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DanPihlaja

Rather than using Basic Motion, can you use a path mate with a Mate Controller to create the animation? Thank you for the reply. I can do that. However, I am trying to do a tolerance stack to see when the ball won't pass through the intersection of the holes. I actually figured it out. I removed so...

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OK, here is my situation: Caveat: (I am running SW 2022 SP4. Solidworks Professional. We do not have Premium, so I can only use Basic Motion) I am trying to run a Basic Motion study to show a ball bearing traveling through a series of passages inside a part. Click the attached GIF file. MotionStudyB...

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What do you have checked for this area?

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We've used Save as PDF and it didn't change anything for them. The issue is the text isn't actual text, it's "sketch text". If it were in the drawing, then it would most likely export as a vector, but that defeats the purpose if we were to have to do it from the drawing. Have you tried ex...

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Do you PRINT your drawing as a PDF using the PDF printer or SAVE AS your drawing as a PDF?

These are very different things.

Save as uses vector fonts I believe.

This is my settings:

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gupta9665 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2025 4:41 am Check if this part is set on any later?

I assume you mean Layer?

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So, for now we won't be doing entire projects on tablets, we're introducing some ipads that will have all our procedures in them. Maybe that will then make it easier for them to accept regular tablets as drawing viewers. Else, it's as most of you say, we'll put fixed TV screens with mouse and keybo...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 3:02 pm Welcome to the forums mate! Lucky you, Dan never offered me one

Well....there is a standing order that says any Forum users that show up in my area get 1 free drink of choice.

Plus, I am getting more generous in my old age.

(Don't let my coworkers see this...

)

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sgutauckis wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 8:52 am Greetings, new Solid Edge user hoping to learn and get questions answered.

Welcome! The first one's on me!

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Dan What you show above is what I was doing, adding tags to a file in the little Tag box. I tried again and this time it took many more tries to just type text in the Tag box. Finally it did, and I find that the tag shows in Windows Explorer (see image). I don't know, though, what stopped it from a...

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We are paperless on the floor. However, we use (I can't remember the name) little network computers at each station with a dedicated desk. Then there is a large computer screen (probably 45") for viewing drawings and associated documents. It isn't portable, but there is one at every station. We...

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To add more clarity to this, I was trying to find out if the "tags" would show up in Windows explorer and also to see if it would become a searchable thing from Windows:

So I wanted to test it out but I can't get it to work.

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Dan I am on 2022 SP5. I was able to apply a tag. I found that not only would it lose focus on the first click, the list would scroll (I have one assembly open, but the list includes all the components). I was, though, able to apply a tag that stuck. Dwight Thank you for the reply. However... What I...

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So, I was looking into adding tags to Solidworks documents to see if that would make it easier for searching. According to the help, you CAN add tags to the Solidworks Documents: image.png It goes on to to say to select a Solidworks document in the task pane. Then to select tags in the Status Bar. H...

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Currently reading Monster Hunter International series by Larry Correia. I am only on the 3rd book. But the third book is extra interesting to me because it takes place in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, which is where I grew up. The main setting is a fictional place that is almost similar t...

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:35 pm Dan, that's a great workaround. And it's not too bad at all.

Thanks!

(Hopefully, if someone from Dassault is watching, this can be done a little better in the future.)

No Problem. Glad I could help.

DanPihlaja

Thanks for the replies. I guess I feel better knowing that there indeed isn't a way to do it. I am a bit surprised that there's no "$ operator" string that would work. Well. There is actually. But it requires some work from you. In your properties summary, you have these: image.png If you...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 2:51 pm The high today is 25F / -4C. Those of you who live up north and deal with this all of the time are crazy.

my dad had -22F yesterday morning with -43F wind chill.

At my house (7 hour drive SE from him), I had -9F. So 25 F is kind of balmy right now. LOL

DanPihlaja

Wish there was a way to insert a "Configuration" table that are similar to BOM/Weldment tables. Only option is to create an Excel Design table and insert it. Usually too much work formatting and hiding the syntax rows and columns you don't want to see IMO. Agreed. Design table can do it. ...

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At the part level, make sure that you have your weights set up in the "Configurations Properties tab": image.png Then, at your drawing level, create at least one view with each configuration in it: image.png Then you can insert a note into each view: image.png Then, inside the Link to prop...

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I am fairly certain (if you are using Solidworks), that you will have to import the STL as a solid or a surface body first before you can do anything with it.

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Do you have this checked?

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SPerman wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:44 amimage.png

Yeah...the AI is stupid. It literally pulls things from any website as actual fact. No matter how inane it is.

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Thanks for your explanation! With using display states as you did in your second GIF you would still get a body count of 4 because they are hidden not suppressed. So in your assembly your total body count would be 16 even though only 4 are displayed? Is that correct? Yes I believe so. Here is a way...

