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My Jeep Grand Cherokee I bought 7 years ago came with several services that required subscription. SiriusXM was one I just couldn't live without, and I can use it away from the car on my phone. But they wanted me to pay for other services on the electronic/connected hardware. After a year of service...

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Ok, the question got me curious, and the cagey response got me even more curious. If you're interested in this topic, you can find a bit of an answer here: https://www.onshape.com/en/blog/data-management-comparing-cad-files-and-databases Interestingly, part of that response is also of the "you ...

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I've had a couple complaints about this post, but I let it slide because the 2D vs 3D question is always valid, even if I think the direction the original post takes is not the best. Plus, I don't want to squelch the discussion of other CAD packages, even if it's started by a shill. There are other ...

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The Cavity tool is really for making molds, and it's kind of quirky.

Use the Boolean tools, and I would do it as multibody part rather than in-context in an assembly. You could also use Intersect, although that's usually for more complex work.

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To me, gestures are a very inefficient UI method. The software has to collect a lot of data in the first place, and then a motion is far more complex than other types of input. Sometimes I just watch people using different UIs, for example a smart phone. Gestures are the one UI type that people tend...

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That's a 3d Connection spaceball icon. It shows the center of rotation for the space all. You might look through the registry to see if there is a setting for that. Pretty sure there's not an obvious answer.

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I’ve posted a list of SolidWorks videos to my YouTube channel, on the SolidWorks play list . When you go there, scroll to the bottom for the new stuff, or you can sort by date added. These videos are all introduction videos for chapters of my Mastering Solidworks book . They range from 5-15 minutes,...

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Great video Matt. Do you foresee doing some "in depth" videos regarding the individual feature tools of the Sub-D environment that would be considered "training"? Also, on the slide of the mouse that Mark did... I realize he used SolidWorks to create the standard BREP model, but...

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I converted my presentation on subd modeling to a video, so it's a bit shorter than the original, with less tripping over words, more live demo and fewer live hardware issues. Check it out.

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Siemens online xcelerator share allows non-cad users to measure, markup, explode, rotate, hide/show, section, get boms, download files... Works with many formats, since it exports JT as the viewable.

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@mike miller I wasn't there, so I cannot comment on what they showed. Was hoping it would have been streamed/recorded, but it wasn't. Usually those end up on their YouTube channel soon after. We'll see what @matt has to say. I actually wasn't at that session. There were a lot of things happening at...

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Yeah, don't use the SW mold tool, just make splitting surfaces.

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I think you have to think about how you're going to use the dimension. Is it only reference? Do you really need 3 or 4 places on that dimension? Do you have a fixture or some special technique/tool to measure it? If it's difficult to create the dimension in CAD, it's probably also difficult to physi...

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Often features like that are made with sketches that have some construction geometry. Centerline connected to spline points. Sometimes you can dimension to actual feature sketches. If there are no appropriate feature sketches, then, yes, your method with the sketch elements is the method I use. You ...

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gupta9665 wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 12:36 pm Edit the parent part while you are in assembly and then you can add the tabs to that part and can select other part to add the slots.

... But, you should add that this adds in-context relations, just to be clear about it. The function is really meant to be a multi-body feature.

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How's everyone feeling towards Elon Musk buying Twitter? Can someone explain to me why some people seem to be going ape $#!+ crazy over it? I stopped using twitter 10 years ago, shortly after I started. There are two kinds of people on twitter. People who REALLY want attention, and their co-depende...

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https://event.sw.siemens.com/realize-live-americas/agenda?filters=165096 If you're interested in Solid Edge or any Siemens products you don't want to miss this. Virtual attendance is free, and you don't need to be a customer AFAIK. Lots of tips/tricks and even a sneak peek at SE 2023. :D They even ...

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I'll chime in a little here I think. The age related bias exists. I think it's primarily financial, and also because the recruiters are young, and are intimidated by older people. They can get away with paying kids with no experience very little, and have to pay 50+ employees a lot more. There's a b...

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In summary, Extrude --> draft --> fillet is most prefered desgn for maximum editability. This results in identical fillet radius on the top and bottom faces. For tool maker, however, I believe not so convinient to mill this mold? Left one is the prefered Extrude--Draft--Fillet. Right one is Extrude...

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When the draft is in a direction different from the extrude, or the draft has to be applied as a separate feature, fillets in the sketch and fillets before the shell generally hurt the chances of draft working. You have to think of Draft, Fillet and Shell as being like a Rock, Paper, Scissors game. ...

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In general, it is best practice to avoid fillets in feature sketches. You may need to remove the fillet for some reason, such as applying dimensions, applying draft to a face, referencing an edge, you may want to make a fancy type of fillet, or make fillets intersect in a specific way. Of course the...

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Thanks for the link to the FAQ. One thing they didn't address is that the reason companies don't upgrade is that they have to test the upgrade for regressions on their data. How does the Continuous Release idea remove the need for end user data testing? It looks like they just have to go through the...

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I recently did some reading on NX, and see they use what they call Continuous Release, where they release smaller updates every 6 months or so to keep big releases from being such a chore. Is this something new, or is it like Solidworks service packs?

