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by bearsfeat
Wed Oct 02, 2024 1:05 pm
Forum: SW General
Topic: Drag and Drop failed
Replies: 6
Views: 982

Re: Drag and Drop failed

I had this issue and found that my clipboard manager did not play well with SWX. I use Ditto and had to add solidworks.exe to the exceptions settings in Ditto. That prevented the message from popping every time I added a part to an assy, but it also prevents using Ditto to copy/paste within SWX.
by bearsfeat
Thu Apr 27, 2023 1:56 pm
Forum: SW General
Topic: Was This Always There?
Replies: 10
Views: 1638

Re: Was This Always There?

It does not seem to be in 2020 SP5 which is what I am running at the moment.
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by bearsfeat
Thu Mar 23, 2023 9:09 am
Forum: SW General
Topic: SolidWorks x ChatGPT
Replies: 4
Views: 5703

Re: SolidWorks x ChatGPT

What fun! I had heard that at SolidWorks World, one of the speakers was talking about artificial intelligence and asked ChatGPT if it knew the SolidWorks API language. It said "yes" so the speaker asked it to create a spiral staircase. He said that the solid model it created using the API ...
by bearsfeat
Wed Oct 05, 2022 10:13 pm
Forum: SW General
Topic: Advanced surfacing question
Replies: 8
Views: 2230

Re: Advanced surfacing question

4 edges make a better surface
4 edges make a better surface
laukejas
I think HerrTick has the right idea. I would add the suggestion to break the tip into a 4 sided bit.
by bearsfeat
Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:09 pm
Forum: How To Questions
Topic: centerline generation
Replies: 3
Views: 875

centerline generation

Hi folks! You know how when you sketch a slot and extrude it, a temporary axis is created at the center of the slot? In the sketch feature, there is a point (asterisk) that seems to generate a CL when it gets extruded. Well, how can I create that in any sketch? Pro/E has (had?) a "datum Point&q...
by bearsfeat
Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:24 pm
Forum: SW General
Topic: How to change the color of a single line in a sketch?
Replies: 5
Views: 1279

Re: How to change the color of a single line in a sketch?

Hello Tera! The only thing I can think of is to make a block that only contains the "single entity" you want to be a different color. I am pretty sure you can color blocks individually and they can exist in the same sketch as other entities / blocks. You can also fully define the block so ...
by bearsfeat
Tue Sep 06, 2022 7:48 pm
Forum: SW General
Topic: Selecting components instead of faces
Replies: 21
Views: 6892

Re: Selecting components instead of faces

I have learned to use Breadcrumbs for just this sort of thing. They really work great, even down to selecting a feature's sketch, or a component's mate for editing, on the fly in a higher level assembly. There's even a setting that puts the breadcrumbs at your cursor when you click on something. I d...