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AlexLachance

Tera wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2024 5:50 pm If you change the color of a line (let's say to red), and print the drawing with a pdf printer (not save as), is the line in red in your saved pdf file?

Thanks.

If your PDF Printer is not printing correctly, that is what you need to investigate IMO, not SolidWorks.

AlexLachance

How exactly do you print your drawings in pdf? A step by step please. And what's your SW version? And if possible, can you please show a portion of a drawing, printed colored in pdf? Thanks. Our PDF's are generated through the save process, not the print one, though the settings controlling this ar...

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With the help of all, specially @jcapriotti, it seems that my problem is solved. Thanks to all and if you don't mind one more question. (Though I have a new working method) Back to my original question, does anyone know why printing a sheet in pdf, prints the views(Fills, lines, etc)in black and wh...

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French group dropped a new album and they have a song that speaks about the horrible accent we frenchies inherit from our parents, it's meant as a humoristic take. Keep in mind it's "metal", so not for everyone's taste :lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuhrukMIJy0&ab_channel=Mononc...

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This might not be what your looking for but I used to have the common notes and blocks in my templates. I now store many things in our design library: notes, blocks, common features (Library Feature Parts). I even store some starter assemblies in there, much like templates. Notes you can set up to ...

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Would I have to do that every time I open an .SLDDRW? Thanks. If it's been inserted once in it, it remains as a "favorite", if it's never been inserted, it needs to be inserted to fall in the favorite category. Maybe you could insert it into your template and it would be part of the favor...

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 3:22 pm 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.

You can save them externally and import them as annotations I believe, that is what we do.

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I like your list. Very Useful. Most things follow our own practices. I don't quite agree with item k, which says to avoid sketch arrays and use array features. I think sketch arrays are pretty handy and powerful, especially when you use sketch constraints to control them instead of using numbers in...

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Will most likely give it a shot within the next 2 weeks to test-run it on our side and see if we're sticking to 2023 or moving to 2024.

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Alex I find that the manual delete function for tree features will do only a small subset of the features I select, and often it will delete features I don't select. If I uncheck "Delete child features" then it will delete even fewer features and still delete features I have not selected ...

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I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to accomplish Dwight? You want something that deletes what you selected, why not delete it "manually" by pressing "delete"..? Is it that it deletes other features in the tree? If so, you want to uncheck "Delete child features&quo...

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New dumping trailer developped! Testing will begin soon

AlexLachance

Here is an example where that is not the case. This part is also a cylinder, constructed to have a blind end condition, and therefore uses a straightforward way of determining the length via the properties. i made its length 15.0625 in the model. image.png The other part is the pipe that uses the b...

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Thanks for your help. Im linking the custom properties to the model as well, but using the drawing template settings to determine the unit output on the drawing BOM. I've done this for other parts where the length isnt being determined by the bounding box and it works out fine. :?: image.png I'm us...

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It is a wonderful start to the week. We rent the back portion of our shop to a machine shop that does 95% of our machine work. The owner has been on dialysis for a decade waiting on a Kidney. Over the weekend he had stroke, and while it isn't as bad as it could be, he has a lot of therapy ahead of ...

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I just accepted a position with a mechanical drafting firm as a junior draftsman. I was so worried and had been stressing on this, maybe to an unhealthy level as coming out of school, I would have some debt along with health issues of my elderly dad.That, and when I started the school I had worked ...

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Considering the price difference between NX and Edge/Solidworks; I wonder if that's what testing and trouble shooting costs. I'd say it's the cost of professionalism rather then trouble shooting. The way features are introduced in NX is a much more logical way of proceeding then modifying the actua...

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And if the part dimensions change, you need to rename the configuration? And how do you deal with multibodies then? These are for dimensions that will not change, so the configurations remains the same. It's generally for a part that varies in height, so we have a part with all heights by 1/8"...

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We work in this sort of manner; 4 letters for categories, a dash to seperate, 4 characters for part numbering, 3 or 4 characters for configuration numbering(when used) So for instance: SUSP-1313-254 Would mean Suspension category 1313 being the part increment 254 being the configuration increment, r...

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laukejas wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2024 3:48 am Yes, and apparently they made a hotfix for this issue. Ask your VAR to send it for you as well, I was told it's number is QA00000367153. I'd post it here but I'm not sure if that's allowed :/

Why wouldn't it be?

AlexLachance

"Fix" like "repair" or "fix" like "make stationary"? I can't picture what this is. Thanks Dwight Fix like place it as it were previously I imagine, though like you, I have a hard time picturing how that would be possible but then again I'm not a programmer.

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is the wrong name, the name of the part that was used as a "reference" for the save-as of the new part? If so, I've had this happen to me. Reported it in 2019, our VAR had provided a program to fix the issue and the suggestion was to have this checked: image.png In our case, we weren't sur...

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Sorry for acting stupid. When I ctrl select a hole callout and a note, the right context menu has a lot of options. The only two that seems to be a possible solution is "Merge Annotation" and "Make Block", which I've already tested them and it doesn't do what I'm looking for. Ho...

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I have also seen quite a few recommendations to update templates every year. I have ignored that advice. I'm still using templates that were set up in 2009. I don't even bother saving them to the new version unless I make some changes (and I go years without doing that). I will add that I don't use...

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All A user here gets an error message when he tries to drag a washer from Toolbox into an assembly: image.png For me it works fine, but we can't find anything different in our Toolbox settings or other settings. The Toolbox files are local, downloaded from a central server. What should we look for?...

