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Lucas

Hello tdj24 , I would suggest you to get a few profiles, both horizontal and vertical to make the main Loft Surface (horizontal as Profiles and vertical as Guide Curves). For the tubes, Loft Surface might work too. There is also the problem with the sketches. A quick explanation about segments would...

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A coworker bought one, he lent it to me so I could run some tests. Here are the best results I got - mesh diagnosis from Materialise Magics: 1 mouse.png 2 gorila.png 3 - cat with hat.png 4 - bryton.png 5 - assembly.png IMG_20220704_084133.jpg - Just a few Intersecting/Overlapping Triangles (These ar...

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2D drawings are very important for engineering projects, but I don't think the same about 2D Software. 1. A good start point for 3D software is your project library and Pack and Go. The work is much faster and you will end up with less mistakes downstream. 2. I disagree with that, it's pretty easy t...

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If you are looking for a simple tool for collaboration that allows you to load extremely large assemblies of any CAD tools in a browser look up Vertex Visualization tools. A killer tool and you are not exposing any IP to anyone, and your CAD data never leaves your premise. Interesting, thanks for t...

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I think mouse gestures is more for a chilling moment than saving time. In a past job of mine that going fast was needed, I had every main command in a hotkey, never bothered with the gestures. Although would be nice to actually be able to set up every hotkey like the S key "box" if you wan...

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Another quick fix for it. Delete everything past the Knit (Coser) and make the Convert to Sheet Metal. It is possible to change the type and size of the Relief with the Bend Radius and the Auto Relief image.png image.png image.png Additionally, you could Flatten it and make an Extrusion to cover the...

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IMHO best way to fix it is like Frank_Oostendorp showed: image.png But if that is not good, you could try editing the 2D Drawing. When I worked with sheet metal we used to attach a 1:1 flat view out from the drawing sheet so the guy in the laser machine would use it. I don't know how you do in your ...

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Hmmm, it's just a random guess, but have you tried changing the Merge solid checkbox from the Bosses?

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zxys001 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 10, 2022 12:04 am You need some Roddy Piper's Alien Glasses!

Nailed it lol

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Hmm, eDrawings is not bad, files open fast and can play animations with section planes active. Unfortunately the animation stops when the camera rotates, or is there a way to keep it playing?

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Thanks for the answers. ^^

Visualizing the assembly is fine, the problem would be being able to move it within the Mates established in SW.
I did test eDrawings, but it does not keep the Mates, right?

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Our company wants to show one assembly to a costumer using a tablet (for some reason) and I was wondering if one of those marvelous cloud products would work for it. (3DExperience, xDesign, 3D Creator, whatever) Design was made in Desktop SW 2021, has 66 parts (almost 300 bolts/washers suppressed), ...

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That's our Solidwonks

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Hello oriddlero , Easiest way is to make a Reference Plane and Sweep Cut an arc. If the wire cannot fit in a 2D plane you should do it using Spline in a 3DSketch. The Spline handles are inactive when created, you must click the Spline and look for the grey arrows and drag them to use it. Sorry, I ra...

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"Pirates of the Cadibbean"
Now I am picturing a low cost Jack Sparrow downloading SW torrent while playing Tiesto - He's a Pirate.

Absolute win lol

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First Netflix, now DS. Sounds like Piracy is in again. YAAARRRR
I would rather go opensource tbh. We have much better free options than one decade ago.
But I am glad to see people not taking BS from big companies that think they can push whatever trash to us

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mpaul wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 11:24 am maybe I'm missing the earlier post then but a simple cylinder with a radius at the base cannot be drafted.

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In this case you need to place the Fillet after the Draft ^^

Lucas

Using Variable Size Fillet you have more control than creating them in the sketch.
Also using Ctrl+RMB make it easier to edit them together:

Have no idea about molding, but this design looks better for me ^^

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Might be helpful ^^

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Don't know if there is such tool.
Usually when I am using 3DSketch I always check the "Along X/Y/Z" relations, sometimes it doesn't snap properly and solves the issue.

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I think you could use pins as the simplest auxiliary structure to connect everything, although they are very susceptible to sheer stress. Making something like this would increase the inertial: image.png Was checking this Japanese joinery recently. It's not something to be used for re-assembly, but ...

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I tried the semi-auto fix method in Blender as explained in the other topic I mentioned. Basically I had to split the part in four to use the Remesh Modifier so it wouldn't crash; later I did some boolean to stick them together. I also send it to Magics and did a ShrinkWrap to get a better mesh. The...

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Had some time today to study this. I reduced the triangles in Magics so it is easier to import in SW and use it as a reference image to create the solid: One has 16MB and other 3MB image.png Btw, this scan should not be done in fine mesh quality. It will create huge files like the original one and w...

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Is there a SWX add-in that can do the job? I have no experience doing surfacing so this seems intimidating. I was able to open a smaller scan with similar holes in Onshape and saved it out as STEP, Parasolid, ACIS, Object, and IGES formats, but if they opened in SWX they were still the unusable mes...

