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matt

Wow! I have to say thank you to the PowerMill crowd for all of the new registrations in the last week! I encourage you to look around at what this forum has to offer. You need to have your first two posts approved (for spam control reasons) and then all of the features are available to you. You can ...

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As long as we're asking, any PowerSHAPE users out there that would be interested in a board? The Autodesk PowerSHAPE forum is pretty dead, but then again they are not really developing it much and I guess some poeple have moved on to either Fusion or another solid modeler. If you can get 2 more peo...

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tk421 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 4:57 pm Awesome! Let's make this more successful than theirs!

That's what this place is all about!

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Added PowerMILL forum under Manufacturing > CAM > PowerMILL

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Extra forum deleted, Draftsight subforum moved to general CAD heading.

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I'm aware of the situation, but I'm currently on the road. When i get back in front of a real computer I'll try to fix it. Thanks for letting me know.

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Added Draftsight forum under Solidworks

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I discovered today on a long drive that XM has more than a Beatles channel and NPR. I blasted Lithium (90s/grunge) and relived a few glory years.... Some of those bands were awesome.

matt

I'm not 100% that I understand the question, but if you have made the shape as a single spline, you can copy the spline and set it to "proportional spline", and then just resize. If it's twisting when you loft, then you might try forcing it with a guide curve or use the connectors while lo...

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Well, what do you propose as an alternative? There are many designs with complex geometries shared between parts that are impossible or impractical to build as separate parts. Sure, I can save these bodies to separate parts from the main part (master model technique), but they can still disappear/l...

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Personally, without knowing exactly what you're trying to do, I would avoid especially the multi body stuff that you described. The problem with bodies getting renamed I think just prevents that from being a practical plan. It's bad enough just using bodies as part of your modeling process without t...

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1st and 3rd angle projection should be relatively easy. American standard (ANSI) is 3rd angle. Let's say you want to make a drawing of your right hand. Look at the back of your hand (but call it the front). To make a left side view, you would turn your hand so the thumb is up toward you (as if you w...

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I don't know Design X, but in Solidworks or Solid Edge or a 3D modeler, I'd use a ruled surface (or a straight line cross section swept surface) around the outside of the spoon shape, knit together the spoon surface and the ruled surf and sink it down into the solid, then use the surface to cut away...

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Surely, Inventor is more suitable for 3D, but, as I mentioned, it was my primary CAD system carried from university, where we used it for drawings at the same time. I am seeking for a similar software without problems that are specific to Inventor, like difficulties with handling lots of constraint...

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Generally someone eventually is going to introduce you to the concept of best practice. It is probably considered "best practice" to break that sketch up into smaller sections, and allow each section to be somewhat self-contained. Not to say SW or any other software couldn't do it, but peo...

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Your sketches are a mess. The first two I checked had extra junk in them. I made some simple clean sketches of my own in your part and the Loft feature worked ok. So I'd suggest fixing your sketches. No gaps. No overlaps. Nothing extra. Lines must be end to end. And I should add that Grabcad and tha...

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I'm on SW2022. Dwight image.png Awww. I figured it was something like that. I'm not using the "3dx" part at all. In fact, with the Maker version, it essentially saves all your parts as student versions, which can't be opened in the regular version. So I'm being very careful that I don't h...

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Dwight wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 10:45 am Hidden in the "file" dropdown menu, along with "Replace". That usually throws me, though I use them often enough.

Dwight

Hey, Dwight,

The File menu was where I expected to see it. I'm using SW Connected, maybe it's gone in this version?

matt

Theo Jansen was at SW World one year, and brought a contraption that was a wind powered walker

matt

Maybe you can use the Windows display settings to turn off a monitor.

matt

Time for an admission. This week for one reason or another I've been using SW for the first time seriously in about 10 years. There are a lot of little things that have been added, but nothing really big. Nothing that really tripped me up. There seem to also be some things missing, but that may just...

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Imics13 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 10:04 am Very good video series for Solidwors/SolidEdge users.

Thx for it!

All the best,
Imi

Thanks, Imre! Hope you're doing well. Haven't heard from you in a while!

matt

Not sure what your question is. "People like this" means what? Do you mean recruiters? I don't think there's one central agency you go to for drafters. There are a million agencies. And once you find out who they are, they won't let you forget. A lot of them are from India. You'll find the...

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I only have a problem with people who haven't contributed, and you're definitely a contributing member.

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I updated a set of videos for SW users making the switch to SE to include SE 2024 changes. Kind of an embarassing number of exclamation points in the text, but other than that, fun stuff.

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This is something I've run into on most complex projects eventually. Edges will sometimes change types. For example from a circle to an ellipse or ellipse to spline. This can cause the reference to be lost. Also a single edge may turn into multiple edges due to tolerance values in a trim feature. On...

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what I meant if a feature does not exist in past version it is not exported. At least this is how it was explainaled to me When was the last time they actually added a feature? I mean one that people use? Really. It's a weak argument obviously decorating over the fact that the "reverse compati...

