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Dwight

All our templates and such are in a shared folder. An exception is Toolbox, which is local because we use Teamcenter for a PDM and it requires the local folder. Having Toolbox local also helps speed things up when working remote. To keep users aligned, we have a batch file that they can run occasion...

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Shelling does not work because of the more complex upper "bulb" . . . If you mean the teeth in a circular pattern, which you show in your first image, then yes they might not shell. I'd get the shell done before applying the teeth. If it's not them, the shell feature usually shows what's ...

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Probably not what you want to do, but the contrast can be good if the components have different appearances. I work to avoid having the material assignment apply an appearance. It's not easy.

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Frank I don't have all the old issues. We've just been going along doing Print. The comparison I did this morning didn't show much difference. I do think Solidworks would be more usable if the lines didn't scale in a drawing. Note that I don't mean for editing a model, which is completely different....

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Save as PDF used to have a lot of problems, so we haven't used it in quite a while. I tried it out just now and didn't find much difference. I did find that Save kinda missed the circle arrowhead, made it a little small. That's not an important difference to me, but it does show they aren't the same...

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Tera wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 4:54 pm . . . does anyone know why printing a sheet in pdf, prints the views(Fills, lines, etc)in black and white?

Set in Page Setup?

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I thought display states are better than configurations or sections for performance. I'd like to learn if that's not the case. To answer my own question, the technical sites believe display states are lighter than configurations: https://help.solidworks.com/2019/english/SolidWorks/sldworks/c_displa...

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TTevovle

Sketch arrays often work well in a Hole Wizard feature.

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New link:

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Bryan

I thought display states are better than configurations or sections for performance. I'd like to learn if that's not the case.

There's a thread I started on sketch arrays with a link to a video at https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php? ... ray#p20054.

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Maybe you could do this with an "Intersect" feature. To do that, you'd make a stack of blocks for every other layer then run Intersect. One does have to select which bodies to delete manually. It would be nice if using the Combine feature with the "common" operation type had the ...

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josh wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 8:39 am I think what confuses a lot of people about sketch patterns is that they expect them to be static based on the parameters you enter in the property manager . . .

Well put. I think that is the case.

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I thought I would drop this here for people to review. I like your list. Very Useful. Most things follow our own practices. I don't quite agree with item k, which says to avoid sketch arrays and use array features. I think sketch arrays are pretty handy and powerful, especially when you use sketch ...

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I do have a question about Tips and Tricks 36 Unlink Display States. Is this a universal problem or case specific? I've been linking display state to config on sheet metal parts. It is the only way I've been told to get SW to stop showing bend line sketch in the assemblies (where the model is obvio...

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Stefan Sterk wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2024 9:11 am Just noticed SW24 SP05 is downloadable.

Thanks, I installed 2024 and got everything setup for user installs in November. I am not using it yet for work, so I don't know any issues there, but the setup went fine.

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Thanks, Deepak. That worked fine.

And thanks very much AlexB. This will save me a lot of frustration.

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AlexB The second version didn't seem to run. In the editor, it didn't compile. I've no idea why, since the "swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks" looks the same as in your first version. But I don't know what I am looking for. image.png AlexL I made a video of my experience with deleting. delete.mp4...

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Thanks very much. It is kind of slow, but that's fine because it doesn't stop for prompts, which means I can go do something else while it's working. Very useful.

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Alex I find that the manual delete function for tree features will do only a small subset of the features I select, and often it will delete features I don't select. If I uncheck "Delete child features" then it will delete even fewer features and still delete features I have not selected a...

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It's been too long since I've tried to do a macro. If this takes only a couple minutes for someone who knows what they are doing, I'd really appreciate it.

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This thing only does a folder full of features. Why a folder? Anyway, maybe I can edit that part out (maybe get rid of all the blank lines, too). '********************** 'Copyright(C) 2024 Xarial Pty Limited 'Reference: https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-api/document/features-manager/delete-featur...

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So there's this, but it seems to delete only one feature no matter how many I have selected. I need some sort of loop? '-------------------------------------- ' Preconditions: ' 1. Open a model document. ' 2. Select the feature to delete. ' 3. Open the Immediate window. ' ' Postconditions: ' 1. Dele...

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I'd like a macro I can use to select tree features and delete them. I do not want it to guess which ones I really want to delete, I would like it to go ahead and delete them without making a fuss. And it would be extra special if it did not delete tree features I didn't select.

Thanks

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DLZ

Most of our sheet metal vendors work from a model for cutting and bending, and depend on a drawing for the material and for inserts. For us, a drawing is always needed for first article inspection and product monitoring.

