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- Wed May 22, 2024 12:02 pm
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: Watercooler Talk
- Replies: 1396
- Views: 137533
Re: Watercooler Talk
Happy Bday to John! Doubt he'll see it, haven't seen him around in a little while.
- Wed May 22, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Vote to fix broken SW2024 "Enhancement"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 133
Re: Vote to fix broken SW2024 "Enhancement"
Voted. This is a good example of why things need to be tested throughly before being released lol.
- Tue May 21, 2024 4:03 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
- Replies: 49
- Views: 2986
Re: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
lol, I've had that in 2019, the tooltip would span across the entire screen. What a P.I.T.A. that was.
- Tue May 21, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Direct connection CutList Property to the Custom Property
- Replies: 6
- Views: 245
Re: Direct connection CutList Property to the Custom Property
The way our CustomTools is set-up does this but as JSculley pointed out, when there are multiple instances of body within a part, the dimensions become somewhat more confusing then referencial. To "avoid" the confusion, the company distinguishes between an assembly and a weldment and there...
- Tue May 21, 2024 1:45 pm
- Forum: 2D Drawings
- Topic: Marked Dims not inserting in Drawing
- Replies: 2
- Views: 168
Re: Marked Dims not inserting in Drawing
Only setting I'm aware of to use these is the ones inside the view commands but we don't really use marked dims.
- Tue May 21, 2024 12:50 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Solidworks is out of Memory.!!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 765
Re: Solidworks is out of Memory.!!
I know I wasn't writing machine compilers and getting paid thousands of dollars in high school (He did that in the early 70's when 99% of the world didn't even know what a computer was.) I don't like many of Microsoft's business practices, and I'm pretty sure I don't agree with Bill on much of anyt...
- Tue May 21, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Solidworks is out of Memory.!!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 765
- Tue May 21, 2024 11:29 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Solidworks is out of Memory.!!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 765
Re: Solidworks is out of Memory.!!
Solidworks products is the first time I encountered or had the need to know about GDI object limits. I'm not aware of other systems that have blogs explaining how to increase the 64k object limit. Now I'm confused, are we talking about Micro$oft or Da$$ault? Don't forget Microsoft was made by a man...
- Tue May 21, 2024 7:59 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
- Replies: 49
- Views: 2986
Re: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
I have been having issues with the command manager. (These predate 2023, but are still around.) First, the command manager will randomly go blank, as if a tab with no features were selected. All I did in this GIF was to click in a couple of random places and move my mouse to the command manager. Wh...
- Fri May 17, 2024 9:17 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: New for SW2024
- Replies: 101
- Views: 90549
Re: New for SW2024
I wouldn't be in too much of a hurry if everything's working fine on 2023 SP5 on your end.
- Thu May 16, 2024 1:29 pm
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: Watercooler Talk
- Replies: 1396
- Views: 137533
Re: Watercooler Talk
He drops a lot of F-bombs now. And has pulled the plug on attempting to be "middle of the road" nice. Looked up a few, this one felt personal :lol: https://preview.redd.it/dilbert-reborn-4-7-2023-v0-64zwml870esa1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=5a8e2cd68b2ce6db3460a401b3e...
- Thu May 16, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Tab-To-(only temporarily)-Hide
- Replies: 24
- Views: 849
Re: Tab-To-(only temporarily)-Hide
Seriously? SW cannot get undo/redo to function, why would we ask them to implement an undo stack for tab hide commands? I like the idea, and we would use it frequently; doubtful of an ER implementing that doesn't mess up something else. I'm guessing their response is use Display States. () Heck, Is...
- Thu May 16, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: Watercooler Talk
- Replies: 1396
- Views: 137533
Re: Watercooler Talk
Where's the Dilbert comic that covers this? Marketing character: Sir, our existing customers are reluctant to abandon our legacy product to buy our new revolutionary system. Dilbert: Probably because the revolutionary system is unstable and regardless of the smoke and mirrors they see the new licen...
