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Marshall Wilson

I will respectfully disagree with both of you. I use display states often, and wouldn't want to have to get by without them. It isn't unusual for me to want to hide dozens of components in a drawing view (or multiple drawing views). I'd hate to have to do that by hiding the components directly in t...

Marshall Wilson

Without knowing what you're doing it's hard to say, but I rarely, dare I say never, use display states to control my drawing views. You can make parts visible/not visible right in the drawing in the feature tree. If I'm trying to show assemblies in different positions I make a configuration and you...

Marshall Wilson

SolidWorks has a certain philosophy on things. They want to make everything easy. One way to do that is to have a lot of data calculated before hand that you may or may not want to use later. So unlike Solid Edge, SolidWorks puts a lot of your model data, including display information, configuratio...

Marshall Wilson

Yes, I think you are spot on. Some large percentage of the "CAD xx is slow to..." complaints are just due to lack of practice with the UI. Unless contract engineering/modeling is your game, it's hard to justify he cost of relearning everything. Exactly. For years I trash-talked AutoCad wh...

Marshall Wilson

SE drawings or Draft as they call it is the area I've spent the least amount of time in. The SE reputation is built largely on drawings, so I would expect it to be pretty good. Keep us appraised as you find interesting things. I'll try to crack open some drafts myself and give it a go, although I h...

Marshall Wilson

One of the most frustrating things I experience with SolidWorks is how Drawing files will build up in file size quickly for no obvious reason, and become slow. I'm pretty sure this is an unnecessary issue because if I save a sheet (from a one-sheet drawing) and re-insert it into a new drawing, file ...

Marshall Wilson

Never tried this with a complex derived configuration, but - with the derived configuration active, can you use the "Add Configuration..." (with RMB menu)? Doesn't that create a New top-level configuration with all the properties etc of the previously active configuration?

Marshall Wilson

HerrTick wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 9:34 am WHY?

Because tangent edges are easy to hook dimensions to in drawings.

Everything is about the drawings (for us)

Marshall Wilson

matt wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 3:39 pm Use the Merge Tangent Faces option.

But when I use "Merge Tangent Faces", I lose the edge lines defining curve/flat faces on the profile....

Marshall Wilson

Isn't there a way to join the end faces of a closed-loop sweep solid without also losing the profile's tangent edge visibility? I just want to make a simple angle frame, without the seam at the beginning plane. But I don't want to lose the visibility of the edge lines where flat faces join to curves...

Marshall Wilson

"The company says its goal is for 3DExperience revenues to be 75% of its software revenue by 2025..... The company sees significant changes ahead, but until the actual shape of change becomes clearer, Dassault will try and have it both ways with their customers." https://gfxspeak.com/2021/...

Marshall Wilson

Perhaps why DS is pushing cloud and 3dExperience etc; Its all part of a marketing strategy to drum up business providing cloud services to other corps? "Alstom has chosen Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) to develop a new cloud platform for product lif...

Marshall Wilson

I think F360 has some of the feel of Onshape but doesn't have the power of it. Onshape feels, to me anyway, more like a young SW/IV. I'm not sure what ADesks intention is for F360 but I can see it serving as a "Low end tool" to compete in the hobbyist market and or as "Add ons" ...

Marshall Wilson

last thing I printed was a Star Wars chess set. What a pain it was to print all those pieces. Set it up to run a 28 hour print as things were going well and as the printer was getting closer to the end of the prints it started to make more sounds and someone thought that was not good and turned it ...

Marshall Wilson

Though I can't say what is happening for you, I've had some unhappy experience with generic docking stations myself, so I'd experiment with taking that out of the equation if you can. I've found my best experience by plugging in monitors directly into my HP Zbook; One HDMI and One DisplayPort (via a...

Marshall Wilson

Onshape runs on no cores :D Just started playing with it recently but from what I've read the majority of the work is done by the GPU not the CPU. Computations on line are run parallel on multiple machines. I suppose the limitation will be how many people are using the software at the same time and...

Marshall Wilson

Interesting mike miller ; SE does sound like a different beast with it's treatment of the feature tree.... I'll see if I can work with a trial of SE. I was kind of asking because many of the rival packages seem to be roughly equivalent but if any gave an edge in processing strategy, that' could be a...

