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Frank_Oostendorp

Working with the Top Ten List Admin to sort out the reason I can not use the entry form, with none of my accounts, on any of my workstations. He thinks I am the only one having this trouble. Am I? Have put a link to this post in my conversation with the admins about these problems. It looks they ar...

Frank_Oostendorp

Working with the Top Ten List Admin to sort out the reason I can not use the entry form, with none of my accounts, on any of my workstations. He thinks I am the only one having this trouble. Am I?

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Save as PDF used to have a lot of problems, so we haven't used it in quite a while. I tried it out just now and didn't find much difference. I did find that Save kinda missed the circle arrowhead, made it a little small. That's not an important difference to me, but it does show they aren't the sam...

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I used "Print", and selected pdf printer. I didn't use "Save as PDF" because if I do so, the lines in "Sheet Format" are printed in gray, not black. Is there any setting to make lines in "sheet format" being printed in black, not gray? thanks. We have the lay...

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TTevolve wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 11:32 am I believe there was also a case study where feature patterns had faster regeneration times then skecth patterns.

Can you remember where to find this study?

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Bradfordzzz wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 10:50 am Why aren't you using 2023 SP5.0?

I already have all the bugs I need. Better to be slow and save with updates. Have been tricked enough.

Frank_Oostendorp

Damned, now either wait for SP4.1, or back to SP3.1.
For now, I do nothing, and keep working in SW2023 SP2.1.

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After changing the feature sequence, and copy only one item a time, the flat pattern looks o.k.

And repaired a small detail.

So you need to keep it simple.

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Frank, You've peaked my curiosity about checking files provided by others. What information does this "macro to check history" provide and where might it be found? I've quit trying to keep track of all the surprises that show up with others files over the decades. The macro shows the crea...

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Update, not had one crash or that blinking/flashing curser issue since I have only been working on new models. I don't know then if it was something in the clients models (how they modelled/settings/templates) or something in SolidWorks 2023 files that was causing the issue. If you have to work wit...

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I, and most people, work on the surface of the earth. Having 1 lbm exert a force of 1 lbf due to earth's gravitational field doesn't strike me as outrageous, it actually seems quite practical. I also work on the surface of the earth, and a couple of miles up in the air. But dealing with objects, fl...

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Go-Pro 1960's

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Keep in mind, export of BOM with thumbnails of multi config parts show all the same config in the picture. So all bolts show equal length.

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I've been using stand-alone sketches to drive my Hole Wizard features for a long time (when I'm placing the points to define the hole locations I just drop them coincident with end and center points from the sketch). It works well, so I haven't investigated the new functionality. I know some people...

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To cheat the units not being displayed I added a "lbs" text next to my weight in my cartridge. Our ERP knows we work in pounds/inches so it doesn't need to be told the units, which is what was making me wonder your need for them. We do basically the same thing for volume and surface callo...

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I found out tody that 2023 forces the creation of a configuration table automatically. in 2022 it could be set disabled. no info in the what's new and the 2022 option is still in 2023 help file so they took away the setting and forgot to update the docs and did not tell us... Someone else did notic...

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After some annoying doubt, if I did register this behaviour right: In SolidWorks 2019, anchors of the different tables are set to the desired positions, and saved in the templates. If a second sheet is added, the anchors on the second sheet are still in the correct position. In SolidWorks 2023, new ...

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Out of curiosity, why do you guys need units shown with your dimensions..? Are there times when BOMs call out different units? We have some plates in MM rather then inches and we display their thickness in decimals, it's not very intuitive but it gives the desired result. For some products, we need...

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Frank_Oostendorp wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:25 am This could be what I have been asking for for 20 years : (could not test it yet) "It's too bad they put the drop-down blocking the next cell, so we have to click somewhere else to clear it before typing in that cell. I pissed and moaned about i...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:56 am How about just make them detail views and move them around?
Confusing enough?

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To solve the problem in reverse, per the original post, in third angle projection. I guess the original post shows the views in first angle projection, but wouldn't amaze me if it doesn't show the active, chosen type of projection in the assignment. I have no intention to show the solution already,...

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Try moving your bottom view to the top, as the OP shows it, while still using the third angle projection. Why would I do that? It shows one of the problems of SolidWorks. ( moving views to new positions can destroy the arrangement according standard of selected projection method) The problem I see ...

