The Snapshot archive is placed into the project folder. The Snapshot offers the possibility to restore an old version of the project it must not be confused with the project archive. Since SW Electrical 2016 there has been the ability to “Snapshot” a projectĪ Snapshot is a project back-up performed at a special time, such as a new revision index creation. Archived projects remain available in the Projects Manager. Projects must be closed before they can be archived. In the Save As window, choose the folder and name for the archive file. Select the project from the list and click the Archive icon. In the projects manager you can choose to archive the projectĪn archived project consists of all its documents and all data used in its design (such as symbols, title blocks, or configurations). So how do I back-up/archive individual projects? To remind yourself to back-up you can set a reminder! If you hit next you can now scroll through choose what to do for each individual item Software Updates CustomĮnables you to select what types of data here you can see I am choosing NOT to include my projects and SOLIDWORKS files in the back-up. Will back-up ALL the data and is what we recommend before any major IT infrastructure change e.g. The data selection tab enables you to choose what data to back-up and the level of granularity of the back-up To do a full back-up, open SW Electrical, close the project manager if open and go to file > Archiving and choose archive environment Of course we wouldn’t make your life this difficult in fact doing a full back-up of a whole SOLIDWORKS Electrical installation is very, very simple!ĭoing a full back-up, an archive environment, can be time consuming, so we would recommend doing this at least once a month or with any major IT infrastructure change, it is imperative that this step is conducted to avoid data loss. So to back-up SW Electrical you need to consider backing-up the database, project files and all the settings to create those projects, help!

If you check out the folders you will find your projects, and in the application data folder all the settings and data you have created when setting up Electrical. (Check out tools/configuration/application settings to see what is set)

Let me explain a little about how the software functions.Īll installations of SOLIDWORKS Electrical rely on a Microsoft SQL database and shared locations for application data and projects. OK, so the header is a bit drastic but this is very important to all users of SOLIDWORKS Electrical. An important blog if you use SOLIDWORKS Electrical

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