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SolidKeke

I design conical sheet metals quite much and I never unfold it. I make holes and cuts in bent state so they will be normal cut. That half cone your image shows I would do as follows: 1. Make the the cone with lofted bend 2. Hole wizard holes, 3 pcs 3. Circular pattern then holes Why? Because the hol...

SolidKeke

Absolutely you should use configurations. Someone said that library parts doesn't change, but their background data definately will change at some point and in that case you want to be able to maintain your files. You don't want to push changes to hundreds or thousands different part files, instead ...

SolidKeke

We just updated from sw22sp5 to sw23sp5 and faced first annoying issue: If drawing view has tangent edges hidden, it's impossible to dimension structural members. When you switch to tangent edges with font, you can dimension. Anyone else has this same behaviour? image.png EDIT: Found fix SPR1254289 ...

SolidKeke

Ahh.. Interesting. I see. The image is the key to deciphering the requirement. Makes sense. You developed this code and process.? Well, this is kinda clever I'll admit. And I don't hate it. I'll be honest tho, I'm not sure I can agree with your statement of "Idiot-proof". (Even if out of ...

SolidKeke

Have you ever been able to send this kind of info to the saw operators previously without a drawing.? Why would you want to.? Yes I'm able to give this cutting info to saw operator, see my post above. Reason for this is that it reduces production time significantly when operator doesn't need to rea...

SolidKeke

One can customise the cutlist table to include angle dimensions. This is a simple matter. But this is useless when trying to determine which face of RHS is to be the mitre cut face or the 90deg face. (think NOT square tube. Is the mitre on the long or short face.?) Nor is it any good at all when tr...

SolidKeke

I don't know of any way to do it with just the cut list. My cut lists don't even have the column for angle. If the body isn't detailed it's assumed both ends are 90° and they have no holes or other cuts. If that's not the case then I show a drawing view of the body and add dimensions as appropriate...

SolidKeke

Problem: I have a model made with structural member tools. It has 2 different bodies but the bill of materials shows exactly the same information for both of them. See image below. I want to use structural member tools to modeling and show to workshop guys only the bill of materials and they would i...

SolidKeke

Thanks for answer Gupta9665. I gave name to all faces and edges, created copy of the part, replaced cut-extrudes with hole-wizard holes and gave same names to those faces and edges as in original cut-extrude. When I replaced the original part in assembly with the copy, all mates to edges remained co...

SolidKeke

Hey, I think this is not possible but I have to ask anyways... I want to replace these cut-extruded holes with hole-wizard holes to be able to use pattern-driven-component-pattern in assemblies. Problem is that the part is used VERY much in previous projects and will destroy all mates. Is there any ...

SolidKeke

Thank you all for responses. This is EXACTLY how we do it with CustomTools so I'm sure it isn't that hard to accomplish. Batch processing image.png Our company has a similar tool as CustomTools, just from our VAR's own production. Before ERP integration we used to create file conversions with that t...

SolidKeke

Hello, Our company has a convert task in workflow. More specific, we convert drawings to pdf, dwg and dxf files. Dxf only when there is a sheet named "dxf". What is grinding my gears here is that when we accept the drawing, it runs all those mentioned 3 tasks. Everytime task runs, it opens...

SolidKeke

Onshape can-t flatten cone and spiral shapes in sheet metal as far as I have studied it

SolidKeke

SW2022 SP5.0 here. If... I mean WHEN, Solidworks crashes, virtual component changes are lost EVEN if I had checked in the parent assembly. All the mates in the parent assembly are referring to those made changes and because of that they are all red and messed up. I started using SW 2020 and this bug...

SolidKeke

zxys001 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 11:33 am ..just extrude a set of profiles?

This would do the job, thank you!

SolidKeke

Hey, Anyone has a simplified model of anything like this: image.png With "simplified" I mean SolidWorks friendly, something that is barely recognizable as a truck but has somewhat legit outer boundary dimensions. I prefer native SW-files so it can be modified as necessary... Thanks in adva...

SolidKeke

Hey, I have tested these lines and I think it's a bug. It happens only when testing suppression state of a feature. Or Can anyone explain what is happening below: 'This is the correct behaviour Debug.Print True = True Debug.Print Not True = False 'This is wrong behaviour Debug.Print swFeat.IsSuppres...

SolidKeke

But anyone still wondering, I got the solution I needed and it was the "Select other". No further replies needed, case closed. Thank you and sorry for all hurt souls

SolidKeke

josh wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 8:25 am Did you read my post? It achieves the breadcrumb method, but with one keystroke instead of a keystroke plus a click.

