The BEST CAD SOFTWARE EVER CREATED is the first one you get really proficient at. After that everything else sucks. This goes for whatever range of the software hierarchy you became proficient at. Cheap, Mid-range or high end. Been that way since the first days of CAD. They all have their strengths ...

The 90's called and want their website back...

Many of us nerds have better website creation skills than they do.

Whatever new version I am working on.... Currently SW2021 SP5.1. We don't do anything that special, and most users don't, that I get wrapped up in such and such version did it better. FWIW

Thank you Matt...

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 11, 2022 11:34 am Wow! That's all I can say.
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We are DOOMED!!!

SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 10:56 am Why is "victim" not an option?

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OMG....

matt wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 2:53 pm Ha, yeah. We'll see if anyone shows up. We can subdivide if we need to later.

Good plan....

Wonder if you need to break up the Catia forum into two flavors...

One for Catia v5 and the other for Catia v6/3DExperience.

There is a difference between the two versions.

Interruptions by anything, or person.... Stopping a train of thought and restarting again kills productivity.

I love the "Move With Triad" tool... Have had a keyboard shortcut for it for ages. That said it would bug the crap out of me to have it show up every time I selected something. I also toggle off Instant3D, so good to hear that will toggle off automatic popup of the triad. I use it for gett...

Excellent blog post matt . Truth in everything you write. Those were good times pre-2010 and DS taking a more active role in SolidWorks. The DS vision is as whacked as their asinine marketing bit on towing the iceberg to Africa. Fortunately for all of us, SolidWorks is such a huge part of the revenu...

I am here wondering why you are not using a CAM package to program your parts?

About the only thing Draftsight has over AutoCAD LT price wise is you can still get a floating license. We have 10 network floating Draftsight enterprise licenses which are shared amongst 50 users. Since we primarily use SolidWorks for CAD work, Draftsight is only used in a few use cases. Same for ...

Good to hear Todd....

If you do not wish to use the 3DInterconnect you can disable it in the SolidWorks Options.... By default it is toggled on when doing a new install of SolidWorks.

How much SolidWorks content will there be? Only saw the 3DxPerience stuff being pushed. As usual the DS marketing machine has taken over to ruin what used to be a pretty cool event. Sounds like it will be heavy on marketing and light on what users really would like a users group meeting to be. SOP f...

mike miller wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 3:03 pm

What am I supposed to say, "CPLDIDED"? (Colloborating Platform Linking Disruptive Innovators and Design Experience Data)


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OMG.... Don't give DS any ideas.

I think I was spoiled with the old forum, I was used to response of some kind within a day or two, and even if no responses at least a couple dozen views in the first day. image.png They are just now figuring out the Swym platform is unusable???? More likely just now admitting it semi-publicly.

Honestly I don't think SolidWorks (US) is responsible for the scope creep. DesktopWorks delivers and if anything they are guilty of not following up to fill in gaps in functionality and introducing bugs. 3dxWorks scoop creep lies at the feet of Dassault (France) leadership. They don't seem to know ...

matt wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 4:16 pm Not sure, I'm just using this for the first time. The first two donations rang up immediately, an anonymous one has not.

Appears to refresh immediately. Refreshed right away for my contribution this morning.

At the office, a couple BCN3D Sigmax's, one FormLabs 2 system, two RailCore Project systems and a Monoprice Maker Ultimate (Wanhao Duplicator 6). We also have a Carbide 3D Nomad desktop CNC. My personal 3D printer is a BCN3D Sigma. A resin printer is in my near future for the home work shop. Home s...

I want my part numbers to be dumb as rocks. Metadata in the database are where the smarts are at.

If it was in a demo it probably doesn't work :-) I'm just starting to learn CAMWorks, haven't gone to any training yet. One of the things they tout is "Automatic feature recognition". Supposedly it is supposed to look at the part and say "Yeah that's a hole, apply this strategy for m...

I am not remembering working through this. Not something I remembering being an issue for me. Well, you did the plate with all the holes in it as the benchmark part. I remember that. At least I think I remember that. But again, the memory is the first thing to go, and I can't remember what goes aft...

... I tend to agree with @matt that sometimes SW files accumulate artefacts that cannot be purged. Maybe a saveas could help? It's too bad we don't have more folks from "the old days" here. We went through a lot of these issues and had some sort of fix for them. I think @SolidMuse Anna Wo...

At the office, a couple BCN3D Sigmax's, one FormLabs 2 system, two RailCore Project systems and a Monoprice Maker Ultimate (Wanhao Duplicator 6). We also have a Carbide 3D Nomad desktop CNC. My personal 3D printer is a BCN3D Sigma. A resin printer is in my near future for the home work shop. Home sh...

I have been known to dabble in CAD Admin duties....

Like to equate it herding cats!

Never boring and my users keep me on my toes.