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Glenn Schroeder

The method @JSculley recommended will work, but you can also select the top edge and bottom corner. that way you don't need to show hidden edges.

Glenn Schroeder

I saw this posted at the GoEngineer forum: https://community.goengineer.com/forums/topic/7534-contract-drafting-services-need-solidworks/ . I thought I'd post a link here in case anyone is interested. It doesn't specify if it's onsite or work from home, or even where they're located, but I googled t...

Glenn Schroeder

They are hidden in all my files, too. That being said I am using the magic “Q” key to temporarily reveal them when I needed. :) So useful! Press Q, select a plane, start a sketch. The plan hides automatically once you clicked out of it. Or, hover over a component, press Q, select a plane, hover ove...

Glenn Schroeder

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. So you want a BOM for each configuration, with rows for just the components in that configuration on each, and you want the number...

Glenn Schroeder

TTevolve wrote: ↑Wed Aug 02, 2023 12:48 pm Is it possible to have a BOM only show the items that are shown in the display state of the assembly on that sheet?

No. Perhaps I misunderstood what you're trying to do.

Glenn Schroeder

Great idea to post this; With the proper settings, the 3d Mouse definitely makes it easier to use Acrobat. I solved this some time ago in Acrobat by assigning the "Fit" button to Ctrl-0 "Zoom to Page Level". Thank you. Earlier this morning Adobe spazzed out on me and I had to lo...

Glenn Schroeder

AS you probably know, BOM's are linked to a specific configuration. In the situation you described I would recommend hiding components in display states instead of suppressing them in configurations. By doing that, the balloon numbers will match the one BOM with no extra work from the user since all...

Glenn Schroeder

. . . I did my first NX gig in the mid-2000s, and was handed a Dell Latitude laptop from a stack that also served the sales pool. Coming from the SW world, I thought -- typical CAD-ignorant IT department. I feel your pain. The first time I reached out to your IT department to spec me a new computer...

Glenn Schroeder

. . . But the crashes aren't really the deal-breaker for me. The main thing that makes SW never my first choice is the lack of speed. SW is simply slow. I am not an Inventor or SE user, maybe they aren't any better -- would be interesting if someone would give them a comparison. Again, I'm not defe...

Glenn Schroeder

SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:09 am Can you pick them using a window, as opposed to clicking on the point?

Yes.

Glenn Schroeder

The type of work being done has a lot to do with frequency of crashes. How large are your assemblies? How complicated are your models? If you aren't doing anything mildly complex, SOLIDWORKS will typically behave. That also probably has a lot to do with it. My Parts aren't typically very complex. A...

Glenn Schroeder

SW is the only one I've used, but I've been using it since 2009. As most of you know I'm not shy about pointing out problems with it, but I go weeks without a crash. I'm not trying to minimize someone else's experience, but I can't help but wonder why some people have frequent crashes and I rarely h...

Glenn Schroeder

DanPihlaja wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 8:09 am Have you tested this to see if it works?

I don't believe I've tried it in this particular situation, but I don't doubt that it works. I have occasionally seen Part settings override those in Drawings, and the only way to fix the Drawing was to edit the Part properties.

Glenn Schroeder

I tried every way I know how to select them. Maybe it was just one of those times where the graphics gets glitchy and it won't pick something even though it is right there on the screen. I suspect that's the case. I can click on them and delete just like you'd expect. When I have weird graphics iss...

Glenn Schroeder

It's for those of us that remember when it didn't exist. :twisted: I think it was added around the time layers were added....so a way to toggle between layer/line colors and system (underdefined, overdefined, etc) colors. It's rare for us to have it set to system except for the few cases we're trou...

Glenn Schroeder

image.png The best part about this button is that when it is 'ON' (i.e. pressed in) you typically get LESS color, which is odd for a button labeled Color Display Mode. The button gets really fun in drawings with blocks, especially if they are in the sheet format and on the sheet. Here's a drawing w...

