I'm confused by your answer. Are you saying you have "do not scale" on your drawings, and then saying that knowing the sheet size is helpful if you need to scale the drawing? Don't be confused. Scaling is sometimes required to get an idea of an assembly or part when one is deciphering a d...

Yes i have it on drawings and i see it on many that i receive. Thankfully. I also include sheet size on drawings. This is also a vital bit of information when other information is missing to help one resolve issues. Just because you don't see a point it in... doesn't mean it isn't helpful when its p...

Just that there are reasons that may not make this an apples to apples comparison. Like i said... it'll never be a perfect comparison. There will always be SOMETHING to make it "not a fair comparison". We can talk all freaking day about a million reasons why they "Can't be compared&q...

Unless your company has tons of NX licenses to work out a major discount, and only a few SolidWorks with no discount, this is not true. .... Well you lot can say its not true all you like with as many qualifiers as you like.. but i just double checked and the seat of NX was 2/3rds teh cost of the S...

bnemec wrote: ↑Fri Oct 18, 2024 11:00 am Considering the price difference between NX and Edge/Solidworks; I wonder if that's what testing and trouble shooting costs.

What price difference would that be exactly?

The NX license i have is half the price of the SW one... FYI.

Its is a bit of a joke. Just for information's sake... i use NX and SW daily and i haven't had NX crash for... i can't recall. I'd be lucky it crashes critically once or twice a year. SW will $#!+ the bed just doing normal mundane tasks like... opening a dialog or whatever else. further to what mp3-...

What format are the files in? They don't look like .pdf files but actual AutoCAD .dwg files opened directly? If the latter is the case, then the hidden lines may be set to a different line-type-scale and hence the hidden lines aren't visually showing as intended (but may be when printed or exported ...

Try to save the files after opening them fully resolved. From KB it should be already solved. Thanks for the additional info. These were single part files exhibiting this behavior, so i was just opening them directly (not in assemblies). I did do another test give that info. Fully saved (which in t...

Both files need cosmetic threads and properties to be updated. One works, one doesn't (so IMO that shows that not being updated is not a direct cause at least). This happens upon open. Its already like this as soon as the part is opened. SW's "converts" the file to something to do with 3Dx...

Looks like SP4 finally fixed the "CAD Family" issue ... I take it back. A second file i tested (after the initial single file quick test with a file i could remember easily) still has the bug. 50% strike rate? I think that's good when it comes to SW bugs (i want to laugh... but i just can...

I have three macro's i've used for a while that toggle the Display State Name/Configuration Name/Description in the FMT. I have each on a button to toggle easily. Unfort. the Description one seems to have broken in 2024 at some point and now it replaces the file name with the description instead of ...

Looks like SP4 finally fixed the "CAD Family" issue (where opening some parts would result in the Configuration Tab turning into the CAD Family tab and not let you get into the Custom or Summary tabs in file Properties either so you couldn't view/edit file properties or see file creation/l...

Vertices, Smaller Edges are the usual most painful culprits in drawings as well whilst trying to dimension. Also selecting dimensions can get janky AF sometimes to. Like... you can't select a dimension because the location of the selection cursor seems to have moved by some random offset amount and ...

Have you given a shot at selection filters ... Yes i have them readily accessible as well as main ones on shortcuts. But that doesn't solve the issues i speak of. They are fundamental workings of the software that have been in serious need of resolve for a long time (if i recall, there was a push b...

NX has a selection by boundary I whish I could use in SW.... The selection is a very BASE FEATURE and in SW it has been painful for along time (selecting edges that are small and/or close to others i ridiculous painful. Hell even when alone i have to fanoogle the damn thing for far to long to selec...

Read my text......... there are NO new base features here so please just keep it moving. Most of these enhancements are really just little tidbits. Le Sigh!!! Exactly. There are SFA enhancements that are meaty. Especially not thousands of dollars a year meaty! FFS. They've definitely taken the year...

I don't even know where to go to search KB articles. I hate that swamp with a passion. its absolutely an abomination. How on earth ANYONE in that whole company can think that is, in any way, a release-able / enhancement to previous is mind boggling. I don't even like logging into anything because i ...

... Then hide the balloon if you don't want to see it. I tried to test this asi recall having an issue with this ages ago. I wished i could do this how the OP shows in v2022 (testing using 2024SP1). It'll show the ITEM Number in the note as it is displayed. So i thought, okay i'll create another ba...

damn it. I'm guessing this is what happened to me on initial install of 2024 in mid OCT. FFS DS.

Does anyone know how to fix this or what's going on? I'm guessing it has something to do with 3DX.BS (but i don't do any of that "BadXperiancePlatF0rM" rubbish so i don't know why its changing things). I can't find anything in the help files explaining it nor anywhere else. I have certain ...

Its also its name. God am i sick of hearing "SolidWorks" used as the now colloquial "AutoCAD" catch phrase for "anything resembling CAD software". People just can't seem to say anything other then "solidworks" even when you explicitly never say it because you ...

Central Innovation. They were my reseller, but they used some pretty poor tactics in emails to try and get me back on maintenance. Fear, doubt and unknowns... They shot themselves in the foot though, as their email encouraged me to look around and guess what, there is more than one reseller in NZ n...

Close. It's not the developers though, rather the execs at the software companies driving the change. What we see is comparable to and organism that was once symbiotic feeling the pressure of competition and the actual evolution of the host. But instead... Of course. i use "devs" as just ...

My intentions are not to incite a riot by engineers and designers that are passionate about their tools. We all have a little fear when things in our jobs change. Especially the main tools we use in our jobs. Please don't try to dismiss my comments with an attempt to make them out to be emotional a...

You will find the whole industry has or is moving to subscriptions. Autodesk, PTC, Siemens, 3DS.. The "whole" industry is not "moving" towards this. The developers of the software are PUSHING customers in tyrannical way towards this goal that is theirs. Nothing to do with custom...

JSculley wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 1:24 pm There is no such thing. If it is on-premise it isn't cloud.

EDIT: misinterpretation.

Firefox first and Vivaldi secondary. Looking at Vivaldi as a secondary as it seems really nice UI and feature wise and they seem to listen to the users a lot more then the behemoths. Avoid Chrome because Google are one of such behemoths that now give with one hand and pretend not to take with the ot...

So far, i'm not a fan of the new sketcher in NX. IT does things i don't want it to and won't do things i do. And there are often no obvious ways to do simple things when it comes to fixing or modifying a sketch to do what i want. So for me, thus far, the new functionality is completely lost because ...