Yes I did, and tried both of the macros. They just don't do what was asked

SolidKeke

I really didn't like this. You may have not received the solution you were looking for, but there are more polite ways to say it. Don't forget. Here's not a help desk. All members are volunteer and sharing their experience for free. A thank you was more appropriate. Someone will always hurt their f...

SolidKeke

My guess is you would like to select the "highest" level of the component in the feature tree? What i normally do is using breadcrumb, the workflow is something like below: 1. Select the face of the part i want to copy 2. Press D to activate breadcrumb, select the appropriate level 3. Sel...

SolidKeke

Hi, How do you guys select the whole part in assembly in graphics area? I dont want to select all the faces or all the edges or the solids, I want to select the part itself. Often I need to select multiple parts to maintain their mates during copy and paste action across assembly to another. Then if...

SolidKeke

Thanks for answers guys. I fully understand the consept here, I use a lot of 3D-sketches for complex frames and pipings etc and I DO know HOW they are fully defined. Sometimes it just happens that there is blue dot that I just simply can't see or find and that is causing the headache here. So... bas...

SolidKeke

In some cases, fully defined sketch tool may help, but that really subjected to how complicated your sketch is... You can turn off relation so that it only add dimension which make it slightly easier to figure out where is the undefined points https://help.solidworks.com/2019/english/SolidWorks/sld...

SolidKeke

Hey, I know you all have been in this situation: You have made a nice sketch and ready to do some extruding or something but... You see that "(-)" mark in your sketch name. Then you go back to see what you forgot define but there simply isn't any. After 45 years of searching you finally fi...

SolidKeke

dpihlaja wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 7:53 am See the attached GIF file (or click on the picture below to view it).

RelativeView.gif

This is definitely an awesome trick, but when I use the relative view I see only the bent model, no flat pattern. In your example you don't use sheet metal but a regular boss-extrude.

SolidKeke

Lapuo wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 5:19 am Can you use relative view?

Hi, thank you for a reply.

How ever, your suggestion doesn't work for this problem I guess, or then I just don't know how to do it properly.. Can you be more specific or maybe show an example?

SolidKeke

Hi guys, Is there an easy way to rotate Flat pattern view in a drawing so that bounding box edges are horizontal/vertical. See the attached image. My problem is that some parts just doesn't have any parallel edge with bounding box so I have to manually rotate the view, or as usual just leave it croo...

SolidKeke

Hey, Question for you who use Solidworks PDM. Are you able to get a new part number with "Make Independent"-action? As a former Inventor user I find it very annoying that in Solidworks I have to make Save as a Copy, then Replace component. This "Make Independent"-action works sim...

SolidKeke

Thanks for the answers. mattpeneguy: Holes are with Holewizard but torque arm got only 2 holes and bearing holes are at same level I didn't get the wanted results. Also this is part of large(ish) assembly and it got a lot of different fixing components so I need to point out where these parts are ac...

SolidKeke

I want to use just once my screw and washer and pattern it 4 times around the bearing housing. It's just I have torque arm attached to bearing so it makes 10mm gap for 2 instances while other 2 are correctly placed. Reason that I want to use just once these parts is that they go nicely together with...

SolidKeke

SolidKeke

Thanks for answers :) I checked the Adobe preferences and somehow the 3D-content checkbox was unchecked. Anyhow, it still keeps this specific assembly 3D-pdf empty. Still the copy would work as it should, it's just super slow to first make copy of the .SLDASM file and then save it to 3D-pdf. This H...

SolidKeke

I re-use my plates a lot so I have made separate .sldprt and drawing files of them. Then I create another part which is the weldment that only includes tubes/pipes/RHS/whatever cut-stuff that doesn't require a drawing. Now I can use these plates and weldment in .sldasm file and create a drawing that...

SolidKeke

Thanks for answers :) I checked the Adobe preferences and somehow the 3D-content checkbox was unchecked. Anyhow, it still keeps this specific assembly 3D-pdf empty. Still the copy would work as it should, it's just super slow to first make copy of the .SLDASM file and then save it to 3D-pdf. This HT...

SolidKeke

Hi, I have large(ish) assembly and when I try to make a 3D-pdf out of it, it comes out empty. If I make save-as-copy out of the assembly and then make the 3D-pdf it works. Any idea what is causing this? This is the first time I encounter this problem. Sorry for no attachments, the assembly includes ...

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Replace feature with pattern and preserve mates?

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Selecting components instead of faces

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