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bnemec

Wow! Just Wow! So if I understand that post correctly the only thing that was changed was a dimension & it lost the concentric mate! <()> I think maybe that it doesn't matter what was changed. It's the import step that assigns Solidworks geometryIDs. We've seen this with other imports, every ne...

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I've run into these kind of videos. I didn't think they were AI generated, just some non english speaking writer using a program to read it with the recognizable "robot" voice. The voice software is getting better but still off a little. The content sounds professional at first, but when ...

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When it was on the old forum the TTL was VERY easy to access and VERY popular. Since moving to the 3DSWAMP it is not worth the trouble! Early on I think the TTL was actually listened to, but now that the software has matured there isn't as much low-hanging fruit and your third point is most likely ...

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In case anyone cares, what I settled on is calling this function. I use the id of logged in user (a user account only used for automation) in the sql statement. The return value is compared against the number of files expected to have been edited. private static int ClearLastActiveDateHistory() { in...

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FIFY When it was on the old forum the TTL was VERY easy to access and VERY popular. Since moving to the 3DSWAMP it is not worth the trouble! Early on I think the TTL was actually listened to, but now that the software has matured there isn't as much low-hanging fruit and your third point is most lik...

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Broken links happen so I'm not too concerned with that if they can get it fixed in a timely manner. I think their bigger concern should be that this link was posted 3 weeks ago with little to no feedback from the community. Not sure if they know or care that the community that they had with the old...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 11:42 am Welp, here we are.

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Poor Brad. He seems nice.

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jcapriotti wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 2:00 pm Probably because the platform requires an account to read anything whereas the blog is accessible to anyone.

By "accessible to anyone", do you mean like the forum used to be? The forum that functioned.

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We've used the "save as html" from edrawings of the sldasm or sldprt. I don't know what it is exactly but looks like it embeds the eModelViewer into an html file along with the 3D data as it loads in the browser just like edrawings. In our testing, quality is much better than 3Dpdf (it's s...

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TL DR, We jumped from a slow boat to a sinking boat that the captain had abandoned a while back and a puppet had been put at the wheel in his place. The jump was painful and I'm not sure if it's worse to jump ship again or just tread water. We switched from Solid Edge (another red headed stepchild &...

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I never used SW eXplorer, it was on it's way out as we started with SW. But if it were at all like Solid Edge's Revision/Design Manager, then removing it would cripple a substantial part of the user base. It was a Move Tree, Copy Tree, mass data card editor, part swapper, Swiss Army Knife of SE file...

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Investigating a SolidWorks assembly performance issue: 800 parts 90 unique 30 sub-assy 9 unique sub-assy 860 top level mates :o I was thinking, why so many mates? Fasteners mostly it turns out. There are sheet metal parts with lots of holes, some round, some hex, some key slots. The user built the ...

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Model saved in 2024?

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I don't have any issue with bend lines showing whether display states are linked or not. We always hide them and usually we have displayed states unlinked. At the risk of hi-jacking thread, but hopefully it's relevant and points out how use cases affect many things. Hiding the bend lines in the fla...

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Looking for critique and input. TLDR. Can't you just spoon feed these to me as I need them? Honestly though, pretty good list. About a 1/3 of it applies to our use case and I think are nearly universal. Some of it is use case specific; ex. using mirrored configurations and parts are always specific...

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I'm assuming that you are expecting the thickness to vary nonlinearly across the span, matching the nonlinearity of the chord? This is just a guess, but the loft is solving for optimized curvature gradients rather than keeping constant aspect ratio of thickness/chord. I think because of that you wil...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2024 7:33 am Siemens just launched a product that maybe nobody asked for, a cloud-based version of Sold Edge, Solid Edge X, as it will soon be known, SE-X.

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What price difference would that be exactly? The NX license i have is half the price of the SW one... FYI. That's strange. Back when we purchased NX (~10yrs ago maybe) price was something like 3x of Solid Edge Classic purchase and maint. I don't know current prices of NX or which version of SW you'...

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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...

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I confuse myself when testing pdm add-ins. I should really know better from the last time, but I still make idiotic mistakes. Should probably keep this to myself, but. I just learned that I can launch a task using one version of an add-in then run the task on another version of the add-in. I launche...

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So this date for these files actually change daily? Some do, it depends on orders. The intent is to filter out, mostly automatically, CAD files that are not in use. Explaining the why would take me a while, I'm not good at summarizing. Several of us came up with a plan to try. Step one is keep a &q...

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just an idea I do not know if it is silly or it does not work in your peculiar case, but there is the possibility for a field in the PDM datacard to be updated at a fixed interval from an external db with a temporary table and a sql query. I tested only once with a drop down menu and it indeed fill...

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Is this updated every few minutes actually changing a value or is the value the same most of the time but the program updates it anyway? If this is true, can the import program be made smarter and only import when the value changes? Well, the plan was to run once a day. The query to eternal DB and ...

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I'm wondering which would be worse.
Using a SQL command "DELETE FROM [Vault].[dbo].[HistoryVerFreeVarChanged] WHERE UserId = 2 and Name = LastActiveDate" after running Batch variable update.
Or using UPDATE on the VariableValues table.

