the ability to access and manipulate their data as long as they have internet access.

The latest release of SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM saw some great new enhancements and extended capabilities. It was hard to miss the new and improved Web 2.0 interface as well as the Microsoft Office EPDM Add-in. However, the same can't be said for some of the more subtle changes.

Day after day our support team reports the same thing over and over.  Many SOLIDWORKS users are working in one of the most inefficient ways possible.  What is that way? Working directly from a shared network drive. I am not an IT professional and will keep this discussion high level, but we will talk about the reasons why opening SOLIDWORKS files from a network drive is bad.

Renaming SolidWorks documents… Oh what fun that can be! Without a PDM system in place renaming SolidWorks parts, assemblies and drawings is a nightmare for most people due to the nature of how SolidWorks handles references. If you are not familiar with how SolidWorks handles references; through document name/path and an internal ID assigned to each document; you can find yourself spending hours manually fixing references in your documents.