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DanPihlaja

KaMei wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 2:41 am5tQCEyG.jpeg

Or when I am wearing my favorite shirt and comes with a horrible tearing sound.

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You're right. It shouldn't. But it does. At least in 22sp4. I made 2 comps envelope, then suppressed one of them. Selected both, and changed back to non-envelope. The suppressed one became resolved. Did the same thing with a couple subassemblies and their rigid/flexible setting. Ended up with both ...

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It should probably be noted that selecting all envelopes (or any big bunch o’ components) and hitting the “Properties” box may change more than just the property you want. There’s no way to specify “Only change the envelope property”. This will also change suppression states, flexible/rigid, and ma...

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AHAH! Try this! I just tested it out and it works. First of all, Make sure that everything is NOT hidden in your assembly first. There are no hidden components. Then RMB on your top level and select "Hide all envelopes" image.png Now, under your selection tool bar, select "Select Hidd...

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Can you provide some images please? I've never encountered enveloppes that couldn't be toggled off. A bit more context would help in perhaps getting more solutions. He is trying to multi select envelope components to turn them off he has hundreds of them. Unfortunately, if the components that you h...

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FYI: There are 3 separate SPRs requesting the ability to select envelopes via Advanced Selection SPR542629 - Cannot select assembly envelope components through the Advanced Selection criteria SPR666548 - It should be possible to identify and select envelope components with advanced selection or wit...

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OK, what I found was that, if you multi select components and ALL the components that you have selected are ALL envelope, then you can toggle off envelope for all of them all at once.

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So there is "sort of" a way. If you use Assembly Visualization, you can add a column called "Excluded From BOM". (by default, all envelope components are excluded from BOM). Then you can sort by that column. Which puts all the envelope components at the top of the list. Unfortuna...

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Is there any way to have Solidworks automatically enter the name field when inserting an assembly constraint? Something similar to the "Enable on screen numeric input on entity creation" switch in system options for dimensioning? I create a lot of LH/RH assembly constraints and it would b...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 9:28 am Seems the platform is down as well. I get a gateway time-out when trying to access it.

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 12:50 pm This is my latest attempt:

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OK, as far as I know, hatch needs to use the entire line. So your line on the right needs to be ONLY the length between the 2 horizontal lines.

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:42 am Ah, this seems like a bug (or an oversight).

How do I resize the viewport box?

Thanks.

I hit CTRL Q to run a rebuild and it auto resized.

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I redrew the sketch, making sure that all 4 lines are inside the view. Files attached. I still can't get "region" (or "boundary) to work. OK, i see what you did now. You used sketch entities at the part level and then used "Convert entities" at the drawing level to create t...

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DanPihlaja wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:06 am The line on the left is part of the view (hence the border) The rest of the lines are NOT in that view.

Activate the view, then redraw your lines and it should work.

OK, I was wrong. I see now that this is a sketch from the part level. Looking at it now.

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The line on the left is part of the view (hence the border) The rest of the lines are NOT in that view.

Activate the view, then redraw your lines and it should work.

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The first time I went to a wind tunnel it was exciting. About half way through that test the shine had worn off and it was a lot of standing around doing nothing. (Actually, know that I think about it, the first test was really cool. We went to Langley, and the tunnel had issues, so a couple of us ...

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Nevermind. Same thing is happening to me.

That looks like a limitation. If you have ALREADY placed a circle and created the detail view, you cannot now replace the detail sketch with a square.

You have to select "profile" at the very beginning and start with a square.

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When you select the detail view, can you select "profile" in the property manager?

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I thought that there used to be a setting that said something like: "Break mates on component move" that you could check. But now I can't find it. Nevermind. I think that this is the setting that I was thinking about: image.png Turns out it is for sketches and not assembly components.

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I thought that there used to be a setting that said something like: "Break mates on component move" that you could check. But now I can't find it.

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I've found a way of locating faulty file that has previously been saved in rollback state. 1. Open the assembly that contains the rollback component. 2. Navigate to FeatureManager and select ConfigurationManager. 3. Right click on top component, select Add Configuration... and see the pop-up error ...

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So, I played with "Check active document", "Advanced Select", "Performance Evaluation", and "Assembly Visualization". All with no luck. None of those tools checks the rolled back state. (FYI, apparently rolled back state is not equal to the state that says &qu...

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JSculley wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 1:43 pm Nope.

https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... DkPE7cv3LQ

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Expand your solid bodies folder and see if the body is hidden.

(FYI, if you press the "TAB" key while your mouse is over a body in a part, it hides the body. SHIFT + TAB brings it back)

There are other ways to unhide it, but that is the easiest.

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Is it possible to have a BOM only show the items that are shown in the display state of the assembly on that sheet? jcapriotti that works for making the ballons have the same item numbers as the table on the 1st sheet, but BOM's on other sheets will still have different item numbers. You can set an...

