smarteam relationship with solidworks lightweight parts

Users prefer using “lightweight” feature in solidworks while dealing with huge assemblies and parts for performance gains.

 

Light1_5 When you save a lightweight part in smarteam, it saves the data and creates the profile card but will show up with ! in the smarteam tree.

 

Even though smarteam is not showing the lightweight parts, they have been saved into smarteam.Light2_4

 

 

 

Adding domain value “YES” to “Solidworks.ResolveBeforeTree” key in smarteam system configuration forces the user to resolve the lightweight parts before smarteam save operation is performed.                                        Light3_2

 

 

With the setting above, next time the user tries a “smarteam save” on a lightweight part, a message window will pop up forcing the user to resolve the lightweight components before the save operation is performed. This would prevent the ! from showing up.

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LIKE MENTIONED ABOVE, SMARTEAM SAVES THE PARTS EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE LIGHTWEIGHT. IT IS MORE OF A GRAPHICAL ISSUE WHEREBY USERS SEE ! INSTEAD OF THE PARTS.

 

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