Accessing Xpress Tools
How to Access Xpress tools in SOLIDWORKS
How often do you take advantage of the Xpress tools in SOLIDWORKS? Maybe the better question is do you know about the Xpress tools in SOLIDWORKS? If you’re not familiar with them, they are SimulationXpress, FloXpress and DriveWorksXpress.
Each of these tools can have a place in your product development processes, if you take advantage of them. Briefly, their capabilities are as follows: SimulationXpress provides part-only Finite Element Analysis, FloXpress provides internal flow Computational Fluid Dynamics and DriveWorksXpress is a powerful design automation tool.
This article will show you where to go in mySolidWorks to locate and activate these tools, or skip to the bottom to watch a video.
Step 1: Click on the Express tool you want to activate, the following screen will be displayed, click the link to go to my.solidworks.com/xpress:
Step 2: This will launch a website where you will to log in to a www.My.SolidWorks.com account:
Step 3: Sign in with credentials for your SolidWorks account or create a new ID if necessary.
- Any account login can be used to generate the ID, even if the account is not registered to that specific company or the request comes from a different computer
- Here is a video explaining how to create a My.SolidWorks.com account
Step 4: The activation code you requested will be displayed, along with the serial number that it applies to. Activation codes are specific to each major version (2019), product, and serial number:
Step 5: With the new Activation Code, you can copy and paste the code in the dialog box that you still have open in SolidWorks as shown below:
Step 5 (Bonus): If you navigate back to the Web Browser that contains the code, you can click on the button View Other Products. This will launch a new page where you can enter in your Serial Number, select the version and product of SolidWorks, and you can collect more Express codes as shown below:
