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- Mon May 13, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Challenging geometry problem
- Replies: 18
- Views: 702
Re: Challenging geometry problem
Yeah, the swept solid cut sounds right. You may have to use a straight line for the path and the helix centerred on the line as a guide curve to get it to twist correctly.
- Thu May 09, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Negative Like
- Replies: 4
- Views: 237
Re: Negative Like
When it removes a like it's usually that it thinks you have liked it before and you're just undoing that like. Or maybe it was confused. Or maybe I got that plugin from DS?
- Mon May 06, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: In-Context relationships, intermittently, losing association.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 684
Re: In-Context relationships, intermittently, losing association.
The problem I saw was that the internal names of edges would get changed due to changes in the model - sometimes seemingly unrelated. Sometimes it's just the edge projection type that changes, not the name. For example, if you have an edge between two cylindrical faces, that edge could project as a ...
- Mon May 06, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Turning a complex part into one solid body for mold making
- Replies: 5
- Views: 386
Re: Turning a complex part into one solid body for mold making
This is likely a casting. You may have to use a lost wax process. There are processes where you don't need draft (processes where you're going to destroy/not reuse the cast and cores for each part). In these cases, you don't need to design the cast/mold. You'd just build an original part (plus shrin...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:44 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: SW Winglet
- Replies: 2
- Views: 323
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:20 am
- Forum: General Biz and Announcements
- Topic: Trouble Creating Account
- Replies: 0
- Views: 541
Trouble Creating Account
If you have had trouble creating a new account, try it again, and make it more obvious that you're a real CAD user. We get inundated here with scam/spam accounts, and I delete many of these each week. When I slack up on them, we get spammed. So I'm sorry if I now and then delete a legitimate account...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:59 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Standard Parts Library: Configurations or Individual Parts?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1683
Re: Standard Parts Library: Configurations or Individual Parts?
This is one area where Solid Edge is definitely a better tool. Solid Edge "Family of Parts" is like configurations, except all of the configs are separate files. You can manage them all from a single place. So you get the convenience of SW Configs with the stability of individual parts. In...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:28 pm
- Forum: SolidWorks FAQ
- Topic: Multiple Config. Part fails to reload specific configuration
- Replies: 7
- Views: 516
Re: Multiple Config. Part fails to reload specific configuration
This happens to toolbox frequently. It's not really a bug, it's kind of a feature designed into the system. It happens to toolbox when a new user who only has the default toolbox parts and hasn't built all the configurations opens an assembly and saves it. If you have multiple users and multiple ver...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:27 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Recommendations on how to model this part
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1172
Re: Recommendations on how to model this part
You can make the ramp shape with a surface and then extrude a pair of nested circles up to the surface. Or you could extrude a cylinder, make a hole in it, sweep a rectangle along a helix to make a solid cut, and then do a little extrusion on the bottom to make the flat. There are a thousand ways to...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:42 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Help with guide curves
- Replies: 15
- Views: 759
Re: Help with guide curves
You're also using a path, right? Is the center of the ellipse "pierced" by the path? I don't actually have SW installed right in front of me, so I can't look at your file. The GC also needs to pierce the ellipse point. Make sure you're using the correct option "follow path and first g...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:22 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Help with Loft
- Replies: 5
- Views: 539
Re: Help with Loft
I'd also be open to paying for some instruction on this (like on a Zoom session or something) and making it worth your while if you'd be interested in that. If you're serious about that, just go to the Surfacing Episodes site (https://episodes.dezignstuff.com/blog/) and go through all the topics li...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: Welcome
- Topic: Hi from Australia
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1895
Re: Hi from Australia
new to forums, So please excuse my ignorance. I wish to start a new topic. And am having difficulty finding the new topic button as mentioned in FAQ? Thanks and Best Regards You have to go to a subforum, like SWGeneral, and the New Topic button is at the top (depending on which theme you have selec...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:41 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Help with Loft
- Replies: 5
- Views: 539
Re: Help with Loft
It's best if you can start out with as few edge breaks as possible. That would mean you make the main outer shape as a single feature, preferably with a spline so there are no topological breaks caused by line-arc-line sort of features (or even arc-arc-arc). To really make this clean, you'd need to ...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: How to SEPERATE multi-body bodies into standalone parts?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 745
Re: How to SEPERATE multi-body bodies into standalone parts?
the reason I do insert part from a new part is because I can bring in the all of the bodies and whatever other features I want such as sketches and surfaces. the next set of features I add to my new "part" is to delete or hide (though I almost always delete) all the bodies I don't want in...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:35 am
- Forum: Solid Edge
- Topic: Ordered Vs Synchronous
- Replies: 19
- Views: 943
Re: Ordered Vs Synchronous
How does Synchronous / History Free get along with Model Based Definition? If you transmit MBD data via STEP 242, Synchronous reads it as editable geometry. MBD is essentially putting dimensions directly on 3d geometry, which is exactly what Synch does. So I think it's a much better fit. In history...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:30 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: How to SEPERATE multi-body bodies into standalone parts?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 745
Re: How to SEPERATE multi-body bodies into standalone parts?
It surprises me that people still get mileage out of this kind of thing. This information is decades old. Even the most recent thing I've done on this is probably 6 years old and 2nd generation material. https://episodes.dezignstuff.com/blog/techniques-master-model/ If you take time to look, there i...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:56 pm
- Forum: Solid Edge
- Topic: Ordered Vs Synchronous
- Replies: 19
- Views: 943
Re: Ordered Vs Synchronous
Actually, the Ordered direct edit Move Face and Rotate Face commands have existed in Solid Edge for decades... What was new a couple of releases ago was a "Synchronous" option was added to provide the Live Rules dynamic relationship analysis, complimentary face detection, the connected fa...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: Solid Edge
- Topic: Ordered Vs Synchronous
- Replies: 19
- Views: 943
Re: Ordered Vs Synchronous
... better compare/differentiate what history based "Direct Editing" is to Solid Edge ST "Direct Editing" This is one of my pet issues. Direct Edit to me is when you directly work with model faces instead of indirectly working through sketches and defined features. So in that as...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:01 pm
- Forum: Solid Edge
- Topic: Easy 30 second answer to this question...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 407
Re: Easy 30 second answer to this question...
SE can use NX files directly either by just opening them or by CAD Direct. I don't think this allows edit, but SE can use NX parts in an assembly, for example.
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:59 pm
- Forum: General Biz and Announcements
- Topic: traffic update
- Replies: 4
- Views: 757
Re: traffic update
Makes you wonder with the rise of AI, how much access and data mining its doing to answer peoples questions? The problem with that is that even on a place like this with a generally pretty high quality of content, most of the answers you get are not the best answer. Not that they're wrong, just tha...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: General Biz and Announcements
- Topic: traffic update
- Replies: 4
- Views: 757
traffic update
It's interesting to watch statistical data that really means something. Over the nearly 3 year life of this forum, you can watch the internet traffic thing kind of make sense. There is a broad slump in the summer time, and a short deep drop around Christmas/New Years. Because of the way the data is ...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:23 pm
- Forum: Solid Edge
- Topic: Ordered Vs Synchronous
- Replies: 19
- Views: 943
Re: Ordered Vs Synchronous
... I agree with the time wastage changing history based models that lacked forethought. Most of the component we make are simple and with an understanding of the nature of the product can be thought of ahead of time with a little effort. Again, the shapely, aesthetically pleasing things are nearly...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: Solid Edge
- Topic: Ordered Vs Synchronous
- Replies: 19
- Views: 943
Re: Ordered Vs Synchronous
Design intent is much simpler to communicate and retain with history based modeling. The idea of putting "Design Intent" and "one the fly" in the same paragraph is mind boggling to me. The loss of design intent in ST is a big reason it usually failed in our use case. It took ST ...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:16 am
- Forum: Solid Edge
- Topic: Ordered Vs Synchronous
- Replies: 19
- Views: 943
Re: Ordered Vs Synchronous
@matt , I don't recognize that UI :lol: Yeah, I'm back in the land of the living working on an update... For the OP, here's another description. Remember when you used to use 2D AutoCAD? You would draw lines, and then move those lines around the screen to edit the drawing. Now imagine taking that i...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 10:31 pm
- Forum: Solid Edge
- Topic: Ordered Vs Synchronous
- Replies: 19
- Views: 943
Re: Ordered Vs Synchronous
Great topic. The video is only a start.
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 3:08 pm
- Forum: General Biz and Announcements
- Topic: New Enhancement Request subforum under Solidworks
- Replies: 1
- Views: 186
New Enhancement Request subforum under Solidworks
There was a thread that developed into a place for enhancement requests. I moved that from SWGeneral to a new subforum called Enhancement Requests.
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Is it expected that a C2 sketch relation has no affect on an arc?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 380
Re: Is it expected that a C2 sketch relation has no affect on an arc?
I don't think it's reasonable to expect the curvature of an uncontrolled spline to drive the curvature of an arc. There is no curvature control on the spline. Plus, the arc length dimension just complicates things. Even if someone did write an SPR on this, I don't think it's a reasonable expectation...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Multi-body part to assembly
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1009
Re: Multi-body part to assembly
I would do a "Save As" on the multi-body part for as many individual parts that I want. Then open each one and delete all of the features for other bodies. Depending on the complexity of the assembly, this could be a time consuming task. Add all of these parts into a new parent assembly w...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 11:34 am
- Forum: General Biz and Announcements
- Topic: Slow Forums
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3472
Re: Slow Forums
I got in touch with the host, and they are acknowledging some problems on the server. Don't be surprised if there is a reboot or something this morning. They know about it and are working on the issue. Thx for patience. The message from the host is below. I have checked your account and it is confir...
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 10:51 am
- Forum: Solid Edge
- Topic: Merry Christmas 🎅
- Replies: 1
- Views: 706
Re: Merry Christmas 🎅
Thx! Hope you all are having a great Christmas as well.
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 3:54 pm
- Forum: General Biz and Announcements
- Topic: Slow Forums
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3472
Re: Slow Forums
I think there is something going on at the host today. I had some slow response as well once or twice, but it has returned to normal. I was getting some odd messages from other sites I have with the same host, where one site was going up and down. There have been a lot of hacking attempts at my main...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 1:28 pm
- Forum: Catia and 3DX
- Topic: Does anyone actually use 3DExperience in a productive manner?
- Replies: 1290
- Views: 247094
Re: Does anyone actually use 3DExperience in a productive manner?
Hey, I got an invitation! I have to admit I never actually read it, I just took a screen shot of it and brought it over here because I figured someone would be entertained. I couldn't bring myself to read something so heavily peppered with all those CAPITAL LETTERS. If someone actually reads it, let...
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 1:57 pm
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Login Details Not Remembered
- Replies: 73
- Views: 30137
Re: Login Details Not Remembered
Hmmm. Ok. I don't control the Spamhaus list.
Changed settings again. Give that a whirl.
Changed settings again. Give that a whirl.
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 11:47 am
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Login Details Not Remembered
- Replies: 73
- Views: 30137
Re: Login Details Not Remembered
Due to the bot getting through in a way it shouldn't have been able to, I made a few changes yesterday. So you'll probably have to log in again, especially if you switch between devices frequently.
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 10:21 am
- Forum: CAD Agnostic
- Topic: why so many solidworks users ??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1719
Re: why so many solidworks users ??
Solid works - wow alot of users on here . i wonder why - marketing ?? ease of use ?? or is that what the boss bought ?? To answer the question directly, why there are so many SW users HERE in this forum, the guy who started this forum was a former SW user, and brought a bunch of other SW users alon...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 12:50 pm
- Forum: CAD Admin (Install, PDM, etc)
- Topic: cannabis kaufen online
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2480
Re: cannabis kaufen online
It is not my intention to make the 3DSWamp look bad. They've done a great job all on their own, I don't have to take any credit.AlexLachance wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 10:59 am Maybe the 3DSwamp strategy is to have so many leaks that the bots don't get through
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 12:48 pm
- Forum: CAD Admin (Install, PDM, etc)
- Topic: cannabis kaufen online
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2480
Re: cannabis kaufen online
Thank you @matt for taking care of the spam. Is there anyway we can move the post to moderation mode and it is not visible to others until moderated? This is similar to what used to happen in SW old forums. Yeah, there's a way to do that, but I'd have to take some steps that I'm not ready to take j...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 10:24 am
- Forum: CAD Admin (Install, PDM, etc)
- Topic: cannabis kaufen online
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2480
Re: cannabis kaufen online
Yeah, I was too slow. Not sure how that one got through. It was a first post, yet it was able to post without going into moderation... Didn't have any of the usual bot signs. Have to check the logs. Too early in the AM for looking at blog logs. Deepak reported it first, so it must have been posted l...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:48 am
- Forum: subD and Mesh
- Topic: [Geomagic Design X] What would you do in this scenario?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1764
Re: [Geomagic Design X] What would you do in this scenario?
