Wow. That's awesome. Just another nail in the coffin as far as I'm concerned.
I'm retiring at the end the month and the gravy train of my employer covering the cost of subscription to my personal seat of SolidWorks will end as well.
So, come February, I'll be off of subscription as well.
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- Thu May 04, 2023 7:59 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Tips for Going off Subscription?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 11037
- Mon Apr 24, 2023 11:54 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: STEP AP 242
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2021
Re: STEP AP 242
Isn't that special....
- Wed Apr 19, 2023 9:25 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Advanced Hole callout format file
- Replies: 1
- Views: 407
- Wed Apr 19, 2023 9:22 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Advanced Hole callout format file
- Replies: 1
- Views: 407
Advanced Hole callout format file
So,
I thought I had brought the right files over to the new location for the Advanced Hole callout format file from c:\solidworks\lang\english....
But Swx is spitting back at me telling me the file was not found.
Does anyone know the filename for this thing?
Thanks
I thought I had brought the right files over to the new location for the Advanced Hole callout format file from c:\solidworks\lang\english....
But Swx is spitting back at me telling me the file was not found.
Does anyone know the filename for this thing?
Thanks
- Wed Apr 19, 2023 8:35 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: 3d PDF generation issues
- Replies: 1
- Views: 545
Re: 3d PDF generation issues
Sigh Interesting. I've had a couple of times when the 3DPDF thing would spit at me. Perhaps this is why. For those of us that live in protected enclaves though, this is a real challenge. I've tried for years to get our "friends" at Dassault to come to the realization that most users don't ...
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 12:11 pm
- Forum: 2D Drawings
- Topic: Multi-pass Weld Symbol
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3804
Re: Multi-pass Weld Symbol
So, putting my welding hat on, would it make more sense to call out a specific weld procedure, which accurately defined these processes instead of this nomenclature?
I ask as I've never seen a multi-pass weld symbol on a drawing.
I ask as I've never seen a multi-pass weld symbol on a drawing.
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 1:46 pm
- Forum: SolidWorks PDM
- Topic: Cheap/free alternatives to SolidWorks PDM
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6304
Re: Cheap/free alternatives to SolidWorks PDM
A bit. I need to study it to see if it's a viable solution.
thanks
thanks
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 1:14 pm
- Forum: SolidWorks PDM
- Topic: Cheap/free alternatives to SolidWorks PDM
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6304
Re: Cheap/free alternatives to SolidWorks PDM
hey Ben, Mostly what I write now is VBA for use in SolidWorks. Prolly not directly applicable in this specific instance. If I was to go down this path, I would leverage as much existing code and capability as I could. The innerweb spelunking I've done indicates that SVN is the "preferred" ...
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 10:45 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Adventures in administrative image land
- Replies: 5
- Views: 847
Re: Adventures in administrative image land
We (my IT goober and I) have gone through this twice now. First time was for v2021. All seemed to be per the documentation and went smoothly. Second time was for v2022. Much had changed, little/none of it documented, lot's of trial and error to get it going. Things we had cleaned up (like the hell b...
- Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:39 pm
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: Disney ruined my childhood
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6051
Re: Disney ruined my childhood
And didn't proselytize about whichever social issue Disney was fond of that day.Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 9:23 am But it didn't follow Disney's stories.
Need a happy ending.
- Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:23 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Interesting (?) behavior of design tables
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1041
- Thu Mar 16, 2023 1:02 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Interesting (?) behavior of design tables
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1041
Interesting (?) behavior of design tables
So, I've been playing a lot with design tables of late. Build a couple of configurations, create a design table, open it in Excel and then create the remaining configurations. Typically I add a column for a Custom Property named Description which looks (of course) looks like $PRP@'Description'. (Or ...
- Wed Mar 15, 2023 1:14 pm
- Forum: SolidWorks PDM
- Topic: Cheap/free alternatives to SolidWorks PDM
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6304
Re: Cheap/free alternatives to SolidWorks PDM
If only you are are using SW, why would you need PDM? Just save a copy of the old "rev". Or copy whole assembly to another folder. That might be good advice if SW weren't so good at searching your hard drive for "missing" files. All of a sudden your "archived" files ar...
- Wed Mar 15, 2023 12:32 pm
- Forum: SolidWorks PDM
- Topic: Cheap/free alternatives to SolidWorks PDM
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6304
Cheap/free alternatives to SolidWorks PDM
Greetings all, I'm about 6 weeks away from retiring from my "day" job. I've had a seat of SolidWorks standard for as long as I can remember, and have used it casually over the years. With more time on my hands after the big "R", there are a number of ideas I want to develop in pa...
