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jcapriotti

I think I'm on the same page. I'd rather be informed that I'm an idiot so I can fix it than have the software think for me and find a file it thinks is what I want. I would like a "tell me I'm an idiot" file reference setting something like "open the path referenced in the parent fil...

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Yes that response is from a user that essentially confirmed the point I'm making. The 3DE platform for that forum is the same platform as what is used in all the 3DE apps/programs, they are one in the same. I think the point that user did not address is the fact that the 3DE platform was neither de...

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RDT or similar connection reduce bandwidth because it only "live stream" the screen. Instead of all the files. So user don't need powerful computer. Done properly they can use a tablet. Also it is more secure because user never get the files on their computer. RDP is great for some things...

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Case Studies： https://www.solidworks.com/customer-stories?woc=%7B%22product%22%3A%5B%22product%2F3dexperience%20design%20solutions%22%5D%7D https://www.3ds.com/insights/customer-stories?woc=%7B%22topic%22%3A%5B%22topic%2Fcloud%22%5D%2C%22brand%22%3A%5B%22brand%2F3dexperience%22%5D%7D I didn't read ...

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Well, their users are gonna need someplace to get help.

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What happened to build a good product, if it really is good at what it does, the users will come on their own. Word will get around, build up your fan base and evangelists. But you need a good and open community for that. These executives think they are some kind of visionaries. You can hear it at 3...

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Just curious, this product has been around for many years along with the 3DSWYM site but does any company actually use it? Sometimes I see mention of small startups but no major companies. Since the SolidWorks userbase hasn't really gravitated over, all of these changes seem like an attempt to conve...

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Matt, no 3DInexperience sub-forum?

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Wish I could try it, but after watching video after video it looked like a steep learning curve for the more casual CAD user. Obvious you are not the average CAD user matt . History base seems like it would be easier to see what's going on in more complex models as its broken into the manageable pie...

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Because Matt set it up for the simple purpose of what its supposed to be, a place for CAD users to gather, share tips, questions, and occasional fun stuff. The CAD vendors seem to have another purpose, how do we make more money off them and get to switch over to our cloud offering. by forcing them i...

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Nice, I need this one, didn't realize it was on the SolidWorks forum. We deal with a lot of vendor assemblies that are in SolidWorks but we only want the one assembly file in PDM.

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matt wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 1:49 pm I remember from previous abortive attempts at this that SWYM stands for See What You Mean. Although I'm not sure how that is relevant in any way.

Smother What You Made
SolidWorks, You're Murdered
Senseless While Yelling Madly

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matt wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 12:57 pm My wife is an architect, and with her large firm, they send home company laptops.

We have our company laptops at home with us. I suppose an option to upgrade SolidWorks/PDM on them is to bring them to the office but our building is locked out without prior permission to get in.

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VPN is just a secure login, connection. Pulling all those data across the network is. wrong. If user need to pull 100MBs constantly to do their work, it is wrong even on LAN. Either put all data on user's "home" "remote" computer or setup something like Remote Desktop. When you ...

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SolidWorks has internal IDs. It can tell the difference between a copy of Part1 and a part created and named Part1 independently, but it doesn't use that ID for finding files, just telling you if the file you found is definitely the wrong one. It can't tell you if it's the wrong copy, just that it ...

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China may be up and running but most other countries aren't, appears to be supply chain issues plus increased demand due to lots of people working from home and buying more PC/Laptops. So less supply and lots of demand = $$$. We are trying to order replacement laptops for engineers and there are hug...

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Since most companies for the past year have had their employees working from home, how have you deployed CAD/PDM software to the end users. VPN is usually too slow to have large numbers of users installing gigabytes of files. This past year we pushed the administrative image to the Azure cloud and h...

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Yes, I pack&go everything too, because I want to work locally. Later on I re-link the unchanged parts back manually to our standard network folders. This is where PDM helps, you are always working locally with some minimal traffic to the DB checking to make sure your local copies are up to date.

