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DanPihlaja

That link just brought me tot he "What's New" page for the Solidworks Forum.

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I use it periodically. We use it mainly as a replacement for AutoCAD for plant layouts.

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TABL3SIX wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 1:49 pm Hello all,

New to the forum. Hoping to learn a lot.

Spike from Chicagoland.

Welcome Aboard!!

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You should name your planes and set up your views however you like and move on. Which axis goes up or North or whatever is arbitrary and has no real meaning. I can imagine that people in the automotive space use the out of the box orientation for Zup that DS is using. I would be more inclined to ar...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 9:15 am I am doing some simple FE on this part. I've hidden this sketch dozens of times. Every time I solve, it unhides itself.

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It is possible that it changes display states when it solves? If so, make sure it is hidden in the other display state.

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Thanks everyone. Dan - i have my templates assigned and the option for "prompt user to select," so both are true statements. I have several different drawing templates, so its necessary to choose which one is needed, rather than let solidworks default to a single one. I agree with your se...

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This is new behavior since my 2024 install, but something i changed in my defaults / settings may be the culprit. Have any of you seen this prompt when selecting the "SPLIT" command, and do you know how to disable it? It's a bit of a nuisance. image.png Thank you Not sure why it is bringi...

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This is a GIF file. Click on me. AAAAGH.gif grumph o[ hhhh EDIT: OK, I figured it out. In order to make that shape, I had used the Arc Slot function at the part level and used it cut that shape out. image.png When I replaced it with normal geometry, everything is fine. So looks like another feature ...

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My only suggestion is to do this in a drawing. And share it in a drawing.

And then change the hatch to whatever you want.

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@DanPihlaja I really appreciate your help and the time you put on this problem. 1- I've already tested both modes of "Color Display Modes". The result is the same. 2- My settings for "Color" tab in Adobe PDF Settings is exactly the same as your image. 3- I had tested "Color...

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Display states also don't affect the BOM, so you can maintain the same balloon numbering across multiple views that show different components of an assembly. This is great for complicated assemblies where you want to show step by step assembly instructions. Alternatively, you can ALSO use configura...

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OK I think that I have it figured out. Go to your print preview: image.png You will notice that your Print to Adobe PDF is the same as the print preview. Now go to Page Setup: image.png If you change drawing color to "Color/Gray Scale" then it prints the colored items according to layer. B...

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Using the Adobe PDF printer, I get the exact same results.
Drawing:

PDF file:

I don't use the PDF printer normally..

Let me look at some settings.

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What do you have for this setting in the Adobe PDF printer settings?

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It's already set to color. As you see, the isometric view in pdf is in yellow which shows the pdf printer side knows about the color. It's only Fill feature that doesn't show as color. Thanks anyway for your time. When you click this button, does anything change? image.png I wouldn't expect it to.....

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Was wondering how a cloud based CAD system would handle this, Onshape in this case.. The rebuild time for the same part with a 20 x 100 feature pattern rebuilt in a similar time, slightly faster than my 5 years rig (.65 vs .91 secs). The sketch pattern rebuilt in 7.5 seconds, twice as fast as my ri...

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I found kind-of-a workaround, far from ideal, but sharing to show my progress. Basically I created a single sketch and Cut-Extrude feature, and did Link Dimension on both the size of the square and the depth of the cut, with Cut-Extrude set to cut All Bodies. And then copy-paste that feature. Basic...

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in the digging I have done, it looks like it can only be saved by copying a reg key. Here is one example: https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/community/swym:prd:R1132100503382:community:yUw32GbYTEqKdgY7-jbZPg?content=swym:prd:R1132100503382:qnaquestion:tRA1CV3KSTaeUqpQ0aZI6Q Respo...

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Is this going to end up as a piece of sheet metal that is going to be bent into shape?

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Right, I see, I initially thought of doing this as well (naming bodies), but then realized if there are multiple identical bodies in the part, it gets a bit weird which body should be named, and what to name the other bodies, so now I went to using weldment feature so that bodies are grouped into c...

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That is very smart, and a good advice, thank you. I also use Insert->Part wherever possible, it seems a lot more robust than Insert Into Part or even Save Bodies. Also allows transferring lot more than just solid bodies. What about naming/numbering these bodies/parts? How do you manage that? For us...

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Well, the kind of parts I make, features are shared between bodies most of the time, there is no real way to separate them. As for configs, take this recent project of mine (rope blocks): image.png Can this be done without configs..? Yeah, sure, copy-paste files and make the changes. But what if I ...

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Yes, grouping is rather broken. I wrote a macro for a customer that wanted some special grouped notes... I had to write a "fix all" routine that would go find all the groups and fix their position when they got out of whack. Here I am, thinking that I am a pretty good Solidworks user, and...

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Check if view display is set to high quality. You click on the view and check the view property manager, and under display state/tyle, you will see the high quality toggle. If you have a whole bunch of drawings that need to have views converted to high quality, then you can use the Solidworks Task ...

