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Can't leave the girls toys out....

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SPerman wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:14 am I can't wait for the Disney - Paramount merger.

The toy market may never be the same.

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If I am buying a tactical flashlight (whatever that is) I expect it to signal SOS and blind attackers and have a built in sat-phone. However, if I am buying a normal flashlight, it needs to be binary. On/Off. Unfortunately, whoever is designing flashlights in China thinks we need them all to be mul...

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Yea, that would be nice! On the whole constrained vs. unconstrained sketches; if you use the software long enough you will eventually come across a time when you modify something and other holes/edges/cuts/...etc. don't go where you want them because they are unconstrained. I fully define all sketc...

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You could download old app installations for iPhone and Android, if you know how and where to look. Might need Jailbreak and Root. Just like you keep all those floppies. Floppies....now that is ancient. I don't have any PCs that old but I do have some 10+ years old, one running a PDM test vault. Ba...

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Lack of support for older devices. I can run ancient PCs and software but new devices are getting more difficult. My dad has a first gen ipad mini. Apple will no longer allow to install the latest iOS. That's fine, but I need to put some apps on it, a pdf reader and Google Drive so he can read pdfs ...

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Now that I get some input, I understand what it does and why it does it. I was compared it to other features like Hole Wizard which does define the sketch. I can see how if you wanted it for just square flanges it would drive the OCD/fully dined driven people but I also see the benefits for "c...

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You could check the children state on a transition. This wouldn't prevent users from seeing and adding it to their assembly, but you could prevent them from sending the assembly on to be released.

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This does make sense to me BUT why does the sketch not generate as full defined when you 1st make the feature? Is this something that I have to get used to or is there a reason? Its the way they implemented to give flexibility in modifying the underlying sketch. The OCD in me doesn't like that it s...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 4:09 pm All the sockets too.

Of course

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SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 5:59 pm If you figure it out, please let me know.

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Old post but just had to say that I had to correct the electrician's error when my house was finished years ago. Horizontal screws....yes.

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I have a love-hate relationship with “Don’t show again”… You ABSOLUTELY MUST know 100% what you are doing when you check this box! Otherwise SW will never present you with the option again, and you will struggle forever. So true. The one that really would get us was the "Unable to locate the f...

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You can't on open as far as I know. In PDM you would handle something like this with a workflow transition action. So say you have a basic workflow with states (In Progress, In Review, Released). Once a file is "Released", the user transitions the file from "Released" to "In...

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You could use the "Dimension View" in the equation manger to see all dimensions, then the filter box show only the boxes that contain the dimension.

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Just copy and rename Arial to the missing font name. And ALWAYS embed fonts in PDF. I'll have try the Arial trick......although I guess it will look different....at least it may allow editing. As for embedding the font, it appears that Bluebeam does show the fonts are embedded, they display correct...

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It's kinda like "Detach Segment On Drag" but user doesn't need to remember to turn it off when done. I prefer to just select the relations and delete which is why I hate that SW doesn't have coincident point sketch relation (it merges points and can only be broken apart with Detach). But ...

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Company fonts and mandating their use in documents. Do we really need to "brand" everything we do in documents and drawings? Our "previous" company had a company font that they put into all of our office templates. I refused to use it in engineering drawings and documents but it...

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Can you show your dispatch script?

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SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 10:47 am I went searching for something different. I think I found it.

Reminds me of The Hu

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zxys001 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 11:07 am seems like it happened a few days ago.. the AI is trying to print itself!

Skynet trying to create an army

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They probably asked the AI they just developed if it would be profitable to offer AI to the world. The AI, building it answers off the internet as a reference, has to contend with all sorts of bad advice, satire, and out right lies.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 10:58 am It's either quantum physic or magic.

Is there a difference?

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DennisD wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 1:56 pmFIFY.

I think you mean weeks....or was it months?

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 11:51 am lol I love the formulation "Here are some ways that AI can help reduce human stupidity"

Just wait until we get some I, Robot level suggestions and it starts suggesting solutions that we "remove" the stupid people to increase the average IQ level.

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SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 3:29 pm I really hope someone actually reads these things.

Dassault error report department

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In my early days of SolidWorks ('98), my thoughts were the same....create the smallest, simplest feature tree. This turned out to be not the best way to go about it as Dennis and Glenn already mentioned. I could spend a day teaching nothing but best practices of feature building and relations...when...

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Wow. I don't think you could make this more convoluted if you tried. https://dsxclient.3ds.com/ https://www.3ds.com/ https://my.solidworks.com/ https://www.solidworks.com/ https://dspart004-eu1-partners-ifwe.3dexperience.3ds.com/ https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/ https://kbsw....

