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AlexLachance

That was a quick example. Frequently you don't want to mirror the entire body, just a single feature. True. For hole wizards, I try to recreate an entire feature rather then mirror it because there are too many times where we've started with symmetrical sides and ended up with non-symmetrical sides...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:04 am Be fore-warned. Solidworks definition of "mirror" only works in certain conditions. I can't fathom why the programmers think this is good.

I'm a GIF. Click me.
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Hey Scott, try mirroring the body rather then the feature

AlexLachance

Hello, I also have a question if thats ok? I am here in the UK and about to start my Freelance Product Design business. The most common design ill be working on are bespoke cycle shelters, bin shelters usually with timber cladding, mesh cladding, green roof. What should be the basis of quoting the ...

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Yes you are right there that SW is broken beyond repair and ask the dev to add/change or even repair will brake the tool even more. But I think you are wrong here to not have the tool to not be consistent. In the other CAD you are giving guidance's on where to cut with a regular cutout. image.png O...

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mp3-250 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:13 pm do you have a SPR number for those issues? they sound scary...

Not sure. I can't find SPR's on the new platforms or previous SR/ER's.

AlexLachance

The key is given free. If you do not plan to upgrade or pay subscription later, you can continue using the key. So there is no recurring cost. And you can use the key on multiple machines. The only downfall is that the key is not forward compatible i.e. it can not read/write data form future files....

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Really?!? Linking the bom to a configuration and a view to a configuration isn't enough? I also have to link the balloons to the BOM? Thanks for explaining what I was doing wrong. I never would have found it on my own. You can have multiple BOMs in a drawing. I'm guessing this is the case for you a...

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Link the view to the BOM

https://www.gsc-3d.com/blog/how-link-bi ... olidworks/

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we got SW official reply which sounded like: LOL everything works as expected. Still on pre 2019 files? LOL you need to open them one by one and set rebuild on save on each configuration, otherwise we rebuild only the active one. LOL no problems here get away. I may add that after their botched con...

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.. seem to be rock solid this designer tool ... I don't know .. perhaps I'm becoming a SW user at all. So this ... .. that "Trough All - both" is just sudden is not a valid option in Hole wizard. image.png is just .. okay that's also broken ... so I have to work me around with mirror inst...

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Yeah, uh, how knowledgeable are you about SolidWorks or I.T. in general?

The error you just posted speaks of Microsoft SQL Server, which means you tried to install the server image for the licence manager.

AlexLachance

They are not compatible with Windows 11. If I am not mistaken, SolidWorks 2022 was the first version to be compatible with Windows 11

Edit: Indeed

https://www.solidworks.com/support/system-requirements

AlexLachance

Try to run as Administrator then. The errors seem to point to something causing the files to not be created. Lack of space, lack of rights, missing setup files, something like that.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:16 pm Check this out:
https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=2951

Good point, it would be a good add to all the others.

AlexLachance

You don't need to edit anything, your Cut-Extrude1 loses it's reference upon a rebuild. Edit the cut and accept it and everything will be fine and dandy. Didn't re-happen after. Most likely, features were moved around and SolidWorks fumbled in it's reference reassignement. Since it hadn't been "...

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The ones that seem to remain on my end seem to be linked to crashes and SW Rx Reports.

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XHawkeye wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:09 pm Animagraffs video on the SR-71. Worth a look see if you have 55 minutes to watch it.

Definetly watching tonight

AlexLachance

Hello,

I know PDM can tell people that their drawings are outdated, are there any add-ons that would do the same thing? We are having a recurring issue where users forget to open drawings after modifying parts/assemblies and I'd like to have a way to validate this.

AlexLachance

I've never had trouble with CTRL+Q in a sketch, the only thing it does is it closes the sketch command to rebuild the entire feature tree, so if what you have in your sketch is problematic it will throw off errors, but in your case the feature is at the end and it throws errors on features before bo...

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In 2023 they seems to have fixed somewhat the hole wizard when it comes to sketching. image.png Midpoint line is removed for the sketch toolbox. (its just face palm...) In 2024 have they also fixed the other smart sketch feature problem by just removed it from the user ? (Thinking here center retan...

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By knock-down, you mean broken down into parts? Is there any complexity to the box? If you could give more info I'll try and give some pointers. I guess it depends a lot on what the intent is. For instance we started by making our airboxes with each faces individually so that we could have a more ef...

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mp3-250 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:43 am @AlexLachance so SW devs really made the undo command working as expected ?
it is a serious concern as there are still instances that are simply ignored during the undo, so the undo does not relly... well undo wht you have done.

Sometimes it works as expected, other times it doesn't lol

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https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... KCwdyI6oFw

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bnemec wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:35 pm Shouldn't need to train people not to hammer screws or nuts.

As I often tell my boss, common sense is not all that common these days.

AlexLachance

I think you nailed it .. I seems that Dasult have gone to town of crafting UI components and forced upon workflow just to have end user to give up and slab everything that needs to be edit at the end of the feature tree. In other words their own poor man "synchronic" workflow. One way mod...