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dpihlaja wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 11:31 am I am in a play this year! This is my costume. Watch it if you can.
Promise Costume.jpg

Nice, you look the part.....beard does the job

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I always wondered what were the advantage of using a mechanical keyboard rather then a conventional one. Is the key pressing more ''smooth''? Gaming, you get more tactile feedback. It is much louder. I have a Patriot Viper v770 with Kailh Red switches which are sensitive as hell. Since I can't prop...

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I rename every single part, that I modify though - which means, that sometimes after re-linking the part I have to do the work twice (add a cfg etc.). Worse when our users copy everything, not just parts they want to change. Unfortunately they are in hurry and Pack n Go offers the path of least res...

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It's pretty simple, the software stores the file reference's filename and path in the assembly/drawing. If you rename a file or move it then you have a problem. People are just used to renaming files and moving files/folders however they feel like without understanding the implications. Not sure how...

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From what I read, it's a combinations of Trump tariffs on Chinese goods combined with reduced production due to Covid. So hopefully this year we can all get back to somewhat normal.

After working at home for a year, our office is opening next month.

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Is this full Solidworks or 3DInexperience?

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VR was going to be a thing back in the pre-2000 time. Right up there with eliminating paper drawings. It's funny how some technology (additive) makes the grade and people get it, and some just doesn't. This reminds me of VR when I was in high school around 1990. The mall had these VR games (boxing ...

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Glenn, I think you can get away with that if you are working on projects that never cross, they are standalone and isolated. But if ever you need to open two assemblies from two different projects that both contain files with the same name, the first one you open wins, the seconds loads files in mem...

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Well you are a bit of a rebel in the community. I seem to remember your old post about your attire at PLM World.

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matt wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 5:03 pm Hey, Jim, good to see you here! Have a look around. We've been busy getting the place ready for April 2.

Yeah, you have 3 weeks to get this site in shipshape. Why are you posting when you should be working on this site?

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me too, i reduced mine, and decrease color depth (with irfanview, free picture editor-viewer) I use Affinity Photo, not free but competes with Photoshop for a fraction of the cost (On sale currently for $25) and the license is perpetual. It does have the learning curve of PS but has a cleaner UI, I...

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I had problems with Eng-Tips because they banned me early on for answering a question about how to get work as a contractor. They accused me of advertising my business <shock> :shock: I never went back. Yeah, that's pretty lousy. I mean, if you were like spamming it constantly I could understand af...

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IIRC, eng tips isn't formatted as a "forum" and is probably why the SW forum took off in the first place. Engtips isn't bad, it is a forum. But it covers lots of engineering topics, not just CAD so it won't have the focus I think we want. People, including myself, went to the SolidWorks f...

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The only real reason for us to update is to not get so far behind the wave that the complexity of updating grows exponentially with each year. This is a big reason IMO. Skipping releases means more things get broken that you have to deal with at once. I might skip one version but not more than that...

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Lol....I just reduced my SolidWorks forum pic jpeg quality to get it under 6kb.....thanks

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At first I was going to bold my name or change colors......I decided to just reduce the signature to avoid too much vertical space being taken in threads.

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Get PDM, pretty much eliminates the file path issues. Even if I were a one man operation I'd use it.

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BBCode in signatures is off, will it be turned on?

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As an RPG gamer, I'm familiar with their products. My guess is they were a small company that recently got big and don't have a good handle on engineering processes and standards. They are artisans and gamers which tend toward the right brain more so than the left so I could see them being resistant...

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We need 3 more to get an even 10 Cadmandments.

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I have installed it but we are using 2019 due to the Windchill version we have not being compatible. That said, one nice little enhancement that is sure to not make the "flashy feature list" is when you double click dimensions to edit, it no longer delays to show the Property Manager for t...

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No, not trolling. I would like to be able to retrieve old posts. I have learned a lot from the forum. SO, it would be good to have a few people that know how to get in there and find things. Good luck searching and navigating anything on the 3dswym site. While people might not all migrate over here...

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Matt, I don't pretend to know anything about this software but I found this regarding pasting images. Looks like there are extensions, not sure how you apply them though.

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/exte ... oardimage/

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That 6kb avatar limit is a bit......limiting.

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