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- Tue Dec 17, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: 2024 SP05 is now available for download
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2786
Re: 2024 SP05 is now available for download
AlexLachance If you are testing SolidWorks during your time off, you are doing your time off wrong. (says the person who kept checking her work email over the week of Thanksgiving when she was supposed to be on vacation) And are any of you using SW2024 with PDM? Does that seem to behave? I don't ha...
- Tue Dec 17, 2024 2:24 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: 2024 SP05 is now available for download
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2786
Re: 2024 SP05 is now available for download
Any opinions after y'all have been testing 2024 SP05?
- Mon Dec 16, 2024 8:19 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: SolidWorks Default File Locations for Multiple Users
- Replies: 4
- Views: 324
Re: SolidWorks Default File Locations for Multiple Users
I would put most of your templates in PDM. We have our template folder do a get latest every time a user logs into PDM. It will then still be on your computer even if you are offline. You can work offline in PDM. Also, you can then control write access and see what changes you have made to the templ...
- Thu Dec 12, 2024 12:27 pm
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: Watercooler Talk
- Replies: 1497
- Views: 366989
Re: Watercooler Talk
Enjoy the daiquiri. You have earned it. When I completed my degree, I was planning on skipping the graduation, but my parents expected me to go. I went and was surprised by how much I enjoyed walking across that stage.
- Mon Dec 09, 2024 3:02 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: add relations fix questions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 571
Re: add relations fix questions
I would bring in the DXF and not worry much about which plane it puts it on. Turn on the 2D to 3D toolbar. The first thing I would do is then edit the sketch to get rid of any notes or drawing format stuff if that came in. Do you have different things on layers in the DXF? They can each be brought i...
- Wed Dec 04, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: VAR money and their added value
- Replies: 4
- Views: 472
Re: VAR money and their added value
Our VAR has a slightly higher subscription fee that comes with access to SolidProfessor and discounts on special services such as moving PDM to a new server and discounts on training. We can ask as many questions as we want. Even if we were at the standard subscription, I don't think they would care...
- Fri Nov 01, 2024 3:08 pm
- Forum: General Engineering and Design
- Topic: Drawing formats
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2156
Re: Drawing formats
We have sheet size, which I found helpful as long as it isn't the most bold thing in the title block. It looks like ASME Y14.1-2005 says to have the sheet size. (That's what I have a copy of)
It didn't talk about the note "DO NOT SCALE DRAWING".
It didn't talk about the note "DO NOT SCALE DRAWING".
- Thu Oct 31, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: General Engineering and Design
- Topic: Drawing formats
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2156
Drawing formats
We are slowly merging two companies together. One has "DO NOT SCALE DRAWING" as part of the drawing template/format. One does not. How many of you are still adding that phrase on your drawings?
- Mon Oct 28, 2024 11:17 am
- Forum: SolidWorks FAQ
- Topic: PLM options for SolidWorks
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3530
Re: PLM options for SolidWorks
It's been a few years since I used Windchill with SolidWorks. It has been getting better, but I definitely had similar issues to jcapriotti. I think I last used it in 2018 or 2019. I will say it was much more stable then than it was in 2015 or so when I started using it with SolidWorks. It was not u...
- Wed Oct 16, 2024 3:47 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: How to properly do dumb numbering for configs and multibody parts?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3121
Re: How to properly do dumb numbering for configs and multibody parts?
It sounds to me like you have two things you need to keep track of - what part numbers have been assigned, and what file that number is in. I would track that outside of trying to do it just with SolidWorks. You need a master list somewhere that says what numbers have been assigned (this can be an e...
- Tue Oct 15, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: Running Macros from SharePoint
- Replies: 2
- Views: 570
Re: Running Macros from SharePoint
I think you may have to set the file locations for each person. You can have shortcuts to those drives added to your OneDrive show they show up in your windows file explorer. I haven't tried having SolidWorks look to those locations. If you have PDM, this would be a great time to move all those file...
