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JuTu

Hello! To my understanding SolidWorks always includes a Point as a sketch entity, if Midpoint line is being used. So, what is kinda workaroundish thing, but doesnt have the annoying Point entities is to draw arbitrary line and add a relation from its midpoint to the second entity you are using. Yet ...

JuTu

(FYI, if you press the "TAB" key while your mouse is over a body in a part, it hides the body. SHIFT + TAB brings it back) Fun fact about the SHIFT + TAB command. SolidWorks will unhide / show the first body or component that lies under the cursor depth wise from view direction. Like a be...

JuTu

I dont know if camera views are possible, but you can save the viewport orientation as a "named" View that can be used in drawings from the View palette or View properties manager. Then, utilizing Display states you can show or hide components that are needed or not needed. Also, it is pos...

JuTu

First thing I had on my mind is how the exporting software handles the data to be exported. I'm not familiar with Tekla or so much so with IFC, but by default SolidWorks tries to solidify all the geometry it is capable. SW prefers solids. To check how any geometry has been imported, you could also t...

JuTu

Like Dwight mentioned, we do this to create different "views" for multiple exploded views as well as different views in larger assemblies to work on smaller sub sets of the data without having to display everything. We may also create them for use in drawings to show some parts removed li...

JuTu

What's with unlinking the display states from configurations? Are there pros/cons for either method?

I have been pondering this and currently on our templates we use configuration-linked display states.

JuTu

I will start with the statement that I havent used this one for cable routing but,... SolidWorks Routing - we decided NOT to use SW Routing for our rigid (bent) tubing routes for its incompatibility with our current PDM system. We have third-party software called Aton/SolidPDM. For one, I couldnt fi...

JuTu

We use to give general instructions on surface treatment etc in text box. But now that is said, I have been working on a surface treatment instruction (read: painting instruction :? ) as a set of pictures of components and details in our units that must not get coated. During the process I havee als...

JuTu

Long time no see... I just wanted to give some follow-up on my projects. We decided not to implement SW Routing to our workflows. I think the major contributor for the decision was Routing's integrability with our current PDM (Aton & SolidPDM). Simply not feasible. Not worth the effort. Routing ...

JuTu

Oh that one also. I asked ChatGPT to create me a macro to set the width of feature manager with a press of a button. Well... it didnt work as the chatbot insisted me to check that I have a VBA reference library enabled for SolidWorks that doesnt exist :lol: I didnt have enough knowledge and attentio...

JuTu

SPerman wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:31 am I put this together a long time ago based on the information in Machinerys Handbook.

Thread Profile - National Standard.xls

What is this WIZARDRY!?!

or instead you can read: Nice. Really impressive

JuTu

We were discussing about various topics around coffee table with my colleagues and one of them had the idea to ask ChatGPT about it and here is the conversation: (Give me step by step instructions to model turbine blade in solid works 2020) Sure, here are the step-by-step instructions to model a tur...

JuTu

Holy $#!+ I was confused! mauriciolanes , you propably guess what I mean :D The thing is that I made a support ticket to our VAR yesterday and when you reached to me via LinkedIn's mail I started to doubt my memory. Sorry, I havent been to forum for a while :lol: and had forgotten that I had made th...

JuTu

Hello fellow engineers! I have lately been juggling with ideas and methods for team communication and issue tracking. As I am on a path involving design team development, I have been thinking of ways to collect and save design choices, track issues, and general knowledge involved in the design proce...

JuTu

Hi again! I've been working on an in-house Performance benchmarking system and am now considering options to macro-fy some of the tasks. I have been looking for some hint or notation how or where SolidWorks save the file open time and could it be read with a macro. The thing is that we use 3rd-party...

JuTu

Welcome to the forum!

I don't have experience of my own, but know that ppl sometimes build housing around their 3D-printer to suppress the noice and secondly to stabilize the atmosphere for printing and apply ventilation.

JuTu

You will need to make new document templates to set default settings. i.e. open new part from template, change settings, set units, visibilities etc. and then Save As... that part document as .prtdot file type. You can do (or need to do) the same thing for your assembly document which would use .asm...

JuTu

I found a four part series of blog posts by CATI about the CAD Admin Dashboard: https://www.cati.com/blog/using-the-solidworks-cad-admin-dashboard-to-track-review-and-troubleshoot-machines-part-1-1/ https://www.cati.com/blog/using-the-solidworks-cad-admin-dashboard-to-track-review-and-troubleshoot-m...

JuTu

Thanks everyone! Yesterday we published updated settings package for all users to enable the Customer Experience Improvment thingy. Now I will sit and wait to see the results. I can see so far two accounts from about 20+ expected shown in the Dashboard when I've chosen the current major SolidWorks v...

JuTu

AlexB wrote: ↑Mon May 16, 2022 9:10 am Welcome! When you say "one of my tasks" maybe expect that to turn into "a lot of my time"

Haha! Thanks.

That won't be a problem since I like the tinkering and helping out people

JuTu

Well... as the subject sets. Do you or someone at your company use the SolidWorks CAD Admin Dashboard? We are in a process to try to determine what is our general baseline regarding our hardware, methods of CADding, etc. to figure out how we could develop our functions and workflows in not so far fu...

JuTu

Hello everyone!
Yes, I will become a CAD admin aswell.

It all happened so suddenly.
On a cold dark day of spring in year 2022. I was told they want to hire me and one of my tasks will be an admin for CAD systems.

JuTu

I've tried to understand the help file and examples and I must be dense. Anyone got a good reference on equation syntax? Here's the basic concept for reference: I have 4 beams, two are set by other parts and two are equally spaced between the two set beams. So, I set a global variable equal to the ...

