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Quick update: I've found that the problem only occurs when editing the sheet format of the template. If I create an actual drawing from the template, the zone labels appear as expected, so it's more of an annoyance than a problem at this point.

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Well, I had similar ideas, but: Even VBA supports strong typing, early binding and SW API objects, so I'm not sure what limitations it could be imposing. Perhaps you are right, there are some COM related limitations, although other APIs (for example Excel API) happily return specific objects instea...

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The API is nearly 30 years old. You cannot have backwards compatibility for 30 years without making a mess. Some of the problems are limitations of COM itself (primarily array/variant related weirdness). Some of the problems are due to trying to support 3 (now 4) different programming languages and ...

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Testing SW2025 SP0 and I'm seeing something strange with Automatic Borders. I always recreate my drawing templates from scratch with each new release using the default SW generated templates as a starting point. The first step is to create the automatic border. I'm testing in a virtual machine, so t...

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FYI: This problem disappeared in the SP0 release.

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As for setting the page numbers, I now do it TWO ways. On Checkin, PDM will run a refresh on the page numbers. I also added a macro to do it, whenever someone adds a DCN to the drawing. So, I did it both ways, neither using custom property equations. The Dispatch is shown above, the VBA code is bel...

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If it is PDM Pro, you can use the built in Import/Export Rule functionality. See the Chapter named 'Importing and Exporting Data' in the Administration Guide (accessible from the PDM Administration tool).

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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\SOLIDWORKS 20XX\ExtReferences

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I've installed PDM 2025 PR1 on my development server and the Edit Template dialog has gone missing. If I double click on an existing template in the admin tool, the template editor dialog does not appear. The clicked template will appear in the 'Recently Used' list but that's it. I can create a new ...

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This is broken as far back as SW2017.

BR10000387407 - Unable to control Hole callout angle precision using document settings. It follows the length dimension precision instead of angle precision

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Yeah, the INT function is borked. You wouldn't be bothering with this at all if this SPR were addressed:

SPR769752 - Ability to set certain drawing sheets to be ignored from total sheet count

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To answer my own question, the technical sites believe display states are lighter than configurations: https://help.solidworks.com/2019/english/SolidWorks/sldworks/c_display_states_configurations_assemblies.htm "Switching from one configuration to another can slow performance, especially in la...

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MJuric wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2024 2:10 pm I saw I could do that in AutoCAD...unfortunately I don't have an AutoCAD license at the moment. This is actually in Draftsight.

Draftsight has an API

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P = F/A, so just multiply your pressure by the piston area and apply the force.

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I have a multibody part file named 437514.SLDPRT. When I right click any cut list item in the feature tree and select 'Properties', in the Cut list summary, the Value/Text Expression for most of the properties are wrong. It looks like this: image.png If I click on any other cut list item in the list...

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Use 'Cut with Surface'.

1. Transfer the surface created in DesignX to SOLIDWORKS
2. Create a solid block in SOLIDWORKS positioned where you want relative to the surface
3. Cut with Surface.

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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 Easy fix. NEVER ROTATE DRAWING VIEWS. I've been using SW since 1997 and have never needed to rotate a drawing view....

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There's a bug report in the Knowledge Base describing something like what you are seeing: ======================================================== BR10000348532 -- SOLIDWORKS Document Properties - unit precision changes to 6 decimals when sketch is moved 1. Create a part in SOLIDWORKS 2. Go to Optio...

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What SOLIDWORKS version and SP are you running?

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2024 10:46 am https://hackaday.com/2024/08/16/a-moder ... -language/
Wow, that was fun to read.

We've come full circle:

https://www.emojicode.org/

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Unfortunately, these are the only things that you can include inside a block. image.png There's an open SPR requesting the ability to add other annotation types. SPR147307 -- Allow surface finish, geometric tolerance (GTOL), datum and weld symbol annotations to be selectable entities for making blo...

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So, I had a simulation to run so I thought I would play around with this. My simulations did not generate a .CFG file, but apparently, that file is only generated if you use the FFEPlus solver. I switched to that solver and still didn't see a .cfg file. However, all the other files that were generat...

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If the file is checked out, the read-only flag should not be checked. I would uncheck it and see if the problem goes away.

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Nothing unusual about that name. Is there a Down.CFG file in the vault folder where the simulation files are being placed? If so, is it actually in the vault or is it a local file? If it's truly in the vault, is the read-only attribute set, even though the file is checked out?

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In this case it is tied to a single study. I was able to copy a similar study and it would run. If I tried to rename that study to the original problematic study, it crashed again. I usually don't do simulation work with the files still in PDM. I thought I would see if I could get away with it, but...

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Fortran is still one of the best languages for matrix operations. Dassault's high end FEA software Abaqus uses it as well. As does ANSYS, Nastran and probably most other FEA software.

