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- Tue May 14, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: CHECK YOUR SYSTEM - warning keeps popping up!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 450
Re: CHECK YOUR SYSTEM - warning keeps popping up!
I get the "check your system" message almost every day and there are no red X's on mine. And the only warning is that I am not on the latest version. image.png We don't really get it much anymore unless we're working on heavy assemblies/drawings and when we were getting it my VAR kept tel...
- Tue May 14, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Slow/unresponsive forums
- Replies: 2
- Views: 50
Re: Slow/unresponsive forums
It stopped around 9 AM eastern time.
- Tue May 14, 2024 11:33 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Programming in SolidWorks, how important is it?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 188
Re: Programming in SolidWorks, how important is it?
Nothing against Custom Tools at all. I'd like to test the premise that home-made solution is not practical for small companies. I don't know that there's a correlation between company size and whether or not they should make their own tools. I feel it has more to do with how well their needs fit wi...
- Tue May 14, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: CHECK YOUR SYSTEM - warning keeps popping up!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 450
Re: CHECK YOUR SYSTEM - warning keeps popping up!
Run RX and see what it tells you. If there is a red X, address it.Craig Schultz wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 11:15 am Happens to me randomly. Sometimes on a very basic part.
128GB RAM, Quadro RTX 4000 "Shouldn't" be an issue.
- Tue May 14, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Programming in SolidWorks, how important is it?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 188
Re: Programming in SolidWorks, how important is it?
Programming can be a huge time saver for repetitive task like Alex said. I have a bunch of macros that do certain things when I run them. My favorite is one that creates a list of custom properties in a model or assembly with default entries. This is much faster then having to enter each one by typ...
- Tue May 14, 2024 9:12 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Programming in SolidWorks, how important is it?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 188
Programming in SolidWorks, how important is it?
Hey guys, I wanted to start a little conversation about programming in SolidWorks because I'm always looking for new tools to add to my toolset and figured programming might be a good one concidering that you can develop your own macros and other tools of that nature to help simplify processes, but ...
- Tue May 14, 2024 8:59 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Use same display state as original occurence
- Replies: 4
- Views: 244
- Tue May 14, 2024 8:57 am
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Slow/unresponsive forums
- Replies: 2
- Views: 50
Slow/unresponsive forums
Hey,
The forums are rather slow this morning, sometimes I even get a timeout.
The forums are rather slow this morning, sometimes I even get a timeout.
- Fri May 10, 2024 10:20 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Use same display state as original occurence
- Replies: 4
- Views: 244
Re: Use same display state as original occurence
That would be useful.... However, did you know that you can change the display state for multiple components all at once? Simply SHIFT select (or CTRL select) multiple components, then RMB on them and select properties. If they are all the instances of the same part (which would be the case with a ...
- Fri May 10, 2024 9:54 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: About Force Rebuild & Part Change
- Replies: 14
- Views: 541
Re: About Force Rebuild & Part Change
Hrmm. I activated File Explorer and it only give me a "An invalid argument was encountered." on the first time opening it and then subsequently every time I close and re-open Solidworks. image.png And if I open an assembly and show File Explorer, it ONLY shows recent documents. Not anythi...
- Fri May 10, 2024 7:53 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Solidworks 2021 Linking BOM CELL (item no) to NOTE
- Replies: 6
- Views: 424
Re: Solidworks 2021 Linking BOM CELL (item no) to NOTE
so for whatever reason i manage to get it work by accident on my machine suddenly.... after clicking the Link Table Cell, i need to press and HOLD my left mouse button...the the cursor will then change (no longer a stop sign) and i can select the table cell and it will link to my note... WHUT?! ima...
- Thu May 09, 2024 12:55 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: CHECK YOUR SYSTEM - warning keeps popping up!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 450
Re: CHECK YOUR SYSTEM - warning keeps popping up!
I love the irony in it, it's frustrating but we can laugh about it rather then cry, cheers TobyTooTallToby wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 12:48 pm Not sure if you guys ever get this, but I get it alot....so I did the only logical thing and made a song about it
- Thu May 09, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Negative Like
- Replies: 4
- Views: 232
Re: Negative Like
I tried to reproduce it but wasn't able :( My guess is you had liked the post, clicked to go to the next page, and then went back to the previous page(using the back button) and got the cached page that showed 0 where as the site knew there was 1. So upon clicking it, you saw a 0 turn to -1 and the ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 8:41 am
- Forum: SolidWorks FAQ
- Topic: Equations when creating mates
- Replies: 8
- Views: 410
Re: Equations when creating mates
I figured out that I can just paste the value ("=Foo") when I get the text box only, which is quicker than using the dropdown. You can also paste into the window with the dropdown. You can't paste the value in the property manager. It gives you a messages stating "please enter a numb...
- Tue May 07, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: In-Context relationships, intermittently, losing association.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 593
Re: In-Context relationships, intermittently, losing association.