- Wed Mar 15, 2023 12:19 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Broken solidworks website
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2174
Re: Broken solidworks website
I had this problem in September 2022. About a month later, the workaround (logging in to the portal first) stopped working. I had to get my VAR involved and eventually the issue was resolved by the 'passport team' at SW. This is 100% a problem on SOLIDWORKS' end. Get your VAR involved. If they want...
- Wed Mar 15, 2023 12:16 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Have anyone successful get power in charge to decide to leave SW ?
- Replies: 203
- Views: 105355
Re: Have anyone successful get power in charge to decide to leave SW ?
@gerard It's been suggested to him several times over. It just goes in one ear and out the other. He wants us users to figure out what he doesn't know and then show him how it's done in SW to which he then decides that SW still sucks because it's not SE. It's way past beyond boring or productive at...
- Wed Mar 15, 2023 9:42 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Have anyone successful get power in charge to decide to leave SW ?
- Replies: 203
- Views: 105355
Re: Have anyone successful get power in charge to decide to leave SW ?
When we now are into views. Is there a way to get "view orientation" (using space) to default to isometric? Current it default to some "dirotatometric". When I press the isometric it will stick for a while but later default to the old behavior. Did some search but... will try ag...
- Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:02 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: Using Document Manager API from Excel
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3126
Re: Using Document Manager API from Excel
Yay! The answer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/excel-automation-fails-second-time-code-runs-6647c4b4-da5c-ee1f-cc6f-58815d47702d All my references were changed to specifically call out the sheet object: e.g. column("A2") became xlsheet.column("A2") :cry: This is a fun...
- Tue Mar 14, 2023 11:05 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: Using Document Manager API from Excel
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3126
Re: Using Document Manager API from Excel
Unfortunately, no. Protected enclave. More digging indicates that a linkage to an add-in com object is happening, which remains active after killing Excel in VBA. Microsoft's solution is not just to de-activate the COM add-in, but completely remove it. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubl...
- Tue Mar 14, 2023 10:19 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: Using Document Manager API from Excel
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3126
Re: Using Document Manager API from Excel
Sigh. No change. I refactored the set up routine, so instead of: xlSheet.Columns("A:A").Select Selection.ColumnWidth = 25 Its: xlSheet.Columns("A:A").ColumnWidth = 25 ===> Which is where it purps. Some innerweb spelunking hints that it is a duplicate worksheet hiding somewhere. W...
- Tue Mar 14, 2023 7:37 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: Using Document Manager API from Excel
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3126
Re: Using Document Manager API from Excel
It's a little strange to pass these three objects to the subroutine and then initialize them. Why not simply Dim the three variables in your module and then just initialize them in the setup routine? ... You did everything except tell Excel to actually stop. Add a call to xlApp.Quit <()> That makes...
- Mon Mar 13, 2023 1:08 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: Using Document Manager API from Excel
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3126
Re: Using Document Manager API from Excel
Ok, I use a subroutine to do all the setup before writing. sub template_setup(xlApp as Excel.Application, xlBook as Excel.Workbook, xlSheet as Excel.Worksheet) set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application") xlApp.Visible = True Set xlBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Add Set xlSheet = xlBook.ActiveShe...
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 11:42 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: Using Document Manager API from Excel
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3126
Re: Using Document Manager API from Excel
More "goodness". The tool works fine, but.... I'm running it multiple times to select folders to write these "catalog" files in. Every other time I run the thing Excel opens with a new file and then burps with "run-time error 1004 Method "ThisWorkbook' of object '_Globa...
- Tue Mar 07, 2023 11:44 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Solidworks 2023 SP0.1 is available
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9522
Re: Solidworks 2023 SP0.1 is available
Even if you keep it local, I would add them to a different single folder local. SolidWorks like them scattered to the winds....some in the c:\Program data, some under c:\program files\SolidWorks corp\ in various sub folders. Oh man this. We're in a corporate networked environment without the benefi...
- Mon Mar 06, 2023 2:45 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: Using Document Manager API from Excel
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3126
Re: Using Document Manager API from Excel
Ok. Thanks so far. The macro works fine....... But it's slow, and as it trudges through folders gets slower. Currently I use GetPreviewBitmap to create an stdole.stdpicture object Then use stdole.savePicture to save a physical image on the drive. Then use sheet.shape.addpicture to inset the image in...
