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Here is an example of what I was tlaking about above. image.png I made the bulb shape as a revolve and then shelled it, then created a base below and extruded it up to the body if you do the entire thing as a solid then shell you end up like this image.png sometimes order of how you do things is cri...

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You might have to do it in pieces. For instance, if the tear drop shape is symmetrical model that as a full shape and shell it, then add back in the bottom neck piece and internal structure

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CloudWorks demos like to show sharing designs on iPhones and making changes and comments. No one in their right mind is going to do design work on a phone or tablet if they can help it. I barely like working on SolidWorks on my 15" laptop screen, I'd rather have my triple 24" monitors in ...

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I have been with 2 companies that made the decision to go to a "Cloud" solution for files without consulting or even involving engineering in the decision. After the switch was made we reverted back to on site file management due to the lag issues at both companies within months. Remote fi...

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I'm in agreement with the "it doesn't matter" crowd on this. Yes, making parts in the same orientation to make assemblies easier is a good thing, and probably a good practice, but if I import a part or bring in a old part that has a different orientation I'm just going to use mates to get ...

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Can you remember where to find this study? https://www.cati.com/blog/picking-apart-pattern-performance-features-faces-and-sketches/ But you can do it yourself as jcapriotti did. There are times to use a sketch pattern, and on small number of copies it's effect is minimal, but on large patterns of h...

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Does anyone know if it's possible to standard beam deflection simulation in solidworks pro or do we need to upgrade to premium? I know you can do standard shapes in toolbox, but I have a "W" shaped sheet metal part I want to that I want to fix both ends and add a weight to the center and s...

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I believe there was also a case study where feature patterns had faster regeneration times then skecth patterns.

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I don't know of any standard call outs for that.

I would make the assumption it has to be done before bending though if nothing was specified since it's very hard to put a hole in unless it was being machined after, but that's uncommon on a sheet metal part.

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We went thru this last year and they had to create a mirror copy of the file on my local drive, if not the file paths references for assemblies and drawings get messed up. By default the path is username/......folder path, and since each user has a different username the paths are different and we g...

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I have been using an assembly with a weldment (Using a 3D sketch) for the piping and adding flanges / fittings. It makes it easier to adjust the lengths and the weldment table gives you the pipe lengths. We don't do a lot of piping, mainly use it to make railings, so I didn't have to make to many te...

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Don't be afraid to break partThe best thing I have learned to do is use sub-assemblies

Sub assemblies make it easier to turn things off (either hide/show or suppress/un-suppress) to make working on a large assembly more manageable to work on.

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This is one of those things where I use past experience as my guide. While solidworks does a great job of mirroring parts I have almost always have to make a change at some point to either the original or mirrored part. That makes me wish I had just spent the time to make the mirrored part from scra...

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I'm dating myself but I took the fortran programing class in college. Once you know the syntax it's not bad to program in. Back then it was used pretty much everywhere.

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I got the 2024 full install download from our VAR, they have them on their support website.

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I get the "File path is to long" message in pack and go when trying to make new copies of part sometimes.

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This usually comes down to how your ERP system handles parts and if your doing it in-house. We used to have 2 part numbers for parts, one for the flat pattern and one for the bent part since we were sending out the blanks to be cut for us. We had to have a unique number for it so it could be ordered...

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When I do something like that I create a plane in the part or assembly and align the section sketch line to the plane.

If you expand the tree in the drawing view you can select it to make your sketch line collinear.

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Check to see if you have an hidden dialog box on your toolbar.

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Usually when you open a STEP file it asks what template you want to use, but I have had it open in the background and not be able to see it.

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If I want to have the drawing in the pack-N-go I start the pack-N-go from the drawing, not from the part or assembly. I leave the include drawings unchecked, but if you start the pack-N-go from the drawing it still includes it. Do you maybe have some in context relationship in the assembly as why it...

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We had this discussion while looking to get a new laser cutting machine. We could purchase a cheaper machine and then have a 3rd party software to create our part blanks and nesting for us. We would have to import DWF/DWG files in this scenario. When we looked at the higher end systems (Amada and Tr...

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I was trying to drop it in with my planes that I am using to define the sketch.

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So it appears you have to drop it on origin. Then you can move it to other locations. Thanks Dave

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So I have an assembly that has around 100 parts in it. I need to create a sub-assembly out of some of the parts and want to add a master sketch to control some mates. I created the sketch but I can not drag it to the top of the feature tree because it say it would put the child before the parent, bu...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2024 9:16 am Or on a plane free falling .....
Or move to ISS.

LOL....my weight would be zero but my mass would still be to much!

