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DanPihlaja

Currently reading the Legend of Randidly Ghosthound.

I have been hooked on the LitRPG genre for a bit.

https://a.co/d/dAdGbze

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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. My assumption is that using the document setting is recommended in case you run into a situation where someone has chan...

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I have a job that generally takes a pattern in some parts. Until this job they have all been a standard pattern, but this is pattered at three different distances, so I want to use "instances to vary". All the pattering is with cuts and some work nicely but some have the command greyed ou...

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Hey Dan, Here's how to solve the issue: Edit the macro and go in Tools>References image.png Uncheck the missing references and check the ones refering to 2022 image.png Thank you. I couldn't figure out how people got to the references window. I looked at the help file and the only thing it said was...

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Thanks Frank, didn't think it was the same error. After clearing it, it works like a charm. Here's the macro with the missing reference removed for those who don't know how to remove it. I get the following error whenever I run the modified version shared by Alex: image.png This happens after I typ...

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I have found that sometimes it needs to be "reset"

One way to reset it is to use isometric view in the orientation toolbar. Just quickly switch to iso view, then resume working.

I don't know why this works, but it does.

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A second option could be to create some hole wizard holes and save them as a library feature. I THINK library features save colors. Then you can make sure to use the library features for those holes instead of a hole wizard hole. https://www.goengineer.com/blog/create-design-library-features-in-soli...

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You can have ALL holes (using hole wizard) come in as a specific color. Or you can have ALL extrude cuts come in as a different specific color. So one solution is that you can set the holes to a specific color and extrude cuts to a different color. Then make sure to make all non-standard holes with ...

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That wouldn't be representative of how the spring is constrained in the real world, which is the point of the test. Also, the spring rate is changed quite a bit by only supporting the tip vs. the majority of the first coil. This part is used in a machine that measures the rate of the spring by comp...

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If you put the spring inside a tube with a cap that is flat bottom, you don't have to worry about the helix. The tube will keep the spring aligned. You just need the tube to encompass the entire length of the spring or the coils will catch on the top of the tube.

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You have to set this drop down to "This configuration" for it to work. By default it is set to "all configurations"

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Boom! You definitely raised her right!! @Glenn Schroeder, you need to get this shirt for her. (My daughter wears hers proudly.) image.png https://www.thegiftio.com/products/me-i-am-the-claw-end-of-a-hammer-t-shirt-KJifM0cNQrYJ?utm_source=merchant&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2PSvBhDjARIsAKc2c...

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What is going on with this cut?

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Those buttons open up the default templates that you define in your system options (Tools -> Options -> System Options -> Default Templates). If those point to a custom template of each type then there shouldn't be too much of an issue. Otherwise, clicking "Advanced" will show all the tem...

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Does anyone know how to remove the default templates from the "Home" screen screen in Solidworks. Currently using SW 2022 and we have Templates defined. I know that you can select "Advanced" to get to the templates that we have set up and when "new document" is selected...

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I added a comment: Maybe add a "paste special" function similar to excel or Word (which is implemented with CTRL + ALT + V), that allows you to select what you want pasted. Like XY location, format, color, etc. Where the CTRL + ALT + V would initiate the "Paste Special" and CTRL ...

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Hi, After 11 years at SW, I finally wised up and got myself a SpaceMouse Compact (just the knob, with 2 programmable buttons). For my regular mouse, I am using Logitech G502, which has 11 programmable buttons. It has been just a few days, and I'm already much faster at navigating models than I ever...

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@DanPihlaja, I saw your GIF and I am having issues with my GD&T frame extension line not snapping to the horizontal and vertical locations like you are showing. Mine just stays with the arrowhead. What am I doing wrong. I know it is a simple thing that I am missing. GDT snap.gif The only thing ...

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the reason I do insert part from a new part is because I can bring in the all of the bodies and whatever other features I want such as sketches and surfaces. the next set of features I add to my new "part" is to delete or hide (though I almost always delete) all the bodies I don't want in...

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OK, i do this kind of thing all the time. I have found that the best way to bring a body into another part is to use the "pull" method and open a new part and then use "insert->part". The reason for this is that it is the ONLY way that you can get hole wizard information to pass ...

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This should help on the Solidworks side of it.

https://help.solidworks.com/2023/Englis ... Redirect=1

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After some annoying doubt, if I did register this behaviour right: In SolidWorks 2019, anchors of the different tables are set to the desired positions, and saved in the templates. If a second sheet is added, the anchors on the second sheet are still in the correct position. In SolidWorks 2023, new...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 1:05 pm That may be true in 2024, but in 2017, when I started, coordinate systems were all but useless. I had one in my template, before I figured out I couldn't use it's planes or axes.

Yes that's true. It needs to be SW 2022 or later.

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You cold just add a coordinate system to your template. It works just as well and is 1 item.

