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the_h4mmer

I've only used pdm for tracking changes. An Excel file is simple and accessible, but also fallible as it means that everyone has to have an updated version AND add updates/changes. The latter can be difficult, even with something integrated like PDM. Assuming that entry between all parties could be ...

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There's also a good help page that outlines what the various symbols mean for different contexts.

https://help.solidworks.com/2021/englis ... ntions.htm

the_h4mmer

Oh, well apparently there was a second edition of STEP 203 that includes color information!

https://www.datakit.com/en/step_protocols.php
https://www.iso.org/standard/44305.html

That was news to me

the_h4mmer

Maybe when the file was exported, 214 was selected, but the exporter labeled it at 203? From what I found, 214 is the same as 203+color+GD&T so it could be a simple nomenclature error.

the_h4mmer

I second the branch and merge option. I had a conversation with people about this at a previous job and pushed back on the idea for the very reasons that jcapriotti brought up, plus there would be an opacity to the design intent as the version history would show a huge step change (which could be ad...

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This is definitely annoying and I have run into this issue before as well except it was with "File not rebuilt" warning, which was a disaster in our vault. I guessed it had something to do with references when checking out multiple files, but that might be too charitable and it could just ...

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If it's a blanket "don't show subassemblies" for a given design, I think when creating the BOM, you can choose "Parts only" to show no subassemblies but all the parts (can't recall off hand if that requires promotion or not). Then for instances where subassemblies are needed, you...

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You will need to make new document templates to set default settings. i.e. open new part from template, change settings, set units, visibilities etc. and then Save As... that part document as .prtdot file type. You can do (or need to do) the same thing for your assembly document which would use .as...

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revenki I get that messing with revision/naming conventions can be challenging, especially when it's been used for a long time, but sometimes change is good; even if only as a test. The forward revision makes sense (to me) for particular circumstances, I'm a bit confused by an 'official' released r...

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So when I gained access to our Admin Dashboard, the information populated was from several years back. I think (100% speculation) after moving to server licensing, the Admin Dashboard doesn't do much, if you have web licensing I think it becomes active. Not sure about the rest, but it would be nice ...

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I'm missing how to dynamically select who to send the email to. I don't see how the user doing the "To Review" transition can tell PDM who the reviewer is other than finding them in the list of dynamically selected notification recipients. I don't know that it can be selected dynamically....

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This is a DB error. PDM doesn't know about in-context refs except what it can record in the DB tables on check-in. If I had to guess, a checked out parent assembly file was deleted and one of the tables is out of sync with this information, thus the move of the child file is trying to update that d...

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I can do this part, with our equivalent filename structure being "PARTNUMBER - REV A - RELEASED.pdf" (or IN WORK or UNDER REVIEW for the state name). Defining the filename using the output file path variables is fine, that works, does exactly what it is told to do. The problem is with REV...

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To the point AlexB brought up, the conversion add-in for PDM 2021 seems usable if I understand what's being sought. I configured the conversion add-in to use [Source file root path]\[Source file name]-REV-[Source file revision] with the '-REV-' text being what I manually typed in. When files were ou...

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temo wrote: ↑Thu May 12, 2022 6:25 pm It seems like I have a problem with the fillets when I put the cut flush to one side, maybe I should go one mm in into the tap...

Could you add the fillet feature after splitting the mold part? That might help resolve the issue, maybe.

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bnemec it's definitely not the same, but what about using the Transition Action 'Send Mail'? According to the SWX 'help' page here: https://help.solidworks.com/2021/english/EnterprisePDM/admin/r_workflow_system_variables.htm?verRedirect=1 You can use system variables when defining transition action...

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Another option for analytical results could be using zemax. Depending on the complexity of the tunnel geometry, you might be able to approximate the light transmission/reflection using basic geometric optics equations. Even for complex geometry, you might be able to divide curved or planar sections ...

the_h4mmer

In some situations, the checked out parent file is an indirect parent, that is referenced from an in-context relationship or similar. In such cases, use of ‘Where Used’ does not display the parent file. Is it possible that this is what's causing the error (from the KB text shared in OP)? It seems l...

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For these kinds of issues, I have a few solutions: 1. Expand the drawing view, expand the design feature tree, find the appropriate sketch, unhide, add dimensions, and then rehide the sketch. That's all assuming that the feature I need to dimension can be pulled directly from a model sketch, and wou...

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Yeah, but they dropped the Quadro name completely which makes it more confusing IMO. New cards are just RTX A4000, not to be confused with the gaming Geforce RTX 3080. That's fair, since I follow the PC tech/products fairly closely, it's probably less of a confounding factor. Figured I would share ...

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The new "professional" NVIDIA GPU's are labeled "NVIDIA RTX". For a short time the prior ones were labeled "Quadro RTX", and before that "Quadro". All of the "non-professional" NVIDIA GPU's (gaming/business/home) are preceded with "GeForce"...

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When people go against their word

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Can anybody else confirm that the option to "Browse to" or "Browse to in a New Window" is grayed out on the BOM tab within Explorer? It would be nice to not have to switch to a new tab or window just to pull up a component and its data card. [Ver 2021 SP5.1] image.png I'm using ...

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If i understand correctly, what you are trying to do is get the layer list and iterate through all drawing item (dimension, table, notes, etc) and compare them with the layer list Not sure will this help... Codestack has a macro that iterate through all dimension and export them. This might be a go...

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colt I just made a post regarding this tool, so I'll mention it here as well. The Solidworks Design Checker tool has an option for this. One of the drawing checks is for un-ballooned BOM items, and it will show in the side window what BOM table items are missing balloons. https://help.solidworks.co...

