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Want to change your GD&T? Make sure to double click on the "correct" area Want to delete or change your datum? Make sure to double click on the correct datum box tool! Want to change two or more datum? Double click on the first datum, change it, then double click on the second datum, ...

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Alin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 9:04 pm That is the add-in SW should buy and integrate.

Agreed but not likely. I'm sure the upper management would see it competing and preventing people from going to 3dx. If I were them, I'd be concerned that they lose customers to competitors.

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sorry, typo/wires crossed. SW2024 does not work on server 2016 which is what we have. Ok....I'll just say we've done in place OS upgrades from 2016 to 2019 with little issues with most apps. I do need to do the same for our SNL server though. It's in Azure so the upgrade is easy and we can do a rol...

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bnemec wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 5:51 pm I downloaded it. Went to update our license server and no can do. 2024 needs server 2016 and I'm not moving the license server for this. Might try to get trial license from VAR...

What OS is your server?

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I am annoyed with this when I am placing a dimension: image.png Can someone please tell me how to disable this? I have not found what/where it is controlled. (Yes, I know, it is probably something that is supposed to be good for me, but I'm tired of it.) I'll admit I hated this thing at first but o...

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Good point. I think the issue is that there is no distinction between the two in SW. It should be two separate things - physical products, or an alternative representations of a physical product. I think I had a really old enhancement idea I submitted to have the ability to define different configu...

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Bryan O wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:02 am I just posted an example of this on another thread but thought this would apply here as well.
Take a look.
Input is always appreciated.

Do the hole quantities need to change if the base plate changes size?

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Configurations are a sticky issue for revisions. For us they can represent a family of parts each with their own part number. But we can also have some that are for reference in a drawing. The sheet metal flat is a good example. So do you revision those as well? Today we revise all of them together ...

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I'm working on connecting SW's BOM's to our ERP. I need to create a custom field in our models that have the PDM revision in it. We have a, I think, a variable in our data card "REVISION". This is what's called in our borders $PRP:"REVISION", to pull the REV into the drawings. W...

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Windchill works on this principal for downstream users. Cad documents are published to PDF for drawings and the Creoview format for 3d models. They are then attached to the objects representing "Parts item masters". So most non CAD users only see that content, they can't open the SolidWork...

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We kind of handled this by only allowing those types of groups to view the "PDFs" of finished drawings. If we were staying with PDM, I'd probably start publishing 3d viewables in additional to our 2d PDF viewables.(eDrawings or maybe some other 3d format). Since we create a 2d pdf viewable...

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I would think a NAS could be configured to handle this. We use Synology at work. https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/solution/what-is-nas/for-home They seem to have a nice UI and reputation. Just cost is higher than some other options for personal use. I'm considering the DS223J 2bay unit with two S...

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Some router has build in Cloud service. I backup to hard drive at home. Carry a hardware encrypted portable drive. Do you trust yourself to setup a cloud backup on the internet? I use Google drive to share files. Not as backup. 2T on Google One is $14 a month. Do you need a cloud backup or just sha...

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The hackers keep finding ways to get around it. First my password had to be 8 characters, then 8 characters with upper and lower case. then 10 characters, then 16 characters with at least 2 uppercase, 3 lowercase, 2 numbers, 6 symbols, 2 dwarven runes, blood type, with no English words or l33tsp34k.

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Someone might've posted something already but I couldn't find it. Has anyone setup a home cloud storage solution for sharing and backing up all of your devices, laptops, PCs, phones, tablets, etc. I thought about buying more Google Drive or OneDrive space but it gets expensive when at the TB level. ...

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I hate hackers and evil people in the world. Ever since our company decided to open our networks to global teams and vendors.... I have to "authenticate" multiple times a day on my phone. I feel like I'm wasting 5% of my day playing authentication roulette every single day of my working li...

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If you are looking to handle all major CAD system (Solidworks, CREO, NX, etc etc).... you might want to consider Windchill and Teamcenter.. but they are probably not the low cost option that you are looking for... and take an entire team to run it Unless really required...i will not touch Windchill...

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It would be curious what you find. The big problem with most non-cad based doc management systems is they don't know how to handle the CAD file references. If the CAD assemblies and associated files are fairly isolated and not shared, maybe you could do it effectively but once you need several peopl...

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Do you mean dynamically (at search time) set or clear the check box automatically based on something else? Also, why would it need to be checked when searching Drawing Number? The Drawing Number on latest version will be same as any other version. Won't the results be the same if the value never ch...

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Changing it to default unchecked was one of the better improvements we made to our search card; curious the use case for having it checked. It's conditional. For some variables like Drawing Number, it should be unchecked since the number doesn't change ever. For "ECO Number" it should be ...

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"Found in" says version 3 (of 6). That "number" variable has the same value in all configs set at version 2. The config in question was deleted along the way on version 4. So the search with "all versions checked" is finding that deleted configuration first, then pullin...

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I'm assuming that search was with "Search in all versions" >not< checked? Otherwise that would be expected behavior. The search, that from vault view or search tool? So it's not unique to the pdm add-in? "Search in all versions" is checked. I'm searching in the "Drawing Num...

