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bnemec

I like to use Virtual Box on my work station so I can have a Linux machine for the occasional need to use some tools that are not available in Windows. Also I do API work in a Win10 VPN edit: not VPN, I meant VM. as I'm testing my add ins that register dlls and so if I bugger something up I can just...

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Everything on the client goes through EdmServer.exe. It is not necessary to close the Search tool or SolidWorks if you need to restart the PDM client service on the system but it's never a bad idea to restart other processes that use EdmServer when restarting that one. I would highly recommend a re...

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All users are a bit different. Some are paranoid of loosing data and will check in the file every time they accomplish something. Some don't bother checking in the first time until their done with it. Some respond to reminders, others are too busy. Anyway, I'd like to set up notification to users th...

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As it seems with any newer commercial software that runs on Windows; if it isn't working as expected, close it and reopen it. So users are getting used to me telling them to right click the "blueberry" icon in system tray and click "Exit" If I understand correctly this is a somew...

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Hello group. My name is ben and i'm a CAD admin.

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Someone suggested Edge Dev a while back in a forum, I don't recall if it was Solidworks, Solid Edge, or something else but it was a technical forum. I was surprised at the suggestion as edge was a joke at the time, but I trusted the person who suggested it enough to try it out. This was when edge wa...

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I really hate it when I get to the bottom of a tree and there are a bunch of Delete Face and Move Face features. Somebody usually inherited a design, and couldn't be bothered to go back and figure out the feature tree, so they just hacked and slashed. So when I inherited a bunch of parts like this,...

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jayar wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 3:27 am @Merovignien - Reedsburg, WI is located in Wisconsin in the United States. I'll bet that is where the job is located as well.

You are correct jayar, thankyou.

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Not in front of SW at the moment to test, but what happens if flatten and then save as>DXF using an annotation view? Do the sketches get included? Kevin Yeah they do. But it won't work for us. Even selecting Flat-Pattern View has the same result. :o image.png I could be way off here, but I don't se...

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I'd like to start a discussion on file management techniques and best practices. Do you sort files by project? Do you use detailed naming schemes or just part numbers? Do you segregate parts, drawings, and assemblies? Do you use virtual components? Before PDM: 1) yes, but only during development. O...

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... I found the reg key for those settings and I've tested on my own machines exporting and importing it but I haven't worked up the nerve to push it out yet. Be careful about pushing out column settings in a registry file. PDM keeps some user column set customization details in the database and ap...

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@bnemec I want to use that setting but there was too much risk with hundreds of users opening files and not getting the latest and instead opening the last cached version. In that mode I really wish it would prompt the user for which version instead of relying on the user to right click and pick......

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- editing the revision in custom properties
- editing the $PRP... in the title block in the sheet format

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Since Reference Dialog settings was mentioned by jcapriotti I'll just paste what ours has been for the Design group. This has been working ok I think. The high lighted setting was the last one I cleared out a couple months ago, I was severely warned about having that not checked by our VAR but it se...

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this is not correct, PDM has a lot "unsolidworks behaviors" (bom, exclude part, etc...) but with the rule of "a build part" is one part-number, when the part evolve, all the evolutions must be backwward-compatible. if not, this has to become a new part, to keep previous (old) as...

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Thank you! Is there a place that sells posters of these icons? Like guitar chords poster or periodic tables of elements posters? I would get a bunch for our users to hang up. It could include default keyboard short cuts, etc. Not tips and tricks, as those can become a stumbling block for some use c...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:20 am
bnemec wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 10:35 am
AlexLachance wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 10:09 am

Welcome to the dark side!
Alex, you can change that.
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I was refering to the undesired offspring that came from the SW Forums migrating to 3DSWamp. I know about the layout colors

That's a matter of perspective.

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I've asked this to our VAR a couple times, there's an SPR (in which I have little faith), and I asked it in old forum, but would like to ask here too. How can we make default behavior to get files by referenced version, not latest? I know it can be done, but it needs to be selected every time. Unles...

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It sounds like SE does SW better than SW. How does support work with Siemens? When I was using NX we had an in house guy we sent everything through most of the time. But the few times submitted a problem they were always responsive. I think we dealt directly with siemens, but there may have been a ...

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Thank you! Is there a place that sells posters of these icons? Like guitar chords poster or periodic tables of elements posters? I would get a bunch for our users to hang up. It could include default keyboard short cuts, etc. Not tips and tricks, as those can become a stumbling block for some use ca...

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DennisD wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 10:35 am
jcapriotti wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:48 am Any one want to takes bets on when some of these posts are gonna get moderated and yanked over there?
ME FIRST! Look at what I just posted, calling out Gain Paolo Bassi and Bernard Charles.

Can you post an image of it? I cannot seem to get to your post.

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 10:09 am
Alin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 9:48 amHello World!
Welcome to the dark side!

Alex, you can change that.

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Wow. This site is actually getting more traffic than the the official forum. I'd like to discuss the future. I'd really appreciate some feedback, and eventually some teamwork to make this place useful. I'm sorry if this is too superserious for Watercooler Talk, and maybe this discussion belongs som...

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Paths to referenced files are in parent documents. The search routine starts if the referenced file is not at the expected location, stated as "missing referenced document". True, except if you have "Search external references in" checked and you have paths defined. It will sear...

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I have zero experience with SE, but do have one comment regarding @matt's comparison about service. All VAR's aren't created equal. I've dealt with two of them extensively; GoEngineer and MLC Cad, and have received very good service and tech support from both. Completely agree Glenn. I can only spe...

