Category: Blog
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Enhancing Efficiency with New Versa Note Admin Application Features
In the world of engineering and design, precision and clarity are paramount. Efficiently managing notes and annotations in SolidWorks drawings is a critical aspect of this process, ensuring that every detail is communicated accurately. The Versa Note SolidWorks drawing notes add-in is an invaluable tool for users seeking to streamline their note management workflows, and…
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Introducing Versa Note’s New License Tiers: Choose the Perfect Plan for You!
Starting with version 1.7.0, we’re excited to introduce our brand-new license tiers for our SolidWorks drawing note add-in Versa Note. Whether you’re a freelance designer working solo, part of a small team or a large organization, there’s a Versa Note plan just for you. Personal Tier The Personal license tier, available monthly, is our lowest…
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Troubleshooting the Versa Note Installer and Logging Issues with Serilog
Nothing is easy; in software, and in life. Challenges and hiccups are inevitable when developing . Developers often find themselves grappling with a multitude of issues, ranging from registration problems with installers to debugging customer software tools. In this blog post, we will explore two distinct yet equally significant challenges faced by developers and the solutions…
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Getting Creative with GitHub Actions
In this blog post, we’ll delve into the intricacies of setting up GitHub Actions and some of the challenges we overcame when developing the CI/CD pipeline for Versa Note, our versatile SolidWorks drawing note add-in. GitHub Actions are an automation and CI/CD platform, enabling the automation of software development tasks through workflows directly from any…
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Effortless Exploration of Versa Note
Today, we’re thrilled to introduce an improved setup process for new Versa Note users (available starting in v1.4.0). We’ve revamped the onboarding process and included a sample template that requires no initial setup, making it easier than ever for new users to get up and running adding drawing notes in SolidWorks. In previous releases, getting…
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Grassroots Email Verification
Today, we’re delving into another aspect of the new automatic trial license creation for our flagship SolidWorks drawing note application, Versa Note. To ensure fast and easy setup, we’ve automated the trial license creation process. Just download & install the application, launch Versa Note in a SolidWorks drawing, provide your email address, and your trial…
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Elevating User Experience & Flexing Dev Muscles
Hello and good day fellow CAD users and API developers alike! In the exciting realm of software development, CAD Innovations is working hard to save you time and money with our user-focused approach and knack for tackling challenges head-on. Here are a few recent challenges that are keeping us on our toes – all about…
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A Beginners Guide to Creating SolidWorks Add-ins
The journey of creating a commercial software tool has been a learning experience for me, and also a good opportunity to share some of the challenges I encountered in hopes of helping other would-be SolidWorks API developers who are just getting started; whether you are creating tools for yourself, for a team of SolidWorks users,…