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MJuric

Is there a cheat sheet anywhere that tells you where all the places are that you can effect how many decimal places are seen and where this effected? I always run into issues in BOM's, Cut lists, Notes etc etc where either the number is rounded or out to 72 decimals places and then spend 20 minutes ...

MJuric

My favorite is when I try and reattach it, and a horizontal dimension flips to vertical. Or disappear entirely. This happens to me fairly regularly. I'll think I have gotten it to re-attached, zoom out and the entire dimension is gone. Do a rebuild and nothing. However if you do a cross window in t...

MJuric

Hi, I am trying to recreate a hollow container, animated being filled with water. Without actual liquid simulation in Visualize, I was thinking of having a water appearance and a solid body matching the internal shape. This would work great if cutting planes could be set to only cut selected bodies...

MJuric

I'm not against multibody modeling, I use it all the time. I'm not against master models, I use those all the time, but for me multibodies are almost always part of a method to get to a single body, or to carry a complex shape across several parts, or a mold die, or one of the established methods l...

MJuric

There are numerous reasons why multibody parts aren't a good "end-in-themselves", and why a meat cleaver approach is needed to split them up: -Cutlists have a very bad habit of resetting themselves and losing data. We have several part files that do this about every 2-3 weeks. Bringing li...

MJuric

When you say, "that gets broken into multiple pieces" ... Do you mean "Save Bodies"..? (I've seen someone do this and then take these saved bodies and "Convert to Sheetmetal" all over again.. That seemed odd to me, just to have separate bodies for individual drawings.)...

MJuric

So, Export the DRW File as DXF..?! Scaled as 1 : 1 ..? That works..? Many plates we cut would not fit on any size of paper for drawings sheet size.. Or am I missing something here..? Yes, there is a setting in options, see below, that exports DXF's to a 1:1. You can then just import the geometry in...

MJuric

we've done that and the users (not CAD people) were able to get what they wanted rather efficiently. Now we're digging into the implementation details of how to maintain these things. Namely the input pdf, project file and the output pdf. We were planning on over writing the input pdf with the outp...

MJuric

Is anyone using the Solidworks Inspection tools, either stand alone or add-in? We are looking at it and it looks good for ballooning pdfs for inspection. We would only be using the stand alone. Our pdfs are not in the vault. The Inspection Project files (,ixprj) would be in the vault for version hi...

MJuric

This is a trick question, right? No, I think what I'm saying is that if you name it, you know what it's called, so it's easier to reattach mates. Not really related to the dangling dimension issue. Sorry, false alarm. Aw, well, it's broken anyway... https://customerportal.solidworks.com/siebel/app/...

MJuric

I'm answering this from the standpoint of using multi-bodied parts for weldments. I'm not sure why you would use it for parts that are essentially assemblies. This is exactly the method I'd avoid. You can't reuse any parts (without splitting them out), If you have parts that you want to "Re-Use...

MJuric

I simply go thru the model and use the RMB Context menu option of "Export to DXF/DWG" on each sheetmetal & Boss Extrude Face I want to Laser-Cut. This "manual" method can be a little arduous sometimes, dependent upon how many bodies are to be exported as dxf flat-patterns, b...

MJuric

It might not be the best way, but this is how I do it (this isn't a sheet metal part, but it is a multibody master part): image.png I was just asking because pretty much everything you can do in a regular part you can do in a multi-bodied part so I wasn't sure what the person was doing to "Org...

MJuric

Lapuo wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:38 am Folders , comments , renaming features etc..

You can do the same thing with the a multi-bodied part.

MJuric

This takes a little thinking ahead, but if you've got something you really want to be able to reattach, you can just name it. image.png So wait...are you saying that if you name something it won't lose it's ID/Mind but if you don't it will just change it's ID every time something in the model get's...

MJuric

I tried this in Inventor and it works much better. No issue reattaching any dimensions and they detached less often. SolidWorks would dangle dimensions that made no sense but it was almost always fillet edges that were edited. Some dimensions I could reattach and some I couldn't. Seemed to work bes...

