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Today was the 'big launch'... My Takeaways: It's Free Only works on Prismatic Parts Only Works on these features (but more coming if we let them know which ones) https://i.imgur.com/69h1avN.png And a video showing how to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aHk_wuWbso Thoughtfully, they did inclu...

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Onshape and Cadsharp are introducing an add on translator that brings over the Solidworks feature tree.
Launch demo signup... https://www.onshape.com/en/resource-cen ... to-onshape

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Digging these videos, nice work @TooTallToby!
Looking forward to some of your sheetmetal wizardry.

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I'd look at Rhino 3d, it's affordable, non-subscription and with Grasshopper (visual / node based programming) you'll be able to do what you want with external data sources. Using Grasshopper for parametric CAD is distinctly different from FreeCAD (and pretty much everything else). If you are lookin...

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From the Knowledge Base (https://support.3ds.com/knowledge-base/?q=docid:QA00000116774) QUESTION: Can a camera view be inserted in a drawing? ANSWER: No, camera view is only available for models, not drawings. And SPR 333953 requesting the ability. https://support.3ds.com/knowledge-base/?q=docid:SP...

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Is it possible to use a camera view directly in a drawing?
Current procedure is to setup the camera view and then 'save as' a PNG and then insert a picture.

Or is this a 'feature' in Visualize?

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 8:56 am Air Force Boss Gives Reality Check On “Over-Hyped” Digital Engineering Revolution
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/a ... revolution

And he could not be more correct.

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 9:02 am Here's that option. As you can see, I have it turned off. There has been an extraordinary variety of issues reported by users in the last few years that have been solved by turning that off.

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Thanks for sharing your settings, trying them out.

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Translation... "Our cloud services are losing so much money, and we have such a low conversion rate (even after making some really cute comic book characters) that we have to make the profitable part of the business pay for things that they don't want, don't want us to care about, and won't use...

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Why does the offset tool not allow you to use Global Equations during creation?
Once you green check the offset you can immediately double click the offset dim and change it to an Equation.

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Is there a better way to get individual part names from SW to Mastercam? Trying to eliminate the old drawins and a sharpie method. Current workflow is to manually name the Cut List folders AND individual parts in SW. Then, in Mastercam use the auto part names feature in Geometry Nesting. SW refs onl...

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Sorry to come off as condescending, but what you all are failing to recognize is that the whole *point* of Solidworks has changed. It's new purpose is to keep you busy posting here while Dassault picks your companies pocket, taking ridiculous licensing and 'support' fees while simultaneously making ...

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Tapani Sjöman wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:55 am Tried to download, but got an error: "Active subscription service contract required .."

Anybody else got this and what is wrong?

Had this problem with 1 of 3 of our seats, had to call our VAR, they gave us a new link to use for the download.

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They are API. A higher level "Library" that hide hardware from developer. Looks like Vulkan will replace OpenGL. I think SW is testing Vulkan. The Viking roaming about the afterlife sim game 'Valheim' is testing Vulkan as well, it works great for murdering wild pigs. But back to SP.4 any ...

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Can confirm, having the same problem SOMETIMES with 2022.2.

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You can calc this by placing the point load in the worst case situation, which will be approximately between the 1/3 and 1/2 mark on the low side. Also, the rope stretch is going to be an issue. I would recommend looking into Galvanized Aircraft Cable, the stretch is very low, and the strength to we...

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Here's the only paper that will help.

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Hi TSMITH I think I found the registry. But I am not 100% sure. Could you help me reset the counter? I just need the name/location of the registry and the value. Your help would be appreciated immensely. We are a small 3 people company and can't work at the moment since the counter reached 999... F...

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Has anyone else had trouble with opening 2022 SP2 files with 2022 SP3.1?

She just grinds and grinds and grinds.

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Lucas wrote: ↑Thu May 19, 2022 7:51 pm "Pirates of the Cadibbean"
Now I am picturing a low cost Jack Sparrow downloading SW torrent while playing Tiesto - He's a Pirate.

Absolute win lol

I do believe Me. Depp is now considered 'low cost' great way for him to rebuild his brand.

tsmith

So after a bit of back and forth with my VAR it turns out that when you uninstall, it doesn't clear the SN from the registry. And I would have been having this problem sooner, but it turns out no one was using my old license from my former job. Quick rename on the SW registry entry and I was able to...

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The import tools in SE are impressive, especially when pulling in SW models. If I could change us from SW to SE I would. I think mainly because the more rigorous nature of SE helps to ensure that users are making things in a *closer* to good way. The other side of the coin is that SW lets you get aw...

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I've seen active noise cancelling headphones used in a foundry and machine shop. I think the manufacturer was either Peltor or 3M. They had a feature to enhance voice of person speaking but cancelling all that background noise, which is a good safety feature for production environment. I have the 3...

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I am still experiencing annoying graphics glitches in drawings. :roll: Have done since about 2016.. No end of frustration in sight.. o[ Graphics Glitch.png (This has plagued me thru multiple versions and across several PC's. Others among you must have seen this issue too.. :?: ) Same here, been loo...

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So something weird: Deactivated at the office before leaving, get home, try to reactivate and get: https://i.imgur.com/tXZCEcr.png "Activation transaction failed: Activation count exceeded. Deactivate a license from another computer and retry..." Went back to the office, it worked fine, ma...

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matt wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 10:15 am YouTube Dezignstuff Solid Edge playlist

Matt, your timing on these was impeccable and incredibly helpful for a SW convert.

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There is always the mini-lathe...

This Old's got a few videos on this, upgrades some key parts, lots of bad jokes.
He's a blast if you haven't seen his stuff.

tsmith

Similar question, is there a 'format painter' or 'paintbrush' tool for pasting formats from one text box onto another? For a brief moment I was hopeful that Copy Attributes would work... but that is limited to Dimensions and Annotations? I did discern that I could ctrl click several text boxes and m...

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Guys, No1. what I've ever seen: Surf&code from @TusharSuradkar: http://www.surfandcode.in/2014/01/index-of-all-tutorials-on-this-solid.html?m=1 Must see and use! Tushar is the admin for the Facebook 'Solid Edge Users' group... which is also a pretty good resource (if you're into the FB thing). ...

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My access request was accepted and approved, but after some back and forth with Global Support, it's apparent that without being a paying customer you cannot see the innards of the support center. Best they could do for me was the community support center... https://community.sw.siemens.com/s/ but t...

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Support Registration pending, we shall see. Agreed, It is a huge flaw in the SW design system that you can design in multibody but that it then undermines the BOM's and Cut Lists. It also opens the door wide open for circular references (and awful performance) if you get too creative with the config...

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Does anyone know if there is a public list of the outstanding ER's for Solid Edge? This thread on multiple materials in multibody parts calls out an ER... https://community.sw.siemens.com/s/question/0D54O00006paepNSAQ/solid-edge-multibody-functionality-needs-some-love ER#10006900 Customer is request...

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Hi, I have just started learning SolidWorks; and came across a question in regard to the font size of Smart Dimension. For the 1st screenshot, I drew a line randomly and used smart dimension to define its length. But the size of number is too small to see. To see clearly, I need to use the scroll w...

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Our best current plan is to use a remote desktop (probably anydesk) to be able to log in remotely and release. It will take a few years to hit the 999 limit. We looked at the SW license server, but there are only two of us, and I am guessing they will discontinue the SWLS next in their misguided eff...

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Add option to leave sketche(s) out of the feature that uses it/them. I plan my first several sketches out carefully and SW clobbers the intent order and buries them in features down the tree. This makes edits cumbersome as I often roll back to the sketch to edit it, but everything is out of order. ...

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