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Thanks for the replies. We both use SW2022 sp5 and Excel 2407 (Office 365). It's works for him intermittently. I'll check about the clipboard managers. I also don't know that he has any other drag and drop issues in Solidworks. I had thought of this as a Toolbox issue, but the replies take it as be...

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What version of Solidworks and what version of Excel does he have? Is it different than yours?

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I'm glad you're okay. Two of my wife's siblings have homes on Davis Islands (a suburb of Tampa). They both had about a foot of water in the houses. A friend of mine's son lived in Asheville. He couldn't get a hold of him for 24 hours. Once he was able to call, he found out from his son that all the...

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The TB says 3rd angle, but I swear the views look like it was generated as 1st angle. The chamfer on the left should be represented as a hidden line and the bend tangents on the top view line up with the bend radius of the underside on the front view, not the top side. image.png I agree that it sho...

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I'm sorry, I had previously sent something, but the company web filter undid it. Here's the attachements. Thanks already for the immediate answers. Here is your answer: image.png So. using that from above, this means the following: image.png And in this one, the bend is coming toward us: image.png

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Probably the easiest solution is to create a dummy configuration in your part template (and/or assembly template). Then apply the "rebuild on save" mark to both, then re-save your template. Anyone who wants to can utilize the dummy config as needed. Or simply add a new config. image.png

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When working on a part, inside of an assembly, Solidworks ALWAYS picks an external reference. For example, if drawing a circle on the face of the part I am editing, it could reference the origin of the part I'm working on, or it could reference the origin of the assembly. Picking the origin of the ...

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Uh... we use that check box! But... we are also only a 4-5 man shop. Ya it may be incomplete but we mostly deal with laser cut sheet metal so for the most part all the guys need to know is that a particular hole needs to be threaded & what tap to use. The laser has cut & positioned the hole...

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Care to delve a bit more into detail..? So, I know that, for example, Hole wizard holes can use the "favorites" option..... And i Use that. But I MAINLY started using it to make sure that "With thread callout" option is not checked for threaded holes. The issue is that I have ma...

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What I want in the next release is the following:

Every single setting, feature, checkbox, drop down menu, text box, etc... in the ENTIRE program to have a "set as default" option.

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Unfortunately, I am not related to or know on a personal level many engineers or people in the industry. And my previous industry, once you leave, the relationship ends. And those guys all tend to move from call center job to another. My former field has "coworkers", not "colleagues&...

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taking the part, slicing it here and there and leaving only a sample of it and then exporting it as a .step wouldn't "work-around" the NDA...? Unfortunately, with the amount of surfaces (over 600,000) on this thing (after I turn it into a solid), "slicing it here and there and leavin...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 10:57 am Can you share the STL file?

Unfortunately, I cannot. It is behind the NDA wall.

However, I will try to get an example part from one of our CNC programmers that I can share.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 3:26 pm Is the STL real STL file? 3D print and measure? LOL
Customer want to make old parts but don't have drawing and only got program for old machine?

That is correct. Customer only has program for old program.

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There are 2 things that really bug me when using the "replace component" command in an assembly. 1. I wish I could disable the "missing mate" popup. As often as not, I'm confused on which mate is trying to be repaired, and I make things worse instead of better. Because of that, ...

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Lately we have been pushed by our customer to convert some STL files that they provided to us into CAD models. We use Solidworks here. These STL files are outputs from their CNC programming software (Espirit). Since they are NOT scans, they are extremely hard to work with because they have toolpaths...

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Beautiful

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This is a long shot, but I have seen all types:

Is it possible that they are accessing it via this shortcut:

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And then thinking that it isn't accessing the options?

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there is a bug into the document property UI (at least in sw 2023 sp5) you need to click around and switch back and forth from that category and you will see that setting reverts back to what your drawings is showing you. I had to find the right combination of clicks to make that setting saved... S...

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Do you have the cutting line on assigned to a layer that is redefining the definition?
If so, then the layer is overriding the font.

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When you delete a component in an assembly, and you do not have the following checked when you delete it: image.png Then, it will leave the mates inside the tree looking like this: image.png Notice that there is only 1 component referenced? If you proceed to edit that mate, you get the following: im...

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In addition to the 50% curve on a face curve, you can also use the "mesh" option and put as many equidistant curves as you want.

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You can get a curve @ 50% on a face, if you use face curves.

(but not on a planar surface. If all the sketch entities are all on the same plane, then you have to use filled surface for face curves to work)

You can also vary the percentage and put one at 20% if you want.

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Do you have this checked on your template settings? (SW2022 SP4)

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There's an open SPR requesting the ability to add other annotation types. SPR147307 -- Allow surface finish, geometric tolerance (GTOL), datum and weld symbol annotations to be selectable entities for making blocks This can be corrected. If you select the block and look at the property manager you ...

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Unfortunately, these are the only things that you can include inside a block. image.png Then, I thought that you could take a block, then add a geometric tolerance outside of it, then group them together, But you can't do that either. But you CAN group notes and geometric tolerances together. But yo...

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