- Wed Mar 01, 2023 8:56 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Onshape's downsides from a SolidWorks user perspective?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10755
- Wed Feb 22, 2023 2:11 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: Using Document Manager API from Excel
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3126
Re: Using Document Manager API from Excel
So,
I flipped it around and wrote the thing in the Swx IDE. Writing to an excel file is easy.
It's trudging away as we speak....
I flipped it around and wrote the thing in the Swx IDE. Writing to an excel file is easy.
It's trudging away as we speak....
- Thu Feb 16, 2023 12:50 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: Using Document Manager API from Excel
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3126
Re: Using Document Manager API from Excel
This is almost certainly the issue. It's a similar error I get when I forget to un-check "Prefer 32-bit" when I use Document Manager in Visual Studio. Thanks. Yea, a bit of digging indicates that the dll is 64 bit. There do seem to be some ways around it, but I'll have to get my IT folks ...
- Thu Feb 16, 2023 8:47 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: Using Document Manager API from Excel
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3126
Using Document Manager API from Excel
So, I've got a Document Manager Key, and have created a vba macro in SolidWorks which verifies all is fine and good in Document Manager land. So, I want to do some custom property stuff from within Excel, so I look at this wonderful source https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-document-manager-api/do...
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:29 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: DeleteScene Method (IModelDocExtension)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 696
Re: DeleteScene Method (IModelDocExtension)
It pretty much works as advertised. Here's a before: image.png Here's some code: Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Dim mDoc As ModelDoc2 Dim mExt As ModelDocExtension Sub main() Set swApp = Application.SldWorks Set mDoc = swApp.ActiveDoc Set mExt = mDoc.Extension mExt.DeleteScene End Sub And here's th...
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 7:35 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: DeleteScene Method (IModelDocExtension)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 696
DeleteScene Method (IModelDocExtension)
All, I'm tweaking my clean up utility to be able to unfiy the scene settings in my parts/assemblies. Doing some spelunking I've come across the DelecteScene function: https://help.solidworks.com/2017/English/api/sldworksapi/SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks~SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks.IModelDocExtension~D...
- Mon Jan 30, 2023 11:20 am
- Forum: Macro Library
- Topic: Viewing swp files without opening them in SolidWorks
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3513
Re: Viewing swp files without opening them in SolidWorks
Unfortunately I've been less than diligent about cleaning up bits and pieces in my macro folder. You know record some things, use some of the recording, never delete the recorded file. I wound up opening every swp file, some 40+ of them, and whittled them down to about 10 which are actually useful. ...
- Thu Jan 19, 2023 1:20 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Tips for Going off Subscription?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 11037
Re: Tips for Going off Subscription?
I honestly couldn't say. What I can say is that I have made it quite clear to them that they would need to pull a miracle outa there a$$es before I would ever agree to part with another penny for them. I guess that is close to a miracle as I'm gonna get from them. I have been VERY vocal with them a...
- Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:46 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: SolidWorks API Best Practices Guide
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1312
Re: SolidWorks API Best Practices Guide
I was able to download a copy.
Thank you Dave.
Thank you Dave.
- Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:46 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Tips for Going off Subscription?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 11037
Re: Tips for Going off Subscription?
I was fully prepared to never be on subs again. But, as sometimes happens in life, the unexpected can indeed occur. I am now back on subs until December 2025. Our VAR eventually offered a deal that amounted to almost half price subs, for the next 3 yrs and backdating fees virtually waived entirely....
- Wed Jan 11, 2023 12:37 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: How is SW 2022 SP 5.0 running for you?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 9243
Re: How is SW 2022 SP 5.0 running for you?
Yeah, that's what I'm going to have to do. I've got a FireGL card, and it's just not cutting it.
- Wed Jan 11, 2023 12:13 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: How is SW 2022 SP 5.0 running for you?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 9243
Re: How is SW 2022 SP 5.0 running for you?
It definitely doesn't like the cheap a$$ video card in my machine at the house. Lot's of drawing sheets with views not displayed. Yes, I updated the drivers, but the board is several (5?) years old and has never been on the "approved" list. I'll prolly have to bite the bullet and buy a rea...
- Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:13 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: SolidWorks API Best Practices Guide
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1312
Re: SolidWorks API Best Practices Guide
Thank you!