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To make it more confusing:

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Change the dept of the cut extruded holes from "through all" into "Blind" with a dept of 0,05mm or something very small. After that, add the hole wizard holes, but don't let them take away the original face of the first holes. It might be needed to enlarge the first holes to get ...

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Potentional Circular Reference detection, which has changed detection levels in the last few versions of SolidWorks, causes the alarm of yellow displayed equations. Some equations had no alarm in SW2019 and performed as expected, but were potentionally to be problematic in later versions, but still ...

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Frank_Oostendorp wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 4:25 am This could be what I have been asking for for 20 years :
(could not test it yet)
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Well, is is almost correct, almost, just a few small details

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Did you un-select Detailing mode?

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The basic set-up of maintenance will have a lot to do with this. SolidWorks sells the customer a seat of the software, including subscription, to have acces to updates and full live support. The subscription fee is shared by SolidWorks and the VAR. In what ratio this sharing is done, is a big secret...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Oct 04, 2023 9:39 am I get this error when I run it:
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Had the same error. You have to de-select the missing reference, see my post above.

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Ömür Tokman wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 7:56 am Thank you very much for the feedback. It's nice to be useful to someone, the qr code link is nice.

Thank you for creating this tool.
Might flood the SWYM'p with this code.

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Ömür Tokman wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 6:37 am Sorry, I didn't quite understand, is it working smoothly now?

Yes, runs smoothly now.

Frank_Oostendorp

(Thanks, sorry but it throws another error. Let's see if Alex can test it.)
After clearing the select box of the missing reference, runs great. Good job.

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Would like to test it, but seems missing the QRGen file.

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Are automatic back ups created during these 10 minutes?

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This could be what I have been asking for for 20 years :
(could not test it yet)

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DanPihlaja wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 9:54 am Late to the party, but the answer is yes. A sketch at the part/assembly level.

Either way, never saw it in my files. Can you share an example? Finally one thing that works as I expected in my version of SolidWorks. Many times my expectations don't meet SolidWorks intentions.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 8:55 am https://hawkridgesys.com/blog/creating- ... rd-feature
https://www.javelin-tech.com/blog/2022/ ... olidworks/

Tapped does not equal tapered, so BSP isn't equal to NPT.

Frank_Oostendorp

You better start creating a log file, to keep track of all the settings you modify in SolidWorks and Windows to get things working the way you want. I do this all the time, saves me a lot of time and frustration when moving to a new OS or SW version, and creating new templates etc. Otherwise it is e...

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@Uncle_Hairball This is weird. My BOM's in SW2023 SP2.1 are correct, until now. Did you find some cause of this?

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@GrahamK When I use 3DXML viewer, the original y-up view of SolidWorks is changed to z-up orientation, and everything is turned sideways up. How does your 3DXML perform in this?

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These fonts might work out.

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DanPihlaja wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 9:16 am His example is in a sketch in the 3d environment.

Your example is in the drawing environment. Very different animals.

Never to old to learn. What is the sketch in the 3D environment? A sketch to create a feature in a part? Like the one below?

Frank_Oostendorp

Don't see it in SW2019. Could you share some example files?

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Frank. This is what you do..? How does that work..? Well, less than two years ago, there was no option for offline use, but had to be created. And many other tiny details keep changing, affecting the use of the software just a bit. https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:5...

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Yea, if you know you'll be offline, you can switch it. Can't do that when you got offline unexpected. Or worse, DS went offline. Only way to work reliable with the 3DExperience connected version of SolidWorks, is to work offline all the time, and only go online to keep your software license active ...

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Autodesk saturated the edu system early on. Then they paid the price with 1,000s of seats of pirated software all over the globe. https://www.solidworks.com/solution/academia But I am sure you know there are a couple of 100,000s seats of SolidWorks without subscription still running all over the gl...

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Arthur NY wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 7:30 pm using DFAM techniques to create internal structures which will net an even stronger model than what any 100% infill will do.

Could you show an example of a part that is stronger with an infill less than 100% compared to a massive one?

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And not to forget, to boost up the number of paying participants in the 3DExperience cloud infrastructure. So far, only less then 3 percent of SolidWorks users actually use the 3DExperience cloud version, including all DS employees and students and hobbyists. And I think 2 percent have left the 3DEx...

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You can create a favourite with your angle. So you can select it when needed.

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