Posts by Russ Smith
Join Us For WMLSWUG Technical Summit 2025
The Western Michigan Lakeshore SOLIDWORKS User Group (WMLSWUG) Technical Summit returns on December 18, 2025, in Holland, Michigan, bringing together designers, engineers, CAD managers, and PDM professionals for a full day of technical learning and community collaboration. This year’s agenda features two deeply practical sessions designed to strengthen everyday SOLIDWORKS workflows: one focused on configurations,…
Read MoreBest Practices for New User Requests
Best Practices for Requesting, Approving, and Creating New Users in a SOLIDWORKS PDM Environment Managing access in a SOLIDWORKS® PDM (Product Data Management) environment is an essential part of maintaining a secure, organized, and efficient engineering data system. While user creation might seem like a simple task—just a few clicks in the PDM Administration tool—the…
Read MoreCraig Teaches the Power of Custom Properties
Craig Lalumiere will be presenting at the 3rd Annual BOSTONSWUG Festival on the Dassault campus in Waltham, MA on Thursday, June 26, 2025. Craig will be joined by many other speakers covering a wide variety of topics at this half-day event! In this presentation, we will explore the game-changing capabilities of custom properties within your…
Read MoreCOMING SOON AT #3DXW2025…
COMING SOON AT #3DXW2025… Dassault Systemes just announced that Tom and Craig are co-hosting a presentation called “Oh Sh*t I Shouldn’t Have Done That!” It is going to be a class to teach you what to do when you shouldn’t have done what you did. A “Must See” For All PDM Admin’s Following the successful…
Read MoreCelebrate Our 10-Year Anniversary!
Applied CAD Solutions is proud to be celebrating our 10-year anniversary. When Applied CAD Solutions was started it was to fill a gap in professional CAD & PDM Administration Services. Within a few years, we were taking on larger vault systems and expanding our services. We now do data migrations, build custom APIs, and provide…
Read MoreACS at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2021 Recap
We hope you had a great time at 3D EXPERIENCE World 2021. As always, we enjoyed catching up with all of our colleagues and meeting new people to chat about all things CAD. Craig and Tom had two different presenting options, which even got noticed in the day 3 recap video! Yes it feels great…
Read MorePrep list for upgrading SWx and PDM 2020
With the recent release of SOLIDWORKS 2020 SP1.0, we thought it’d be a great time to review a PDM upgrade checklist of things that we highly recommend: 1. Review: Check that you know all the proper admin passwords for your systems. If you are going to use a SOLIDWORKS install image, then decide if you…
Read MoreNew SOLIDWORKS Data Management Certification Added!
ACS is proud to announce that Craig just became a Certified SOLIDWORKS Specialist in Data Management. Data management allows us to quickly and efficiently manage data files and documentation to maximize productivity and improve product quality. Both Tom and Craig now have this certification, which will only bring more expertise and experience to our core products…
Read MoreSOLIDWORKS File Management
Since many of you have asked for the presentations for the SWUG here they are. North Eastern SOLIDWORKS User Conference (NESWUC) When: November 13, 2014 Where: New Hampshire SOLIDWORKS User Group at the Daniel Webster College in Nashua, NH Topic: SOLIDWORKS File Management / Relations Presenters: Randy Lennox and Tom Cote View the presentation here: SWUC-File-Management_Rev-7
Read MoreOur HQ is Moving!
Applied CAD Solutions LLC is going to have a new headquarters in the Tampa Bay, Florida area starting winter 2018! Tom and Barbara have been considering the relocation of the ACS headquarters for some time and have decided the best time is when it is cold in New England. The move will have no impact…
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