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Makes me think there is some tolerance issue with convert entities....like the ends aren't touching to create a closed region. Removing the "on edge" maybe recalculates the position more accurately....I don't know. Who knows what programming tricks are going on in the background to get aro...

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Odd behavior, if I convert entities like you did in that file you attached, it doesn't hatch by region. Deleting all of the "on edge" relations allows it to work.

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 12:50 pm This is my latest attempt:

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Double click the view to activate it, then try the region option,

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SPerman Ok, I see the bug when I watched your steps more closely. When you changed the Style to "With leader" and then edited the circle sketch to a rectangle, it won't keep the change and reverts to a circle, with profile still greyed out. If you change the style to "Per Standard&qu...

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Edit the profile circle, delete the sketch circle...sketch another shape then exit sketch. Then you have to change the Style to something other than "Standard" or "Broken Circle", like "with leader" which then allows you to select the profile option. They definitely nee...

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There's a lot of "basic" stuff which isn't part of the bare-bones package. On the other hand, if the lowest tier was the Mach 1, it would be priced out-of-reach for many independents (including myself) I guess that's literally the price of stability. Which package do you use? Or do you bu...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2023 8:36 am Heavy load on the way! One of the models of off-road trailers that I worked on is out in the trails!

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Hey, someone cut your logs in half.

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NX user here. I think it's a great idea... there are times that I would really like to use things like WAVE control and the User-Defined Features module, but I wouldn't get enough added overall utility to justify buying them. UDFs not being part of the core NX package is a travesty.....library feat...

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The PDM "get latest" should cache them properly regardless of the vault location on "C" or "D" drives. SolidWorks' search algorithm may find them correctly since the top level drive letter is the only thing changed. If not, you can check the option to search "Refer...

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When taken in the contexts of the relevant times, I think that SW when I started (97 / 98-Plus) was a lot stronger than it now is. Yes and no......stability is worse in some areas.....but functionality is much better. We started on 98 and I can think of so many things it was missing....no way I'd g...

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KaMei wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 2:08 ameeu6y33.jpeg

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@NinjaNick Maybe you could expand on how you are using a spreadsheet in Freecad? Can you show a screenshot?

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I haven't use NX since NX4 but my experience with it wasn't as good. We had CAD workstations but assemblies in it were dog slow at times. Luckily we only had about 50 parts max in an assembly with the average being about 10 (medical company). Where as my current company runs SolidWorks with thousand...

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Here's how the BOM Type/Configuration relationship seems to behave: 1. Top-level Only defaults to all configurations selected, whatever that means. Having multiple configurations selected, but only one displayed makes no sense to me. Which one is displayed? Is it a combination of all configurations...

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Link your drawing views to the BOM and you should be good.

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Time for a grumpy old man rant. Customer service is dead. UPS: I've had a package at the local hub since Sunday morning that was supposed to be delivered on Monday. I literally cannot talk to a human. I spent 10 minutes going through their voicemail system, only to be given the same information on ...

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Does the assembly have configurations? If so, are parts suppressed in some configurations? Do the parts / sub-assys have configurations? Can you show the BOM property manager options selected for each BOM type? Which service pack of 2023 are you on? Did you hold your nose and hop on one foot when y...

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I thought that I could easily fix this problem by exporting the BOM from our SolidWorks assembly. I have not figured out how to show the PDM workflow state in the BOM in the assembly. Can this be done? I don't see it in the custom properties. If we don't have that column (not certain it is required...

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I hope you understand that the edges are a little strange not because of some quirks of the CAD feature but because you transition from a normal cut on the front to a normal cut on the top, which has to twist those faces in the transition. If you do want the cut faces to be planar across the edge, ...

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@SPerman Try selecting "Filter Sketch Points" on the Selection Filter toolbar and see if will let you select them. Also try activating the view (double click inside the view in empty space) beforehand.

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 3:14 pm Wow, I always thought platinum was more expensive than gold...

You didn't play D&D by chance?

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:51 am Just like @SPerman described above. In my case the walls were all a single Part file, but not a single sketch. I dislike complex sketches for several reasons.

Too many relations complicated the relationship....applies to CAD tools as well

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I agree with him. Does anyone know what purpose that setting is supposed to serve (other than frustrating users)? Maybe whoever put that in there has a financial interest in a company that makes heartburn medication, or alcohol? It's for those of us that remember when it didn't exist. :twisted: I t...

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