I have a hang-up with this too. IIRC you must dig deep and then acknowledge a click-thru NDA to even access the "fixed" SPRs list for each release. It is pretty wild. Ansys QA has a notion of a "Class3 error", which is software defect that results in a simulation result being wr...
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:39 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Filter by Component Reference
- Replies: 9
- Views: 340
Re: Filter by Component Reference
Hi Alex, the Component Reference is separate to Configurations, it's effectively a Unique ID for each instance of a Component. image.png I've got some useful replies on the other place; I'd never used the Go To tool and had basically forgotten it existed. It's a good workaround for this issue (espe...
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Filter by Component Reference
- Replies: 9
- Views: 340
Re: Filter by Component Reference
Component reference is the number in parenthesis? If so that's a configuration name and it can be used as a callout, this is how we do our balloons in our air drawings
Just create your BOM template and callout the property you desire to use as a "part number"
Just create your BOM template and callout the property you desire to use as a "part number"
- Mon May 06, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 585
Re: What are you reading?
I'm not a fan of horror, and as such, haven't read Stephen king in decades. (I think Cujo was the last book I read, in 1984.) A friend of mine recommended the "Dark Tower" series, and I am enjoying the heck out of it. King is a master story teller, and I find his work immensely entertaini...
- Mon May 06, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: In-Context relationships, intermittently, losing association.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 593
Re: In-Context relationships, intermittently, losing association.
CONSTANTLY..! It's almost as if this is the one thing that I can count on SW doing. And sometimes they are just broken and do not "refresh". This is one I experienced just today. Broken Sketch Relations.png See the baby poo brown lines. The original entities are still there. They are conv...
- Mon May 06, 2024 8:21 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: How draw this hole ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 378
Re: How draw this hole ?
Hello Could you please explain how to simply draw juste the hole? Are there any tools in SolidWorks to achieve this, or perhaps a mathematical formula I could use? It involves two parallel segments representing two chords. I'm afraid my approach might be too simplistic, so I'm seeking expert advice...
- Thu May 02, 2024 2:17 pm
- Forum: SolidWorks PDM
- Topic: Document Expiration Date - Is it possible?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 384
Re: Document Expiration Date - Is it possible?
The network could manage this with folder specific permissions and what not. Cloud would also be an alternative but I doubt it since defense requires high levels of security in general.
- Thu May 02, 2024 9:26 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Use same display state as original occurence
- Replies: 4
- Views: 244
- Thu May 02, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2521
Re: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
I reached out to my VAR, and they sent me this link. https://support.3ds.com/knowledge-base/?q=docid:BR10000369143 I tried clicking "Subscirbe" image.png I tried submitting a rating/comment image.png It is hard to believe this is a multi-billion dollar company. Odd, it worked for me. Perh...
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:33 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: About Force Rebuild & Part Change
- Replies: 14
- Views: 541
Re: About Force Rebuild & Part Change
we do not usually purge configurations and we mainly restrict them to assemblies. However I can state with confidence that a lot of garbage is stored even in supposedly emptied files. I stomped on an SPR that pointed to the save as to decrease file size. I also had a case of a drawing that was over...
- Wed May 01, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2521
Re: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
Am I correct in remembering that everything in the old knowledge base was abandoned and needed to be resubmitted on the platform? Something along that line but a lot more complex with a lot less intuity and no actual "transition". So all these things submitted on the platform aren't attac...
- Wed May 01, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2521
Re: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
I'm not sure about voting. I am not swamp literate. (I avoid that place like the plague.) I tried to paste a direct link to the SPR, but it only provides a link to the knowledge base. Understandable, I'm fighting a losing battle trying to get their attention as it happened when "One and Two&qu...
- Wed May 01, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2521
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:32 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: How to count only visible identical items in assembly
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1850
Re: How to count only visible identical items in assembly
I now find that the count shown for a Selection Set is wrong if you box select items. A box select adds one to the count, where individual selects give a correct count. I'm on SW2022. If someone would confirm this, I'll add it to the bug list. Thanks Dwight I'm not quite sure I understand. When you...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:26 am
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 585
Re: What are you reading?
The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt An absolute must read for anyone in business, especially in anything related to manufacturing (though its theory of constraints applies everywhere). Though this is a business book of sorts, you won't find it next to Good to Great (another recommendation) because it is ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:56 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2521
Re: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
It doesn't work for me either. My 2 thoughts: PDM is causing the problem. (I'm pretty sure Alex isn't on PDM, and we are.) All parts / assemblies / drawings have to live in the same folder. (We do not follow this convention. Parts and assemblies are in different folders.) That could be the cause, t...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:09 pm
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 585
Re: What are you reading?
That's a good idea. I've been reading for enjoyment for 50+ years. I just finished John Sandford's latest release, Toxic Prey . He's one of the few authors whose work I buy automatically when I run across a new title. David Weber, who writes mostly military sci-fi, with a little fantasy thrown in, ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2521
Re: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
I recall this happening in the first SP of 2023 or 2022, what SP are you running...?IndianaDave wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:49 pm Unfortunately, when I click on the "open drawing" nothing happens.
