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DanPihlaja

Did you try CTRL Q? Sometimes that reconnects things.

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You can place the component in a folder in the assembly and name the folder with the unique identifier that you want.

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Hi! I have a STEP model to work with. It is cylinder with debossed texture around it, what I want to do is emboss same texture. I`m trying to direct edit, selecting face that I want to emboss, move face/offset, typing in distance and after clicking enter - it gives me an error. Probably because, as...

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Damo wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 12:49 am Oh.. NVM. I found it..!
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Some days I think I am losing my mind.

Same here some days.

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Thanks everyone! There are some good nuggets in here that I can definitely apply. I'll summarize and add a few ideas of my own: Get the contact info to the tech support managers. If you're lucky, you can meet them in person during the annual "what's new" presentations You can get decent s...

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Back when Fischer Unitech was still a thing, I raised a stink with them for assigning me a tech that didn't know anything about configurations. They handed me to a tech that was super new and when I told him that there was an issue with a configuration, I had to define it to him. I finally asked him...

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:21 am No matter what I do, I don't see the horizontal and vertical ghost lines. What version os SW are you running?

You might need to have this checked:

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 4:32 pm Does SolidWorks have an ORTHO mode?

Sort of. You can kind of get an ortho mode by playing with these settings:

You then have to view the grid using this:

And define the grid here:

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 10:18 am Thanks, Frederick.

This works, but it does require that I then go back and add two "tangency relations. Is there a way to avoid having to do that?

It depends on where you place your cursor when you hit the "A" key. It is intuitive about where the cursor is.

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Well, there is this: There are 2 ways to draw a line in Sketcher. Click and Drag Click, release, move the mouse, click release. If you use the 2nd method, then a 2nd line will be formed with its attachment point at the end point of the last line. When you are at this stage, if you hit the "A&qu...

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My guess is that you are talking about a specific CAD program (Autocad maybe?). Nevermind. I finally read the last sentence. LOL. SO, autocad it is. Because Solidworks has a lot of these built in.

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josh wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 3:56 pm I believe he's looking for a "Find-Replace" in annotations, except that it works for notes linked to properties rather than just looking at the displayed text.

Artemis' #TASK would do this, I think. I don't think that it works any more though.

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"But still, a tremendous invasion of privacy and hypocritical as hell." Yes, there should not be speed limit. Let everyone drive as fast as they want. The bad one will kill themselves. Same with driving under influence. Same with carrying weapons. Remember, we are free to do anything as l...

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I have a dedicated Sheet Format that I use to create .dxf files of sheet metal parts' flat patterns. The .dxf files are later used to laser-cut the part. Is it possible to force the scale of all inserted drawing views to 1:1? Is that a setting somewhere? Thanks. If you uncheck the following: image....

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 9:23 am Not too shabby of a connection we have!
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Wow. We are "almost" as good. LOL

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This was the view from my dad's front porch yesterday morning:

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Hello, I am using Solidworks 2015 and trying to create a custom titleblock. How do I show the "variables, $PRPSHEET" etc.. for the custom properties in my titleblock after I have created them? They should show up when you edit the sheet format, then disappear visually when you exit the ed...

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My ethernet graph is spiking while trying to run simple mates. What does this mean? Can I transfer everything off our network drive and have better luck? I don't know why it is spiking. I took all of my settings (file locations) and changed them to my local hard drive, and then made sure that the p...

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umm..

https://www.beacon-india.com/incrementa ... olidworks/

Thank you @IDONTEXIST for posting this here:
viewtopic.php?p=31596#p31596

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Hi, just come back to make an update to say that there is a more straight forward way to this sequencing workaround. So simply copy the dimension's full name and double quote it in your text window , instead of setting it in custom property and indirectly assigning it in text window, it magically s...

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You would have to share the assembly (pack and go to zip file) for us to be able to diagnose it.

Lots of things it could be. Including, but not limited to:

Mates are not updating properly

interference in the total path (which looks to be part of the case in your 2nd picture)

design issues

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gupta9665 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 3:37 am Open the STEP file into SW (make sure you disable 3dinterconnect under Tools > Options > Import). And once assembly is fully open, click on save all.

Why disable 3d interconnct?

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SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:42 am Well, that explains it. Thanks for finding my issue.

(Don't I feel foolish.)

My favorite is how you changed to title of the post. LOL It happens to all of us.

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1) Did you recently switch to SW 2022 SP2? If so, upgrade to SP3 at least. I have read that this is a specific bug with SP2 and legacy assemblies.

2)

Edit: Aaaand I realized that just said all the exact things that @AlexLachance said. LOL

Great minds think alike and all that.

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Yes, Solidworks has its fingers all over the place. A while ago, I was having some lag issues whenever I selected a surface. As I was looking into it, I noticed that every time I selected a surface or a face of a solid, the "ethernet" graph on the performance tab of the Task Manager would ...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 10:47 am I'm surprised Alin hasn't spoke of this yet, there's a few interesting adds.