Glenn Schroeder

If I try and pick the sketch point by clicking on it, I get the same error. If I select it using a window, it works. This is a GIF! DeletePoint.gif I recreated your example and was able to delete the point by clicking on it and choosing "Select other." The sketch point was first on the li...

Glenn Schroeder

gupta9665 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:45 am My friend @Dan Bovinich calls this button an evil button

I agree with him. Does anyone know what purpose that setting is supposed to serve (other than frustrating users)? Maybe whoever put that in there has a financial interest in a company that makes heartburn medication, or alcohol?

Glenn Schroeder

Mike Gera wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 7:38 pm Glenn,

How exactly did you do that, if I may ask.

Thanks.

Just like @SPerman described above. In my case the walls were all a single Part file, but not a single sketch. I dislike complex sketches for several reasons.

Glenn Schroeder

I'm using SolidWorks to create an architectural floor plan. Do I have AutoCAD? Yes. Could I use it? Yes. I prefer the parametric, relation-driven sketching in SW, though, so I'm trying to make it work. I haven't done architectural plans, but I did once do a drawing of our offices to make a layout w...

Glenn Schroeder

Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 3:47 pm So cut list property is just custom property in the software.
Or they got cross over.

In this case the drawing would prioritize the cut list property, and the notes showed the value for the last active configuration for all configurations. Deleting the cut list property fixed the problem.

Glenn Schroeder

So I'm working in a Drawing of an Assembly. The Assembly contains several configurations of a Part that I initially created in 2009. I kept having problems with a note in the Drawing that was linked to the part's custom properties. It turns out that having a custom property and a cut list property b...

Glenn Schroeder

Possibly. You should strive to eliminate sketch entities on drawings if at all possible. Perhaps if you could provide some detail on what you are trying to do that led you to this workflow, people will have ideas on a more robust and possibly better method. I agree. Even if you don't want to create...

Glenn Schroeder

Mike Gera wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 7:25 am I noticed that as well. Thanks.

Is there a setting that will throw an error when over-definition occurs in an .SLDDRW?

You should get one or more notifications near the bottom of your monitor on the status bar.

Glenn Schroeder

Mike Gera wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 3:52 pm Thanks!

This (type of) problem has been bugging me for literally months.

I wonder why I wasn't seeing an error message.

If you will set relations to show when you're working with an active sketch then ones with problems will be red or yellow instead of green, which will indicate a problem.

Glenn Schroeder

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.

It works just fine. The key is to de-select the default "Features to Mirror" and select "Bodies to Mirror" instead.

Glenn Schroeder

. . . Why couldn't the linear pattern go X & Y direction at the same time, it's still linear, just not along an axis. I ended up using a sketch pattern. I was trying this as our CAD software does it this way, you just put in a zero for the distance in either X or Y if you want to go horizontal ...

Glenn Schroeder

Solidworks crashed on me in the middle of working on a drawing a little while ago. I had saved often while working on it, including not long before the crash, but it somehow wiped out everything I had done in the last 3 hours (it crashed around 2:00 pm, but the drawing shows it was last saved at 10:...

Glenn Schroeder

This one I'm a bit torn on how it should work. Ideally for me the points should always be visible with the popup to modify or skip. As it is now the points only show up when you highlight the box for skip or modify. I know this is old, but why do you want the points there all the time? I like that ...

Glenn Schroeder

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2023 1:41 pm Looks like a nice weekend:
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Good news is that it's also very humid...

Would you like to trade?

Glenn Schroeder

We are still on 2019, will go to 2023 before too long. The line types are for the entire document I think? so that would mean hidden edges of any part in any view would look like normal lines (or whatever we would set that to)? Yes, there is a global setting for line types for the whole document, b...

Glenn Schroeder

. . . Probably the biggest con of this option is it does not make the parts transparent, so the other parts are still hidden. Right-click on the component (again, either in the tree or drawing view) and select "Show/Hide > Show Hidden Edges." If you have used the component line function r...