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Do you work with PDM? We're not on PDM but perhaps PDM could interpret things differently. I've never seen that occur personally, we actually use the Windows time stamp sometimes to know if an issue(such as work that was done and saved lost) was caused by a save not working.

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In the end DS made the VARs say to us: "Hey you did not know you needed to remake ALL your templates at every SW version update? LOL" with a straight face. The little problems we are facing: - there is no tool to compare two templates - file properties are not exportable for about 50% of ...

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Your post is missing pictures, welcome to the forum though!

Maybe this can be of help

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American projection is pretty much the opposite of what european projection is.

AlexLachance

SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 12:49 pm Could it be related to this?

SOLIDWORKS Simulation Results Save Location

The file and the study are saved locally. Will check next time if the study still exists locally

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Has anyone ever had an error while doing a simulation that said something along the line of "Storage not found for study"? If so, anyone know what causes it and how to avoid it...? It's quite an annoyance, the study is deleted without reason and throws off that error. Multiple users have h...

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Something i noticed right away in this version - maybe its a graphics / performance related option someone can help me "sus" out? This is a sheemetal cone, or loft. In this version, there are random linear graphics that appear. When depressing the scroll wheel, they dissapear temporarily,...

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Some areas of the state received over 30" of rain in a 4 day period. So much infrastructure is gone, I can't imagine what it will take for things to get back to normal. If you live on the coast, you expect hurricanes. If you live in the woods in California, you know there is a possibility of a...

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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 All the pictures and videos I saw passing during the weekend were horrifying to see. I hope things...

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I take it back. A second file i tested (after the initial single file quick test with a file i could remember easily) still has the bug. 50% strike rate? I think that's good when it comes to SW bugs (i want to laugh... but i just can't bring myself to at that joke). First file was last saved in SW2...

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This is cool. I work also on transport equipment. Even tho the rules are a little different here in Australia, the needs remain similar. I used to be somewhat involved in a similar product. This one did not require disconnection to tip each trailer. Providing the unloading site allowed the necessar...

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Alex .. you need to test 2024 SP4. Its your turn buddy. UU If we had moved to a prior version of 2024, I probably wouldn't mind. It's the process that is demanding, rolling out the update on 15 workstations is quite a task. Also has to be done on a day where everyone's off besides me, also needs to...

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Stung us bad. It's the only version we've used so far. Stung us bad too, took 4 years for me to be able to convince my boss to move to 2023, and I believe we mostly did it because we wouldn't have had support for both SolidWorks and CustomTools. We're on 2023 SP4, might move to 2024 SP5 once it's o...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 9:44 am I get it. 2019 was the wake up call for me. After the upgrade, "Solidworks is busy" about 90% of the time.

Make sure you download the full set of files, not just the installation manager.

2019 stung quite a few people

AlexLachance

DanPihlaja wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 8:26 am What I want in the next release is the following:

Every single setting, feature, checkbox, drop down menu, text box, etc... in the ENTIRE program to have a "set as default" option.

Care to delve a bit more into detail..?

AlexLachance

I am seeing a bit of that. LOTS of nepotism. It's actually kind of depressing, but I try to dwell on things I can control. Unfortunately, I am not related to or know on a personal level many engineers or people in the industry. And my previous industry, once you leave, the relationship ends. And th...

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I'm printing that in the office and posting it around

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There's a bunch of people on here that do 3D Printing so I'm sure you'll have an answer come along, unfortunately I am not one of them. Welcome to the forums by the way!

AlexLachance

Well, sometimes you have to ask the dumb questions. And, like most forum boards (including Reddit), 90 percent of people lurk and never post looking for the answers to the dumb questions. It was something I noticed. I remember almost two years ago when I began the degree, I asked somewhere about th...

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Dwight wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 10:57 am Weird. I've been hitting that "X" button in the window corner for a while now. Just now it worked. I am saved. Still, I don't know why the error is coming up all of a sudden.

If you can get the previous version, try sending it to your VAR, maybe he can figure out why

AlexLachance

I honestly haven't had any struggle ever since I started using both the selection filter and the select other, but maybe I'm not working in the same environment as you. Most of the times I had struggles were when I was doing mates, I'm guessing your struggles are while creating features and what-not.

AlexLachance

Unfortunately, I cannot. It is behind the NDA wall. However, I will try to get an example part from one of our CNC programmers that I can share. taking the part, slicing it here and there and leaving only a sample of it and then exporting it as a .step wouldn't "work-around" the NDA...?

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The selection is a very BASE FEATURE and in SW it has been painful for along time (selecting edges that are small and/or close to others i ridiculous painful. Hell even when alone i have to fanoogle the damn thing for far to long to select the damn thing i want. NX, pure gold. Have you given a shot...

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Yeah, that is really the annoying thing about this as opposed to other industry is that there seems to be like a dozen or more titles for what we do. For instance, if you are a nurse, you can search for "nurse" or put yourself out there as a nurse if you have that credential and there's n...

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Lately we have been pushed by our customer to convert some STL files that they provided to us into CAD models. We use Solidworks here. These STL files are outputs from their CNC programming software (Espirit). Since they are NOT scans, they are extremely hard to work with because they have toolpath...

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Hidden in the "file" dropdown menu, along with "Replace". That usually throws me, though I use them often enough. Dwight Where was it previously..? Note you can access it from the right click button when selecting in an assembly, but that only works for the component selected.

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