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In 2018 I was writing my last SW book, and I wanted to include a chapter on DimXpert. I talked with Alin Vargatu, who is a huge proponent of the function. But I also talked with a bunch of more production-side folks on the old SW forum. In the end, I decided against including the chapter, mainly bec...

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Is it possible to auto close this popup? I understand what I am doing and do not need to be notified every time I move my mouse 1 pixel. Capture.PNG I saw this macro where they seem to be operating on the solidworks gui rather than native api calls. https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-api/document...

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Zhen-Wei Tee wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 9:48 am Importing STEP 242 can be a mess... or so i heard

I'll bet you heard this from a SW user or sales guy. When you import (Solidworks parts via) STEP 242 with dimensions on the 3d parts into Solid Edge, those dimensions are live in synchronous. That makes imports a lot less dumb.

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I thought it might be nice to gather some CAD translation tips here in one spot. I'll start out with a couple. - Some formats like IGES and SAT have scale factors built into the headers, so you can scale parts before you bring them in, or scale them if the units settings are messed up. - Do a round ...

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SW thread on LinkedIn, for those of you who do that. People from here might want to read it and chime in...

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/ur ... esktop_web

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I think in order for CAD to go anywhere meaningful with AI, there are going to have to be some base design scenarios or part/assembly functionalities established and well understood. Things like types of connections between parts, relationships between parts, manufacturing processes, understanding l...

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I recently turned off the spamhaus option for the site. This should take care of the message we have been getting regarding that site. Spamhaus is a repository for IP addresses blacklisted by various service providers, and they offer this as a service to help dissuade spammers and other bad actors f...

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Just for reference, this happened to me today. I'm sure there is something wrong with the blacklist service.

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Lucas wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 7:45 pm Looks like we cannot expect anything good for the following years

Yes you can. Just not from ds.

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Yes, this is exactly what i am looking for.... but somehow it is not showing in my profile? What style are you using? It look like Flat Style to me... I am using Flat Style blue and is not showing up image.png Changed board preference to Flat Style and is still not showing up image.png It looks lik...

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I use the spamhaus site to check for IP addresses that have been identified as known spammers. I recently cleared all of my IP blocks. I can try to check with spamhaus to see what is going on, but it would be nothing else on this end.

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After a couple of hours of playing with SE, the order of operations is going to take some getting used to. As others have mentioned, SE does things differently than SW, and my brain is still in SW mode. That specific question - how do you do things in SE for a SW user - is what I made some of these...

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I got this today too. Hitting "Submit" a 2nd time and it was fine. image.png I can tell you this is not from my end. Just for fun I cleared out all the accumulated IP bans from all areas of my site yesterday, including manual and security software automated bans. Spamhaus is a central tra...

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Thank you @matt, you make it sound like it was not much work to get this forum up and running (somehow I don't believe it was easy). Any time you spent is very appreciated by all of us. This forum is very helpful for a lot of people. I hope you know that, because of you, many people are becoming mo...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 10:21 am Dezignstuff link doesn't work.

Great job on bringing this place together and keeping it up and alive for the last year.

There was a small gap between putting the two posts up. It works now.

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I'd like to say a big Thank You for all of the people who have made this site possible. If you read, browse, search, post and/or donate you are helping to keep us going. In addition to all the people who participate directly, there are a lot of lurkers, and lurkers help make the world go round too. ...

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I'm kind of losing track of the conversation here. If you're getting the "unsafe operation" thing, you might be trying to access the site via http rather than https. I know there are a bunch of different published links out there some may omit the "s". You should get redirected t...

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I'm planning a post for our anniversary (March 8th) that will have stats and insider info. Thanks @Zhen-Wei Tee for accumulating what you showed.

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z1282407454 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 9:58 pm thanks! I'll try it .

Yeah, I can fix it if you want.

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tsmith wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 1:37 pm Matt, your timing on these was impeccable and incredibly helpful for a SW convert.

Thanks! If you have suggestions for more video topics specifically for SW users using SE or things that could be improved on the existing ones, please let me know.

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YouTube Dezignstuff Solid Edge playlist

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SteveH wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 3:33 pm Thanks for the suggestion. My current setting is 175%. I increased that to 300%, restarted SolidWorks and saw no effect (other than great big desktop icons and start menu).

Oh, ok, well, now we know that isn't the solution!

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Yeah, the host forced a php 8.0 upgrade. I set it back to 7.4, so we should be ok again.

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Is there a setting to increase the size of the constraint flags in sketches on high resolution monitors? My monitor resolution is 3840 x 2160 (Recommended) and I find that the constraints are difficult for me to resolve. I'm currently using SolidWorks 2022 SP1 on Windows 10 but I've been struggling...

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Yeah, I got nothing. I even searched it, and I'm no further along. Your friends can't help you here, I guess. You could go to a user's profile, click the Search Users Posts link, and then bookmark that. That will just get you to a person's list of posts every day. Or you could go to Facebook. <ll>

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:D Am I supposed to post here to help test? Are we still friends even though I think ST is overrated? ;) :D Ummm ;; I befriended cadforumadmin and I'm checking styles to which treats friends posts differently. So far, nothing. I'll let you know whether you can see the value of ST or not :mrgreen:

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