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Tom G

Tell Xceed. Let DSS reply with Marketing.

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I agree with Glenn's Auto Insert settings in the Center Mark tool. Particularly, uncheck "For all fillets" to avoid the center marks upon structural member profiles.

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One way I do this is with Envelope Status and/or Display States (instead of top level assembly configurations). I do not widely recommend it for all situations, but it does work for my workflow. I place the second item upon the first item, either mating origin coincident to origin, or mate primary a...

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What I don't like of the Metaverse, is the hidden intents that could could be hidden behind it so that it emerges. For instance, if they do 'revolutionize' the world so that it switches from 'overcomsuption' to a 'Metaverse consumption', the principle is pretty awesome as it removes 'waste', but th...

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This is pretty easy, at least in my environment. You need no API to achieve this. We have a specific folder location on our common storage server, individually for each of the following purposes: File Templates, BOM Templates, Macros, Copy Settings Wizard, Design Library, and Weldment Templates. Nat...

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Previously, Unreal seemed like the best tools to merge these, but I could be misunderstanding that. Yeah, I did misunderstand that. Unreal IS Epic Games. Anyway, further eye candy on the original topic - same story, new coverage. It goes by quickly, teasing some of its features. https://www.youtube...

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(Preface: I'm a bit surprised that AutoCAD is categorized here as Miscellaneous, lol. Dinosaurs still live.) Today I read about AutoCAD's partnership with Epic Games. Revit subscribers will have access to new tools as they are released. New cloud platforms are being created over the next 5 years, ta...

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I watched it live. It was exciting and impressive to see what has never been seen before. It was like a clump of gravel. The ground and orbital satellites will be watching for measured redirection by a change to its orbit around the larger asteroid. The impact is supposed to alter the smaller astero...

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Tonight! NASA will impact an asteroid with a 1320 pound spacecraft, DART, to analyze how it changes its trajectory. This is a part of a Planetary Defense Strategy, to prepare to avoid a possible future Earth-impact like the one that ended the dinosaurs. You can watch it Live(-ish)! Coverage begins a...

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Sometimes it is the person that is self powered in charge of themselves to decide to leave SW. So successful!
I gather that OP decided not to learn.
Good luck in your new job that doesn't use SW.

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Well smack my head. Things get worse. Of course they do. I did call my VAR, which acquired my former VAR. Now I know who my rep is anyway, which I haven't known for almost a year. I did read somewhere in my investigations that when you receive the email from Cleverbridge to inform you of an imminent...

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I am very disappointed and angry. Or, I am missing something. If you 've been paying the least bit of attention to Draftsight over the past years, you know darn well that Draftsight is no longer free. This, even though we were sold Solidworks to replace AutoCAD because it had a free DWG file editor...

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The bodies folder doesn't show up, but the feature does. Can you RMB on the feature in the tree and hide it there? image.png Now it gets weirder. Offering to do something, then it does nothing. With Properties - H/S Bodies dialog open, expanding the tree to features allows me to instruct it to hide...

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I tried. I came to the same conclusion. Sorry. I opened Properties for the drawing view and clicked the hide/show bodies tab. With its field active (in blue), I tried to select bodies visible in the drawing, to add to the list. However, when I tried selecting a surface body in a part, instead it sel...

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Another user that doesn't use those features may experience few problems or crashes. OR, another user that uses those features with more stable inputs experiences no problems or crashes. Stable inputs?! It should take the input I give it and like it. No, not all inputs are equal. Follow a preferenc...

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The animated gif in OP helps us understand. Thank you. I'd suggest to toggle on Filter Faces (default X key) and off when you need it. I understand the regular (common if infrequent) fuss of this, as I filter edges when placing centerlines in a drawing. As to WHY, it seems like yet another inconsist...

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Pan and rotate is done by user manipulate the object. Zoom on the other hand is by changing the camera position to the object. When you drag the mouse towards you you zooms out. Go figure .. ... Planes is created on the Feature tab but lines circle etc is on the Sketch tab. Angular planes needs fir...

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Just an FYI, Solidworks Electrical Schematic performs much better when provided with 32 GB of RAM than 16GB of RAM. This is more performance driving than the same in 3D Solidworks. Particularly, the performance of its panel layout drawings can suffer greatly if it has insufficient RAM. I suppose tha...

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I would try a Solidworks registry reset.

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I repeated what you have done in two ways, once making the feature sketch before starting the sheet metal base flange feature, and once making the feature sketch after triggering the base flange. In both ways, I am unable to reproduce your error. After making the base flange, I edit its sketch, and ...

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To convert PDF's to DWG, I recommend using an affordable product, Print2CAD. I use this to make parts from quality PDF's. It works best with vectored content, but it tries to handle raster content such as images as well. If all that you have is raster content, I do not recommend it.

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It's animated - click to view

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ME: I'm 45, but I have the body of a 19 year old.
HER: Prove it.
ME: *goes downstairs, opens large freezer*

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https://www.husqvarna.com/us/discover/n ... ybirthday/

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I have experienced what you're talking about fairly commonly. What I think OP is talking about is not a contextual component that you would expect to save even with an unchanged rebuild, like a virtual weldment part. This happens to me with library components, a simple fitting or valve that is indep...