This part looks simple enough to use solid extrudes to finish it. The cut outs might require more information, but the main shape looks simple.
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 3:47 pm
- Forum: Job Listings
- Topic: Drug testing and CAD jobs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1483
Re: Drug testing and CAD jobs
That might be the case Canada.Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 2:11 pm BTW I needed to get security clearance twice to work on projects.
They didn't ask for drug test.
I guarantee the US is different about it.
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 9:11 am
- Forum: Job Listings
- Topic: Drug testing and CAD jobs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1483
Re: Drug testing and CAD jobs
Federal gov't jobs require testing because weed is still illegal by fed law. State laws vary. That's the issue I've had to deal with. For some employers its not a disqualification, just a flag to look for other possible issues. Alcohol isn't illegal but you can get fired for doing stupid stuff after...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 3:28 pm
- Forum: Macro Library
- Topic: Macro for Toggling Transparency of Components
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1554
Re: Macro for Toggling Transparency of Components
Verizon.net as your first website host Matt... <()> :lol: They gave dialup customers FTP space. I had a website in 1995. I posted user group presentations. The whole format translated perfectly into blogs. This was back when Verizon was a regular phone company, before they became a wireless juggern...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 12:54 pm
- Forum: Macro Library
- Topic: Macro for Toggling Transparency of Components
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1554
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:02 am
- Forum: Job Listings
- Topic: CAD Design for Aerospace project
- Replies: 49
- Views: 8636
Re: CAD Design for Aerospace project
Consider this a warning. You can't come on here and post stuff like this, regardless of who you think you are. Your next inappropriate post will cause your account to be deleted. Please read the rules https://cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=11 CadForumAdmin UPDATE: I re-read the post and the list of p...
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 10:35 am
- Forum: General Biz and Announcements
- Topic: Advertising Your Product or Service
- Replies: 4
- Views: 920
Advertising Your Product or Service
It appears to be time to say something like this. In the past week I've deleted a couple of accounts because non-contributors have been trying to advertise products or services here. I let some people get away with that if they have been contributing to the overall discussion. For example, let's say...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 9:32 am
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: Ridiculous Design Features.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1204
Re: Ridiculous Design Features.
I've worked in product development for independents and inventors for 20 years. You would be amazed at how many bad product ideas there are out there. There are a lot of good products too of course, but you'd be amazed at how many bad products get pitched to me to do the physical design. My wife lik...
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 1:39 pm
- Forum: Inventor
- Topic: What happened when you tried Inventor
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6495
Re: What happened when you tried Inventor
When I used Inventor, I realized it was a skin-deep copy of Solidworks. As much as we tend to rag on the company, the product of Solidworks was pretty good, and had a lot of functionality. Inventor only resembled SW in the first layer. SW has/had many layers, but Inventor only bothered to copy the f...
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 10:12 am
- Forum: General Biz and Announcements
- Topic: Traffic update and the official end of statistical summer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 500
Traffic update and the official end of statistical summer
Traffic update: We're recovering from the annual summer dip. image.png (By the way, those little circles in the chart just denote times when the rate of change was very high for some reason, such as a quick drop off in traffic on friday before a holiday weekend, or a big increase in traffic after th...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 1:19 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: pool money for a more sophisticated experience?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8074
Re: pool money for a more sophisticated experience?
I can't speak for @matt, but I don't see that happening. People do sometimes send a donation to help keep this simple site going, and while that's very welcome, it is not expected. I think keeping it free serves more people. There may be an advertisement from time to time, but that would be the ext...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 12:18 pm
- Forum: Job Listings
- Topic: Current Hourly Rate of Freelance CAD Drafters?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6383