Installing Sync Client for 3DDrive (2024 FD02)



You can now choose if you want to install the 3DEXPERIENCE Drive for Windows. In earlier releases opening 3DDrive or performing any actions in the files located in 3DDrive required mandatory installation of 3DEXPERIENCE Drive for Windows.

Benefits: As per the preference for installation of 3DDrive, the usability of the app changes.

While uploading or downloading files, a dialog box displays the options to install the 3DEXPERIENCE Drive or continue without installing 3DEXPERIENCE Drive.

If you choose Install, there is no change in the behavior of 3DDrive. You can work simultaneously with the files in SOLIDWORKS and keep it synced with 3DDrive.

If you choose Continue without Install, the files will not be synced automatically. However, you can perform all the operations of upload, download, and drag a file from 3DDrive to SOLIDWORKS. Also, when you drag multiple files from 3DDrive to SOLIDWORKS all the selected files open in SOLIDWORKS. But if you drag an assembly structure in SOLIDWORKS, only the assembly is downloaded and opened in SOLIDWORKS. The reference files are not downloaded.