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I haven't dove into it too deeply yet, but was wondering if anyone has an idea or could point me to a resource for building a custom macro for running during Design Checker. As part of our review process, we're trying to ensure that drawing annotations, dimensions, revision markers, tables, etc. are...

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So final follow up on the Stratasys printer. The machine broke many more times since my last post (some of which was due to the Stratasys tech), but Stratasys's response, even after committing to replace the machine AND having record of this issue for months, was "you need operator training, it...

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gupta9665 wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 12:41 pm Make sure to save as Web HTML. You can enable Measure and STL export as needed.

eDrawings HTML.PNG

I was able to get this to work last week! Very cool to see this working, perhaps I last tried with Solidworks/eDrawings 2018, now with 2021 it seems to function as expected.

the_h4mmer

Here is little bit of my experience I dont have faculty so basically i am insufficiently qualified for this kind of job. I started as machinist after my high school and i advanced to position of mechanical engineer where i am right now. I worked at three companies , and i presented myself good enou...

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I'll chime in a little here I think. The age related bias exists. I think it's primarily financial, and also because the recruiters are young, and are intimidated by older people. They can get away with paying kids with no experience very little, and have to pay 50+ employees a lot more. There's a ...

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This is probably going to come across as harsh, and I don't intend it to. I'm not very good at communicating my thoughts, so please understand I'm not attacking you. I know nothing about you, so take these as generic recommendations for anyone reading this post. I don't read this as harsh at all, h...

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I think Jason's response covers this, at least as far as what I can foresee being a concern. As for the copy of copy of copy of issue you mentioned. Very good point as this is very normal for us. I call it Daisy Chaining references and I actually prefer it over every child pointing back to the root...

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Branching (I know it's not the same and doesn't fix the user side of things), let's you set variables on the branched file from the source file using the Branch User Settings. Plus you would have the 'associated branches' option to trace back to the source, especially when it comes to a branch of a ...

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dave.laban wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 6:44 am Just tried on a simple part and it was literally as simple as Save As HTML. Opened up just fine in Chrome and is spinning around and zooming quite happily. Edrawings Pro 2019.

I'll have to give this a try later today then!

the_h4mmer

I've seen this issue even with 2D sketches (that someone else left undefined). In many instances, I find the culprit (usually a singular point) sitting on top of the origin camouflaged, so I tend to look there first now. I've also changed the color for unconstrained entities to red, which I find eas...

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- Create a HTML file using eDrawings. The users would be able to open the files using browsers on any device. I've never had this work, any tricks to making it function? From what I recall (it's been a while), the HTML file has to open in Internet Explorer and then asks to run/install an add-in, bu...

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From what I recall, the vault uses the "Local Revision" value you can find on the "Version" tab in PDM. That's the "true" revision of the file, if that's not set, the vault (seemingly) doesn't have a Revision (sort of). I found this out when trying to run a task to crea...

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My current main new product development has 125 items out of 298 (distinct) items on the BOM as new items, however creating NEW objects in our ERP is fine as they all default to Rev 0, the same as they are in PDM. Revisions to products on an ECN would then only typically be <10 parts per ECN which ...

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As far as I'm aware, you do need to be connected to the internet during installation of most (if not all) Solidworks installations. I know it checks for updates, but that's not required, I think the major aspect is that it does some sort of registration with DS and asks for an email address for acti...

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I've been asking the automation question since I arrived at the company, though such was the state of things at that point even the manual process wasn't even documented. Been slowly turning the ship around and so automation is the next step. In reality though it isn't too painful - once you're log...

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 12:43 pmimage.png

They have competitive and sensical commercial pricing.

the_h4mmer

If you mean, how to do the 'zoomed' sub-assembly exploded view, I've never tried, but off the cuff as a first crack, I would make the exploded diagram for the assembly moving the sub-assembly like shown, then add the "Smart explode lines" for that sub-assembly. When you add it to the drawi...

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Sorry to resurrect and old thread (trying not to make it a habit, but there's lots of old threads I want to contribute to). I've saved our templates to a PDM location and don't have any issues with access, but I do have the full PDM vault (not very big) refreshing on login for CAD users (our office ...

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I'm not that old either friend, so my perspective is similar to yours. I came in this job, as my first job, I said I'd be able to take on implementing 3D, even though I had never done it, because I knew I'd be able to. Of course, I didn't have all I required when I said I'd be able to, but that is ...

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PDM can export an XML of the BOM and Revision numbers as well when a design goes thru a specific transition. If you can parse the XML data into the ERP system, then it should be there by default.

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What should we look for that would cause this type of behavior? A method I use for finding the source(s) of these kinds of issues, is to rollback the feature tree to about half way, then force your rebuild. If it fails, then it's somewhere in the first half, if it doesn't, it's probably in the seco...

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Why can't you be confident AND precise? Overselling only happens when you're forcing yourself upon the employer, if you end up catching their attention and interest with what you have to offer, then they're the one often trying to "overbuy", to see how far it can go, that's where the line...

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I think the official ASME documentation shows the fractions. We show decimal like your first example for system and data compatibility. Turns out the ASME standard B1.1-2003 (Section C3.1) also states that for Metric drawings/documents (which is the company standard), to call out or label using dec...

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Pay attention. It's the age thing. Relevant experience in the 1990s? Geez, must be OLD. I only asked as I did not presume that was the sole reason, as I do not know the entirety of your circumstances, and was curious to hear your observations. From my understanding, professional convention is to le...

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