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Glenn Schroeder

Sounds like my current job. Ability to interpret and implement solutions when your customers: 1. Don't agree on what they want. 2. Don't know what they want. 3. Tell you what to implement exactly in the new system because that's the way they've always done it in the old system. That's often just pa...

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That's what I was looking for thanks. Is there a way to make a style available across multiple .slddrw files? I noticed that "Styles" is not in the File Locations list. I've been using Note Styles (and Dimension Styles) for many years. If you will set them up and save as Drawing Template,...

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I'm reviewing a report. It has "five feet tall," "9 feet tall," and "180 inches" IN THE SAME SENTENCE. So let's just arbitrarily spell out some values and use the numeral for others, and throw in one relatively large dimension in inches while smaller ones are given in f...

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Congratulations. I'm sure that's a load off your mind.

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People from Dassault have told me straight-up that templates shouldn't be an issue and a VAR saying that the template is an issue is generally a VAR that does not want to do the work to find out what setting in the template is causing the specific issue. If your VAR reports back with a "it's y...

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We (along with other similar testing labs) made the national news. See https://www.cbsnews.com/news/electric-vehicles-safety-infrastructure-barriers/ . Our test is the one at about 2:30 in the video. Also, if that isn't enough, one of my sister-in-law's neighbors house flooded during the hurricane l...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:40 pm

Willie Nelson is the only one of The Highwaymen still with us.

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I hope everyone survived the latest hurricane. I was without power for a day and a half, which all things considered, is nothing. About 150 miles west of me the damage is hard to comprehend. image.png I'm glad you're okay. Two of my wife's siblings have homes on Davis Islands (a suburb of Tampa). T...

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If all else fails with Drawings, you can always start a new Drawing with your new template, then copy and paste sheets from the old drawing to the new one. Any annotations that haven't been overridden with the Layer or Line Format tools will use the new Document Properties.

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Easy fix. NEVER ROTATE DRAWING VIEWS. I've been using SW since 1997 and have never needed to rotate a drawing view. I have come across drawings by others where rotated drawing views caused various weird problems though. I've only been using SW since 2009, but I occasionally rotate views. Most of th...

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A few of the adds that made me go "nice": -Ability to pattern geometry -Display state tables -Ability to "Copy component" with mecanical mates -Ability to search in the design library -Folders will now show the (-) next to it if a component inside it is not fully mated Nothing e...

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This is very minor, but.... The symbol to rotate a drawing view points clockwise. image.png The number entered in the dialog rotates the view counter clockwise. I am a GIF. rotate.gif I'm sure you already know this, but for those who don't, if you enter a negative value it will rotate that much clo...

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I looked over the "What's New" website this morning. I saw a few things that made me think "That's nice," but nothing that I was really impressed with. I don't envision any situation where I would use it, but I know some people have been asking for the ability to pattern referenc...

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Here is one I've run into a few times, but I don't remember if I've posted about it here before. I have the option turned on to allow me to set dimensions as I'm sketching. If the value I enter puts the end of the line, outside diameter of a circle, etc on or close to the location to establish a rel...

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Both, imagine that, which leads me to believe someone was banging on their keyboard in hopes of something happening and something did happen but not what was hoped. Could they be changing settings on individual dimensions in the property manager (with Override Units in the Other tab or in Tolerance...

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Alex, is that happening in models, or Drawings?

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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. Dwight image.png Dwight, You probably already know this, but if you de-select that option then when you delete a component you should get a dialog box asking if you wan...

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That can happen if your active Layer is set to something other than -Per Standard-. Is that the case?

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I have searched and with reading into some comments on related topics I think I have the answer, but before I hopelessly destroy some assemblies I want to double check. Mates that show as "Suppressed (Missing)" are mates that are to components that are no longer in the model and can be de...

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This is playing on Pandora right now.

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I am happy to see that they fixed one issue with one of the "enhancements." See https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?p=36414#p36414 . For a little more information about this fix, initially I thought they had removed the Units drop-down that appeared when you'd click in a cell in the Va...

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We're still on 2023 SP4 as we haven't had the time to move to 2024. I've read a few good things about 2024 but I read a bunch of things that make me cringe. I think @Glenn Schroeder may be able to list a few of them. There are a few things I am/was unhappy with. One was the "Units" drop-d...

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That feature does work with individual parts but it will not work with an assembly. You would have to open every part that's in the assembly and save it as a previous version in order for that to work. I was just looking back at this thread and saw this comment. It did not work that way for me the ...

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KaMei wrote: ↑Thu Aug 08, 2024 2:33 amczK6uwb.png

Which one is less likely to slip off the bolt head and make me skin my knuckles?

