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Jaylin Hochstetler

Ok, I was posting on my phone from the place inspecting my car. Now I get to see what's really going on. On this forum a lot of questions look complicated but they aren't. Pay attention to what you're doing and make sure it makes sense. You extrude the circle and the flower petal in the same cut fe...

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matt wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 9:59 am I did a test years ago, and it works predictably if you know what you're looking for. The help is actually right. I left out the bit on merged faces.

What does Geometry Pattern have to do with the faces on an edge flange?

Jaylin Hochstetler

Geometry pattern patterns the exact feature geometry instead of the intelligence. If the exact feature geometry doesn't fit perfectly, geo patt fails. Thanks matt . This is what I found in the help: Creates the pattern using only the geometry (faces and edges) of the features, rather than patternin...

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Take this from someone who doesn't use drawing states often or much at all, but how is hiding a part in a display state any different than hiding it in a drawing? I stopped using display states because it just seemed to add complexity and issues for me, maybe due to my own ignorance. For example. I...

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And what is it intended to do? This an option in all patterns and mirrors. Is this one of those things that you simply tick if something doesn't work or is there actually some functionality there? image.png The other day I modeled a sheetmetal part and the end of the edge flanges showed as one face ...

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That makes both of us not knowing what I'm doing. :? Here's the tool in Solid Edge that I cannot seem to find a replacement in Solidworks. IIRC the suggestion is to use Display States. Hopefully someone can guide me. It's called Custom Orientation which is a 3D viewport of the model and has tools t...

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Or by creating a "New View" and inserting it into a drawing, see video attached.

SW New View.mp4: (12.04 MiB) Downloaded 61 times

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Why did you use a Miter Flange on that part vs. an Edge Flange? Miter Flange is intended for making multiple flanges in one feature, which can be very convenient depending on the application. Step 1: 2021-06-24 08_30_53-Window.jpg Step 2: Select the edges of the Base Flange you want the Miter Flange...

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The optimist in me wants to suggest there's some sort of secret / private community for Beta like there was on the old place. Or is there, you're in it and it's still dead? Yup, there is. https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:HtbjmKYdSlWkfqQeOuP6Zw . I'm not part of it s...

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The SE Subtract feature is also extremely useful especially on the assemble level because you can subtract geometry from a component based on another components geometry.

SE Subtract (Jaylin).wmv: (5.61 MiB) Downloaded 125 times

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Modeled in SolidEdge and rendered in Keyshot.

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Here's a video I took of the SE selection manager. It's pretty cool stuff! If you Control/Shift select a face it will automatically go into the Add/Remove mode where you can select and deselect faces without holding the Control or Shift key. You can also use the Selection Manager (Shift+Spacebar) wh...

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Edge in a heartbeat. It's amazing how fast we forgot all the things we complained about in Edge as we slowly migrate to SW. SW seems on par with SE at providing pet-peeves to gripe about. Then we'd be back to trying to figure out what to use for file management though. PDM Pro doesn't work that gre...

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Isn't it F ound O n the R oad D ead. Just kidding, I love Ford. Talking about Ford... I would highly recommend reading the book "American Icon" (written by Bryce G. Hoffman). It tells how Allen Mulally saved Ford during the 2009 recession without any goverment aid. Very interesting...

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Once long ago, I bought and implemented a PDM package called Product Center. It't a little obscure but one of the things I loved about it was that the company used their own software in their business. They used it as a CRM and support log. So within the company, almost everybody knew how to run th...

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Thanks @matt

Here's a test video:

SE Hide Edges.wmv: (5.05 MiB) Downloaded 59 times

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Hey @matt,

Could you allow .wmv (Windows Media Video) attachment files? I don't have access to YouTube so I would like to be able to upload .wmv videos.

Edit: Currently I zip it then upload it. Would be nice if I could avoid that.

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Here's a video I recorded where I hide some edges on a part, show all the options of a drawing view, and show all the edges again in that drawing view.

Edit: Changed the attachment from a .7z to a .zip
Edit: Changed attachment to .wmv

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Don't know if this helps but here https://baumhydraulics.com/Home/Page/speccalculators# are some free online cylinder calculators.

Jaylin Hochstetler

I replied to this quote in the other Discussion. How do you do it in SE, assuming it has an easier method? In SE the auto balloon actually works! The auto explode also is quite impressive! Attached is a video where I assemble a part, create an exploded view, create a drawing view, BOM and auto ball...

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Does anyone have any experience with SE 3D Publishing/Illustrations? From what I see it looks like a good option for make interactive instructions/SOPs. It would probably be overkill for a manual but I would be very much interested in using it for Instructions/SOPs. Edit: Currently I make a drawing ...

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What's actually on the menu for SW 2022? What "new" features (that don't work) and icon colors are they planning to come out with in 2022?

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It works if you use an Indented "Flat Numbering" BOM.
It's stupid... but what else do you expect from SW....