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so basically your saying I need to go to a doctors office high up on a mountain top somewhere to weigh in so I can meet my target weight. :-)

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I've suggested several times now that we just give up on mirroring parts; model the mirrored part from scratch (or just think about what you're doing and make a model than can be copied and flipped...) Half the time the task host machine makes the child side dxf from the formed state. It' seems the...

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What software are you using that you need to use a DXF/DWG file? We recently purchased and Amada laser and can directly import a solidworks solid model into it avoiding any exporting. It makes the entire process so much easier. If I am exporting to a DXF/DWG file I always make sure the output 1:1 is...

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Looks like your going from a rectangle shape to a round shape, if so you need more guide curves and need to break your round shape into the same number of segments as your rectangle profile. It's not required by SW but it usually works better when you have more complicated shapes This is what happen...

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Do it as a weldment. Leave a gap and then you can chamfer each side

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Learning how to manage fixing features and sketches when you change something is somewhat an art-form and is very hard to teach. It alos goes back to how you layout your parts originally and your work flow. This is where knowing that doing this image.png is not a good idea vs doing it this way for m...

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I believe you are talking about the saved views here: image.png These saved views aren't saved in the templates. You will see the same list of saved views in parts and assemblies. They are stored in the registry: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\SOLIDWORKS 20xx\User Interface\Saved Vi...

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I have a couple from back in the day, the test was pretty easy if you have experience using Solidworks. I took it on a whim because we got it free with our VAR support. If I had to make a choice to hire someone with it or without it, the person having it would probably get hired since it tells me th...

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I am thinking you want concentric mates and not coincident ones. Lock in your pins with CONCENTRIC mates to connect the segments and the path mate to move one segment around the curve, the other one should follow.

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You can do curves in other ways then the helix, it's just the fastest and easiest if you have a regular ramp shape to do it with a helix. you can use planes and sketch with reference geometry to make your curve image.png You just have to have a surface to either extrude or cut to to make the ramp so...

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Why not have the properties in your default template...? Most of our properties are driven by CustomTools so in that sense programatically it wouldn't really be a necessity but it could certainly be an option to concider "replace CustomTools with a home-made solution", but I doubt we'd go...

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Programming can be a huge time saver for repetitive task like Alex said. I have a bunch of macros that do certain things when I run them. My favorite is one that creates a list of custom properties in a model or assembly with default entries. This is much faster then having to enter each one by typi...

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I did see something the other day about a wrap cut - here is the link to video for it.

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Start with a circle the size of the OD or ID. Make a helix - you can use pitch and revolution or height and rev if you want (in picture below 0.25 of 4 " pitch is 1" overall height - do height/rev if you want the height fixed) Sketch a line and do a surface sweep along the helix image.png ...

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I rarely use convert edges any more or add relationships to edges because of the issues with them changing. Surfaces change less frequently, but can still have the same issues. If I want things to move or grow/shrink I try to use master sketches in my parts connected to a master sketch in the assemb...

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Circle with 2 flats like Fredrick said above, I would make the lines equal so they stay centered

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Now for the future, I did a little experimenting.... If I created the 3 or 4 sheet metal parts that have to have aligned hole patterns as ONE multibody part I can use ONE sketch to cut holes through them all. It appears like it is possible, however each body has to unfolded and folded separately. A...

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Mine is the second one

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You might want to consider breaking that down to a distinct Part for each bolt size, with configurations for lengths. I've been doing that for around 15 years, and it's worked very well. Since they all started out as a single Part, when you do need to switch sides using the Replace Components funct...

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I do not think you can do it since the numbers can change based on the BOM order and are not attached to the part But, you can attach a balloon to the part and set the balloon style to none (so the circle, square, trainagle, ect is gone). image.png Then double click on the cell and then single click...

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We don't use PDM so I don't know what copy tree is. When I pack & go my assemblies I change the folder and renumber using the select/replace function to give the parts new part numbers (I do it from the drawing so the drawing sheets copy as well). Once I open the new assembly if I change a dimen...

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I do this a lot, and usually it's the easiest way I have found to make assemblies that change size. One I did this on was for a door. I have a sketch in the top level assembly for the height and width of the opening the door must fit in. Using those 2 dimensions in that sketch everything else is der...

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If you want actual holes in your flat pattern you will probably need to make them on the flat pattern you are cutting out. On tis part the holes are partially in the bend image.png Here is what our laser software produced for the flat image.png You can see because the holes is partially on the band ...

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I always use the adobe PDF through the printer, it just gives you a lot more options then the save as PDF does. And I am dating myself, but when I started using solidworks save as PDF was not an option. If I have have excel sheet or other documents that need to be in the PDF's with drawings I usuall...

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On my weldments I use configurations instead of display states do tho the weirdness that happens with them.

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SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:24 am Is that file 2023 or 2024? I'm upgrading to 2023 tomorrow, so hopefully I can check it out then.

It's 2023

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