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I do not think it is possible. We get a lot of history entries from action performed by the pdm system when a user open a file, probably because we transitioned the variable from custom properties to db only and from history to history free.(which was a mess of a choice imho.) Not logging those act...

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I would like to set a version free variable on files without creating an entry on the file history. This will be set on several two or three thousand files a day and will make using file history difficult as there will be hundreds of irrelevant rows. I tried both settings on the version free variabl...

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We work with a third party PDM. The date in the windows file properties is the date the file was checked out of the vault which is essentially creating a new file on the local drive so that is as expected. The unexpected bit is the last save date in the SolidWorks Summary Info and that it is saying...

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I just checked and most that I checked don't match either. Vault and non-vaulted files all have significantly created date, like years different. The Last Saved more often close to the Modified date, but off by an hour and a second. I'm guessing SW has it's own metadata values for the created and la...

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We have had all of the files you list except Appearances and Custom Properties in PDM vault since we started ~4 years ago. It does work nice to set up a category for them other than the default bin and regular CAD files, then give them a workflow. Our workflow just has two states, one where file can...

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When working on a part, inside of an assembly, Solidworks ALWAYS picks an external reference. For example, if drawing a circle on the face of the part I am editing, it could reference the origin of the part I'm working on, or it could reference the origin of the assembly. Picking the origin of the ...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 10:15 am 2019 stung quite a few people

Stung us bad.

It's the only version we've used so far.

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Win11? Hrm. What version and SP of PDM?

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At this point, he thinks my Vault View needs to be deleted and rebuilt. The question is what happens to the 135 files I have checked out? Do I lose all of that work? He is going to do some testing and get back to me, but I don't have a good feeling about what is going on. When we ran into a case of...

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If it were me I would try these things, order would depend on what else I'm seeing and mostly guessing... - Try logging in as another user on same machine and then same user on different machine. Sounds dumb but I've found this to be helpful. * we use AD for login so I have a couple of PDM only user...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 2:52 pm This is very minor, but....

The symbol to rotate a drawing view points clockwise.
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The number entered in the dialog rotates the view counter clockwise.

I am a GIF.
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That is irrelevant as long as the icon is aesthetically pleasing and fun to click.

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Not sure the link you posted is the correct one, it goes to a sheet metal topic, not assembly related. Are all of the component files at the current solidworks version? I've heard that opening/loading files from older versions takes longer. This may be mute point for files loaded light weight. Have ...

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This is the first time this has happened to me and it only happened with this piece among many pieces that had the same shape but different dimensions. It was completely random. Sounds like Solidworks or graphics driver glitch. Feels like it goes in the "Did you try restarting solidworks?"...

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Likely nothing to do with the single missing bend line but, I see bend lines in your formed model. We were plagued by this with tens of thousands of bend lines in our upper level models. (Yes I know display sketches can be turned off but then there's the time we use a sketch for mate....) After a co...

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I'm back in the office, here's a picture of the dumpingg trailer with the axles pulled out image.png That's a cool solution instead of pintle hitch dollies. I'm guessing it trails/trains a lot nicer then tandems/triples on dollies? Backing up is a bit more realistic. It seems a bit of chore to unho...

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Welcome to CADForum.net @hugozanga2024 If you haven't already, please stop by the forum rules section to read through them, matt is our admin and as you can see in the "couple of rules added" matt is human. Maybe stop by the welcome forum https://www.cadforum.net/viewforum.php?f=28 and say...

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It ran on 7-1 then again on 7-31, I'm curious to see if it will run in August at all or be the first of Sept.

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but could the start date be set to the second or third day of the month, then if it's a day off it's still in the correct month?

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2024 12:11 pm {{Not}{If}{it}{still}{look}{like}{this}}

It does look better now.

bnemec

Would adding those temporary file types to the "never add these file types" list in user/group settings help? Is PDM adding it to vault but then the SW cannot delete them per PDM permissions? Then the file checked in due to relations, but then when pdm service tried to remove the read only...

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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. Nice catch. I used to see this a lot from a few users who insisted on using vault view to do PDM stuff (like check out) while files are open in Solidworks. I would not have gue...

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Our process slowly evolved over several years to copy out the needed file to a location on local disk, preferably appending version number to end of file name(s). Reasons: - There's typically enough editing needed to model to do the sim that is not what we want in the production model that we need a...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Thu Aug 08, 2024 2:34 pm I keep telling sales not to make running sentence part number.

..or running sentence directory names 10 levels deep.

In general keeping sales away from CAD and PDM helps.

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TRKemp wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 7:58 am Will be following this thread to learn the same.

Any updates on that sheetmetal "anomaly" ?

What sheet metal anomaly? Do you have a link? Was the "enhancement" introduced in 2023 or early 2024 release?

Thank you.

bnemec

To revisit this, I've got a set of fastener files from back in the "good old days", that I need to clean up now that I have some time on my hands. I retired a year ago. All the parts are configuration based, but the configurations are just sizes, not materials/coatings. For instance, in a...

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Is it that critical that the task is run exactly on the 1st of each month? A 30 day interval will not do?

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Be careful way up on that mountain top, the air gets thin up there, can be hard to keep Oxygen levels up.

Which makes me wonder, since the air is thinner at high altitudes, does a lb of air weigh less on mountain top?

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