We used spiral wound aluminium tubing extensively back in the day to manufacture long cylindrical pressure vessels - high voltage gas insulated busbars. So you have a required tube diameter and strip width - what is the wrap angle ? Best explanation I've found is this: https://www.apogeerockets.com/...

But you have the choice of not renewing but retain the use of the software and all your data, no so with Fusion 360.

How many is "enough times" ?

We tried it with great hopes when 2019 came out, quickly gave up with it.

Many thanks, 2016 System Options / File Explorer / Restore File Associations doesn't work in Windows 11 however you pointed me in the right direction. Go to - Control Panel / Default Programs / Choose defaults by file type - and associate .sldasm, .slddrw & .sldprt with Solidworks Launcher and a...

For reasons of compatibility with a client we use Solidworks 2016 on Windows 11, all works except...... After initial installation Windows Explorer integration is fine, Solidworks files have the correct icons and the right click pack and go menu works. However on running Solidworks the Explorer Inte...

Read this interesting post by a Oneshape employee ? https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/13932/why-the-size-limit Looks like the Parasolid kernel is unitless and has limits of 1e-8 to 1e3 CAD Vendors decide what their base unit will be. So for meters that would equate to 1e-5 mm to 1e3 m which seems...

From my experience, when your subscription ends that is when your entitlement to new SP's ends. So if Solidworks 2023 SP1 was the latest version when your subscription ended that is the newest version you are entitled to. You won't be allowed later SP's. Having been off subscription for 4 years now...

What's the smallest size that Solidworks can deal with ? I think it used to be 0.001 mm back in the day but just tried moving some bodies in SW 2016 and it accepts moves down to 0.0001, beyond that it seems to round to 0.0001 mm, i.e move 0.00009 mm and it moves 0.0001 mm In SDRC I-Deas we knew this...

Provided the 3D PDF has been written with precise PRC data and not just facets Adobe Acrobat / Tetra4D can export a STEP from the PDF. We do this occasionally to get 3D PDF into Solidworks.

The "continuous release system" is basically no different than it ever was. It's only the terminology and some optional added capabilities (auto updates etc) that have changed. It' still a sequence of major releases, minor releases and hot fixes. Major releases are not backward compatible,...

Have you been inserting and deleting base parts in a derived part ?

2016 SP0 has a nasty bug where if you insert a part and then delete it the derived part file won't save, supposted to be fixed in later service packs.

To give us a clue what version of SW is this with ?

I thought it wasn't being released until the end of the year.

Working for me as well now with Firefox, haven't changed anything from when it was not working. Can see quite a few more cookies are being stored now than previous.

Login - remember me, doesn't work for me, have to login everytime I visit.

Using Win 7 64 & Firefox 86

Does it work for anyone else usng Firefox ?

Is it possible to add autocreated centrelines to a drawing view after the view has been created rather than on view creation ?