- Wed Sep 04, 2024 1:44 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: workflow to save & use opposite hand version of part
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2161
Re: workflow to save & use opposite hand version of part
Naming features, grouping features into named folders, and adding comments to features can make a big difference to the next person to look at the model.
- Wed Jul 31, 2024 5:42 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Best way to call out material of a model in a drawing note
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1982
Re: Best way to call out material of a model in a drawing note
We settled on using the property MATERIAL in our model and we'll call that out on the drawing using $PRPSHEET:"MATERIAL".
- Tue Jul 30, 2024 5:40 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Opening STEP files in SW?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3950
Re: Opening STEP files in SW?
What does the STEP file look like with eDrawings? I use eDrawings to see what my STEP files look like and its faster to get a quick look at something.
- Wed Jul 24, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Server unavailable errors
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5998
Re: Server unavailable errors
This is what I got at the top of the "watercooler" post
- Tue Jul 23, 2024 4:07 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Best way to call out material of a model in a drawing note
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1982
Re: Best way to call out material of a model in a drawing note
Right now, we do have the materials database in PDM and it is at a status that engineers can check it out to write to. I don't know if anyone has tried adding materials to it since it moved into PDM. It was on a network drive until our PDM server moved to Azure and we couldn't to our network drives ...
- Tue Jul 23, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Best way to call out material of a model in a drawing note
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1982
Re: Best way to call out material of a model in a drawing note
Frederick_Law We do have a Chinese speaker on staff and have a couple of other resources, including our notes having been translated and shown in a recent DFM document. Getting parts that are different between the samples and production is it's own special challenge. My concern around using the mod...
- Tue Jul 23, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Server unavailable errors
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5998
Server unavailable errors
@matt I have been getting errors such as
today. Is something going on?
- Tue Jul 23, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Best way to call out material of a model in a drawing note
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1982
Re: Best way to call out material of a model in a drawing note
We are also planning to use the note "NO MATERIAL SUBSTITUTIONS ALLOWED" because we have had a major problem with a supplier (that we are going to steer away from in the future) picking a generic PC/ABS and trying to color it rather than buying the very specific grade with the color code i...
- Tue Jul 23, 2024 12:49 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Best way to call out material of a model in a drawing note
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1982
Best way to call out material of a model in a drawing note
We are considering how to call out the material on our drawing. We would like to set up a system that does as many things for us automatically as possible to reduce human error. We are using PDM standard and SolidWorks 2023 SP 4.0. It is possible that I am overanalyzing this. (But would I still be a...
- Mon Jul 22, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Can't send Direct Messages
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1783
Re: Can't send Direct Messages
Thanks for the clarification Matt!
- Mon Jul 22, 2024 10:29 am
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Can't send Direct Messages
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1783
Re: Can't send Direct Messages
I also appear to have this issue. I have a direct message that has been in my outbox since July 1. I guess that's why I didn't get any kind of reply.
- Fri Jul 19, 2024 5:01 pm
- Forum: CAD Agnostic
- Topic: Industrial Design => engineering Workflow
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5524
Re: Industrial Design => engineering Workflow
It varies on how we get the models. Sometimes we get SolidWorks models. Sometimes, we get surfaces to import. I usually remodel them so that I have something that is stable in CAD and adjusts in a way that we need.
- Mon Jul 15, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: SolidWorks PDM
- Topic: Data exchange from to PDM?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1112
Re: Data exchange from to PDM?
We have only been using PDM for a bit over a year here. We only have PDM Standard. We are a design services company, so our interactions with manufacturing products are not the same as many companies that make products. We do have a workflow so we can release drawings. We add an indented BOM to our ...
- Thu Jul 11, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: set views to "hidden lines removed" in drw template
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1095
Re: set views to "hidden lines removed" in drw template
Glenn shows you what the drawing views will default to. I believe if you place pre-defined views in your template you can set those for the display you want.
Our drawing templates have an iso view and 3 plan views already there.
Our drawing templates have an iso view and 3 plan views already there.
- Thu Jul 11, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: How to add reference document to a BOM?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1583
Re: How to add reference document to a BOM?