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Try adding a rebuild save/mark to each configuration (Solidworks is loading a huge assembly right now, so I can't give you a snapshot of what I mean, but if you RMB on your configuration you can select "add rebuild/save mark" or something similar) This may help. What this does is stores th...

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KaMei wrote: ↑Wed Aug 02, 2023 3:40 amHZ8BKux.jpeg

Ummm. Holy crap what is that? And is it Photoshopped (I hope so)?

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Google ITAR and cloud services. It will give you a few websites with an explanation of what is required and who currently has those requirements met.

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SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 8:12 am They need to go away. They reference geometry that no longer exist.

Sorry man. Did you try CTRL Q? Not sure how to delete them.

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DavidWS wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 6:45 am Go back to the model, click the cut length dim, change its precision to none or the decimal places you want
You might want to change the precision of the template you use to do away with the problem in the future

Have you tested this to see if it works?

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Pick the version that you want to see instead:

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 3:14 pm Wow, I always thought platinum was more expensive than gold...

It was:

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Does unchecking this help?

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What types of points are those? Sketch points, virtual sharps?

How did you create them?

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I have seen this behavior before. Generally this happens when I draw a line, and then either by constraints or by dimensions, I accidentally make the line 0 length, which takes the 2 endpoints and overlays them. This confuses the program and sometimes the points become unselectable. Most of the time...

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The machine shop we use cannot tap 5mm threads in aluminum. I've tried to explain to the boss that machine shops all over the world manage to do it successfully every day. I'm currently modifying all parts with 5mm threaded holes to 6mm threaded holes. o[ Sounds like you need to use a different mac...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 1:06 pm If you want to have some fun, just extrude in one direction "to vertex" and then try and mirror.

Yeah, you have to do a "geometry" mirror for it to work if I remember correctly.
Otherwise it is looking for the other vertex.

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As @TTevolve says, you need a dimension input. Midplane just takes the dimension input that you give and splits it in half.

If you want "up to vertex" in both directions, you will have to use direction 1 and direction 2

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I would argue that each have their place. Spending the time to turn my "Save as PDF" macro into a add-in would not be a good investment of my time. (Although I guess if you have hundreds of users there may be good reason to invest the time even for something simple.) It may not be a "...

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That works pretty well actually. The only finnicky part is that it doesn't like using the circular arc for the distance to my nozzle face. I had to pick the center point of the arc to apply the distance. Alternatively, if you have any construction geometry for cutout location that can be selected t...

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Not totally sure that I am following here, but if you are making a cutout, then this MIGHT work: Use the plane to create the cutout at the nozzle level. Then at the main assembly level, Use the CUTOUT OR THE SKETCH ITSELF to define the position of the nozzle instead of the plane. That way, when you ...

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Nope. The model is clean. Hrmm. That is generally the first place that I look when I have issues like that. The 2nd thing that I do if that doesn't work is to do a "parasolid wash". Save the part out as a parasolid, then re-import it and try again. If you STILL have the same issue, then t...

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We are using 3d sketch to design piping routes for our machines. during the design stage it would be useful to import fittings, valves etc as a simplified sketch block(for tee is like 2 lines inside the block). importing those blocks is simple but orienting them in a 3d sketch is an hassle. e.g. sk...

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I have a user with a similar problem. A multi-body imported model where when you try to apply an appearance at the body level, it doesn't seem to work. The appearance popup shows that it is applied, but the display doesn't show it. The appearance tab in the feature manager shows nothing except the ...

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@DanPihlaja That is very reassuring. With all the student turnover and even the electives at my school being a war to get through at times, that helps. As I mentioned, my half finished LinkedIn and personal email gets spammed by recruiters since I updated saying I was going for the AAS. But, of cou...

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I am pretty sure that....within a 200 mile radius of my house, there isn't a single business that ISN'T looking for help.

Now, whether or not that help is in the form of a degreed engineer, I don't know.

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If you used the regular polygon sketch element, then this comes with a circle embedded in the sketch. Use the circle from both sketch elements and make them concentric, then make 1 face parallel. But the profile center way is just as good (although it is a more complex mate, which sometimes will err...

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You should be able to manually adjust whatever you want.

And once you have manual selected, there are a couple of new items in the RMB menu:

You will have to play with it to see if it gets what you want.

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Don't see it in SW2019. Could you share some example files? image.png His example is in a sketch in the 3d environment. Your example is in the drawing environment. Very different animals. I agree, I see this ALL THE TIME in the sketch environment, and I don't know how to fix it. But since I don't u...

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The only way I know to update custom properties is to right click on the item in the history tree. I'm a GIF. Click me! CustomProp.gif OK, i misunderstood what you wanted. Apparently you are allowed to keep the legacy custom property style if you want. SW 2022 got an overhaul in the custom properti...

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