Marshall Wilson

As I wait forever while SW rebuilds my perforated part, I might as well ask the dumb question:

I know SW and Inventor are pretty much constrained by single-thread speed, but Is anyone aware of a SolidWorks competitor that takes advantage of multi-core processors?

Thanks!

m

Marshall Wilson

Logitech MX Ergo Thumb-Trackball. 5 programmable buttons (3 at thumb; 2 for left-right at scroll-wheel). Its been my main mouse for a couple of years now, a big step up in comfort from the Logitech MX. Only problem is when the balls get old they get "sticky." Even after cleaning the ball, ...

Marshall Wilson

Recently discovered how huge the Zappa library is at Apple Music, So yeah.

But today seems to be mainly Jeff Beck.

Marshall Wilson

Personally, I have my bookmark set to the "Active Topics" link. Works real good for me!

Marshall Wilson

@Marshall Wilson I came across this tool while sending some stuff out to a local laser shop for a personal project: https://deepnest.io/ It uses a genetic algorithm (GA) approach to nest 2D shapes into a sheet. It wasn't capturing some "obvious" layouts for me at one point but I went in t...

Marshall Wilson

Hmm. Interesting for sure. But I’m not sure what the point is to sharing links to the hacked keys on this forum.

Marshall Wilson

@jcapriotti DuckDuckGo does have an iOS browser for mobile devices - which I use. Don't think it (yet) has a windows app.

The newest Edge is supposed to be pretty good - can put the tabs on the side which is cool.

Marshall Wilson

Firefox / Thunderbird! Why: Cause Firefox is good and needs support; cause Tbird is free and good

DuckDuckGo on my phone; cause its not google.

Marshall Wilson

Great!. I'm happy to start to get this behind us. I've switched my browser to Chrome. As much as I don't like Google, with their "don't be evil" and all and owning everything anybody ever put on the web, I gotta say, Chrome is working better than Firefox for this anyway. Whatever you have...

Marshall Wilson

Much better.. Thanks @matt !

Marshall Wilson

Interesting;
(Firefox)
When I was logging in with "http" (not secure) it was not remembering my login details. This had been happening for a few days (my bookmark was set to "http"
I just tried again with https://www.cadforum.net and it seemed to remember my details better.

Marshall Wilson

The centerline command in Drawings can be hinky in general, but Autocreate just creates more work. It puts them on radiused edges (think steel tubing), and sometimes it puts two on top of each other (Countersunk holes I think). If I'm going to be doing revisions, sometimes I ditch the "centerli...

Marshall Wilson

Synology good and should work. I’ve never used PDM, one-man shop. I’ve used Dropbox for years; it’s version history is very good, I use it all the time to correct my mistakes. Obviously if more than 1 person using files at a time will be the big driver of available options. Also if you need to acces...

Marshall Wilson

This place is awesome. So much more room to grow than the old SWF!

I keep wanting to click on the "CAD Forum" text at the top of the page to bring me to the "Board Index" page. Don't know if its possible or worth the time but thought I'd ask.

Thanks!!

-Marshall

Marshall Wilson

I'm a big fan of LIghtshot for Screen-shots. Can use Keyboard-shortcuts, plus it will let you do some basic annotation etc before it saves. https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html Notepad++ as previously noted, is great. One of my favorite features is you can have mutliple tabs open, and you don't nee...

Marshall Wilson

Here R a few others:

Marshall Wilson

Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:00 am
"Vortex generator", less drag, more speed.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it

Love the Phone dis-assembly fixture.

"Vortex Generator" is Glued on?

Marshall Wilson

One of the first prints I made - with my old Anet A8 - Was a foot bar for our corner cabinet in the kitchen. When I built out our kitchen 10 years ago (I made all the cabinets myself as well as all the other renovation work :) ) I was going to machine/fabricate a custom pull for the corner cabinet, ...

Marshall Wilson

Thanks Matt!

Marshall Wilson

I logged in as wilsonbuilt, but is there a way to use a different name "Marshall Wilson" as the name that will show up on my posts?

Marshall Wilson

Have a Anet A8 that i did not touch for almost 1 year, work ok but i would still recommend new user to get an ender instead, :| I used Stratasys Polyjet Connex 3 Objet500 before, work really great, although it is expensive like h*ll... Using a Stratasys uPrint SE at work now, quite ok overall, occa...

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