MJuric

try selecting either a vertex or a line; SW doesn't like to identify both but needs the specific entity type to reattach. The trick is that both need to be the right entity before the dim is corrected. That said, there are some types of dims that I find almost impossible to attach namely hole callo...

MJuric

Related, sort of. I removed a fillet and replaced it with an undercut on this hub and lost the diameter dimension and now need to reattach it. If one leg is lost it is no problem. However I have NEVER been able to reattach if both legs of the dimension are lost. Is there a secret handshake I need t...

MJuric

Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:15 am This problem is fixed by using Inventor.

This is definitely one thing I miss about IV. I'd say the number of things that blew up because of minor feature changes was a fraction of what it is in SW.

MJuric

Really I don't understand why SW just can't fix one thing that would save me half my life? Figure out a way to more intelligently assign ID's or whatever SW uses to keep track of things. Today I had to re-dimension nearly two entire views because I got rid of a hole in a face and all the dimensions ...

MJuric

We are looking for someone to help backfill my design workload. We are currently using Solidworks 2020. PM me if you are interested, or know someone who might be. If there are better resources for hiring contractors please share those as well. I've always wondered how many companies out there are l...

MJuric

Just out of curiosity, how do you sort through the featuremanager with all of the features for different parts in there? Not following this. If you're using SW Weldments there aren't "Different parts in there" it's the same as a single part. So however you'd shift thru the features for a ...

MJuric

For those of you who make multi-body sheet metal parts, convince me that this isn't the sh****est method ever. Why do you do it? What advantages does it give you? What barriers does it remove? And on the other side, does it cause any problems? I ask because I've always avoided this method, I never ...

MJuric

IndianaDave wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 4:57 pm art, we have to create a config and delete/keep bodies to isolate that part.

If you're using SW weldments the configurations are created for you and the flat patterns are there. See the attached.

MJuric

I'm looking for a simple free tool to capture a video of me animating a machine on screen in solidworks. I don't need to record sound or anything fancy. I know I can do this in solidworks but I need something fast to show prototypes, easy to share and email or place in onenote. Anyone have any idea...

MJuric

That's easy to say, but the company board had to comply with the regulation, but didn't give the project a budget, and the manager had to schedule the work without any resources, and the engineer had to do it without any time. Without a real incentive carrot, the governmental stick is not enough to...

MJuric

SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:11 am Sheesh. How did bitching about gas cans turn into politics? Forget I brought it up.

So now you're trying to burry the truth!

MJuric

Anyone tried the Solidworks Maker online product? they charge $99usd for it yearly. I'm wondering if one can send the model to Unreal Datasmith importer. I know you can't share the files with regular Solidworks or so they say. I asked this over at the other forum because I figured everyone here hat...

MJuric

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 12:03 pmimage.png

Hmmm...now we know where the term "Tossing the salad" came from...

MJuric

And yet.....the CA-approved gas cans are the leakiest ever made by mankind. ;; Like I said, feel free to use them. I don't live in CA or OR on purpose . I actually find the new cans almost completely unnecessary and if I had to guess they are the result of some level of crony capitalism. I have som...

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Personally, I had a ~20yr old 5 gal w/spout which leaked every where... origin was made in USA... from Idaho. Bought a new 5 gal container w/flow control and shut-off from China... works GREAT! Blaming CA? (yeah,.. so, it's CA's fault.. wow, that was easy) Maybe user error, change... or education i...

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I just ran across this article on someone else's frustration with those things https://feedly.com/i/entry/1CGdPGnQy3iR9lJU8cllnVHz98faEvL13SfM07RBdZA=_17b72e1b254:14fe8e2:e324efd https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2021/08/23/power-outage-blackout-gas-cans/8236738002/?utm_source=feedblitz&...

MJuric

Uncle_Hairball wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 12:28 pm Post the part, please.

