Grateful for the submissions and opinions from some of the community with far greater weight than I.... :) SW User since 2005, currently working on 2022. Used some Pro/E, NX over the years, but 90% SW for a variety of solid, surface, assembly, engineering drawing & simulation tasks for a variety...

Thanks for the reply and screengrabs. I've just tested it on a new file and it works just like your explanation.....so guess there's something wrong with the real asm file I'm working on as I follow the same workflow and even though the annotations in the 3D update correctly, the imported model item...

Thanks for the replies. JSculley - I'm talking about using Insert > Assembly Feature > Weld Bead because this links the length of the 3D joint to the weld symbol: image.png When I then import the weld symbols produced into the drawing (Insert > Model Items ) it pulls the weld path length through but...

Have you tried showing the feature tree display > Flat View to see if there are any funny order things going on?

a client asked me to put the total weld bead length on the Drawing. No problem, I thought. Wrong. The information is there in the model, but there's no parametric way to get it into the Drawing (or at least there wasn't then; it was probably 10 years ago). I had the same issue, so here's my workaro...

You probably want to reduce the 'reflectivity' values on the materials you don't want to be reflective. Edit Appearance > Illumination > Reflection amount if you're using PV360.

Thanks for the replies; yeah I was referring to just the annotations in the 3D: image.png I abandoned the older 'Fillet Beads' ages ago; loads of extra bodies, all called Part1, Part2 etc... which is a real pain when it comes to file management.... that combined with the body errors that often occur...

Hi All, So maybe my memory is failing.... but it turns out if you: - add weld beads to in your 3D model (Insert > Assembly Feature > Weld Bead) - import them to your 2D drawing views (Insert > Model Items) - change the weld properties in the 3D... The weld notes don't update in the drawing....so the...

Just in case anyone else has the same query...."doesn't look like it" is the current answer:
https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/240926

Hi All, Anyone know if it's possible to set the automatic indenting of text to anything other than the PARTNUMBER column? I.e. What's shown here, but set to the 'Description' column/property instead: https://help.solidworks.com/2018/english/SolidWorks/sldworks/t_setting_item_numbers_boms.htm Thanks,