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Getting Information on Time Taken in Opening Files

You can know the time taken to open a file when it was last opened in SOLIDWORKS 2023 and above. The time is measured in seconds. To know the file open time, a new variable _SW_Last_Open_Time_ is added to the SOLIDWORKS PDM variables.

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