JuTu

I have the 3M Peltor ProTac III, fairly cheap and super solid. Used them around a CNC and in the woodshop quite a bit, added on a bluetooth adapter so I could listen to music while running the router. The onboard noise cancelling volume controls are solid, with big buttons, and a decent range. Has ...

JuTu

Oh. It seems that I had already voted. But now reading the question twice I just realized this poll had nothing to do with my parents and how I was raised up.

JuTu

When working with assemblies I have this 'View mates and Dependencies' option active 90% of time. It's so much clearer to position and align components, IMHO

JuTu

I've seen active noise cancelling headphones used in a foundry and machine shop. I think the manufacturer was either Peltor or 3M. They had a feature to enhance voice of person speaking but cancelling all that background noise, which is a good safety feature for production environment.

JuTu

I'll give this a try. I've had issues with file explorer hanging-up or crashing mysteriously while SW is open. I'm on SW2020 SP5.0 + Aton 6Client and SolidPDM.

JuTu

If I'm watching video of a new to me software or otherwise not so familiar interface I would use higher resolution, but that is not a deal-breaker if the visual quality isn't a 4K . Usually the content as a whole matters more to me. And... on the other hand... I'm used to watch videos on small scree...

JuTu

How about using Config Feature? It's not excel-spreadsheet ie. design table, but there, you can choose which features have which values in spreadsheetish style without relying on excel. It can be used to select suppress/unsuppress, values for dimensions, etc. To my understanding that could fill the ...

JuTu

What do I listen to? Well... I listen to All that I hear and sometimes some lofi beats or classical playlists in Spotify.

JuTu

nordstjernen740 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:09 pm giphy.gif Do gifs work here?

Hah! That's a gif by Finnish Tax Administration

JuTu

So, what I am trying to do, is to open one specific part of a machine with the command "Open part". I can do that with different things in the model, but not just that part which I need to open. It is the front cover of a machine. I can pull it out in explode view, but not open it in a ne...

JuTu

This could be of help:

GoEngineer blog post about Solidworks Drawing layers
https://www.goengineer.com/blog/use-lay ... s-drawings

Published a month ago. Found it from LinkedIn.

JuTu

Welcome to the forum!

Youtube shortens links when Share-feature is used to format "https://youtu.be/[content code]"

JuTu

Alin wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 9:41 am The Enhanced Graphics Performance is all about performance. Nothing about beautifying things.
There are a few bugs left, but the software is pretty clean in SW 2022.

Thanks for clarifying this! Sometimes these naming conventions are kinda ambiguous - to me atleast.

JuTu

I would've told him to turn off the "Enhanced Graphics" option. As a matter of fact... is it just me or is there really a benefit to use Enhanced graphics or some other settings-thingy to beautify the things on screen while working on the design. I understand that marketing material, like...

JuTu

Hi! Thanks Tom G for the hint! Yes, interesting project! laukejas , are you sure your educational license doesn't include those add-ins? What if they are just not activated in SW? Well, anyway. I dont have enough experience for configurable assemblies or parts so that goes outta the window straighta...

JuTu

JuTu wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 9:37 am Lately, SW has been on a funny mood from now an then.
It's quite interesting trying to work with THESE dimensions.

This graphics glitch is affected by the options 'Display dimensions flat to screen'.
Toggling it off I got rid of the pesky 'feature'.

JuTu

I haven't been using SW with OneDrive lately, but I havn't had any problems with them working together. Do you share the folder or file with other users? Could it have been saved at some point in some other external location and the file had lost it's references. As far as I know neither SolidWorks ...

JuTu

Even though ANSI or ASTM starndards are not that useful here in the Scandinavia, I still appreciate information. Thanks, Matt!

JuTu

Imics13 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 1:43 am Solid Edge (it means 2D free too) has own block library and users are able to build 2d hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical 2d plan.

I have Solid Edge on my bucket list "to get to know each other"

JuTu

We have a team for automation and electrical design and they use CADS or EPlan. So that's that. I feel that manufacturers' proprietary software are ... kinda... locked. WITHOUT PROPER KNOWLEDGE - I fear that the component libraries are not modifiable. And then when the software is not an independent...

JuTu

Well... I'm not an expert by any means.

Did you plan to mill it in one go? Or change the grip at some point of work? How about the stock? How the piece will be oriented as a plain stock piece relative to the final shape?

And since I don't know - is dxf three dimensions compatible format?

JuTu

Hi there! Todays question is what software could be used or you would use to design hydraulic systems and diagrams? Scope would be lubrication systems, some pneumatics and occasionally even power hydraulics. So far I have been living in AutoCAD/Draftsight environment, but could there be some way to ...

JuTu

When using Tool Box the best way to use it is if everyone is working off the same toolbox. Easiest way to do this is to put the ToolBox Data base on a shared network and then have everyone direct their toolbox to that. Yup. I've been lobbying towards this on various other cases. Use a shared networ...

JuTu

I have been thinking of learning to do some renderings on Blender, which has also great capabilities and various tools. You can export models in some formats from Solidworks to Blender and then continue working there. And on top of it all - Blender is free. A free professional grade graphics, animat...

JuTu

Our mechanical dept standard set is Draftsight and Solidworks but I think there is couple of AutoCAD licenses too. Automation and analysis departments use other software.

JuTu

Oh - first thought, already, that WILL HELP users to find them... coincise naming convention. I would suggest to name like "SOLIDWORKS Shorts - [topic]" or something that way... That Solidworks Shorts sounds like a brand or a thing, in a good way, already by itself. The absolutely most imp...

JuTu

Lemme see!
Ill return after checking these out.
I hav been thinking of doing some semi-thorough "this-is-how-you-could-design-[insert a product here]" thingies... but there are alot of ...things before that could be possible....

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