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matt

Unfortunately I don't think that can cut the part in between. I already the have the beginning and ending position of the pattern. Is there a command which connects or guides two shapes/structures into each other and deletes the material between them? Also thank you again for the help. Now it sound...

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Yes, I want to connect the 2 holes on each side of the cylinder with infinite amount of holes basically. Could you please help me which steps I need to follow to make the pattern in synchronous? I learned to model with SE in the "ordered" way and I can't get around in synchronous. In Sync...

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It's easy in synchronous, isn't it?

You could use a pattern, right? You want to wind up with 2 slots?

matt

Wow, don't say no one warned you. It's been a slow motion train wreck, so I think there have been some people who didn't believe this kind of stuff would actually happen. They're inviting you to find something else. Remember a couple of things - Technology is no place for nostalgia, and business peo...

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You could explode the text into sketch elements, but that's messy. No, it's Messy.

I would avoid doing it in sketch. Use the text to make solid geometry, and then use the line sketch to break up the solid text into bodies. You can probably still get where you want to go using that method.

matt

Solidworks uses configurations, which covers FOA, FOP and configurations in Solid Edge. SW configurations are powerful and complex, but they sometimes also get people into trouble. SW configurations also can keep all the sizes within a single file rather than driving a set of files. Not as stable as...

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That show is still running? I watched all the episodes a few years ago. I loved watching all the experts come in and spend their money. My favorite was the diver that went down the big hole into the muddy water and all the scanning they did down there, and still couldn't say anything definitive. So ...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 12:19 pm Hmmm quick way to switch to SE?
Assembly work the same?

SE has utilities to bring mates over. Not sure if 242 includes mates.

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JSculley wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 11:48 am SOLIDWORKS MBD has STEP 242 capability. It's been there since SW2019.

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Interesting. If you populated the model with dimensions and STEP 242'd it out to Solid Edge, you would get a live-editable model in Synchronous.

matt

Interesting. Do you know if that's an option that comes with the SW MBD package?

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Does Solidworks 2023 read or write STEP AP 242? 242 transmits MBD/PMI data. I don't have the latest version installed.

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I've added a new subforum for Artificial Intelligence topics.

https://cadforum.net/viewforum.php?f=60

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**Moderator Note**
I have renamed "Other Engineering Technology" to "Other Technology", and created a new sub forum called "AI and Related Tech".
I agree that this is something we need to discuss, and it's totally on-topic here on this board.

matt

This seems to have changed. Double click the title bar of the command bar, and it will snap to the left hand side of the window.

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zxys001 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 19, 2023 11:28 amRyan, who?

Ryan McVay. He's been around a for a while, and on here some too. A good guy actually, until he drank that DS koolaid, I can see he's starting to push people the wrong way.

matt

Thanks, Glenn Schroeder Everybody is welcome to pile on. Ryan is essentially a good guy. He and I have corresponded over the years about many different topics, and he usually has a well thought out and reasoned point of view. He has jumped around to a lot of different jobs, and this week he works fo...

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@bryan5 Maybe off topic a bit, but on another note, some of the benefits of Onshape have been available for decades only it was called "mainframe computing". Everyone ran the same "rented" app version on inexpensive "terminal" devices and files were saved automatically...

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Yeah, i can change your email and merge your posts. Make your second post and then email or private message me.

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Believe it or not, SE actually is trying. They are adding stuff to the software that SW users will find appealing. The good news about SE is that the technical side is WAY out front of the marketing side. If you've used SE in the past, they have added stuff to the workflow to make things more SW-ish...

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ANd I forgot to add..don't say PMI either..as that also means different things to different people. ie. PMI in Solid Edge can include sync tech dimensions that control shape. Funny that you mention that. In all the time I used SW, no body every used the term PMI. The reason it's connected to Solid ...

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Does SW currently allow the import of STEP AP242? As of 2017, they did not.

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Can any Solidworks user of MBD tell me about using it? I'm mainly just curious to know how many people actually use it.

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Yeah, there's a way to turn it off, but you're not going to like the results. The setting is in the External References Options, shown in the Help here. image.png I have to say that I was instrumental in getting this setting put into the software in the first place back in 1997. I was working for a ...

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For those who haven't seen my thoughts on SE 2023, I wrote two blog articles. The first was on what's new with the Siemens philosophy, mainly focused on Xcelerator. The second article was on the actual new features. I think the Xcelerator Share is brilliant, and something that should have existed lo...

