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HDS

Apart from the big general question in the OP, I have a few specific questions about SW. I've tested the trial version in the SW page for a few minutes and I have a few questions straight away: -How powerful is solid works for surfacing work? -I also like to create every different feature in a sepa...

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don't forget you can put fasteners (or any component) in folders in the assembly. So the tree shows 3 components.

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Be aware that some things like Visualize and CAM only work while you are on subscription.

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josh wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 10:14 am Late to the game, but... Turn on Zebra stripes?

that works

I was going to also suggest curvature but that doesn't help because the curvature is uniform.

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There are bugs with this in some versions, probably 2019. Appearances keep changing on their own. I have not seen it as bad in 2020.

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Under Minor Change is a bit controversial. It allows doing "minor modifications" without doing a new revision but that gives some dangerous power for designers, which some consider total herecy. But in practice in the field I always see the need for that, and that transition can be restri...

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Just is case someone else ever has this problem.

MLC figured it out. I was running with a time limit that was too short to get a first pass in. So the output was a blank file. When I switched to a number of passes there was a rendering in the output file.

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Not to 100% disagree with you on where you're going with this, but it is possible to get a very smooth surface with with various AM processes. Polyjet, SLA....etc. and very little to none shows in terms of facets. Some of what you can get for jewelry and lost wax casting is just mind blowing. What ...

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That is how 3D printing works. It will be polygons no matter what you do. It doesn't matter what CAD software you use if it is a polygonised file format like STL or 3MF. It is a legacy of the beginning of the technology in the 80s. If you need a real circle not a polygon with 1000 faces you have to ...

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Hang in there. A few months to a year in is too early talk about switching. It will be much easier for you to change jobs to somewhere that uses Solid Edge then convince the company to change for you. The corollary that others have mentioned is that it is easier for management to replace you than th...

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zxys001 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:32 pm This thread reminded me of this...
https://www.solidsmack.com/cad/multi-co ... olidworks/

I use that alot for imported assemblies.

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I have found that colored shaded views works better than hatching for for many things. The one we use it for the most is what area of a plastic part are textured. I have also used color shaded views on complex machined manifolds. The outside surfaces were transparent and each hole was a different co...

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Upgrading more often lets you purchase a much less expensive system. You can get a CPU that is one or two steps down from the fastest thing that was just released. A workstation that will be fast enough for 2 years is half the cost of one that will be O.K. for 5. You can also spend less on shorter w...

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I have seen both extremes. Best was when the engineering manager was also the IT manager. Every computer purchased for the entire company was a top of the line engineering workstation. The oldest engineering computer was replaced and the other person got an old workstation. It worked well for everyo...

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Hiding planes or sketches can cause a change in the file that it will ask to save.

I think there a message just for this but if the file was created in an older version it will want to save it to the newer version when it is closed.

Henry

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Wasn't this one of the Top Ten list items for 2022?

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[*]Our parts are named like the part number - it is counter intuitive to search for part number B and then go through all the properties of part A to see if there is part number B available as a configuration Do you have the option for parts numbers with an extension like 1234-yy? Then you can have...

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I am using Visualize Standard 2020 SP5.

I am rendering with a PNG output with a transparent background. Sometimes it works and creates the image. Sometimes it completes without error but the file is empty. There is nothing but the transparent background. What am I doing wrong?

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Dan

The parts that are not sectioned are solid bodies, not surfaces.

Good question. They are showing up unsectioned as full parts.

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I suppose I need to add this to the video. Dwight Better in a second video but defiantly an interesting trick. I have seen the advice several times to not use Sketch Patterns but you have show how they can be a very useful tool. I have been frustrated before that I could not pattern features from t...

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Dwight

All of the show hide tabs are empty. Settings on Section Scope or View properties do not fix the problem. There are still parts and entire subassemblies that are entirely visible and cut in half by the section.

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So what can I do when the section view tool in the drawing only sections 20 of 100 parts?

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TTevole I use the Section View command in the toolbar at the top of the screen. Everything is sectioned with no errors. I would give up and create a cut in the assembly except that I do not want to create the configurations to turn suppress it for the other drawing views. Sorry, I can not show a scr...

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Both ways of creating the section in the drawing have the same problem.