Sorry, parts gone. Probably should have saved it but once I did the "Save as" and the new file worked I nuked the old one.

MJuric

I am doing some lattice structures using Face Curves, and since it generates Splines SW cannot create Weldments with them. <()> So I created a lot of Sweeps, but it's a lot of manual process depending on the structure and I would like to lets say, at least be able to change the diameters all togeth...

MJuric

A quick work-around to round up in the equations editor is to add one and then convert it to an integer. image.png I can tell you that there is some floating point error within solidworks like you're seeing in excel. If I am looking to see if a value is equal to another value, I'll typically do the...

MJuric

Is there something else you have to do to make this =2? image.png Nope, apparently it's rather random since it's a FP error. Change that to a number and extend it out to 30 decimal places. Below are a bunch of simple subtraction, division etc problems that I did yesterday. For some reason addition ...

MJuric

So I was doing some excel stuff yesterday and ran into what I would consider an egregious rounding error. Turns out it's a floating point issue that in my opinion is just handled very poorly. I wanted to check the exact same calculation in SW but not sure if it can be done. Essentially most/many &qu...

MJuric

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:55 amimage.png

http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

MJuric

The old forum was on the Jive platform, which was no longer being supported. I wasn't confused by the decision to move away from it. What I was confused by, and still am, was the decision to move it to that god-awful platform it's on now when there are numerous dedicated forum platforms out there t...

MJuric

Check the part properties and see if there is anything in "Configuration Specific." That seems to override the "Custom" tab. I've found SW will fill in the Configuration Specific table when I do a "Save As" on a part. image.png That's one of the first things I looked a...

MJuric

I'll add.... Get rid of as many appearances as possible. While simplifying parts include interior cavities. Soliworks has to worry about all the interior details as much as the outward one. If you have a bearing model that you downloaded that has all the ball bearings, seals, cages etc etc and you h...

MJuric

What was the created date of the Top Plane? If a part template was really old, it can cause loss-of-function problems like that. Opposite of gain-of-function..... For example, if that option was not available in the template version (often 1999 for McMaster <()> ) it may not be available now. 2/11/...

MJuric

So I have a part that was downloaded from McMaster Carr. It has one configuration. No matter what I do it will not seem to display the file name in the BOM. If I go into the configuration properties and set it to "Configuration name" it shows that. If I set it to "User defined" i...

MJuric

Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Wed Aug 18, 2021 12:36 pm http://help.solidworks.com/2020/English ... 1c211e#Pg0

Nice!

Thanks

MJuric

but as far as I can tell works in 2020. I thought I read somewhere that "Alt View" or something similar was introduced for parts as well. Is that true? We do quite a few fitting spacers and it sure would be nice to be able to have the part as designed and as manufactured to show fitting s...

MJuric

Alternate Position Views are really the best way I have found to do this. You mentioned being unable to dimension them... This was a bug a couple versions ago, but as far as I can tell works in 2020. You don't actually have to create multiple configs to use for the different alternate position view...

MJuric

Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Aug 18, 2021 9:57 am Can't talk about robotic without Boston Dynamics:

How it learn

Man that stuff is moving fast. I saw one a couple years ago, again from Boston Dynamics, and no where near that level of capability.

MJuric

We do something similar here where I work showing the vehicle approaching the test installation, leaving the test installation, and the at rest position. We want the first two to be dotted lines instead of solid. Initially I used the Component Line Font feature to do that. I later tried doing them ...

MJuric

so this is something that I end up doing on occasion and I end up "Re-Learning" ways to do it every time and every time I'm not happy or satisfied with the outcome, work around etc. Phantom parts in drawings is something that is pretty basic stuff and has been used forever. Phantom parts s...

MJuric

Genius...or fraud? image.png It's only fraud if he advertised it as something it wasn't. If people are willing to send someone $49.95 based on the words "Solar Dryer"...that's on them. That's like all the spoofs on Dihydrogen Monoxide. If I put out an advertisement for 16oz of Dihydrogen ...

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