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dave.laban

Allow "Make Assembly from Part" for Routing Components

Nothing groundbreaking but needless and irritating limitation.

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Macrofeatures seem to be another way of achieving remarkable results if you know what you're doing with programming. When I first saw this it blew my mind as to what would be possible. https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/me/bookmarks?content=swym:prd:R1132100503382:qnaquestion:1oy...

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Presumably the logic is you don't need to find the thing you've just right clicked on as you know where it is?

I'd like some way of enabling "start from the top" without further intervention every time I use the tool.

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It looks like the component reference is available through the API. You might be able to write a macro to accomplish what you want to do. https://help.solidworks.com/2016/english/api/sldworksapi/solidworks.interop.sldworks~solidworks.interop.sldworks.icomponent2~componentreference.html Cheers. Fort...

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Understood, we use configuration descriptions in a similar fashion. Sounds like your need is for a "selection set". Have you tried an advanced selection...? Maybe that would give you exactly what you need? image.png There's a few different selection tools such as "select identical co...

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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 (espec...

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Does anyone have a solution for being able to filter the Feature Manager by Component Reference? There is an open SPR for adding the functionality but I'm hoping there's a workaround I haven't found. I have some PCBs that have come in through CircuitWorks so all the parts have the unique Component R...

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Implement Filter / Search using the Component Reference

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Ability to Apply Colour Directly to Any Face (Surface) in a Drawing View (Area Hatch Fill / Crosshatch)

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Very nice!

Do you think it would be possible to extract the actual date/time for the post and display that rather than the "1 hour ago" nonsense they persist with? The data seems to be available when you hover over their vaguestamp.

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Use Magnetic Lines to Align Balloons, Notes and other Annotations

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New enhancements are now added every service pack. For users like me who are in LDR mode a lot, having breadcrumbs available in LDR mode is huge (2024 SP1). UU Next month (2024 SP2) we get the Component Preview Window in LDR, also. >< I'm intrigued by how well this will work. Annually the Beta test...

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Pattern Driven Pattern – Unique Icon in FMT

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Table Horizontal Auto Split to Equal Columns

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Merge Ordinate Dimensions

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Don’t Move Balloons when Inserting Magnetic Line

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Full Dimensions for Linear Patterns

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That's great! Thank you very much for this, will certainly do the job in most cases.

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https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... IbU4PAddeA

What do we think this one's for, a plane replica or JFKs car?

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If I go to "Save Sheet Format" the Note disappears when the Save dialogue box comes up. Sheet template: image.png After activating Save Sheet Format: image.png Seems like Notes get removed from the Sheet Format? If I add the Note to the Sheet Format rather than the Template, I can't then e...

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I've possibly been missing something for a number of years and will soon be feeling quite silly, however the Note that I have as part of my sheet format is never generated when I add a new sheet to a drawing, it only ever exists on Page 1 when I create the document in the first place. Is there a wor...

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As far as Mouse Gestures go, having the S-key menu in the bottom-right location of the Gesture Wheel is definitively the best place for it, as when it pops up it's already underneath your cursor without having to change direction. I've got a SpaceExplorer and I think the button I use most is to togg...

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How close does it need to be? I'm asking because you can paste the view on the same sheet and drag it so it overlaps the original as close as you can get it, then go to the tree, select the copied view, and drag it to the sheet name of the sheet you want it on. It will be placed in the same locatio...

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Ability to Copy an Element from one Drawing Sheet to Another and Paste it in the Same Location on the New Sheet

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Getting self conscious at my Dismissed Messages list that's so long it needs a scrollbar at this point!

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Ability to Attach a Geometric Tolerance (GTOL) and Datum Feature to an Ordinate Dimension

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Angular Running Dimensions in Part and Assembly Environments

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With that in mind, going on the "SolidWorks Enhancement Ideas" community and using the same filter gives us quite a good perspective of how little work has been done towards SolidWorks since the platform's existence. image.png 2111 ideas still in the "process" since the migratio...

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The idea slide thing? Yeah, that now pops up when you turn on the Ideas filter rather than hiding about 3 screens deep. Vaguely kind of almost useful but more show than go.

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Custom Properties used in Annotations should automatically wrap text based on annotation border in drawings

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Three years to add a row to a list

https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... F94qNwefvQ

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Nice, thanks! Multibody fillet / chamfer and BOM filtering will be nice.

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Any good stuff in the "What's coming in SW25" sketch they normally do at World?

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Use case that I've just ran in to in the OP, implementation suggestions duly added in the comments

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Use "Delete Face" Selection Toolbar in More Places

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I've ended up with a copy of Makers. I had no issue signing up, downloading and installing the software. What I did have was an issue where I couldn't log in to 3DSwym with my home credentials (the ones associated with Makers), which only got resolved after I made a support ticket using my work cred...

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Just stumbled on to this one after 14 years of SW usage.

Want to add something to a dimension? You don't need to type the + symbol! You can just stick the number you want to grow it by at the end and SW figures it out.

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Arthur NY wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:24 am How far back will the future versions go? (i.e. will 2029 version be able to go back as far as 2022) Or will there be a "X" year limit?

Pretty sure one of the announcement videos said (implied?) it would be a rolling two years back limit, so 2029 save as back to 2027.

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So the new version of 3DSwym is live. Basically none of the feedback provided during Beta testing has been resolved, and some more bugs have shown up for good measure.

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:52 am Has anyone else tried logging onto the Swamp this morning? I've tried several pages that I have bookmarked and they all just show a white screen.

I had about 30 minutes where I couldn't get in earlier, resolved now though.

dave.laban

I've had one-on-ones with the Enhancement ideas team. I've given all that feedback and more. "Gathering support" means it's been loosely vetted by someone at DS and available for voting, like in the TTL. The only stage after "gathering support" is "implemented". Duplica...

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The Alin effect; the same idea present in three different TTLs, ranked #1 when Alin submitted it, ranked 69th when someone else did so. ESCAPE Key should always stop the current process and revert to the state before it 3DXW2021 - Rank #1 - 130 votes 3DXW2023 - Rank #69 - 13 votes 3DXW2024 - Rank #1...

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Just realised it's not a totally useful comparison because that community also includes some of the more popular ideas from previous TTLs...but doesn't easily expose the number of votes they got because that would be too Swymple.

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Got curious and thought I'd take a look at what the TTL would be if it was generated just from the regular enhancement ideas community. Another example of one person being very good at garnering support for their ideas. 1. PDM: Cancel stuck tasks from Administration tool (44) 2. PDM: Configurability...