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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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... 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...

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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.

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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...

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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 ...

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... 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...

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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 ...

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@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...

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Great topic. The video is only a start.

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There was a thread that developed into a place for enhancement requests. I moved that from SWGeneral to a new subforum called Enhancement Requests.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Thx! Hope you all are having a great Christmas as well.

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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...

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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...

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Hmmm. Ok. I don't control the Spamhaus list.

Changed settings again. Give that a whirl.

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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.

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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...

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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

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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

That might be the case Canada.
I guarantee the US is different about it.

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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...

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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...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:41 am Based on that link, it is possible the creator of these forums could be the author of that macro.

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That's a really REALLY old link. 20 years old or more. I think that's an address I had when I lived in Rochester. REALLY old. 20+ years.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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DamBlosq wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 12:12 pm This topic is different, depending on the project and company but you shouldn't work for less than 7-8$ an hour.

Um, where are you from?

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Scaling in XY is a non-uniform scale, so all of the analytical topology gets thrown out the window. (now in place of circles, you have splines). If you scaled in XYZ, I think it would work the way you expect. Scaling is kind of a neanderthal method. If you have features, do the right thing, and chan...

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Maybe you had it rolled back to a point where there were no solid bodies.

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Wow, thanks for putting that up. Very cool.

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"Fractionner" looks like the Split feature. Maybe you don't have the requirements for that feature. Looks like you have the surfacing toolbar up. Do you have a solid body in your model? If not, that function won't be available.

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