Glenn Schroeder

It may be slightly tedious, but you might be able to do it in the Drawing by right-clicking on the components (either in the drawing view or tree) and selecting "Component Line Font..." from the drop-down. You will adjust the line style and thickness for Visible Edges for the "ghost&q...

Glenn Schroeder

Hi Sergio, I may be wrong, but could the problem be that you are applying the appearance to the cut list and not the body/features? I admit the highlighting/preview is working strangely. Regards Shaun That's not it. That is the proper procedure for applying different materials to separate bodies in...

Glenn Schroeder

m2shell wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 4:39 pm What am I missing here?

Unless something happens to change my mind that's my last day of work before retirement.

Glenn Schroeder

It was definitely fixed in 2022 SP5.0 , I was waiting for that bug to be fixed before I went to 2022 and we straight to sp5 when we installed it back at the beginning of the year. I'm not disputing that, but if so it got broken again with SW2023 sp 0.1, because it happened to me using that version ...

Glenn Schroeder

@Glenn Schroeder, was that bug given an SR#? Did the Release Notes for SP3.0 address it? I'm no longer on subscription so I cannot check. I believe it was given an SR, since I submitted it to my VAR and they could duplicate it. I haven't looked at the release notes. If I get time I will try to get ...

Glenn Schroeder

I hope it waits until at least May 31, 2028.

Glenn Schroeder

Thanks. If I get bored I may download it, but sp 0.1 is working pretty well for me. I had time last week so downloaded and installed it. So far so good on a very brief sample. As most of you probably know, when SW2022 (I think) came out it introduced a bug in Pack and Go where if you re-named Parts...

Glenn Schroeder

I'd keep it simple, and edit the Parts inside the Assembly, so you'd use Part features (probably Extruded Cut or Hole Wizard) instead of Assembly features. You could use external references to align the holes.

Glenn Schroeder

mp3-250 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 12, 2023 11:27 am @Glenn Schroeder
try to use x,y,z constraints as much as possibile avoiding perpendicular or parallel even if the result is the same as x, y or z segments. 3d sketchs are prone to Instability.

. . . which is why I avoid them whenever practical.

Glenn Schroeder

Thanks. If I get bored I may download it, but sp 0.1 is working pretty well for me.

Glenn Schroeder

Someone just posted this on a similar thread on another (non CAD) forum I'm on. I hadn't heard it before.

Glenn Schroeder

Those of you in the US, I hope you have a good July 4th. Since it's on Tuesday this year, I'm taking a vacation day Monday, which will give me a 4-day weekend (since I hit 25 years here at the first of this month I'm up to 17 hours of vacation time accumulating each month).

Glenn Schroeder

dave.laban wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 11:27 am More excited about July 1st being my daughter's birthday and we're going to Legoland for it this year

Speaking of birthdays, I don't believe I mentioned that my most recent granddaughter was born last month, the day after my birthday.

Glenn Schroeder

. . . I never have done much 3D sketching, but I went through the weldments training a few months back and can see where it would be very handy for that. I use weldments often, but I rarely use a 3d sketch. It's usually much simpler to use 2d sketches, even if you need two or three instead of one. ...

Glenn Schroeder

. . . Longest job was 5 years. Before my current job I'd never stayed at one place longer than three years. I'd be working along happy as a pig in slop and someone would come along and offer me something better, so I'd be gone. I've been here since June 1, 1998. It doesn't look like I'm going to ge...

Glenn Schroeder

As matt indicated, while knowledge of CAD will be helpful, and you might get lucky and get a job with nothing more than that, knowledge of a particular industry would be very helpful. I worked on the construction crew here for eleven years before I started with SW, and that experience has been a tre...

Glenn Schroeder

Cause I'm lazy? No - because its a block of text to show what finishes and materials are. I generally have many (many) drawings per job that will need to have the same descriptive text on many sheets, and sometimes the info will change (like if client changes finish spec). So I sometimes create and...

Glenn Schroeder

I wish I could help, but I've created hundreds of drawings in the last 14 years and I've never seen notes move when changing the sheet scale until the one you just posted. However, I don't use blocks either, so that may be it.

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