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Glenn Schroeder

I have seen SW crash in a wide variety of situations, but not that one.

1. Does it happen on multiple Drawings, or just this one?
2. If it's just this one file, and it just happened, have you tried re-booting your computer? That will often fix odd issues.

Glenn Schroeder

So, I tried that, but I think I was adding an additional unnecessary layer and that was what was causing the problem. So, once I create my driving sketch, I can place the holes on the sketch endpoints without creating ADDITIONAL 3D points. I think that's where I tripped myself up. I'm not sure I un...

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I just posted something on another thread that reminded me of a couple shortcuts I found years ago that others may not be aware of. When I want to create an Extruded Boss/Base or Extruded Cut my usual workflow is to select the face or plane first, then the feature. That opens a sketch on the selecte...

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I use the Hole Wizard extensively for drilled holes and slots, though not so much for threads. My preferred method, that I've used for many years, is to create a stand-alone sketch first, then when I get to the hole wizard feature I just drop the points coincident with end points, mid points, etc fr...

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Wow - Imagine my surprise when I went to the old forum, for the first time in years, and it was gone! Instead, they offered me a SWYM, but the water was far too deep for my liking. So great to find this place with a lot of familiar faces/names and with access to the best minds in the game . I am es...

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irrelevant to matters, but I'm curious. I always keep a sponge under my elbow. otherwise my arm always goes numb. How do you guys work? 2.jpg I work with my keyboard and mouse pad near the edge of the desk, so the heel of my hand is all that's on it. My upper arm is very near vertical, so there's n...

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1. When you make a mistake, and you will, don't try to sidestep it or blame someone else, and if possible you be the one to bring it to your supervisor's attention before he or she finds out from someone else. When you do, try to have a possible fix to present to him or her at the same time. Don't j...

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I use very few keyboard shortcuts. Part of it is probably because I didn't start out with AutoCAD like many of you did, so I didn't get in the habit, and partly because I have my left hand on my Spacemouse Pro. As I said, I have a SpaceMouse Pro, and use it often. In fact, if the company took it bac...

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My wife bakes a pretty good turkey with stuffing and all, but really, it's hard to beat the turkey that comes off of a rotisserie. The skin is tough, which protects and stops the moisture from releasing from the turkey, let me tell you it is better then any turkey I tasted, plus with the Rub on the...

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 3:19 pm Interesting that they don't mention that the SW area is for SW:
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I guess DS already thinks SW desktop is dead?

Glenn Schroeder

It appears that you only posted the Assembly. We can't open it without the Parts.

Glenn Schroeder

Hi Glenn, Is that the "Open File Dialog" from Solidworks? Almost nobody uses that. I've been banging the "Use PDM Search Tool" drum into everyone's heads for the past 18 months. I do not see that option from PDM Search or even Vault View (file explorer) The users that need the v...

Glenn Schroeder

I don't know what EMF and .dft mean, but have you tried opening the SW Drawing in Quick View mode?

Glenn Schroeder

Jaylin Hochstetler wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 8:22 am I've had that too! Did you ever find a remedy? SolidSometimesWorks!

No, but I don't believe I've used a profile mate on rectangular surfaces since then either. I typically use them for mating hardware in holes.

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I don't need to search every topic b/c I follow everything from the "Unread Post" page. image.png From there I can see all the topics that have a post that I haven't read yet. From there I can also click the little "go to last unread post" button which will take me to the last u...

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..this one still makes me :lol: I got it right away. It reminds me of when the former airplane hangar where I work was remodeled. The building is about 300' long, with a 120' wide clear span down the middle that's full of equipment, material, and various other objects with an aisle left open down t...

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It's not working because you have your profile sketch in the box for the path, and nothing selected for the profile. image.png If you select the proper sketches in the proper boxes it works just fine. image.png image.png By the way, I'd strongly suggest you get in the habit of fully defining your sk...

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I had a profile mate between two rectangular faces that would randomly rotate one of the components 90° when I wasn't looking. That was fun.

Glenn Schroeder

As you've probably figured out, overriding units can only be applied to actual dimensions, not to dimensions in notes that are linked to custom properties. I'm a big fan of Styles, but I understand your reluctance to depend on them to fix the problem. I wish I had a better answer for you. Someone el...

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Ok, so, I'm having an issue too. Not with my login details as such, I never click the "remember me" button . I'm quite happy to enter it all each time I login. My issue is that during the day if I refresh a page almost everytime , it refreshes with me logged out and I must login again. It...

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I believe you could fix the issue by changing your Units to display the desired number of decimals (Tools > Options > Document Properties > Units); maybe on the Drawing, and maybe on the Part, and maybe both. image.png This may cause issues to dimensions in your drawing, but they could be overcome b...

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Clearly you have an investment there that some of us don't. Who cares if they finally get their act together. I'm not spending any time there. I will be happy to return to the Dassault sponsored forum if they get their act together (but I wouldn't leave here). However, I define getting their act to...

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DennisD wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 10:03 am My daughter put this up where she works.

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I had a similar one on my office door for a while. Notice the asterisk, and the fine print at bottom. It says "Previous record excluding weekends and holidays is 0."