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I would like to know, one time, when a file is checked in, not for the rest of for ever. Mostly because there are times when I need to do a little fixing and I'd like to just know when the file is available. But then if I don't remember to go delete that notification from the My Notifications I get ...

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Darn, late to the party. My wife had had me cleaning the basement the last 4 days and just let me out. I am curious what everyone's opinion of "Generative Design" is or even what we think the definition is. I don't mean the overly hyped marketing version of this but a more humble practica...

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I'm looking at the Macro Library section of the SW area... https://www.cadforum.net/viewforum.php?f=33&sid=d39a95eb54d2a438ded7ab8a0abf1329 The macro library idea is great, but for it to really be useful it needs to be at least organized and easier to search. Right now there are some posts with...

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Just curious, this product has been around for many years along with the 3DSWYM site but does any company actually use it? Sometimes I see mention of small startups but no major companies. Since the SolidWorks userbase hasn't really gravitated over, all of these changes seem like an attempt to conv...

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[*]How do you mirror them? I don't use mirror of anything except sketch entities in solidworks. I've had WAY to many cases of odd mirrors that have caused problems. If I may jump in, I hear that a lot about mirroring = bad in SW. Can you clarify if you are talking about mirror feature within a file...

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Oh, I missed it. Sorry.

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First off, I'm not saying we should. I'm asking if you all think it should be added here. Matt has added a bunch of forums for us, thank you Matt. I'd just like to ask the question. Warning, I have a lot that I would ask in the PDM sub-forum. Also, I get that it could become a can of worms if it sho...

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What Dan and Mike said X2. - Don't be afraid of APIs, I see it as if I'm the only company that needs some process streamlined it would be silly to have that added to the software. It's an unpopular feature that most don't want and likely cause bugs in others' environments. Hire a reputable contracto...

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Thanks for all of the info guys! Are you doing all one off projects where once the design is released you never see it again? We do virtually no one off projects. We are a company that manufactures our own product lines so our files are used for the entire life of the product (which is usually 10+ ...

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Just my opinion, but I think this multi CAD forum is nothing like the smelting pot of 3DSWYM. Completely different drive. Maybe this is a bad analogy but saying a forum will have better answers because it's focused on only one CAD platform might be a bit like saying StackOverflow should only discuss...

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Solid Edge still uses separate file type for sheet metal and solid part. It mattered a long time ago it's irrelevant now because they have added function of switching back and forth. IMO, SE is better overall with sheet metal stuff than SW. I kinda think they should just get rid of the .psm file typ...

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While reading yet another thread about multiple versions of SW installed I was reminded how nice it is to not have to worry about that with Edge. There is no installing two versions. There is a tool for testing another version where you can have another version installed, but it's more just for temp...

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People will only be able to give you their perceptions of the software they have experience with >in the context of how they used it< For example I will be of no use to talk about Solid Edge Sync Tech or Top Down modeling, because we just never used those portions of the software. It might help othe...

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You can do Multi body in SE, they have mold/tooling features of split and save out to separate files. They had the usual boolean operations, which I really like when things get complicated. I cannot speak to the weldments and cutlists as we always had one part number per file. As Matt mentioned they...

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Along the same lines as #1 "remember me" is there an option to "keep me logged in?" I had a reply started and then got busy with other stuff and when I came back I put finishing touches on it an clicked "preview" and it wanted me to log in. After log in it took me to th...

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MJuric wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 8:41 am
matt wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 5:22 pm Done. In the Off-Topic area.
Cool, now do any of you have a Quadro RTX 4000 you've used for a week and are upgrading that you'd like to unload for $50?

you posted in the wrong forum. And keep threads on topic.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

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My simplistic opinion - keep it simple. I've seen small informal organizations like this use Patreon or similar to raise money for maintenance fees. They may handle varied currencies. I've also heard that at some point, Patreon raised their fees and that there is a better option. I just can't recal...

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Solid Edge and Solidworks both appear to open reference files only by the file name stored in the parent file, NOT by the full path. For the life of me I cannot figure out how this is a good idea. What a mess this creates. Side note, I understand duplicate file names are bad bad bad, but letting th...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 5:18 pm ... but I guess I must have started something else and forgot about it.

So I'm not the only one with several 1/2 composed emails buried on my desktop at any given moment, while wondering why they didn't reply...?

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I too have been wondering and would like to know this information. It's hard to know because of all the smoke and mirrors in the messages being tossed about. I had a pretty good guess of what it looks like when this question was answered once in 3DEW2021, it was asked numerous times, I only heard it...

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I have gone around and around with this one; suppressing sketches, editing flat patterns, editing map files, etc. ad nauseum. It seems that SWX will export sketches just fine as long as there is only one body in the part. As soon as there are >1 bodies, it will still export geometry and bend lines ...

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edit_20210505: added macro attachment again. Maybe it was removed during the attack. I just searched for removing copy of from Virtual Components and in just a couple of minutes I had found the post, downloaded the graciously shared macro and tested it. I thought to my self, in a month that will not...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 1:45 pm
If it's filled you've liked.
If it's empty you haven't liked.

Cheers

It seems to be the other way around for me, empty heart if I liked it and full heart if not? Is it a setting I have messed up?

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it could be interesting to move the "signature area" not under the post, because when reading technical long post, we have on the main column : post signature-ads post signature-ads post as there there are "two column" if the signature move under the profil column, we will get o...

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