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Thanks for the sharing. A really interesting read.

This is actually one of the many reason i had been leaning toward horizontal modelling...
That satisfaction when you change your base/first sketch and nothing break despite having 100+ features

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Recently saw a few posts on using SWx with Teamcenter, and this actually make me wonder what PDM other is using with their CAD software(s) as well as their experience with them. What PDM and CAD software(s) do you use? What is good about your PDM? What is bad about your PDM? What is the weird stuff ...

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Do anyone have any good experience of using SOLIDWORKS PDM with CREO?

I had tried looking around but could not find much input...

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Gosh, it had been TWO freaking years?

Meanwhile, SWYMP still sucks

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I dont believe there is...
The "closest" way i achieve this in the past is via a macro that rename view after the drawing is completed

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Imported Geometry vs Imported Smh at this TIL that SOLIDWORKS has TWO different Imported function Imported Geometry -- unable to search via command search, but could be placed on the Command Manager Imported -- can be searched via command search, but could NOT be placed on the Command Manager image....

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Some co-workers love the Microsoft Powertoys tool. I used it for a while; uninstalled it trying to figure out some display blackout problems we've had. Anyway, I tried reading the notes looking for something that indicated it could help with this, didn't find anything. But when I don't know what to...

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How do SOLIDWORKS rebuild its registry when a registry wipe is performed? We recently have issue with our template path... I did a registry wipe for SW20 (rename SW20 reg folder to SW20_old) reboot my machine and relaunch SOLIDWORKS SW20 rebuild the registry folder, however almost all my old templat...

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How is the title block created? Is it created as block?

Do you mind sharing the files?

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That's why it's called an ASK me anything, not "I'll ANSWER anything". On a side note I've managed to wrangle a one-on-one meeting with someone responsible for the new SW Enhancement Ideas community to try and figure out WTF is the plan so I'm kind of hoping that one at least might get so...

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@Zhen-Wei Tee Yes, typically the files are on the shared/network drive. I have been able to replicate the problem by copying everything to a local drive though... Why do you ask, is there a known bug, or some Windows issue with network drives and SW? I used to face similar issue when i works on net...

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are you working on shared/network drive?

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:25 am Or size it in template

Well.... this is the weird part...
It IS properly size in our template created in SW2016

When creating part in SW2019 using our template, the PropMgr window appear OK
When creating part in SW2020 using the same template, the PropMgr window got messed up

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Feature manager width is controlled per document i.e. it can not be controlled globally. So I had created a program to keep the feature manager width to certain value. Unfortunately that program is lost due to hard disk issue. But you can use/try the macros from following links https://www.cadforum...

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Is there any registry / setting that control the feature manager "width" I am using feature manager that is "docked" beside the feature tree. However, when i start using SW2020 recently, the feature manager "width" then to get very wide, even if i resize them, when I re...

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dave.laban wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 10:45 am Oh and it seems the new Enhancement Requests community has been launched. https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... 2sLG5y9Kig

Will they lock the community after a few month like what they did for the SWYMP "IDEA" commmunity? /s

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Another

for SaaS

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/adobe-p ... iption-fee

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If you want to access the user name without saving the doc, one way is to use the environment variable Environ("username") Here is an example: Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Dim CurrentUser As String Sub main() Set swApp = Application.SldWorks 'Get Username from environment variable Curren...

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I drafted a quick macro that change the tangent edge display to TangentEdge with Font and also change the view quality to high Change the line in red to change setting Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Dim swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2 Dim swDraw As SldWorks.DrawingDoc Dim swSheet As SldWorks.Sheet Dim...

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Do you want to turn on the tangent edge for ALL existing drawing view?
This most probably will require iterate through all your view

Or do you want to turn the tangent edge for all new drawing view created?
This normally just involve turning on a system setting

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Is there a way to "hide" the unit in solidworks measure tool? Or more precisely, is there a way to NOT include the unit when copy the measured value? For example, by default copying the X coordinate value in the measure tool will give -110.70000000mm Is there a way to copy only the value w...

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An "interesting" interface... Without looking at the tooltip, i thought i need to check the checkbox to Export Button Configuration.... However, what it really means is that it will only Export Button Configuration if the checkbox is checked When your most important info is hidden by the i...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 20, 2022 12:04 pm Could you export the solid and then re-import it?

This is actually a brilliant idea.

I re-export the file as STEP 203 and reimport and there is no longer any issue with appearance

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Check display state, config. There is no display state and config beside the default since it is imported step I suspect the appearance is applied at the body level. Your appearance hierarchy is showing appearance at the feature level, but I think that is coming from it being an imported part. If y...

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Sorry, i was out for few days and could not reply until now. That doesn't look like features as such, it looks like a bunch of imported bodies, and the appearance is applied at the body level. It looks like there is much more to the part than what you are showing. If you can share the part, I will t...