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I have also noticed that SE users are actually excited about a new release!

SW users don't have a reason to be excited because it's just some more icon color changes and features that don't work.

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mike miller wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 8:01 am History tells us that Pepin the Short, King of the Franks, saved Rome from the Lombards twice.

But if the plebeians of Rome join forces with the Lombards, what will the Franks do?

You must have been reading a Mark Twain book lately!

Sounds just like Mark Twain lingo.

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mike miller wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 8:16 am YEP! They're genuine engineers, spelling proves it!

2021-06-02 08_11_39.jpg

Onli Mike the grammer Natzi wood notise that!

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As a former SW user I understand your skepticism. My experience of SE is they have a habit of under promising & over delivering.* * I'd probably make convergent modelling an exception to this, it is a monster of a task to take on & I expect it will take years to roll this out fully. I'd rat...

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SolidWorks Visualize Standard comes free with every SolidWorks Pro and SolidWorks Premium license.
https://www.solidworks.com/product/solidworks-3d-cad

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I warn you-
Here a while back I was having an issue with SW crashing. I turned the ScanTo3D add-in off and !presto! that fixed it!

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Have you never had a numbskull who thought tighter is always better? o[ (note the past tense) And yeah, I've seen split #4 JIC hose ends too..... () I've seen split #6 JIC hose ends. Guy said, "Yea, I just kept tightening it and it suddenly split!". Well then you obviously made it too tig...

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What happens if you click in this area?

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It should drop down just like the "feature" option does.

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I am in the same shoes except I have a little bit of experience programming in Python so I know the basics.

A really good resource I refer to is https://www.codestack.net/ done by @artem Thanks @artem!
Here is the page about VBA coding https://www.codestack.net/visual-basic/.

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majo wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 6:14 amimage.png

In the theme you are using it means you are "Online".

The theme I use, which is Supernova, it looks like this:

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 5:08 pm Nope, just keep my computer up to date.

Yup, that's the best way to avoid being attacked.

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You want some more things to be scared of?

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But.. The Brute Force software will try 1111111 then 11111112 then 11111113 and so forth (I believe). Which makes it easy to crack... Edit: Or rather it will try the easy ones first. BTW I use LastPass to manage my passwords. It is an awesome software (actually it's an extension for your browser). I...

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Jay, That's a tough question to answer. One key factor is data manage question. Are you planning on using data management? If so, then most systems, really prefer to have 1 part number / drawing. Currently we don't have any data management. We are planning on implement a PDM system here in the near...

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@Jaylin Hochstetler, take a look at these two macros: https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-api/document/cut-lists/copy-custom-properties/ https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-api/document/macro-feature/link-cut-list-properties/ I also include the functionality of properties editing (including cut-l...

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Open SW RX (by typing "rx" in your start menu) and open in both of the safe modes and see what that does.

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Life is to short. There are so many things I would like to do and get relatively good at and programming of several kinds is one of them. How did you know what I was thinking? I'm in the exact same predicament. I have done a little bit of programming in the past w/ Python, just enough to understand...

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I found this awesome macro over there https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-ap ... roperties/. But @artem is there a way to make it copy and link the cutlist props to the config specific props instead of the custom props?

Jaylin Hochstetler

@Jaylin Hochstetler , great, glad it helped. Do you remember what was the error when you check 'Automatically Save'? I am now building a new version of CAD+ and will be keen to fix this issue as well. It didn't give me any errors but in the summary it said the files failed. And if I went into the f...

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Not much to be worried about. I said something to our IT guy, he looked into and came back with this.

Also it’s interesting that they are referencing 3rd party references.
NOT the dell website.
As seen in the code of the site.

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@artem I installed CAD+. This is a wonderful tool! Then I recorded a macro to change my units and ran a batch to change all of the units. I had to make the macro save the file after changing the units b/c for some reason the files would fail if I told CAD+ to save it. But, hey, it worked!

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I opened your old part (test part1), deleted the cutlist (which recreates it) and it worked fine.

Before delete:

After delete:

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I need a macro to open each component in an assembly and change the document units to 0.123.
I tried but my programming knowledge is simply too limited.

Thanks in advance!

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Notice there trying to convert SW users

Learn, engage, discover, and share knowledge with other SOLIDWORKS users ABOUT 3DEXPERIENCE works, desktop, cloud-connected, or pure cloud.

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I think they'll give you a trial period. Definitely use that time to test things out. And yes, they're a small company so they can "pivot" and add functionality much more quickly than you may see from one of the big players. DDM has been around for something like 25 years now, though. So,...

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Just had a demo of Design Data Manager. Super impressed with what I saw! The software is super powerful! And it only requires SQL Express server for 5-10 users. Teamcenter Rapid Start requires SQL Standard or Premium which is lots of $$$$ plus the DDM software is cheaper than Teamcenter Rapid Start ...

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