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So I looked in the VariableValues table for that document and realized the pdm add-in was displaying the variable value from a sheet that has not been on the drawing since version 1 and the file is at v12. To test this I added the sheet back in with exact name then checked the file out. That allowe...

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I think its randumb. Seems it runs a query and whichever is "Top 1" wins. So deleted configs/sheets get included which stinks.

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zwei wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 5:30 pm @jcapriotti
Nope
We have engineering team across the globe but the CAD Admin need to be based in US
The position is in the US (locations: Raleigh, NC / Neenah, WI)
If you are interested, let me know.

I'm stuck in Mississippi for the foreseeable future..

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Welcome to the group Gerard.

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KaMei wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 3:22 amdgUu3wC.jpeg

Correct answers are denied access due to likelihood of being AI.....or someone with too much time on their hands. That said, let's talk screw thread standards

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zwei wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 9:08 am We are currently looking for a new CAD Admin
Experience in Windchill is a huge plus.

https://plexus.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en ... Sr_R027688

Wait, do I have to relocate to Malaysia?

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SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:07 pm Impossible. SP5 is supposed to be the most stable.

Stably slow.

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I don't know, the way I read this post now, is that to be a CAD Admin, I need to chill out by smoking some weed, and @AlexLachance is now a supplier.

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SolidWorks dropped their forum, didn't replace it, so we all gravitated to Matt's place. If SolidWorks had built a new forum, I think we'd all be there to air our grievances, provided moderation wasn't too harsh. And no, the 3dx platform is not a forum, its a social media scroll that is inadequate f...

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@PCObelcz You might try this...I haven't myself since we have the add-in but it might work for you.

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There is suppose to be way to kind of do this with a transition notification and fields on the data card but its buggy and I could never get it work. You add variables on the data to hold the users name and send notifications to them based on the user in the field. Then in the transition "send ...

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The automatic transition at the start does work well from my experience but as mentioned requires users to first check files in, then out again before they can be worked on however I have found discipline in this regard to be poor. I set the "Default Value" category in the data card edito...

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@jcapriotti there is a lot of cost obfuscation going on, like "a certain CAD package" and its bugs and regressions that cost us in term of lost productivity and damage to our data that require fixing them, but cannot be quantified so we cope silently and brush everything under the carpet....

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So much "save the server costs" vibes Sorry for the cheap sarcasm No doubt my server costs are higher. I used to be able replace production server every 5 years, then rotate old servers to dev/test. But now I have to pay for all of them monthly in the cloud. Monthly cloud costs for one ye...

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mp3-250 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 5:47 pm close the company and everybody home?

We've already done that twice this year.

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Comparing PDM transfer rates for adding files to the vault vs uploading files to a network share is not an apples to apples comparison though. If PDM was just a simple file transfer it might be able to match a simple upload to the server. But there is a lot more going on when you are adding files t...

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The Autotrace feature in SolidWorks can do it but it takes a bit of finagling with the settings. I haven't tried Inkscape, it may do a better job.

If the original image was high res it might do better.

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On local, each computer got a 1Gb link to server. As long as switches are setup properly. Off site, all cramp into one ~100MB internet with God know how many hops to the server. Yep, we used to hop through one switch to the server.......now its about 5. I'm not totally against cloud servers. For mo...

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Anything we should watch out for? Bandwidth.....bandwidth....more bandwidth Our company moved the entire datacenter to Azure........for a large PDM installation like ours, its definitely slower. We went from local servers with 1ms of latency to Azure east servers with 40ms of latency, so to be expe...

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 9:29 am @jcapriotti

On mine, the lower feature tree seems to mirror the upper. How would I use one in a different manner than the other?

Thanks.

It defaults to the Feature Manager tree....just select a different tab like the Config manager.

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2023 8:31 am Obviously not directly related, but what is the purpose of the double duplicated vertical feature tree? I never understood that.

Thanks.

We deal with a lot of configurations so I often split the tree to show configs below.

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Got rid of the shell and corner cuts, use convert to sheet metal, which rips the corners. Last add the corner reliefs.

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Are the files loading from a network location? Are files loaded lightweight? I know SolidWorks will only load a small amount of data lightweight, then stream additional data as needed. Mates may need additional data causing the spike.

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:43 amimage.png

He was on a schedule crunch and didn't have time to wait for someone to unload.

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OOTB no. You might try a macro.....then you could have it name the file whatever you want.

This may be overkill:
viewtopic.php?p=14464&hilit=dxf+dwg#p14464

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Wonderful getting user complaints about "Vault crashed" After a couple questions, what they mean is Windows killed the explorer process that had all the vault views in it. It seems we had a fix for a year and a half then Microsoft comes along and knocks out the supports. o[ Mean time I'm ...

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 1:59 pm Done: https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... dgY7-jbZPg

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Did they remove the post on 3dx as well?

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SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 11:36 am Maybe it is a cultural thing where they don't respect you if you don't insult them on introduction.

Now that's straight outta Star Trek there.

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