- Tue Jan 10, 2023 10:49 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: SolidWorks API Best Practices Guide
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1312
SolidWorks API Best Practices Guide
Was anyone able to grab a copy of the SolidWorks API Best Practices Guide? https://www.cadsharp.com/blog/new-solidworks-api-best-practices-guide/ I ask as it's now gone with the demise of the solidworks customer portal. Wouldn't mind seeing a copy if anyone has managed to grab one. thanks gerard
- Tue Jan 10, 2023 10:14 am
- Forum: Macro Library
- Topic: Viewing swp files without opening them in SolidWorks
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3513
Re: Viewing swp files without opening them in SolidWorks
Microsoft Visual Studio should do the trick. Edit: forgot to mention, if those SWP are for SolidWorks macros, then most likely you will require a SolidWorks licence or the person who uses the macros to open them in vB so that they can load the SolidWorks references. image.png Thanks. I'll look into...
- Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:35 am
- Forum: Macro Library
- Topic: Viewing swp files without opening them in SolidWorks
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3513
Viewing swp files without opening them in SolidWorks
Hey all,
I'm retiring in the 2nd quarter and want to document all my macros for future usage.
Is there a way to view the contents of a swp file without opening it in SolidWorks?
That would make the process a lot more efficient.
Thanks!
I'm retiring in the 2nd quarter and want to document all my macros for future usage.
Is there a way to view the contents of a swp file without opening it in SolidWorks?
That would make the process a lot more efficient.
Thanks!
- Mon Dec 05, 2022 8:41 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Life after subscription
- Replies: 3
- Views: 624
Life after subscription
So, I'm in a kinda odd situation where my employer has been reimbursing me for subscription costs for my personal seat of SolidWorks. We're a consulting company, and in the customer office that I'm ensconced in, I'm the SolidWorks guru (weenie). Access to the VAR who actually sold the seats we use i...
- Mon Dec 05, 2022 8:28 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Perpetual License or Annual Cloud Subscription.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1824
Re: Perpetual License or Annual Cloud Subscription.
... I've been informed that as of Jan. 2023 perpetual licensing subscriptions will be only available in 4yr increments..!? ... Whisky Tango Foxtrot? You have to buy a 4 year subscription? Wow. That's ballsy. As it turns out, I'm going to renew in January, and that will be it for me. My employer has...
- Mon Dec 05, 2022 8:19 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Smallest Feature Size
- Replies: 3
- Views: 830
Re: Smallest Feature Size
I know there is a maximum. Don't remember what it is, but I often get a notice when importing models that were designed in millimeters and imported as inches.
- Thu Nov 17, 2022 2:20 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Custom thread design - need assistance
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3059
Re: Custom thread design - need assistance
For the case above. Makes complete sense. Files sizes might be the same, but the CPU load is not. Far different. Load up an assembly with a couple of hundred nuts and bolts with threads. Might be a good opportunity to take lunch. McMaster-Carr is the worst for this. Every fastener you download from ...
- Thu Nov 17, 2022 8:16 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Custom thread design - need assistance
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3059
Re: Custom thread design - need assistance
/rant on/ Why, oh why are you cutting threads in 3D models? Do you hate your co-workers? Once, upon a time, when I was a VAR, that was the first thing we covered in training classes. Here is how you cut threads. And then, here's why we don't. Seriously. Nothing to gain here other than consuming vast...
- Thu Oct 27, 2022 10:16 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Blank Part numbers in Design Table
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1185
Re: Blank Part numbers in Design Table
So,
Much ado about nothing. I deleted the excel design table and recreated it with a space in the part number and all is well.
Sorry for the distraction.
Much ado about nothing. I deleted the excel design table and recreated it with a space in the part number and all is well.
Sorry for the distraction.
- Thu Oct 27, 2022 8:43 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Blank Part numbers in Design Table
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1185
Re: Blank Part numbers in Design Table
Do you have a screenshot? Words are pretty much up to interpretation. Are we talking part properties or body properties? Unfortunately, my SWX machine is on a protected enclave not attached to the innerwebs. Network cross pollination is verboten... I'm pretty sure at this stage that it is a buggere...
- Wed Oct 26, 2022 2:42 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Blank Part numbers in Design Table
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1185
Re: Blank Part numbers in Design Table
I'm guessing at this stage is that it's a file issue. Other, similar files, don't do this.
I'll have to figure it out....
I'll have to figure it out....
- Wed Oct 26, 2022 10:50 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Blank Part numbers in Design Table
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1185
Re: Blank Part numbers in Design Table
Here's the weird part.
Doing some playing around, this seems to be part specific.
My flat washer part wont let me use a space for the part number, but my lock washer part will.
My head hurts.....
Doing some playing around, this seems to be part specific.
My flat washer part wont let me use a space for the part number, but my lock washer part will.
My head hurts.....