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jcapriotti wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 1:03 pm I don't even see DDM as a partner on the website currently, nor others I'm aware of.

DDM are on there but there are a bunch of others that aren't (including Windchill, Pulse, XPLM).

https://www.solidworks.com/partners/eng ... ?wockw=DDM

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Assuming it was a multiple choice question I'd be curious to see the offered answers. I'd agree you can't know but it would be an extremely safe assumption that in the absence of any other dimensions or geometry to the contrary, the construction line is coincident and parallel, and the dimensions ar...

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Hmm, troubling. We also use a third-party PDM provider (Pulse PLM) so hopefully we won't have a similar problem.

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Brian-M wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2024 1:57 pm Do any of the current connectors function without having Solidworks PDM?

Apparently XPLM can do it without SW PDM, though the recommended config (for us, at least) was to still use SW PDM anyway.

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Define Spiral by Path Length

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I wonder how tall my sheet of paper will need to be to show that many rows on a revision table. Certainly a curious default for it to arrive at!

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Yeah I just checked the help documentation to remind myself and Envelopes have been around since at least 2010. Might have been some refinements in the mean time but the core functionality is hardly recent.

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If anyone's looking to make the "Top Ten" an actual useful tool for both users and developper, please go and vote on these. Give us a Vote Down Button https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/community/swym:prd:R1132100503382:community:NuvjIL0QTDKJKkb2P1AjjA?content=swym:prd...

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mp3-250 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2024 2:19 pm wait a moment... the enhancements community is not used for the top 10 and it is completely separated from them??

Yup. Madness knows no bounds.

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So someone at DS just shared some posts giving some basic outlines on how to work with both SW and some of the SW web apps. Is it me or does even this simplified ideal-use-case primer still just look like pain ? https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/community/swym:prd:R1132100503382...

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jcapriotti wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 9:39 am The TTL should be a perpetual list......oh wait......perpetual is a dirty word now when it comes to software.

Ah, the perpetual TTL list. Also known as the Enhancement Requests community. Which would be too complicated to just use as the TTL.

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I'll give it a wild guess and say that every user that was transfered from the previous forum is experiencing these issues and every new user is not. Seems everything is linked to that but nobody on their end seems to adress it. I break that pattern I'm afraid, my account over there pre-dates the t...

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They've just made a new "it's now live" post so I wonder if they've faffed around in the background and updated any access issues? https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/home?content=swym:prd:R1132100503382:communitypost:2NjivjV9QTua-mmDmYuqMg www.solidworks.com/top_ten is ...

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Once again they've put it on the wrong continent so I won't be going.

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Well if they can't get the TTL working (still zero ideas submitted!) then just using the ER community votes wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.

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So um, I'm trying to vote on this SPR, but can't seem to find where anymore. I used to do it through the Knowledge base but it doesn't seem to work anymore, I get the search result, but can't vote on it. I tried looking up on the Platform but didn't find any topic on the platform linked to it eithe...

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...but seems like many people are having trouble getting in to the community.

https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... Kkb2P1AjjA

Does that link work for anyone here?

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Yeah it's fair to say marketing isn't their strong point. I don't think their website has changed in any meaningful way since I joined my current employer in 2018.

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We use Pulse. https://pulseplm.com/

Relatively cheap, relatively simple, great support, does everything we need it to.

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For things like Title Blocks and annotations you could make life easier in your drawing by using layers; have one for the English version, one for the Polish version, then show/hide as appropriate. BOM tables could be achieved by having the component description in both languages as two different fi...

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Read my text......... there are NO new base features here so please just keep it moving. Most of these enhancements are really just little tidbits. Le Sigh!!! Honestly at this stage I'd generally rather they fix and optimise what's already in there than be adding too many major base features each y...

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We are using Aras Innovator, but without the SW CAD connector at the moment. We've looked at buying the CAD connector but various things (mostly money) has stalled that upgrade. Generally I think it's "okay". We've generally modified our processes to match the defaults offered by the progr...

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Pretty impressive slowdown numbers apparently caused by 3DX. Will be interesting to see what kind of resolution is found for this one https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... TbptApe_AQ

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Jim Elias wrote: ↑Fri Aug 02, 2024 1:33 am I would also hope that future releases don't just move the "two years" bar forward, but rather will always be able to save going back to 2022.