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I have a top level assembly with many parts and sub assemblies. I would like to put a section view of it on the drawing. I created a section view in the assembly model it works fine. When I do the same thing in the drawing half of the parts and sub assemblies do not cut. Nothing I have tried has wor...

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maybe I'm missing the earlier post then but a simple cylinder with a radius at the base cannot be drafted. capture1.PNG I am not sure if there is a better way to reference it but the 9th post has a picture of the geometry from the original problem. The rounds he wants to draft are on the sides not ...

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you can't draft after the round. by definition a round is tangent to the adjacent faces but drafting changes that surface so the software won't let you draft. If the model looks just like the one in the earlier post you can draft the rounds. If there is an additional round on the top face you can n...

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bnemac

I often have a set of draft and round as the last thing before the shell. Then another set at the very end of the model. I find it easier than drafting both sides of an outside wall.

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The result is only different if you draft in the extrude feature. If you extrude, round, then draft it is the same. However, without the issues with a fillet in the sketch. I am not sure it matters for injection molded parts as long as you follow the other rules about wall thickness ect. You can ask...

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Verification on rebuild is off.

Still making changes to master so we can not break the link.

Keep the ideas coming. This is all useful.

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how do you lock the master model?

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We have a part that is unstable on regen. All most every other time you hit crtl-Q it will fail. You crtl-Q again and it fixes itself. The part is mostly surfaces. It has references to a master model and on other parts that are open in session. All parts are in PDM. What should we look for that woul...

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Would that also work for an item like, teflon tape, grease or locktite that is on the bom but does not have geometry?

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I have seen Windows 10 do this in the included programs and OS. So Microsoft has the same problem. Regardless SW will have to fix it instead of waiting for MS. Would you like a list of items I still think are a major issue in SolidWorks 2022 SP 0.0? (Still have to start testing SP1.0) A. 4K display ...

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The Y axis could be something like open SPR with the origin set at 10,000.

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Welcome

If you get that binder jet printer please post about it in the 3D printing section.

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Good video

He seems happy with the Sherline and that would do what I need at a great cost.

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Mostly plastic.
Maybe a little drilling and tapping Al.

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I remember Think3 because they had a marketing campaign where you played a Doom like game and built your weapon using Think3. It was a clever but I never tried it.

http://84.239.153.245/hut/rp-ml-1999/0881.html

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Our R&D shop needs a lathe. the budget is under $2,000. Of course it will be small and import at that price. Any suggestions for something reliable?

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Not taking the time up front to look at the basics and just jumping in and fumbling through it. This maybe more important if you've used other software. Review what the mouse buttons do, the meanings of icons ect. Randomly placing the first part in an assembly because you don't know to hit the green...

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I fell like this headline is an opportunity for a punchline contest.

Something along the lines of "one is a bottom dwelling scum sucker and the other is just a fish."

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Easier way to test registry issues is to login as a different user.

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Try the macro from here:

https://cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?p=14166

It works on parts and assemblies to hide all chosen items.

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I have never heard anyone say they like their ERP.

Netsuite seems to work better for smaller companies than SAP.

I have seen bad results from SAGE and Syteline but that could have just been very incompetent implementations.

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Mike Right now the most important things is which parts you can find more than the perfect performance. Purchasing a bundle makes it easier than trying to buy each parts by itself. The weird thing right now is that the Quadro cards are easier to find than the Geforce (check Micro Center). However, N...

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We started with 16GB but would run out of ram because of the enterprise IT overhead with Windows 10. MS Teams can use .5 to 1GB alone. All together 8GB can be used on a fresh boot without opening anything. 32gb seems to be enough for our small assemblies. I haven't run out of RAM since the upgrade. ...

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The sketch relation tool I miss in SW is from Pro/E. If you add a conflicting relation it shows the conflicts and askes which one you want to change.

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How does SE handle arrangements/configurations? It looks like they call it "alternate assemblies" but I would like to hear from SE users how well this works, and how it compares to NX arrangements/SW configurations. https://docs.plm.automation.siemens.com/data_services/resources/se/106/he...

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2019 and 2020 had lots of bugs in configurations, display states and appearances. They randomly change, get lost and never stay fixed. I never found a work around. can not say if they got fixed in 2021.

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