Welp, now I feel foolish.

I just confirmed that Path mate does indeed work.
I was so bent on getting a Cam mate that I overlooked the Path.

It took 30 seconds to Path mate vs. 90 minutes to work out that indirect stuff.

Thanks, @SPerman !

I ended up solving this with some indirect tomfoolery: 1. Made a 'flat' version of the cam. 2. Added a rack and pinion mate to a disk that rotated the moving lift. 3. Added a fixed-location lift that followed the flat cam. 4. Mated the fixed-location's lift pad to the moving lift's lift pad. Now, wh...

I've been working on this for a few hours. We have a lift that travels around a 65" diameter. The lift is raised to the cam surface (big gray ring) with shop air. Then the follower (black roller in the pic) is pushed down as the roller engages the cam surface. What we want to be able to do is d...

I've been using swx since '96-'97 and have never known the hole wizard to offer through all-both.
I'm on '22 sp5 right now and it's not an option. Maybe it's in '23 or '24, haven't used them yet.

Thanks, Glen, I'll have to schedule that. Unfortunately I work from home in NH and remote in to a computer in GA and don't have complete control. Not ideal, but it is what it is for now. I was just about to re-create my assembly template to see if that was the culprit. I verified that it was still m...

Hello all, I've observed a new behavior that's bothering me. Solidworks 2022 sp5, making exploded views. I'll select a few parts to move, grab the appropriate yellow axis arrow, and drag the parts out, adjust the dimension to a nice round number because I'm that guy. Rinse and repeat as necessary. W...

I had set something like this up in PDM at my previous job. The QA signoff was last in the ECO process in our ECO workflow. However, he had no access to Solidworks. A task was added from the Administration program to publish a PDF after his signature. The Execution Method was set to a specific compu...

Sorry, not a helpful reply, but I'm about to start a new position and I'll be in a similar boat, Dennis. I'm using PDM Professional now, stepping back to PDM Standard next week at the new place, then on to either Pro again or a 3rd party software that I'll help research and choose. I'm interested to...

Hi everybody, I'm a cad admin for a small group of 8 engineers, a dozen contributors, and about 60 viewers. No IT responsibilities, or permissions. That's a blessing and a curse. We're also split between the US and our European parent company, slightly complicating our shared vault. There are more u...

Now I feel silly.
All day, I had double clicked the card variable and nothing happened.
Just highlighted the entire row.
It didn't dawn on me to click on the arrow proper.

Thank you, Alex.

Hello, all, New to the admin position, messed up the other week. Affected my counterparts' side of things and they had to restore some templates, cards, and variables from backup. Now, mine is not behaving the same as before I touched it in the first place and I have no backups to restore. Specifica...

Bryan, It is more a question of privacy and personal data then 'security'. Plenty of company do not want to go the way of the cloud for those two reasons. Then, there are those who have restrictions such as military projects who do not want this stuff all over the internet, even if it's as 'secure'...

jcapriotti wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 4:36 pm ...
I created a "Master List" Word document, then did a copy on the assemblies and "Paste as reference" on the Word doc. Then do a "Copy Tree" on the Master List Word document.
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Thanks for the lesson today,

Ray

Thanks for the help, Alex and Jason.
It was part of the folder and state permissions.
I'm going to have to review that Group's permissions or those user's memberships to make this happen by default.

Glad you guys saw this and got me the right info!

Have a great weekend,

Ray

Thanks for the suggestion, Jason. And Alex, thank you, I had the below typed out before you responded. I'm looking at the state permissions now. There were no checks on the Read File Contents in any Workflow State. The file that was shown is in "Work in Progress" state just like 95% of the...

New to PDM admin, bear with me, please. There's a user here who can't see all the files in any Solidworks project folder. One assembly is shown, no other assemblies, no drawings, no parts, in a folder of 400+ files. The preview/data card/etc are populated for this one file. This user is view-only, f...

Found an error in the macro I posted. Working on it.
I found that the previous code would inadvertently hide a solid body.

The rest of the untested lines have now been commented out and it works as intended for me.
Uncomment a set of these lines to test behavior for a specific surface type.

Ray

Nearly instant in 2021 SP3. fwiw.

I remembered reading a similar question a while back. Didn't realize how long ago... I found this in the SWYMp: https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:yUw32GbYTEqKdgY7-jbZPg/iquestion:RfA-4wiAQrauMACNSJXzOg TL/DR: Use RunMacro2 method, answered by gupta9665 Disclaimer: I h...

I last used Protolabs about 3 years ago for some sheetmetal parts. I can't complain: the stainless parts met the print and fit in the oven re-fit project I was doing. It's only been because we don't have a lot of demand for sheetmetal parts that I haven't used them again. There were also some stainl...

SPerman The Select Chain option seems to be for Sketch Entities, not Raw edges. Start the sketch, do not start the Offset command. Right click the same edge as you did in the gif "Select Loop" Click the yellow arrow to select the proper loop, if necessary Start the Offset Entities command...

My "Standard" toolbar has some customized additions and the entire group moves when I set the highlighted option to either the Menu Bar or Command Manager. You're showing (11) buttons in your command manger in the first post. I have (13) in my menu bar; that tells me Solidworks will displa...

Right click the Menu Bar of Command Manager area, select Customize.
Change your selection in the Quick Access Tools area:
Hope this helps,

Ray

Try this one: https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=280