Pretty sure when they announced it they confirmed it would be a rolling 2 years, not always back to 2022. Just can't find a link to verify.

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Hi all, Tried searching all the usual places for a macro that does this but no luck. I'd like a macro please that scans through a Part feature tree, identifies all Fillet features (only needs to be constant radius fillets for simplicity) and updates the feature description to read as the radius spec...

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In SW23 I get the same message all the way up the tree apart from positioning it directly under the Origin. Are you trying to drop the sketch somewhere arbitrary in the tree?

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Seems like templates have a Y-up / Z-up tickbox option. I'm wondering if importing parts from a Z-up system could easily be rotated to Y-up by getting tricksy with the templates.

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Yeah I normally use Quick Mates but sometimes the Mate Manager feels like the right tool for the job.

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SW25 seems to have something that may be of interest based on this bit of Beta feedback.

https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... Tt8DkScF1Q

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Automatically Close Mate Manager when Assembly is Fully Defined

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With that question you seem to have mistaken that bit of the platform as anything to do with SolidWorks. It even mentions Biovia in the topic description.

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We've ended up with two across different bits of the company (don't ask). Aras Innovator: sold as extremely powerful and highly configurable. I'm happy with the performance however we seem to have tied ourselves in to some support contract that makes any changes extremely expensive to make. Reading ...

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I got as far as CSWE level. Mostly because I was the only one in the company at the time who cared enough to use all the free exam vouchers we were getting from the VAR. I was also in a corporate structure that placed value on "employee development" so getting those certifications were an ...

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Next up in "things I can't believe the platform can't do"; can't export assemblies to STEP?? https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... Rqv1gflrgQ

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Allow "Make Assembly from Part" for Routing Components

Nothing groundbreaking but needless and irritating limitation.

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Macrofeatures seem to be another way of achieving remarkable results if you know what you're doing with programming. When I first saw this it blew my mind as to what would be possible. https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/me/bookmarks?content=swym:prd:R1132100503382:qnaquestion:1oy...

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Presumably the logic is you don't need to find the thing you've just right clicked on as you know where it is?

I'd like some way of enabling "start from the top" without further intervention every time I use the tool.

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It looks like the component reference is available through the API. You might be able to write a macro to accomplish what you want to do. https://help.solidworks.com/2016/english/api/sldworksapi/solidworks.interop.sldworks~solidworks.interop.sldworks.icomponent2~componentreference.html Cheers. Fort...

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Understood, we use configuration descriptions in a similar fashion. Sounds like your need is for a "selection set". Have you tried an advanced selection...? Maybe that would give you exactly what you need? image.png There's a few different selection tools such as "select identical co...

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Hi Alex, the Component Reference is separate to Configurations, it's effectively a Unique ID for each instance of a Component. image.png I've got some useful replies on the other place; I'd never used the Go To tool and had basically forgotten it existed. It's a good workaround for this issue (espec...

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Does anyone have a solution for being able to filter the Feature Manager by Component Reference? There is an open SPR for adding the functionality but I'm hoping there's a workaround I haven't found. I have some PCBs that have come in through CircuitWorks so all the parts have the unique Component R...

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Implement Filter / Search using the Component Reference

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Ability to Apply Colour Directly to Any Face (Surface) in a Drawing View (Area Hatch Fill / Crosshatch)

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Very nice!

Do you think it would be possible to extract the actual date/time for the post and display that rather than the "1 hour ago" nonsense they persist with? The data seems to be available when you hover over their vaguestamp.

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Use Magnetic Lines to Align Balloons, Notes and other Annotations

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New enhancements are now added every service pack. For users like me who are in LDR mode a lot, having breadcrumbs available in LDR mode is huge (2024 SP1). UU Next month (2024 SP2) we get the Component Preview Window in LDR, also. >< I'm intrigued by how well this will work. Annually the Beta test...

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Pattern Driven Pattern – Unique Icon in FMT

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Table Horizontal Auto Split to Equal Columns

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Merge Ordinate Dimensions

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Don’t Move Balloons when Inserting Magnetic Line

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