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Howdy Alex,

I don't know what causes it, but I think I can help fix it when it happens. Have you tried Cropping the Section View?

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Pretty sure when they announced it they confirmed it would be a rolling 2 years, not always back to 2022. Just can't find a link to verify. That's correct. See https://help.solidworks.com/2024/English/WhatsNew/c_wn2024_fundamentals_saving_previous_versions.htm?id=9c7ddf7f23cd449b812319be447c2bc9#Pg...

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. . . I'll prolly start with a small subset and then augment as the need arises. That's what I did. I never attempted to include all hardware sizes, bolt lengths, washer types, etc. I just started with a few basics, and add configurations to existing files, and occasionally completely new Parts, as...

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Same is applicable for vertex option as well, just select the desired vertex without changing the end condition. You can also RMB in the graphics area and select the desired end condition. Thanks. I didn't know about clicking on a vertex. I knew about right-clicking to get the drop-down at my curso...

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When I got to work this morning I had the weekly email SW Tip from Betty Baker. I've learned a number of things from those, and today was another one. Maybe everyone else knows this, but it was new to me. 1. You're creating a Boss-Extrude or Cut-Extrude. 2. You close the sketch, open the Property Ma...

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I am happy to see that they fixed one issue with one of the "enhancements." See viewtopic.php?p=36414#p36414.

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The new feature that allows adding units to a custom property in SW2024 has caused more problems than it solved for many users (see https://help.solidworks.com/2024/english/whatsnew/c_wn2024_weldments_units_custom_prop.htm if you aren't familiar with it). Here is the link to vote to fix it, if anyo...

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Jim Elias wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2024 3:03 pm At least they didn't implement it as SW-premium only.

Don't give them any ideas.

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I have some time, so I'll go ahead and install it this morning. I'll try to remember to give an update later on (if I forget, feel free to remind me).

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That's awful.

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CarrieIves wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2024 5:40 pm 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.

That worked. Thank you very much.

Glenn Schroeder

I tried just about everything, with the same results. The engineer had reached out to the client explaining the issue, so hopefully they will send something that I can open.

Again, I really appreciate all the help.

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Jim Elias wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2024 9:06 am just out of curiosity, why not Parasolid?

Because I was sent step files. I didn't know anything about the project until that point. The files were sent to one of the engineers, and he forwarded them to me.

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On a drawing, I'm trying to attach balloons on an exploded view but the tool doesn't pick up any edge or face. Well, it does but it picks components where there's nothing. something like a quarter of an inch besides the component... I ran into the same thing a while ago. See https://www.cadforum.ne...

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Also check these settings: image.png I checked that. The only one I had different was having the box checked for "Automatically run Import Diagnostics." In any case, I've asked for the file to be saved as a single body in the native software first and then sent to me, so we'll see how tha...

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I tried again. I kept seeing messages saying it was opening a model, and there were a lot of them before it finally gave up. I don't want to post a screenshot because of IP issues, but I clicked on the SW icon at the bottom of my monitor and there was a long list of files.

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SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2024 3:31 pm This might help if it is a resource problem. How much RAM does your computer have installed?

64.0 GB

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DanPihlaja wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2024 3:18 pm Try turning off 3d interconnect first. That may be the issue.

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Thanks. I checked. It was already off. Could the files just be too large? Judging from the file names they're assemblies, if that's relevant.

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I have some step files from a client. I rarely need to do that, so it's not a process I'm familiar with. It looks like it's trying to open the files, but then I get the messages about too many windows open and SW is running out of memory (though I don't have any files open), and then it crashes. The...

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See if anything at viewtopic.php?f=17&t=98&p=883#p883 will help. I'd start with the first thing mentioned there.

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To illustrate the way we do it here, I will quote the letter written by one of the engineers about ten years ago, recommending one of the CAD monkeys for an award: "His most impressive ability is turning engineering sketches, hand-waving, and verbal descriptions into 3d working prototypes of ne...

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Indeed I did :D Quebec has vacation for 95% of the population during summer, so most shops close down during those 2 weeks, we are no exception. With my 13 years of seniority I have a grand total of 6 weeks of vacation per year , including christmas but excluding every other holiday. https://en.wik...

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I would like to encourage you to learn to use Quick Mates, if you aren't already. I resisted for quite a while, but now use them almost exclusively, and rarely need the Mates property manager at all.

If you often need the more complex mates that aren't available in Quick Mates, then never mind.

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But, my question is that you have much heavier machines on the road like big semi trucks. Is it that these barriers were approved beforehand because the barriers can usually handle the mass at that velocity if the center of gravity is higher up? The current testing standards for roadside barriers w...

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I forgot to mention that the impact speed for that test was only 62 mph (100 kph).

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