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Best guess, this is some sort of file system timing problem. The Fortran runtime is creating a file in the vault. PDM sees this and then grabs control of the file to officially add it to the vault. While this is going on, Fortran tries to open or write to the file but can't because PDM still has the...

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Check to see if any part in the assembly has an in-context feature that references the other assembly that is loaded.

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Use View....Hide/Show...Temporary Axes to display the hole centerline and then you can do as @Jim_Elias says and edit the sketch to make it colinear with the temporary axis.

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Good Morning @JSculley . I fiddled a bit with the code and it is working fine, thanks again for your help UU . It still continuously working on making it better. Is there a way I can set the "wordwrap width" with the code? Keep in mind that I don't have "SOLIDWORKS Document Manager A...

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Or Filter Edges in the Selection Filter:

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Just activate the view before you call CreateText2 to add the note. Here's an example: Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Const xStart = 5 * 25.4 / 1000# Const yStart = 5 * 25.4 / 1000# Const xGap = 5 * 25.4 / 1000# Const yGap = 5 * 25.4 / 1000# Const rowCount = 3 Const colCount = 5 Sub main() Dim mDoc ...

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matt wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 5:26 pm Ok, I didn't see the problem, but the watercooler was definitely slow. I disabled the Best Answer addin temporarily. Do you still get the error?

Error is gone for me. Both the Watercooler and Jokes Topics.

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Uhhhhh, are you opening from a saved page? There was a time when there was something different in the header, but that has been a while. The addin is even gone. Happens in Chrome as well: image.png Not a saved page. I went there via Main Page......Kitty Dump....Watercooler Talk. I tried with an Inc...

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Thank you for the feedback. I am not getting " If you then select the sketch entity again and drag the message appears again, but when you release the mouse the mouse pointer disappears and the sketch entity will follow your mouse movement. " to work for me. That behavior was only seen wh...

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It's there in SW2017 (single click on entity to bring up Property Manager): image.png but interestingly, the Help does not mention it at all. Also, SW behaves a bit strangely. If you edit the 3D sketch and try to drag the sketch entity, SW complains "Cannot drag. The selected item is fixed.&quo...

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I wrote an add-in to connect to our Oracle system for the purpose of creating part numbers so that we engineers didn't need to manually create numbers in Oracle (a very painful process) and then Save/Save As our models to those part numbers. We just do a 'Submit for Release' transition and the add-i...

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Hansjoerg wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 5:57 am Is it possible to insert comment lines in Dispatch to make the code easier to understand?

SPR573110 - Dispatch: functionality to add comments

The SPR is about 6 years old.

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The best way is to have the dummy part in the model. If your release process requires 'a bunch of silly actions', well, that's a problem with your process. To get a zero in your quantity column, try this: Add a custom property (Yes/No) to your reference documents. Call it something like IS_REF. Set ...

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DanPihlaja wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 2:32 pm
Also, if you can't put a 0 quantity, then what does this setting mean?

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That setting only applies to multi-configuration BOMs where a part is suppressed in some configurations but not others.

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Do you ever need to show more than two values? If not, you can use 2 properties instead of 4 and avoid the whole problem. You can use control logic to hide/show one of two overlapping static text fields on the data card so that the user thinks they are entering Art.No, but the data is actually going...

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New in SW 2023 : =========================== To link annotations to gauge values: In a drawing of a sheet metal part, click an annotation, such as Note . In the PropertyManager, click Link to Property . In the Link to property dialog box, in Property name, select Sheet Metal Gauge. =================...

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I updated the OP. My real problem now is how to identify the opened explorer windows and close them. When opening a certain path inside the vault the explorer window is no more able to identify its selfpath apparently. As noted in my SWYMp reply: Use the Windows API for this. Put this at the top of...

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There is a simple way with surfaces that only requires a single sketch. Start with this: image.png I'll show one side, but the process is the same for both sides. 1. Create a sketch on the end face and offset the ID edge equasl to your land length (2mm): image.png 2. Use the sketch to create a split...

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Thanks @JSculley , was thinking about that, but not sure how to implement it. Normally you would know the total number of actions/events and then show the percentage completed on the status bar. In this case, I want to delete all instances of a file outside the PDM on a network drive and replace it...

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Use a progress indicator in the status bar:

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See Feature::GetErrorCode2 in the API help.

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Most people do not model standard threads. They are resource intensive and cosmetic threads are sufficient for most purposes. Having said that, if you wish to continue doing so, you can create a library feature.

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This was timely (and unintentional.) I created this sketch (with an unintended self-intersection), attempted an extrude cut and got this error: image.png No problem, I thought. I can just select a region. image.png image.png So I'm back to cancelling the operation, fixing the sketch and trying agai...

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See the Remarks section of this page in the API Help.

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