Don't you mean @Alin? *hint, hint, wink, wink*

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I don't know about Canada, but here in the US many dealership charge hundreds of dollars to put nitrogen in your tires. That is ridiculous. And only beneficial for racers (if you aren't getting PAID to race, and you are racing...then you aren't a racer...you are a criminal) and areas where temperat...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 9:46 am "Open road license: unlock to the possibility to drive on all road in your car."
"Open air license: unlock to the possibility to breath on all air."

They are already talking about subscription fees to use certain features of your car.

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Has anyone else checked this out yet: https://help.solidworks.com/2024/English/WhatsNew/c_wn2024_welcome.htm?id=66b874aa16d84c46b8bd06dddbe569f3#Pg0 ? I just started glancing at it, and it looks like there's some good stuff in it, including something I never thought they would do: https://help.soli...

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... One last thing, how come do I have to set the diameter lenght to 10,50 to use a M12? I thought it was the hole diameter 12mm, is it the head of the screw instead? Do you know where I can find a table with all of effective dimensions? ... The way tapped holes are actually made is to pre-drill a ...

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You are going to have zero thickness geometry for something like this. Especially the area that the gear revolves around. This would be completely impossible to manufacture in any way (as far as I know) without modification of it. Or there just is not enough information. If someone is challenging yo...

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The pitch is assumed to be double the 4.7125 dimension?

And the profile is assumed to be symmetrical about the right end of the 4.7125 dimension?

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if you have the name of the configuration as the name you want show add a custom property in your configuration with $PRP:"SW-Configuration Name" as the value. This will give you the field you can then place in a BOM image.png Same thing works for file names in parts/assemblies image.png ...

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Krzysztof Szpakowski wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 1:48 pm The point must lie on a line or its extension (colinear)

Hmm... A alien doesn't know...
I'm starting to have doubts...

I don't understand what you are trying to say here....

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As far as I know, it only works if the point AND the line are from the same entity. (i.e., the point is the end point of the line you already selected)

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See if this macro helps with your workflow... Please note that it's not super debugged. But you can browse and edit notes anywhere in the drawing without actually activating the sheet. The Property Linked Text box shows you the full actual text that is stored in the note, along with any formatting/...

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Frank_Oostendorp wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 10:49 am Never to old to learn. What is the sketch in the 3D environment? A sketch to create a feature in a part? Like the one below?
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Late to the party, but the answer is yes. A sketch at the part/assembly level.

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Not to be "that guy", but is there any way you could post a .SLDPRT example of that? Thanks. Here are a couple of different ways of doing the same thing (see attached). In all 4 scenarios, all the circles in the sketch are driven by something so that you only have to edit 1 thing to chang...

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I don't know about simulation, but I only have 1 license and I can run multiple instances of SW on my computer at the same time. image.png Really!? I assumed that it took another license. In fact, I remember a VAR telling me that exact thing. That 2 sessions of Solidworks on the same tube used 2 li...

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i have model which is running simualtion with some fixed boundaries that can not change for motion analysis , how can i run same model where i can change boundaries and do Motion study If you have a beefy computer, you can run 2 sessions of Solidworks at the same time (this will use 2 licenses). Bu...

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Welp, that new customer portal certainly is a P.I.T.A.... Apparently, you can't "add" yourself to a reported bug anymore as you would previously when adding the SPR to your SPR list. Now, even though you've figured out what the bug is and have a BR number, you still have to go through the...

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Edit: Oh, you specifically used midpoint line. Yeah, this adds a separate point that is mated to the line. You need to delete the point I think.
Leaving the rest of this for posterity.

Uncheck this:

Before:

After:

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If you have "Graphics only section" selected, this will indeed be the case.

(I use graphics only, when I need a section view on a particulary large/resource heavy model or if there are errors that are preventing me from doing a full section view)

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KaMei wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 2:41 am5tQCEyG.jpeg

Or when I am wearing my favorite shirt and comes with a horrible tearing sound.

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You're right. It shouldn't. But it does. At least in 22sp4. I made 2 comps envelope, then suppressed one of them. Selected both, and changed back to non-envelope. The suppressed one became resolved. Did the same thing with a couple subassemblies and their rigid/flexible setting. Ended up with both ...

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It should probably be noted that selecting all envelopes (or any big bunch o’ components) and hitting the “Properties” box may change more than just the property you want. There’s no way to specify “Only change the envelope property”. This will also change suppression states, flexible/rigid, and ma...

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AHAH! Try this! I just tested it out and it works. First of all, Make sure that everything is NOT hidden in your assembly first. There are no hidden components. Then RMB on your top level and select "Hide all envelopes" image.png Now, under your selection tool bar, select "Select Hidd...

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Can you provide some images please? I've never encountered enveloppes that couldn't be toggled off. A bit more context would help in perhaps getting more solutions. He is trying to multi select envelope components to turn them off he has hundreds of them. Unfortunately, if the components that you h...

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FYI: There are 3 separate SPRs requesting the ability to select envelopes via Advanced Selection SPR542629 - Cannot select assembly envelope components through the Advanced Selection criteria SPR666548 - It should be possible to identify and select envelope components with advanced selection or wit...

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OK, what I found was that, if you multi select components and ALL the components that you have selected are ALL envelope, then you can toggle off envelope for all of them all at once.

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