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I don't have much experience with display states as I tried to use display states the way configuration work, when I first started CAD work, and got frustrated. I know there are others who use display state to control parts so maybe I need to do some more research & tutorials. OK, I updated my ...

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Q2) Side question & maybe what I'm getting hung up on another project. I brought a few instances of a similar multi-body part into an assembly & selectively turned bodies on & off between the distinct parts. It seemed to me selecting specific bodies of part-1 was simultaneously affectin...

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DavidWS wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 7:07 pm There seems to be a need to update the SolidWorks version references in the macro

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I checked that one:

But it is giving me this error:

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huh, I can't get that macro to work at all. I downloaded it and nothing happens when I run it. hrmm...

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Simple answer: Yes. Set the scaling up as global variables and then have a feature at the end of your design tree for scaling. And then you have one configuration for the actual part, and one configuration for the mold. I did it at my previous job for thermoformed plastic. Think auto part dunnage f...

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I don't know how you did it to get an angle in your image, but the construction line linking the two is what should tell you that they are aligned. image.png The one from the contest is missing the constraints that you are showing in yours. If the constraints are showing, or this were on a technica...

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I don't think so (although some other enterprising person may be able to figure it out). I thought that it was going to be similar to a pattern, in which you create the pattern, and then double click the pattern in the tree and select the numbers on screen. Or go into equations and select them there...

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Just to make sure that I understand:

You are doing this?

If that isn't working, sometimes I have to run a CTRL Q on large assemblies for it to update properly.

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SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 11:25 am It appears that SW is always going to default to the smallest angle for the first item selected. Try creating the first dimension off of the object in the lower right to force the angle dimension to a clockwise direction. It can be deleted later.

This is what I came here to say.

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Happy New Year all! Hope you all had a good break. I went into the far north of Michigan and my kids did a lot of sledding.

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In the almost 20 years that I have been using Solidworks, I think I used that function twice.

Both times I tried to get it to be what I wanted without adding fluff to views that I didn't want.

Then I shelved it and have just put all my center marks in manually.

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When I try to add the hole callout on my drawings for heli-coil tapped holes It doesn't come in correctly. Anyone else found this to be true? What is it that you see when you place it? Unfortunately, I am on SW 2022, so I am not experiencing the same thing. If it is actually incorrect (meaning it d...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2024 11:26 am We all have our path to walk.
Never wrong, just different.

NEVER wrong? Really? Wow.

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I created all of our most used default file locations and consolidated them into a single folder on the network (with sub-folders for each one). Then I assigned the proper locations, and then use the Copy Settings wizard to create a copy of my settings and placed the output file on the same network ...

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Sorry for duplicating one of my own posts, but this follow-up better belongs here. Well I don't know what I was doing incorrectly before, but it turns out I can use Derived Sketch function to copy/transpose a sketch to any other plane, thus creating a new sketch. I was able to transpose to a part f...

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This is a table generated from 2 views (starting with Drawing View1). It only lists in the main view of the Feature Manager? I would like to add the holes from Drawing View3. The only way I have found is creating a new hole table from scratch. image.png huh. I have tried selecting edges from other ...

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Hole Tables are a per view type thing. Edit2: I was wrong. See below.

If you have second view, then you would need to create a new hole table.

edit:

If you copy and paste a view, it also automagically pastes a new hole table as well. (at least in SW 2022, anyway)

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When you are in 3D, when you "Fix" a line, the endpoints are still free to slide along the length of the line. You would ALSO need to fFx the end points if you wanted them locked. This same behavior is is represented in the drawing side of things as well. However, since the drawing side of...

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Use a derived sketch?

https://help.solidworks.com/2022/Englis ... Redirect=1

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HercalloY is from Australia, where the DSS people have lost their mind. I don't think the pricing comparison is the same in the US. Interesting, Siemens is publishing pricing on their web site. https://plm.sw.siemens.com/en-US/nx/products/nx-x-cad-online-design-standard/ NX Standard is < $7400/year...

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2024 10:07 am How does NX handle sheet metal?

Sheet metal is my biggest gripe with SolidWorks.

Thanks.

The biggest difference will be the price tag. $3,000-$8,000 per seat for Solidworks. (iirc) $15,000-$20,000 per seat of NX.

DanPihlaja

I use assembly, parts and drawings daily. With a smattering of Photoview 360, Motion and Simulation here and there. Have been using it since 2009 (the year, not necessarily the release). We are currently on SW 2022 SP4. Don't really pay much attention to the direction. I guess my take on it is that ...

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I have been thinking on this off and on all day. And I am not sure if there is a better way than you are already doing it. I mean, you can make copies of the original parts, scale up/down, and then use the cavity feature to cut it out of the previous part. But that uses a percentage instead of an ac...

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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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