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Okay, thanks for considering it. I'm fine with what I have and am moving on. As you noted, the cut or punch will be done before bending.

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We let the vendor do the flat pattern.

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All

I have a sheet metal part with holes on a bend, cut or punched round before bending. I figured I'd add "BEFORE BENDING" on the hole call-out, but maybe there's a standard call-out I don't know about?

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Josh

When you say the "main" note, that's something the macro assigned, not Solidworks. Or is there a main note in a Solidworks group?

Thanks

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josh wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 12:13 pm . . . fix their position when they got out of whack.

"Fix" like "repair" or "fix" like "make stationary"? I can't picture what this is.

Thanks

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I find that grouping a note and dimension does not work well. If you move one, the other one follows along only approximately and falls out of alignment.

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In the past, I've had much better luck printing to PDF rather than saving to PDF.

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Thanks for the replies. We both use SW2022 sp5 and Excel 2407 (Office 365). It's works for him intermittently. I'll check about the clipboard managers. I also don't know that he has any other drag and drop issues in Solidworks. I had thought of this as a Toolbox issue, but the replies take it as bei...

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All A user here gets an error message when he tries to drag a washer from Toolbox into an assembly: image.png For me it works fine, but we can't find anything different in our Toolbox settings or other settings. The Toolbox files are local, downloaded from a central server. What should we look for? ...

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Thanks. Usually I check Ecel is not open, but I think I missed this time.

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Today I am getting a "Your system must have Microsoft Excel Version 8 or higher" error window. I can't close it, so I am hung with lost work. It occurs with a drawing that contains a design table. No trouble with that in the past. I am running SW2022 sp5 and Office 365 (64-bit). Any way t...

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Today I am getting a "Your system must have Microsoft Excel Version 8 or higher" error window. I can't close it, so I am hung with lost work. It occurs with a drawing that contains a design table. No trouble with that in the past. I am running SW2022 sp5 and Office 365 (64-bit). Any way to...

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I'm on SW2022.

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matt wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 5:34 pm Where did the Reload command go?

Hidden in the "file" dropdown menu, along with "Replace". That usually throws me, though I use them often enough.

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We delete suppressed mates left by deleting components. We use the setting that has them flagged as errors, to help with clean-up.

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Hide it in the feature tree.

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Check to see if a component of your low-level assembly is also a subject of a view in a higher-level drawing. If the higher-level drawing has one view with that component as a subject, then it assumes that the higher-level drawing is a drawing *of* that component and needs to be included in the pack...

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I would insert an unfold feature, create modifying features as needed, and finish it with a fold feature. You can then suppress or unsuppress all that as needed. Put it all in a folder (ha) so you can suppress it all easily. Create a configuration where the folder is unsuppressed, another with it su...

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matt wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2024 9:04 am SolidWorks users have always been afraid of errors.

Yes. I hit that wall hardest in sheet metal, when I've made extensive changes in a flange sketch and then have to dump the sketch if it causes an error.

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All I have an occasional issue where my normal Solidworks pointers don't show, just the hourglass pointer. I can still operate Solidworks with that pointer, but it is hard to pick things, and it seems to indicate that Solidworks is more likely to crash than is usual. The problem seems to come up whe...

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CarrieIves

We use display states. They work for assembly steps and for showing hidden items. I use a view with a title stating that certain items are hidden for clarity in order to show some interior components rather than use a section view or, worse, a configuration.

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Alex Say I have 4 inserts in a plate, I have the assembly open, and I filter so only the inserts show. If I box-select all the inserts and create a Selection Set, the count is 5. If I select all the inserts individually, the count is 4. Note that I am certain there are no duplicate inserts at any lo...

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I now find that the count shown for a Selection Set is wrong if you box select items. A box select adds one to the count, where individual selects give a correct count.

I'm on SW2022.

If someone would confirm this, I'll add it to the bug list.

Thanks

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DeanD wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:02 pm For any threaded component, setup a derived configuration with threads suppressed.

Better to leave off the threads in the main configuration.

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It is recognizing and NOT recognizing spaces! It is breaking the name "ConfigurationConfiguration Configuration Configuration" into "ConfigurationConfiguratio n ConfigurationConfiguration" The "n" dropped off because it didn't fit in the width of your text box and ther...

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rkagerer wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:21 pm I've tended to avoid splines when I can as I find it harder to exert control over them . . .

I recommend Style Splines. I find them easier to control. The methods of control seem more useful and stable.

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