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Two years ago TODAY, all of this madness started. The forum was empty, void and formless. Glenn Schroeder said Let There Be Discussions, and there were discussions, and it was good. Thanks to all lurkers, readers, participants, posters, questioners, answerers, several generous donors and sponsors fo...

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DanPihlaja wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 10:51 am Now I am curious why some people could see it and some people couldn't....

phpbb is not a professional board software. If something like SW has paid developers and still full of bugs, how much more for unpaid developers. Sometimes you really do get what you paid for (we paid nothing).

matt

ok, I found a couple of switches for those custom fields. Try it again, and see if they show up now.

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Did anyone who can't see it fill out the information when they signed up? Maybe if you didn't fill it out, you can't see it. Not sure. This is odd. @establ does not have different permissions than the rest of you.

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- Go to your profile (drop down next to your user name at the top of the window.
- Edit Profile
- At the bottom of this form is the area to use to change your hardware and software version

I'm using the Breeze theme.

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It depends on if you want to do the work or not. As a full time job, that's probably a 25-30$/hr gig, but as a contractor, you have to charge more than that. $50/hr might be high if you're not doing any design. I would get $75-100 for doing surfacing, plastics and mold work. So I'd guess in the $40/...

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You should be able to edit your profile. Depending on which theme you're using, theres an Edit Profile option on the drop down menu next to your user name.

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Traffic continues to increase. Professional sites have a tendency to be locked to the academic calendar. So we dip in the summer, and then dip again at the end of the year (Thanksgiving to New Year in the US). We've passed the peak for Dec 2022, so it's all new growth from here. We've been pretty ag...

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Progeek wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 3:58 pm Where &how do you get this community version?

https://solidedge.siemens.com/en/soluti ... nd-makers/

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You could keep using your old version of SW. Nothing wrong with that. There is a "community" version of Solid Edge that is free. Some limitations, but you can check it out. If saving to parasolid works as output, it could be a viable option. I think that comes with all the bells and whistl...

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zxys001 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 9:56 pm Excellent, no more scrolling! Thanks Matt!

Sorry it took so long.

matt

Sorry, I feel this is really a poor question. We would need more information on your products and systems to make a truly educated response. We would need to know things like whether you are planning on integrating a pdm or plm or ERP or MES or MOM, etc. system? How do manage design data? What cons...

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Anyone know where we can download some fancy models made with Onshape? That's part of "the thing" with Onshape, you don't download models. So you'll never have 3rd party libraries. Any Onshape data exists on their server. They don't have a "file type". It's all bits and pieces i...

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There's a lot to like about Onshape. But there are also some things to be aware of. For me the downsides are: 1) for the free version, your data is automatically essentially public domain. 2) when you stop paying, you have nothing, except perhaps pieces of paper you printed or maybe some neutral for...

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No new members section. We throw you right into the deep end. Welcome!

What is your preferred CAD poison?

Did you come here looking for something in specific?

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Yay! Solidworks in one limited case can do almost as good as Solid Edge! That's the spirit, but you've got to use the Import Diagnostic to get there. And it only handles the Delete Face type of function. Now change the fillet values, change the hole diameters, angle the holes, move the holes off cen...

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zxys001 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 11:14 pm Any chance this can be resolved?

Give me a couple days, I'll get it fixed.

matt

Hello @matt Unfortunately, this issue is happening to me again (after a reboot to the computer, I have to log into this forum page again). Is anyone else having an issue again? I am just trying to see if it is on my side or not. It isn’t a big problem for me because I use LastPass so I don’t have t...

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TurboCAD is 2D? I'd say dwg/dxf for 2D would be safe enough. There are tons of free and free-ish programs that use that format that if TurboCAD fell off the face of the earth tomorrow, you'd still be able to at least read DWG/DXF for eternity, approximately. 3D is a tougher question, because a lot o...

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@Frank_Oostendorp what would you say is the target audience? 3D print based Makers? Tablet users? Mobile users?

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I'm curious if anyone has had any interaction with Shapr3D? Any comments?

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AlexB wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 8:51 am It happens for me on this one too

https://cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=1961
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Edit: Sorry for being off-topic

Does this work now?

matt

I'm looking into it.

...https://cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=2396...

Can you get to it with this link?

matt

I'm not seeing this error. Is anyone else still seeing it? There's a lot of content in that thread, it might be taking some time to load. Might have to start a new thread...

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@matt you've wrote a couple of times on surfacing in at least a couple CAD systems. Will Solid Edge Sync options be better than anything SW can offer? What about Onshape? Solid Edge does 95% of what SolidWorks surfacing does. There are some things it does not do, especially around curves and featur...

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