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I went to an existing part and added 2 holes to the end. They are there in the model. They are visible in the front view if I show hidden edges. They are not, however visible in the end view. If I create a new end view, they are there, but the old view refuses to update. There are no hidden edges. ...

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I have been struggling with an issue in 2022 that is probably going to force me to 2023. I have an assembly with multiple configurations, and derived configurations from those configurations. I will suppress a part in one configuration, and when I come back to it later, that part is unsuppressed. I...

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MattW wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:12 pm @AlexLachance where in Quebec are you located? I am probably going to be in the Montreal/ Laurentians area for a week or so this summer.

I'm closer to Quebec then Montreal, in "Chaudières Appalaches". Montreal is about a 3 hours drive from here.

AlexLachance

Okay, I was mistaken after all, my apologies for the confusion. I do get the ones that my templates point to after all. It's just that the basic part template is rarely ever used over here so it's a bit different then every other part template.

AlexLachance

Must be the french version doing it's own thang then

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We are on 2021. Templates are in PDM, and the only location in File Locations. going to new... gets this screen. image.png The home screen is the same as the one in the first post, ie, Part, Asssembly, Drawing. Clicking on those opens the template listed in file locations, in spite of the label on ...

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That's interesting... I'm using 2023 SP5.0 and those open my defined default templates. Do you still have the default templates listed in c:\Program Data\Solidworks\Solidworks\Templates? Perhaps if those are still there it could mess things up? I don't really know though. I'm on 2023 SP4, rolled ba...

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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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Wow I had never noticed that, thanks for bringing it up. I don't think you can change or remove these from that bar. Perhaps you could overwrite the default templates so that they are your templates..? That would sorta do what you require, have it use your standards and keep it shown on the home tab...

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gosh i was nagivating the swmpy to look at the slides/recording for the 3dexperience world https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/community/swym:prd:R1132100503382:community:52/wiki?content=swym:prd:R1132100503382:wikitree:RALlNsSGQx-GKuq6RaQ4kg it is really beyond terrible (why am ...

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Buncha stuff seems to be down since a little over an hour ago including things linked to Meta such as Facebook and Instagram

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SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:40 pm Instead of enjoying the nice weather here in NC, I did something stupid and got to spend the last few hours in the ER waiting to get staples in my head.

Eek, what did you do..? Hope nothing too bad

AlexLachance

Probably named Rulers in the english version

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I thought this was an interesting listening surrounding the subject of A.I.

AlexLachance

Feels like a month early in WI too. Winter (what there was of it) left the soil as dry as it found it. Usually when the frost comes out the soil is very soggy, this year the top is dusty dry most places. There was very little frost this year, doubt more than a foot for more than a week if that. Las...

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Happy monday to yall, March is starting and spring seems around the corner for us, altough it generally is a month later. Hopefully there aren't too many people stranded with the weather conditions we had this weekend. The Blizzard that hit in California and Nevada hit 2 days earlier over here and i...

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I think it's controlled by the setting Alex posted above. image.png If you have it set to "use this document settings" it can be done in the template. When I created my templates I did a PDF print from them useing Tabloid size and sale of 100% as shown above. That is my default when I try...

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Okay, clearly a bot @matt

3 posts, 3 threads, all boasting his Miraco scanner without replying to the people trying to provide help. None of his models make sense either in his pictures.

AlexLachance

That one worked. Thanks for all of the replies. I tried this one first since it was the first reply and it worked great. CTRL + scroll wheel is generally the one that my dad gets. CTRL gets stuck and then scroll wheel zooms in/out until he bangs on the keyboard and out of coincidence hits the CTRL ...

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This old man could use some help for a very minor issue. I was typing a response on a an internet site (completely unrelated to SW) and attempting to underline some text. Somehow (I think I mistakenly held down Ctrl while hitting the -/_ key), and all the text got smaller. I've closed that tab and ...

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senuba wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:13 am Here it is You're awesome. Thank you so much. I've been struggling with this for so long, turns out it's this simple

If you ever have any other struggles, don't be shy to come here and ask. The community is great in helping each other.

AlexLachance

Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:37 pm https://hackaday.com/2024/02/28/air-can ... for-facts/

When ChatBot gave wrong answer.

With that in mind, that ruling would also mean that Google is responsible for the obnoxious things it's A.I. says, which would then mean a shit-show's coming lol

AlexLachance

jcapriotti wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:04 pm I think it also created some very "diverse" Nazis
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68412620

I can't help but chuckle at all these

AlexLachance

Mine's pretty short:lol:

-Adding dimension will "overmate", would you like to have it be driven
-1:1 scale output warning
-edge fusion is defined at 0,000001....
-One or more functions of this part is based on other documents...
-Performance warning for add-on

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SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:04 pm Maybe we shouldn't be afraid of AI, but of the people doing the programming.

I was thinking pretty much the same. I think this is why AI is such a scary thing, kind of like nuclear energy, because it could be used in awful ways

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