- Thu May 16, 2024 9:20 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Tab-To-(only temporarily)-Hide
- Replies: 24
- Views: 849
Re: Tab-To-(only temporarily)-Hide
Shift+tab is no good... -I don't want to un-hide any things that were already hidden before I started hiding things. If something big was there but already hidden, Shift-tab will unhide it first. -I don't want to have to remember which or how many or where things were hidden. I just want to instant...
- Thu May 16, 2024 9:12 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Tab-To-(only temporarily)-Hide
- Replies: 24
- Views: 849
Re: Tab-To-(only temporarily)-Hide
The workaround I usually use, mainly because of selecting contact surfaces for simulation, is to us the section view tool. If you create a section view through part or all of the assembly, then select the "Section By Component" with "Include Selected" set. This way I can select ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 8:56 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Tab-To-(only temporarily)-Hide
- Replies: 24
- Views: 849
Re: Tab-To-(only temporarily)-Hide
Shift+Tab my friend!
An intern taught us that about 6 months ago, we were all amazed that we weren't aware of it's existance.
An intern taught us that about 6 months ago, we were all amazed that we weren't aware of it's existance.
- Thu May 16, 2024 7:42 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Solidworks is out of Memory.!!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 765
Re: Solidworks is out of Memory.!!
Ooof, 17 sheets is quite a large drawing, if your assembly is somehow big I wouldn't be surprised to see this happen.
- Wed May 15, 2024 3:56 pm
- Forum: Kitty Dump
- Topic: Watercooler Talk
- Replies: 1396
- Views: 137533
Re: Watercooler Talk
Looks like we'll be ending our SolidWorks subscription this year after 10 years of subscription. Hoping it puts some pressure on them and that others will have the same reflex. The prices are ridiculous and so are the justifications for the increases. Here's the nice mail they sent me this afternoon...
- Wed May 15, 2024 11:27 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Stuck hourglass pointer
- Replies: 2
- Views: 238
Re: Stuck hourglass pointer
What version are you running? Is it on specific files that this occurs? I've had similar issues arise every now and then but they are generally caused by Windows. You could try force-closing explorer.exe and then running it again. If it doesn't fix the issue I'd suggest resetting your SolidWorks reg...
- Wed May 15, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: CHECK YOUR SYSTEM - warning keeps popping up!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 618
Re: CHECK YOUR SYSTEM - warning keeps popping up!
I guess the point that was saying was that it has cried wolf so often that I completely ignore it now. And If I ever call a VAR and the VAR mentions that it is an issue, then it will almost completely discredit him/her in my eyes. Unless they can point out a rock solid reason that it is happening a...
- Wed May 15, 2024 9:39 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Solidworks is out of Memory.!!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 765
Re: Solidworks is out of Memory.!!
Were you doing stress analysis? I recently had to add memory to a workstation because we did a stress analysis that was much larger then our usual one, so that workstation is now dedicated to large stress analysis lol. The second image is one that speaks of assembly updating. Perhaps you created a c...
- Tue May 14, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: CHECK YOUR SYSTEM - warning keeps popping up!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 618
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: 174
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: 18
- Views: 763
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: 14
- Views: 618
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: 18
- Views: 763
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: 18
- Views: 763
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: 371
- Tue May 14, 2024 8:57 am
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Slow/unresponsive forums
- Replies: 2
- Views: 174
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: 371
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: 667
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: 496
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: 14
- Views: 618
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: 237
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: 545
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: 695
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: 360
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: 360
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: 652
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: 695
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: 422
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: 427
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: 371
- Thu May 02, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: SOLIDWORKS 2023 confirmed bugs
- Replies: 49
- Views: 2986
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: 667
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: 49
- Views: 2986
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: 49
- Views: 2986
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: 49
- Views: 2986
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:32 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: How to count only visible identical items in assembly
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1906
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: 652
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 ...