Have tried on multiple files.
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- Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 585
What are you reading?
Hey guys, I figured we had a "What do you listen to" thread, so a thread about books would fit along the line and would allow people to share books that picked their interest and what not. I'm not much of a reader myself because I don't have much of an attention span but I do try to read u...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:15 pm
- Forum: API
- Topic: Macro to set Imagequality to coarse with Batch+
- Replies: 8
- Views: 821
Re: Macro to set Imagequality to coarse with Batch+
Hello @Eddy Alleman Thanks for sharing this! I want this settings to take effect permanently on all parts (meaning I want to also apply a save operation). Is this going to do that? Here's the topic I started recently about this: https://cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=3403 Using Batch+, I believe you ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:12 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Setting Image Quality For All Parts in an Assembly
- Replies: 13
- Views: 509
Re: Setting Image Quality For All Parts in an Assembly
@AlexLachance Thank you! The only issue I have with "Apply to all referenced part documents" is this: Let's say I open my root assembly. I then set image quality to 20% & check the "Apply to all referenced part documents" and it successfully applies that settings to all the ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Setting Image Quality For All Parts in an Assembly
- Replies: 13
- Views: 509
Re: Setting Image Quality For All Parts in an Assembly
When you stay setting company standard; is that something that the user still has to apply the settings say when you download a new catalog part? I think for neutral file formats this would work great since SW just grabs the default template you set so I assume it loads it with proper image quality...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:50 am
- Forum: Computer Aided Engineering
- Topic: Customizable PDF Translator
- Replies: 1
- Views: 372
Customizable PDF Translator
Does anyone know of a PDF Translator that is somewhat customizable? We're looking to take our french drawings and translate them and some of the terms do not come out as we'd wish. For instance, ballon translates to balloon in english but the term we want is "air spring".
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Can I get rid of all Scenes?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 337
Re: Can I get rid of all Scenes?
Recommended pretty much means if you switch this setting issues might arise and you will have to deal with them. And by issues, I mean user issues, not necessarily program issues.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:59 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: Automating Custom Layered DXF Exports
- Replies: 3
- Views: 236
Re: Automating Custom Layered DXF Exports
Thanks, I'll give it a try. Do you know if it's possible to create a SolidWorks VBA Macro that can use this? If i have understood right, you can save this presets for exporting to DXF to a file, and then load this file so yoou don't have to re.do the layer selecting part right?. If anyone already h...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:29 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Fun Errors in Solidworks
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2640
Re: Fun Errors in Solidworks
The FooOK ing command
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:43 am
- Forum: API
- Topic: Automating Custom Layered DXF Exports
- Replies: 3
- Views: 236
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2521
Re: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
Odd, it seems to work for me...?IndianaDave wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:34 pm Love that we can open a drawing from the BOM on the sheet now...
Unfortunately, I can't right click and open the drawing of a part in the drawing view. It seems to be broken.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:01 pm
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: Watercooler Talk
- Replies: 1378
- Views: 136542
Re: Watercooler Talk
My VAR generally does a good job, but they've been going back to their old habits of before the original one and two, which is kind of the reason why I'm a bit grumpy latelyGlenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:51 pm There are better VAR's out there, but I don't know if switching is possible for you.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:27 pm
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: Watercooler Talk
- Replies: 1378
- Views: 136542
Re: Watercooler Talk
Yeah, sent a nice mail to my VAR reminding that he;
should not be closing requests without giving valid reasons
and
should be following up on requests faster then a 10 month span and without having me to force him to do so.
should not be closing requests without giving valid reasons
and
should be following up on requests faster then a 10 month span and without having me to force him to do so.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: SolidWorks FAQ
- Topic: Description property in Windows Explorer
- Replies: 4
- Views: 395
Re: Description property in Windows Explorer
Reading my post today makes me think the question is not very clear... In Windows' file Explorer, I have the habit to add a column to show the Description custom property of SolidWorks files. I go through the process described on every reseller website such as this one: https://www.solidsolutions.c...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: Watercooler Talk
- Replies: 1378
- Views: 136542
Re: Watercooler Talk
SolidWorks being SolidWorks.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:48 am
- Forum: 2D Drawings
- Topic: Text justification
- Replies: 10
- Views: 424
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:52 am
- Forum: SolidWorks FAQ
- Topic: Multiple Config. Part fails to reload specific configuration
- Replies: 7
- Views: 415
Re: Multiple Config. Part fails to reload specific configuration
Thank you so much for all the answers. I'll give it a try to separate different sizes into different files and i'll update you on if it still happens. But i'd like to know how the process of changing sizes works in an assembly. When you change the size, thus changing the part file, does the changed...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: 2D Drawings
- Topic: Text justification
- Replies: 10
- Views: 424
Re: Text justification
That's odd, it seems to works for us
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:07 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: linear pattern instances to vary greyed out
- Replies: 5
- Views: 456
Re: linear pattern instances to vary greyed out
Why do you guys use "instances to vary" rather then use sketch driven patterns...?