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AlexLachance

TooTallToby 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

I love the irony in it, it's frustrating but we can laugh about it rather then cry, cheers Toby

AlexLachance

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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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"

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... nxzxw7z_6w

If interested, please vote for this.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 3:13 pm I first discovered/reported this in 2022, but it remains unfixed in 2023.

SPR 524858

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I am a GIF, Click me.

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Do you have a direct link for me to vote on..?

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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, ...

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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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I recall this happening in the first SP of 2023 or 2022, what SP are you running...?

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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...

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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 ...

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@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 ...

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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...

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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".

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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.

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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...

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The FooOK ing command

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You can create a mapfile

https://help.solidworks.com/2020/englis ... t=P&value=

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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.

Odd, it seems to work for me...?

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Glenn 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.

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 lately

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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.

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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...

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SolidWorks being SolidWorks.

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Bryan O wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:31 am Do you put them in as a text field or note?

I'm not quite sure I understand the distinction..?

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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...

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That's odd, it seems to works for us

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Why do you guys use "instances to vary" rather then use sketch driven patterns...?

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Bryan O wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:46 pm I'm playing with my title block layouts and I cant figure out how to Center/Center justify the text in a given space.
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Any tips

The "bounding box" of the text has to have it's center positionned at the center of the rectangle you want it centered at.

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I get the following error whenever I run the modified version shared by Alex: image.png This happens after I type something in the box and select "generate QR Code" I am using SW 2022 SP4 on Windows 10 Hey Dan, Here's how to solve the issue: Edit the macro and go in Tools>References image...

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For some reason, i could not seem to link the bom cell to note in solidworks 2021 The cursor show a stop sign and nothing happens after clicking on the cell image.png The functionality is working fine in solidworks 2022 image.png Anyone has similar issue before? To link to the BOM cell number, you ...

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I hope you receive retribution for all you've done towards this to show their lack of commitment

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 3:52 pm Still designing new stuff!
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40' long trailer with a stabilizer and a high lift dump tailgate.

Few months later, we pretty much finished and tested the first trailer

Loaded tests coming next week

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If you'd like to add them there or perhaps use some there too, this thread has a collection of a bunch of macros:

viewtopic.php?t=74

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I wish I knew surfacic a bit more. These kind of shapes look awesome to develop.

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Uncle_Hairball wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:13 pm That was it! Thanks SPerman.

The difference a @ can make before a name is phenomenal

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Hey Brian, do you have a sample file you could share? I do a lot of sheet metal and we've had occurences like this.

Depends on what are your needs also. In our case, we needed to have round holes with a constant spacing between them.

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At least y'all saw something. It was overcast and rainy in my neck of the woods in Louisiana. 88 percent occulation. Got a little dark like what it would be in early AM. Dogs were a bit on edge. But other than that, lackluster. Clear sky on a hot spring day for us. It was in the 60's and dropped in...

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I can't believe schools closed around here because it was the equivalent of being a little bit cloudy. I'm sure it is impressive if you are in the zone of a total eclipse, but where we are it was barely noticeable. https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/434593448_2787049824805179_5086227...

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