You can set a property in a model to drive the BOM quantity. I think you could set that to 0 in your dummy part. The quantity has to be a number. (I really want to put A/R for all my things like Loctite, but no such luck.)
- Tue Jul 09, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: SOLIDWORKS pet peeves
- Replies: 308
- Views: 502234
Re: SOLIDWORKS pet peeves
There isn't a good way to get a list of all the settings for a document or all the settings for a user. We are merging two divisions and I'm looking at our templates vs. theirs to see what is different. At least I have three monitors. An instance of SolidWorks with our template on the first, their t...
- Mon Jul 08, 2024 1:38 pm
- Forum: CAD Agnostic
- Topic: KPIs for Designs
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1358
Re: KPIs for Designs
I'd say that every project I work on has some kind of balance of what is most important. I would be careful about putting measurements on design outputs. I think it would be hard to measure things that actually mattered. Maybe you could measure the number of changes required to the design after it i...
- Mon Jun 24, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: CAD Admin (Install, PDM, etc)
- Topic: Aras and its SolidWorks connector
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2001
Aras and its SolidWorks connector
Our company is looking at Aras for PLM. It has a connector to SolidWorks. Anyone using it? Anything we should watch out for? Any using Aras for PLM? And anything we should watch out for with that?
Thanks,
Carrie
Thanks,
Carrie
- Thu Jun 13, 2024 10:20 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Creating a "table" to show what colors mean
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1595
Re: Creating a "table" to show what colors mean
@josh Your ColorTBl.sldtbt is exactly what we need. The characters all run together on my screen and in our PDF and look like a solid block.
Thank you.
Thank you.
- Wed Jun 12, 2024 6:56 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Creating a "table" to show what colors mean
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1595
Creating a "table" to show what colors mean
We use color to show where different surface finishes or textures are applied on injection molded parts. We have been creating a table, adding sketched boxes slightly inset, adding solid hatch, and changing the hatch color. The image below shows what this looks like on from one of our drawings. We p...
- Wed Jun 12, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: SolidWorks PDM
- Topic: Latest version is not the same on 3 PCS
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3078
Re: Latest version is not the same on 3 PCS
Do the computers have different settings? Check the option Tools > Options > System Options > Messages/Errors/Warnings, "Treat missing mate references as errors". Turned on you get errors. Turning this option OFF does not display the errors when you open an assembly with mate errors with m...
- Tue Jun 04, 2024 11:10 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Carryover of saved custom views
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2687
Re: Carryover of saved custom views
@JSculley - Thanks for sharing that it was a registry setting. I have noticed that sometimes those views are there and was wondering how they appeared. It must be a newer thing. I don't think I noticed it until we were using SW2023.
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:35 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Programming in SolidWorks, how important is it?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5044
Re: Programming in SolidWorks, how important is it?
Most of the SolidWorks macros you could find online to copy when I started were in VBA. You can also use this language to program Excel macros. I don't have very many macros because there aren't that many things that we have that are repetitive, but we do save PDFs and STEPs with revision informatio...
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Display data mark making assembly file huge
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1721
Re: Display data mark making assembly file huge
Mostly we use display states. I have recommended that we try to use display states for our assembly steps rather than configurations.
Other than display states sometimes forgetting themselves, are there gotchas we should watch out for?
Other than display states sometimes forgetting themselves, are there gotchas we should watch out for?
- Mon May 13, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Display data mark making assembly file huge
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1721
Display data mark making assembly file huge
We are using PDM standard, SolidWorks 2023, SP4.0 We have a top level assembly that has a bunch of configurations in it that represent different areas of the assembly. They kinda relate to assembly steps. If we do not have display data marks for the configurations, the file size of the SLDASM is abo...
- Fri May 03, 2024 10:27 am
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5327
Re: What are you reading?
I'm currently reading 1634: The Bavarian Crisis, which is in the 1632 series started by Eric Flint, about a town in modern West Virginia that is transported to Germany in 1632, in the middle of the 30 Years War. The series should definitely be read in order, or if not in order, definitely read 1632...
- Thu May 02, 2024 3:03 pm
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5327
Re: What are you reading?