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:33 am Without going into politics, how do you guys feel about Tucker Carlsson going to interview Vladimir Putin? I think this might be very interesting. Wondering if the picture painted by the media will be accurate with what comes out of the interview lol

Or if he just gets ganked by Putin.

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Thanks @DanPihlaja but no luck. It is something linked to a particular sub assembly. I've recreated the entire drawing, page by page, with no luck. I get to the page of the 1 sub assembly and BOOM! Parts disappear. I open the sub and everything is there! MADDENING! Hrmm. Can you pack and go the ass...

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That component that you are pointing to on the bottom left is suppressed. Not hidden. So I would expect it to be removed entirely from the drawing. And if you want the BOM to reflect the current config of the drawing view, then you will need to delete and recreate the BOM. As far as I know, that is ...

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mp3-250 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:41 pm 3DX is another component I will uncheck from our admin image. the last thing we want is our users sharing company data on a unauthorized cloud with does not conforn to our sec policy

And is also not ITAR compliant.

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:00 pm Thanks. Where can they be turned off?

One way is to set your cosmetic threads to high quality. For some reason, draft quality makes them shine through.

Another way is to hide them at the part level.

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SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:28 pm @Glenn Schroeder had a post on the old forums that listed all of the icons. Hopefully he can provide a link if it still exists somewhere.

Try this?

https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... hkFtYIMF7Q

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Subscribing to this, because inquiring minds want to know!

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Maybe this will help you?

https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... Md9hLJYZ6A

It is a discussion I had way back when the old forum was a thing.

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SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 3:16 pm Things are back to full speed for me.

Same here.

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 8:18 am lol interesting @matt

huh?

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One of my first and favorite magazines is now all digtal. Kind of sad.. I always looked forward to getting it in the mailbox! https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/27/23978042/popular-science-digital-magazine-discontinued We used to get this magazine in the mail when I was a kid. I especially loved the ...

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... But this piece of so called P r O fessional S oftware that costs thousands per seat per year whines about what type of PC you use (without being able to tell you what the actually working combo is) , what OS you use and expects it's user base to spend hours, days, weeks on trouble shooting thei...

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Did you try CTRL Q? Sometimes that reconnects things.

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You can place the component in a folder in the assembly and name the folder with the unique identifier that you want.

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Hi! I have a STEP model to work with. It is cylinder with debossed texture around it, what I want to do is emboss same texture. I`m trying to direct edit, selecting face that I want to emboss, move face/offset, typing in distance and after clicking enter - it gives me an error. Probably because, as...

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Damo wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 12:49 am Oh.. NVM. I found it..!
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Some days I think I am losing my mind.

Same here some days.

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Thanks everyone! There are some good nuggets in here that I can definitely apply. I'll summarize and add a few ideas of my own: Get the contact info to the tech support managers. If you're lucky, you can meet them in person during the annual "what's new" presentations You can get decent s...

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Back when Fischer Unitech was still a thing, I raised a stink with them for assigning me a tech that didn't know anything about configurations. They handed me to a tech that was super new and when I told him that there was an issue with a configuration, I had to define it to him. I finally asked him...

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:21 am No matter what I do, I don't see the horizontal and vertical ghost lines. What version os SW are you running?

You might need to have this checked:

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 4:32 pm Does SolidWorks have an ORTHO mode?

Sort of. You can kind of get an ortho mode by playing with these settings:

You then have to view the grid using this:

And define the grid here:

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 10:18 am Thanks, Frederick.

This works, but it does require that I then go back and add two "tangency relations. Is there a way to avoid having to do that?

It depends on where you place your cursor when you hit the "A" key. It is intuitive about where the cursor is.

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Well, there is this: There are 2 ways to draw a line in Sketcher. Click and Drag Click, release, move the mouse, click release. If you use the 2nd method, then a 2nd line will be formed with its attachment point at the end point of the last line. When you are at this stage, if you hit the "A&qu...

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My guess is that you are talking about a specific CAD program (Autocad maybe?). Nevermind. I finally read the last sentence. LOL. SO, autocad it is. Because Solidworks has a lot of these built in.

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josh wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 3:56 pm I believe he's looking for a "Find-Replace" in annotations, except that it works for notes linked to properties rather than just looking at the displayed text.

Artemis' #TASK would do this, I think. I don't think that it works any more though.

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"But still, a tremendous invasion of privacy and hypocritical as hell." Yes, there should not be speed limit. Let everyone drive as fast as they want. The bad one will kill themselves. Same with driving under influence. Same with carrying weapons. Remember, we are free to do anything as l...

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I have a dedicated Sheet Format that I use to create .dxf files of sheet metal parts' flat patterns. The .dxf files are later used to laser-cut the part. Is it possible to force the scale of all inserted drawing views to 1:1? Is that a setting somewhere? Thanks. If you uncheck the following: image....

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