It doesn’t create any files. It resides on a server and we have PDM buttons on the data cards that launch them. The report is generated at runtime. The GUI takes 5 minutes to come up, not the report running part, which is normal once the programs opens.
Also, we can’t just add exceptions. We must open a ticket which has to get approved so an outside company can make the changes. It was all so simple when we handled this internally. Now we work with outside companies to become more secure.
There was a time, back in the ancient days of computers, where the OS didn’t try and “help” you select text. You put the cursor where you wanted the selection to begin, and drug it to where you wanted the selection to end. I hate the fact that Windows decides it knows what you want to select. 95% of the time it is wrong, and takes much effort to only select the text I want.
We use Outlook for email here. It’s especially bad about that.
I have resorted to using SHIFT + arrow keys to select text.
Why did my screen go blank and say “Pay $2000 to regain access to your computer” when I opened a .exe on a email I received?..
Change your extension and leave a note. 
“Please change the extension to exe” 
Who cares about the rules. (don’t let the boss hear!) 
Not:I am currently using this method.
Just discovered this by experimenting with it.
Click. Hold ALT. Drag your selection and it won’t jump to whole words.
About 10:30 this morning I got a pop-up that Solidworks couldn’t connect to the server, and it shut down. I checked with a coworker, who reported the same issue. I immediately called IT, told the guy what had happened, and that the problem was on their end. He logged into my computer and pharted around for about four hours, and then told me the problem was on their end.
Same thing when I contact reseller.
Usually I’ll test laptop on cell network to make sure it’s SW problem.
At least it was fixed yesterday morning when I got to work.
While I generate most of the drawings we use here to construct the test installations, we sometimes get drawings from the client. They want to save money and have them done in-house. The quality is often “questionable”.
Our construction supervisor just showed me a set and said there seemed to be a discrepancy between the drawing views and the BOM quantities. What did I think he should do?
My answer: “Do nothing until you get clarification from the client. Make no assumptions.”
I absolutely hate it when I (or another designer here) have made a mistake and the vendor sees that mistake and then makes an assumption as to what I might have meant, and then moves on with the $10,000+ project without picking up the phone or sending an email.
People who do that more than once will lose their business from me. I don’t care how hot the project is.
Everyone makes mistakes…but if you see one…call it out…find out why or what or who…
There should be an international standard for Pan/Tilt/Zoom mouse key combinations.
I agree, and Google maps has it backwards. Rolling the wheel toward you should zoom in. And that’s not just because I’m prejudiced toward the default behavior with Solidworks. It seems counterintuitive to me to roll the scroll wheel away to zoom in.
I would agree with you, but you’re wrong. 
As long as they give you the option to invert, I’m happy. Not all software has that option.
Fall back or fall forward…
SolidWorks feel more nature since it’s how a 3d mouse work, push the part away (Roll up), and pull the part toward you (Roll down) But a lot of programs have seemed to standardize based on how Photoshop works so maybe 2D systems are to blame.
Actually every other system, Outlook, Word, File Explorer, etc. you roll towards you to zoom in. This a DEEP rabbit hole you could spend pages debating…
And the fact that you can change scroll direction in Windows.
When users just put anything and everything in PDM…no…just no. 
bnemec Surely you never have this happen?
Actually, more of the opposite. People trying to avoid the vault for things that must go in. Things like CAD files for example.
You must have a much better vault implementation than we do. <()>