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I came across this appearance issue and cant seem to figure out what causing it... In the feature tree, there is no appearance applied to the feature image.png However, when i go to the appearance tab, under the there is a appearance applied to feature... and the worse part is the appearance could n...

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Maybe check the following registry option also?

"Interval for AutoSave"=dword:00000000

I cant really recall but when i was creating a macro for toggling autosave, the interval is causing some issue where if it is non zero, it will just turn back the auto save regardless the setting

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Theoretically it should be possible with macro, but thing get much more complicated when you try to factor in different scenario such as drafted hole, different fit, slot clearance hole, patterned and mirror holes, etc. One easy way that i can think of is to create a macro that read the feature name...

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As other mentioned, it will be easiest to just rotate the drawing view... As Dan mentioned, it most probably because the deviation of multiple rotation. AFAIK, SOLIDWORKS is using radian for view rotation instead of degree, so there is some unit conversion going in the background during view rotatio...

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Is it possible to increase the font/size of the measure tool callout?

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Zhen, I don't use Creo, but there has to be some way to edit the "template settings" of the table to make the setting stick permanently. Like, there's gotta be a setting in the table, file or template that you could alter that would fix the issue for the file you are applying it to. Thats...

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I just want to rant a bit here... Why is it so hard to get a formatting to stick in CREO table o[ I was asked by one of our user why the text style they applied to their table do NOT "stick". What happen is that the user change the table style (eg: changing font size) for the entire table,...

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 8:26 am Not mine, but @Alin's.

Interesting... How is this different from using convert entity on face and trim it?

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dave.laban wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 5:12 am You can just press Home on your keyboard to get to the top of the FMT too (unless I'm misunderstanding the question).

I totally missed this keyboard shortcut. This is indeed what i need.

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Is it possible to create a macro to scroll to the top of feature tree when clicked/activated? I did try to create a macro that select one of the primary plane with "Scroll Item into View" option turned on, but that did not bring it to the top of the feature tree image.png What i really wan...

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Ugh.
Black text on blue background sounds like a good idea

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to roll a set amount of degree i think you will need to rely on api (this is actually on my bucket list for some time now) basically my 2cents is the macro will change your view rotate increment based on your input, then rotate the view using the increment, then revert the increment In case you nee...

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Sharing this in case anyone is interested. This macro allow you to rotate your view at a specific angle and is created from the discussion on: https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?p=23171#p23171 Basically the macro: 1. Read your original view angle/arrow key increment setting 2. Change your view a...

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to roll a set amount of degree i think you will need to rely on api

(this is actually on my bucket list for some time now)
basically my 2cents is the macro will change your view rotate increment based on your input, then rotate the view using the increment, then revert the increment

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Uh..? Why don't they have the actual real adresses..? Is their keyboard broken? AFAIK, this is quite a common practice many years ago (?) (gosh i suddenly feel so old). People use (at) and (dot) to avoid spam bot.... other user will need to manually "decode" the text to get the email addr...

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I think this deserve a shout-out. Never thought i will still be seeing this these days.

From our VAR website.

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I came across a weird issue recently... For some reason, after a surface-untrim, the note could not snap onto the face properly. The note keeps get forced onto the edge for some unknown reason. This issue got carried forward when the untrim surface is used to form a solid It seems that when the surf...

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Cbecks Design wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 3:12 pm Now looking for how to automatically subscribe to every post I write. Searched a while here, haven't found it yet.

I thought this is the default behavior? AFAIK, i will be automatically subscribed whenever i create a new topic and reply to a topic.

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Sharing this in case anyone is interested. This macro is used to change the Part-level colour based on a pre-defined color scheme. The colour scheme i am using is based on the Light, Bright and Vibrant scheme from Paul Tol's note. https://personal.sron.nl/~pault/ GIF below: ezgif.com-gif-maker (2).g...

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That's a limitation of Edge I believe. You can download the file to open it and zoom it at will to "work around" the limitation. It is actually on chrome. Tried with Edge, it is the same too. It's perfect size for a tablet I actually went and tried viewing the mobile/tablet view... it can...

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Brilliant web design
A new window when clicked, but you cant resize the window

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For the configuration, a few ways i can think of at the moment... (others should have some better idea) Option 1: Using Properties You can shift select all your drawing view, right click and select properties, after that you can change the configuration for all the view selected at once. However, th...

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Someone tell me how 3dX can work with our Windchill PLM system? Do you really expect it to work with Windchill in the first place? It is already having trouble to work on its own Speaking about Windchill, just a few years ago, i always thought that Windchill and CREO had a bad and confusing interfa...

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What's great about this whole The Solidwoks Largest User Group Meeting Ever is just how much Solidworks they did NOT show. That the continued aspect of "Hey we're just gonna just continue to shove 3DXP down your throats whether you like it or not" is still going strong. I don't think ther...

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