I read a lot of light "popcorn" type reads. I will read e-books on my phone, so they conveniently get carried around in my pocket, physical books, or listen to audiobooks. I heavily utilize my library for all the book formats and found there were other libraries I could get cards for to ge...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:38 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Part Material(Property) into Assembly Properties
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2113
Re: Part Material(Property) into Assembly Properties
I have done this in the past, but there is a manual update if filenames change. I assign a property called "Material" in my part that is set to the SolidWorks material. I then may put a property in my assembly called "Material". It gets set to "SW-Material@<partname>.SLDPRT&...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Standard Drawings Template Pack
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2905
Re: Standard Drawings Template Pack
TLDR - make sure copy tree gets all your files and that if you use Pack and Go with PDM, you save where you mean to. Something I have noticed on copy tree, it seems to default to only selecting the files in the same folder, so I have had to manually force it to select other files so that I get all t...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:29 am
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: Watercooler Talk
- Replies: 1497
- Views: 366989
Re: Watercooler Talk
We were lucky the clouds cleared enough for us to actually see the totality. We walked over to the large park near our house. The schools near us took the kids outside. I heard from a neighbor that was about two blocks from the elementary that she could hear all the kids yelling in excitement. I thi...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:24 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: WTF is going on here ?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7608
Re: WTF is going on here ?
@josh Is there a way to flip the sketch plane normal after a sketch exists?
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: Watercooler Talk
- Replies: 1497
- Views: 366989
Re: Watercooler Talk
We had the opportunity to head a few hours south this weekend and enjoy the Texas Hill Country. It always surprises me how much a few hours drive can make in what season you are in. Our bluebonnets are just starting here in the Dallas area, but the ones down near Fredericksburg, TX are well are thei...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:36 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Standard Parts Library: Configurations or Individual Parts?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 11522
Re: Standard Parts Library: Configurations or Individual Parts?
If you have multiple configurations in PDM, make sure to add a display data mark to each configuration. If you don't when the part has to be at a new configuration than the one it was saved at (For example you change from the 12mm L bolt to the 16mm L bolt) PDM thinks the part was modified. If it is...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: SolidWorks PDM
- Topic: Moving an assembly with children to a different part of the vault - PDM standard
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1391
Re: Moving an assembly with children to a different part of the vault - PDM standard
These are both in the same PDM vault, right? PDM standard keeps track of the references for you. The easiest way to do this is have an explorer window open to the folder with the assembly and another window open to the folder you want it to end up in. Just drag and drop. You are going to have to pic...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:52 pm
- Forum: Macro Library
- Topic: Save PDF to PDM
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4437
Re: Save PDF to PDM
When we save a PDF into a PDM folder it automatically adds to the vault based on our settings in PDM for adding file types. We only have PDM Standard so can't do PDM macros, but our save as PDF SolidWorks macro, puts the PDF in the right folder. The setting adds it. We then just have to check it in.
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:43 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: How can this be possible???
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4564
Re: How can this be possible???
We don't always get mates deleted when components are deleted. I have found that sometimes those will come back if a component was deleted and then added back to the assembly. So, I put a component in (forgetting that it had been in that assembly weeks ago) and try to add new constraints to put it w...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: SolidWorks PDM
- Topic: Automatically delete local read only files that are not part of the vault
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2814
Re: Automatically delete local read only files that are not part of the vault
On further testing, I think it deletes them as you open the directory. I ran a search for local files this morning and found several. When I then went to the directory they were in, they were not there.
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 10:35 am
- Forum: SolidWorks PDM
- Topic: PDF creation on release in PDM standard in SW2023 impacted by "View PDF after saving" check box
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3311
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:37 pm
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: A Place to place our Improvement requests..?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5651
Re: A Place to place our Improvement requests..?
Add an option to set a folder as the default destination for Copy Tree and Pack and Go https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:I23-EB1ZRQyk2sLG5y9Kig/idea:wHjSg1XfQImApcmISq9d-g Add warnings to Pack and Go when PDM is in use https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3d...