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Maybe the purple formatting for sarcasm will catch on and it will become an internet thing. I first started doing this in my blog a long time ago, because there was so much sarcasm, and it was tough to tell what was straight and what was tongue in cheek. The internet SHOULD adopt it. I'll call a me...

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It's not particularly uncommon that I get mate errors on an Assembly that previously didn't have any, so I suppress one of the mates. The errors go away. I un-suppress the same mate. No errors.

Glenn Schroeder

I usually do renaming in SW assembly. When you change the name in the tree, it could change the filename also. From there, you could search for "where used", ie other assembly and drawing which used that file. Same here, but like with so many SW enhancements, I was frustrated by the imple...

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KevinC wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 12:36 pm Roger Miller lyrics? (even I had to look this up) And NT?

References too ancient for Gen Recent with their limited critical thinking abilities.

Maybe this song?

Glenn Schroeder

When I tried the Extruded Cut without selecting contours I got this message, image.png which led me to believe there was something wrong with the sketch, and probably overlapping lines. Rather than trying to track it down I decided on another workflow. I edited the sketch, deleted all the exterior l...

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Yeah, that's probably rare for Texas (although I have been wrong before....and this is generally what it looks like). In Michigan we see the 30 degree swing at least twice a year. LOL You're right, swings that drastic are unusual, but 30° certainly isn't, and we can get it multiple times per year. ...

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Yeah, here is what's funny: image.png 30 degree swing in less than 24 hours. *sigh* Just 30°? Below is a screenshot from the local TV station I saved a few years ago. And that 41° change that's circled is the high from one day to the next. Notice the 51° change from the high on Saturday to the low ...

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And here I thought we were done with snow... Woke up this morning with another 3 inch on the ground... Thankfully this should definetly be the last we get. In a little more then a month, I'll be on vacation up North to fish pikes and walleyes with friends for a whole week. Kind of eager for it. Its...

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Any of the videos posted by VAR's should be okay.

Glenn Schroeder

Are you on 2021? 2021 has a known bug with attaching balloons to exploded views (SPR 1211277). The workaround is to collapse the view, attach balloons and then re-explode the view. You nailed it. I am on SW2021. It's comforting to know that this isn't one of those little tricks my computer plays on...

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Yes, of course you're on a list, and of course you've been bad, but that's not why you can't get those files. I logged in as my test account and it worked. It has the same settings as you. image.png I tried again and got the same notice again about not having permission. Then I noticed that I was n...

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dpihlaja wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 5:27 pm FYI Clicked on the link and got this:

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Howdy Dan,

Same here. Apparently we don't have permission to view those files.

Are we on a list? Have we been bad?

Glenn Schroeder

I rarely use exploded views, but I did one today. I wouldn't be surprised if it was five years or longer since the last time. It got tricky when working with the Drawing. First, I was trying to attach a note calling out a custom property to the components in the exploded view. Some of them attached ...

Glenn Schroeder

By default, the first component inserted into an Assembly is "Fixed" in place (and no, there isn't any way to turn this off). Assuming you placed the component by clicking in the graphics area its placement will be more or less random. Instead of this, what I recommend for the future, and ...

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If I had a webcam I'd be interested.

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I hope as we move the study of this disease along that they do more genetic related research. There seems to be such a massive divide with little or no obvious relationship. My Mother was telling me of a couple she is friends with. Both older 70-80, both tested positive, both in similar health and ...

Glenn Schroeder

I didn't even know you could over-ride a single component in an assembly. That will be very handy at times. Thank you, Glenn. I have been using "change transparency", but it can be finicky at times. I don't do it often, but one of the best uses for it is when I need to show complex rebar ...

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It's actually more fun when people disagree. Part of my schtick when I write about opinionated stuff is point of view. When you see a cloud from one hilltop, it looks like a bunny rabbit. From a different hilltop it looks like an airplane. Even best practices can be seen differently by people who u...

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Attached gif, thanks for the recomendataion, I was able to just download, run and use; crazy! Anyway, the dropdown at top of graphics area doesn't do anything in the assembly, in others it will change display for everything in the graphics area. The Display style (or "view type" maybe) in...

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@matt , That's disheartening to hear as we took the leap of faith and manually built out most of our hardware parts as configs in several files, SCREW.sldprt for example. You say "...evils of Solidworks configurations" I hope that's just in context of using toolbox and that hand made conf...

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The few times I tried to use "Replace Model" I was less than impressed with the results, and have abandoned it. Others may have better results.

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I've tried many times on different days, frankly I'm trying to figure it out , but it's pretty complicated. that design makes me feel like an 80-year-old old man learning to use a smartphone. Frankly I'm not trying to figure it out. I don't think it's worth the effort, especially since all the effo...

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I've tried many times on different days, frankly I'm trying to figure it out , but it's pretty complicated. that design makes me feel like an 80-year-old old man learning to use a smartphone. Frankly I'm not trying to figure it out. I don't think it's worth the effort, especially since all the effo...

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Wife got first shot already. Both our parents got first shot. I'm the only one didn't :p If I want Astra, I could. Need to do some research. We had the first Moderna injection 12 days ago... my wife had only a few post issues (arm soreness and aches for a couple days),.. I had joint aches for ~7 da...

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:34 am @matt,
Can you give us a status on it? Has it been submitted to R&D, yet?

. . . or jumped through hoops to submit an Enhancement Request?

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