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How To See Webb’s First Images

The public release of Webb’s first images and spectra is tomorrow. #UnfoldTheUniverse

It's a space telescope, new and shiny.

Edit: They released a list. We'll see Carina Nebula, WASP-96 b (spectrum), Southern Ring Nebula, Stephan's Quintet, & SMACS 0723.

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I apologize for this divergence from the thread intent. Thinking more about the pay question, it can potentially work the other way. Employers can add a clause in their contract so that, if the employee receives paid training and then leaves the company before 12 months (?) have passed, then the emp...

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If it's SolidWorks training from a VAR, it will come with the same book from SolidWorks as any other VAR. Maybe your VAR has its own separate classes, in which case ignore me. I don't have your VAR, but the standardized classes are indeed useful. What you need to understand in these classes with can...

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I think that 3D is always easier. Many new or updated 2D views are generated automatically. Napkin sketches are for 2D. If a higher price is troublesome, then make a business for yourself and write it off. If it doesn't profit in several years (intended, even), then it becomes a hobby, but until the...

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That visualizer is cool. I stumbled upon it a little while back looking for practical WebGL testers. I lost a couple of hours. How do they know about the mystery rocket? Pictures to prove it. https://www.zdnet.com/a/img/resize/12ec6638c3ed0b1e02462e8a1c3b9b9f1393f667/2022/06/28/c1a833fd-77f9-49fd-8...

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NASA's Eyes on the Solar System is a interactive real-time 3D Visualization, of what's where now.
All the same, on March 4 a mystery rocket from sources unknown did hit the dark side of the moon. I guess they only track what they do know about.

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The article speaks of a program called EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard that could also do what you need, though I've never tried it myself. I've used EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard 14 years ago, before BitLocker existed. Good software, if rarely used. We had a NAS cease to function which had all our proje...

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I have two assemblies containing a total of 37 relevant display states. I am making one sheet in the drawing for each display state. I copy a new sheet from the 'template' sheet, then change its only view to the correct assembly model and display state, adjust drawing scale, and reposition the one v...

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I want folders in my display states.

Or, at least let me nest them by purpose like I could with configurations.

Just to add irony and salt in the wound, right clicking this list offers me to Collapse Items. Ooh, if I only could.

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I recently learned of Albert King, a blues guitarist innovator that influenced three generations with his string-bending guitar style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqekVZH3B_Q When I occasionally glance at the vid (normally in background for music) they always seem to be taking turns trying to ou...

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Extracting Triangular 3D Models, Materials, and Lighting From Images
https://nvlabs.github.io/nvdiffrec/
Includes research paper, and app code.

The Metaverse Standards Forum
https://metaverse-standards.org/

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Good hint. It confirms my guess also.

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I'd sketch in the new part upon a plane in the SSP.
If I really wanted it in the new part, I would create a reference plane in the new part coincident to a plane in the SSP.

Good luck.

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I started using Component Reference on my connection points, to identify what label they should get in the general arrangement drawing. That worked for what I used it for. Now, I'm putting together a BOM. My 2nd column shown here is supposed to be empty, and uniquely unlinked to any custom property ...

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Both. I have Annotations in my library which parametrically call out a weldment profile and its cut length, which I drag out from the library, attach it once, then copy it to paste it upon other selected body edges in a drawing view. Any annotation which I took the time to make a parametric callout ...

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Bump, extra explanations of provided images added to post above. Once finished, I will compile it into one post and repost it into the Best Tips and Tricks thread.

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AlexLachance I was going to suggest going around the obstruction via a detour, until you clarified it well. My family used to own an island cabin in Ontario which sounds about exactly parallel to what you describe. They kept adding improvements to it over the years, though. Time spent there was pri...

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Product claiming to be the "World's First 3D Password Manager" In Brief: it manages passwords for you, but your key to access this resource is entered by choosing four objects in order within a virtual 3D room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwSSp4ZnIIA&t=62s I think that this link s...

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Welcome also!

Or, avatar could be https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Azrael_(The_Smurfs) and I carbon-dated my self.

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This reminds me of a minor hiccup in my own imports and move body reorientation process (2018 SP5). I import a new ball valve from STEP file (for example). It has a straight through axis (some cylindrical faces), and a vertical stem axis (cylindrical stem face). I place these concentric on the X and...

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I've got to share, if only because "Experience" is in the pleasant part early in this bit, but also because it re-arises to my attn by the recent documentary about George Carlin and the promotions around it (irony intentional). I loved this when it was fresh. Let's play marketing bingo! ht...

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I found the offending component before trying your suggestions. Now that I've repaired the component, it is actually the 3rd fastest rebuild time in the whole visualization list. Sorry that I can't help figure it out by applying your suggestions. I found it by entering "weldment" into the ...

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I use weldments a lot. At least a couple of years ago, I updated my part templates to turn off automatic cut list updates. This settings decision is because it really slows down my assembly for no reason whatsoever, i.e. nothing has changed in these components but it always wants to waste my time to...

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Cross threaded twist ties. It should tighten clockwise, like a screw.

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