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Dwight wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:36 am Surely that's not the case. I have used both sketch and feature fillets with sheet metal with no issues for years.

Yep, forget to mention specifically on bends. ^^

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Have you tried a normal cut without the fillets, and then unfolding the part and adding the fillets afterward? I haven't tried it to know for sure it would work, but it just might give you a better-looking blank. Yep, but it gets suppressed when folded back lol Also adding the Fillet Feature on she...

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Update: Checking the Normal Cut on the Extruded Cut makes a better result, maybe I need to reposition the fillets

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I am having trouble to replicate those fillets, on the original part it actually looks like the cut was made after the bends...

How would you make it?

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Looks like we cannot expect anything good for the following years

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Just slightly related: One of our designers uses Rhino & he is at least (!) 5x as fast in changing things as we are. We often get solids from him that we have to convert to SolidWorks files because of PDM & for CNC optimization. I do envy him for having those great surfacing & direct ed...

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A Blender update I was about to give up when I found out how useful the Remesh Modifier can be. lol Basically it can reconnect the mesh if you start increasing the value of the Octree Depth (increasing the mesh density) and finding a sweet spot for the Scale. image.png image.png *Sharpness and Thres...

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Here are my last results from December. I had to deal with other stuff this year and stopped the Scan tests :/ Bike Steam Before and after Magics: image.png Rhino .Step in SolidWorks: image.png Final Result: image.png *This one I actually did not import the mesh in SolidWorks. I was measuring in Pol...

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I can say that zBrush does a better job in decimating geometry than ANY of these other softwares. When I say this I mean both in terms of reducing polygon count AND keeping the detail of the model and also reducing file size. (Geomagic Wrap, Magics, Design X, Rhino30 or Polyworks.) And here's somet...

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I think as you have seen it's really ALL about getting the best scanned data from the beginning. This definitely saves SO much time in terms of having to clean up the data in post. One of the things to understand is that there are difference between converting data and reverse engineering and each ...

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Hi there, Been using Solidworks since 2004, and have never come across a situation where I need to extrude something this long. Is there a way to get around the 500m limit for extruding, sketching, etc??? I'm using Solidworks Premium 2018 SP5 I made another sketch at the end of the extrusion and co...

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seizerr wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 5:58 pm Thank you so much!

Glad to help

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ZSJ wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 1:47 am How to set Edge color in SW?

Tools -> Options -> System Options -> Colors -> "Selected Item 1" and "Edges in Shaded With Edges Mode"-> Edit

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Here you go, paste them in a different folder because I didn't rename your files. Also this one is with Splines, first I tried with Arc. I think splines looks more realistic... you might get better results after some adjustments. image.png image.png - I had to make the sweeps inside each part becaus...

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Hi everyone! I got stuck somewhere in our prosthetic robotic hand project for disabled people which I am doing by using Solidworks software. The finger moves as I want, but I have to add a "simple rope mechanism" as an animation. I have also drawn the necessary channels for the finger to ...

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I am also willing to change SW to SE. Although there is a long learning curve to get for unusual 3D printing design. (plus the bureaucracy ._.)
Got tired of this history based system....

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Interesting topic, I would take a simpler approach as @JSculley mentioned plus honeycombs.
Best weight saver pattern and also easy to apply everywhere:

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Loft-Bend makes a different Flatten geometry. (I converted the inner arc into a sketch for it and deleted the body)

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 1:34 pm Hey Deepak,

I tried that this morning. File attached. It will not let me flatten.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help!

The problem is that you are using an arc as a profile, it must be a line.

Lucas

Try using this method:

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I had watched a video from To Tall Toby a week ago that took a solid & converted it to sheet metal. I tried to create a shield from a solid but I can't seem to get it to work without a large relief. Would like the relief to be almost touching to get a smoth weld. Any ideas would be helpful. Don...

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Alin wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:45 am If you are working with imported geometry that impacts assembly performance, join me on Wednesday, February 9th, at 12:45 PM EST, to find the best methods to drastically improve your performance.

Sounds interesting! Please, share the presentation link afterwards. I cant attend to it =(

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Hoobs wrote: ↑Wed Dec 22, 2021 3:47 pm Is it possible to change the commands for MIDDLE MOUSE BUTTON(scroll button) and LEFT CLICK?

Yep, try X-mouse

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Hi Guys, Sorry for dropping a Solid Edge video here, but somebody has talked about it. I've recorded a video how Solid Edge handles stl file what was shared here. Yes, the result depends on quality of stl file, but SE has some great tools to edit it. Peace&love! Here is the video: https://www.y...

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We have Geomagic Design X/Polyworks/SW; however, we just finished our trials of Geomagic's SW add-in, Geomagic for SolidWorks (GM4SW). I have to say, it's pretty good at first glance, but still a bit pricey. Think we came in around $8k or something like that, but not positive. With GM4SW, my workfl...

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