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It appears that there was some very minor hacking damage. I was able to replace a couple of damaged files with back up data, and things appear to be back to normal. I'll try to reinstate the Best Answer add in, and see if that was the source or the victim. Just keep reporting any problems.

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SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 3:56 pm First this
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Then this

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For me, it started about 3:15 EDT.

Yeah, everybody hold tight. I've got the hosting service working on this.

matt

If I click on the main link for the "Watercooler Talk" I see the problems in the header. If I click on the link for the latest page, the header looks normal. image.png I see the same behavior out of the "Jokes" thread. Ok, I didn't see the problem, but the watercooler was defini...

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On a possibly different note, every time I open the watercooler talk thread, I get these message across the top of the screen: image.png I am using firefox that is managed by IT, so it could be an internal problem, but I wanted to point it out in case it is related. image.png Uhhhhh, are you openin...

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Whatever it was, it was intermittent and seems to be over now. Might have been a backup or an update being performed. The logs didn't reflect anything recognizable. We've had a fair number of attempted spam registrations, so it might also have been a spike in malicious traffic/DDoS. Nothing appears ...

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Yeah, something's happening. I'm on it.

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I need to post more messages here? I have 63 posts. How can I have some approved? No, I'm sorry. I looked at the number of answers you had rather than the number of posts. Whoever you sent the PM to has not read it. Same situation as Carrie Ives. Try sending an email to the person, or check when th...

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Direct messages sit in your outbox until the recipient reads them. This is just a quirk of how the phpbb works. If you have fewer than 3 approved messages posted, you won't be able to send direct messages. So mgibeault , just post a couple more messages that don't look spammy, and you'll be able to ...

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len_1962 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 10:18 am ...

EDIT: Matt we we need the Stirring the Pot emoj and the S H I T Hitting the fan on too like Practical Machinist Forum has.

Probably not the same icons, but here they are:

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This is old news, but in a previous life I used something called ProductCenter. https://essigplm.com/products/productcenter/ This has gone through multiple owners over the years. What I liked most about the company and the product was that they used their own software to manage their business, and t...

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When your project needs ID type work, how do you handle it? Does the ID come from another software like Rhino or Shapr3D or Illustrator, or do you do it directly in your engineering CAD tool? And when you get ID data from some non-engineering software source, do you just work with the imported data ...

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No, you're not missing anything. SW is playing fast and loose with the definition of weight. They are assuming weight at average sea level on Earth. If you need something more accurate or for a different "locale", I'd work in metric and then calculate actual/local weight later when you nee...

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@matt, Do you have any other version of SWX installed on that same computer? I think the Maker version cannot be installed on a computer with any other version of SWX. No, I have not had my commercial license of SW actually installed on my work machine for some time now. I still own one, but it isn...

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Ok, spacemouse busted for this version.

Fortunately there's a fix... http://3dconnexion.com/uk/drivers

Maybe AI could get a PHBB forum fact checker. Seems a big need for that sort of thing.

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For one reason or another, I just bought the Maker version. It was stupid cheap - $38. If nothing else, I can get a couple of blog or forum posts out of it and feel like I haven't completely wasted my money. The first thing I get is this: image.png Figuring out what to do was not entirely straight f...

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These techniques have existed for decades. https://dezignstuff.com/yall-have-a-handle-on-this-handle-challenge/ https://episodes.dezignstuff.com/blog/1-4-12-working-from-industrial-design-sketches/ https://dezignstuff.com/project-examples/medical-devices/ https://episodes.dezignstuff.com/blog/brep-a...

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It's hard to see what you're trying to do, but it looks like the sketch projects outside of the bounds of the face, which SW is going to respond badly to. I personally would try to just select the faces of the rib and use Delete Face. You're trying to get rid of the rib, right?

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It looks like you're trying to move from too much of the small end to the large end. You should be using at most 1/2 of the small end. Plus, you're definitely trying to loft too much at once. A loft should be a single smooth feature. The big squarish end should be an extrude. The loft should be from...

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Thanks for asking the question, that led me to research a little. When I first put a Solid Edge file in, it went in as a *.par file - Solid Edge format. But when I edited it inside of Zel X, it was converted to an NX file - *.prt. The edits happened in a way that looks like a synchronous edit. Then ...

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Siemens recently released what is a bit of a revolution for small businesses in design and manufacturing. They took big-time PLM functions, slimmed them down a little, bundled them on the cloud, and are now offering it as a kind of mid-range PLM platform. It has slimmed down NX, Xcelerator Share, CA...

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Due to the amount of traffic asking specifically about Shapr3D, I've added a new forum dedicated to that software, and moved some of the existing topics from other places to that forum.

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I requested this enhancement many times in the past, which might be why it never made it into the software. Complex fillets, lofts, take a lot of clicks to set up. And when they don't work, it becomes a research project. Failed features would also be helpful for macros. SolidWorks users have always ...

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