The Alerts tab provides important
SOLIDWORKS news.
The
tab
has three sections: Critical, Troubleshooting, and Technical Alerts. Each of the sections might or might not appear
depending on whether the information is available.
Critical
If a critical alert exists, the Welcome dialog box opens to the Critical section automatically on startup, even if you selected
Do not show on startup in the dialog box.
Alerts display until you select Do not show this message
again.
Troubleshooting
The section includes troubleshooting messages and recovered
documents.
For problems with known solutions, the
section lists the number of times the problems have occurred on your machine, and
possible solutions. The solutions include:
- Contacting Technical Support about installing hotfixes.
- Checking for updates to see if you need to apply service
packs.
- Making sure that the machine has a certified or tested
graphics driver.
If a link for
Check for Updates or
System Diagnostics appear, click the
link, and follow instructions for that option.
Document Recovery
Recovered documents appear under Document
Recovery.
To recover documents, enable
auto-recovery in .
Technical Alerts
The Technical Alerts section
opens the contents of the SOLIDWORKS Support Bulletins RSS feed at http://www.solidworks.com.