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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:06 pm C'mon, quit being facetious...We know this one could have easily been designed on the platform:
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Well, not much imagination required to draw parallels to Ocean Gate specifically.

In general, subs aren't supposed to sink any more than ships or airplanes. They dive.

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:41 am I wonder how many small companies are going broke investing in this hoping that it'll fix itself eventually.

Hard to say, I know of one large company doing that though.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 12:59 pm They're building submarine.
Nothing float, all sink.

That statement's not fair to subs.

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We too would like better information about notifications sent. It may sound bad to some, but our ERP system sends emails from the users outlook client rather than coming from "system". This is very nice as you can see who all the email was to as well as reply to the email as normal. It cro...

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Can you tell more about the file comparison tool? Is it for assemblies? For parts I just import one, "Derived part" I think they call it, into the other then do boolean subtract. I'm guessing the comparison does more?

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I treat each job as new job. Since we don't "stock" any part. Each job has a job number. Usually use the "Order", "Quote", "PO" number from sale. I add: -00-00-00 after job number ie 25621-00-00-00 First 00 - Assembly Second 00 - Subassembly Third 00 - Part S...

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I'm probably missing details of the specific use case, but this sounds similar to what we run into with purchase assemblies where we own the design, to the piece part level. We looked high and low to find a way to make a drawing have sheets from other drawings. Almost like an assembly file has part ...

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I've read some threads about using 4K TV for monitor. There were some feedback on laggy/flickering issues or some SW fonts not displayed correctly it's few yrs old threads and I'm just wondering there should be some improvements now I'm asking for those who are using 4K TV for monitor, if these iss...

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For extra credit, you could dump the file name and path to a text file to know what files/locations were modified. Personally, I start twitching when I think about the same information being available in multiple locations, and worrying about keeping them all in sync. But I recognize the reason beh...

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I see, that makes sense, kind of. I'm used to the entire data set being standard parts library so no limit of 6 where used before becoming a generic part. What Jim says is your best bet, get a little practice with C# and file operations will become very simple. Can also be one in command script too,...

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We have a small engineering department using Solidworks and PDM. The factory is in a separate building and does not have access to the PDM. We have a folder system on the network with folders for each product. We then have a subfolder for DXF files and a subfolder for PDF drawings. I have created a...

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We've been using 43" 4k TVs for several years. There are some "4k" panels that are not created equal, so maybe don't buy/trust the cheapest thing you can find. Some people tried it and didn't like it, others tried it and thought they were indifferent until they went back to our normal...

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Yep, we used to hop through one switch to the server.......now its about 5. I'm not totally against cloud servers. For most office stuff, you won't notice. But CAD programs that load assembly/part file references are extremely sensitive to it. PDM/Windchill helps though since the files are loaded l...

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Did you ever figure out how to do this? I did not. I remember searching around for a while in various blogs and web searches. I found nothing. With 0 responses here I assumed I was so confused about what I was doing that my question was so bad that nobody wanted to touch it. So I did what I had to ...

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CAD FEA is real calculation, just a calculation of a theoretical model. Also, not sure what you mean by "in this way", but if you mean "solve the problem all by itself without needing my understanding or interpretation" then you are correct, it's totally not useful in that usage....

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I think the point was that it's all 3DXperince Works, nothing about the desktop works.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 1:34 pm Use multiple desktop.
nVidia has Desktop Manager.
I think Windows got it too.

I never got the hang of doing that. Some Linux distros have had multiple GUI Desktops for years, early 2ks I think? But I never got proficient at making use of it. I should try that again.

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Are you updating the dlls through the PDM Admin tool, Add-ins node, and Files tab of the add-in? Remove the files then add the new ones. This is how I was taught to update them after recompiling.

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Thank you, this is perfect.

I wonder how many PDM installations use physical servers vs how many are VMs, and how many are VMs on a HaaS or IaaS.

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From management standpoint it would be simpler if our archives were not local to the archive server, but rather a network share. A bit about the setup. - Archive and SQL servers are VMs managed by IT through VSphere - ALL of our VMs run on a server farm and ALL of the images are hosted on SAN. The p...

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I'm not a heavy PDM user, but I didn't even know there was a secret search window. Why is that the "preferred" way to search? I do have explorer crash on me from time to time when navigating PDM folders, but I can't remember it being specific to a search. I should back up that claim about...

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mp3-250 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:09 pm prepare for a hell of troubles down the road: microsoft is changing a lot in windows explorer in window11 and we havr at least 2 major issues on top of the usual memory leaks...

I'm somewhat doubtful we'll go to win11 here, tend to do every other version, so probably whatever comes after 11.

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Whoops. Indeed it does. Shows you how often I use the external tool (never). That's interesting. May I ask why you never use it? Just curious about other workflows. Maybe worth noting, based on responses from support in the past, the bulk of leaked GDI objects we deal with are from PDM loading cert...

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You can access the separate search tool from Explorer: msedge_cf9eCBcLfj.gif What would happen if you have a User or Group with no permissions to use any search cards? Does it default to the external search tool when you click the search button in Explorer? Well, in my (admittedly old PDM 2019) vau...

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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 s...

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The way I've done it before is the following with my formed or flat configuration open in SW: - I open a blank drawing template (no border, blocks, etc.) - I use IDrawingDoc::CreateFlatPatternViewFromModelView3() to add my flat pattern view to my drawing. Note that this adds it for the specified co...

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your nested config structure scares me a little bit, but maybe it's for a good purpose. If you use the "SM-FLAT-PATTERN" config for dxf you won't get bend lines. Save dxfs from the formed config if you want bend lines in dxf. Here's the dxf method I wrote with tid-bits I picked up from oth...

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Does anyone here have experience with CADDi? https://www.caddi-tech.com/ Looks like they've been in the B2B sector for a few years and have released a comparison tool called Drawer that reportedly uses AI to compare part attributes by analyzing the drawing. A co-worker has seen a demo and requested ...

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FIFY You should do test runs before proceeding to upgrading updating to a newer version, to make sure everything works as expected. Obviously you won't catch everything but it generally has given me a good idea. We upgrade update only to keep up with maintenance or if the version we upgraded updated...

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This can be a sticky post in each forum.

Also, well done keeping this barrel of fish quite clean. I have seen very few poaching posts.

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A state change action (with the select children option active) will grab all referenced files that are in a state that has a transition with the exact same name. Without knowing the workflow this can be hard to help with, but I wonder what transition are they doing from WIP that there are states oth...

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From what I have seen SW automatically makes a the flat pattern sub-config when a flat view is added to the drawing. We had go-round with this when people were making drawings for parts that had been modeled earlier and where not checked out. So while they had the drawing open all looked well and ch...

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>< >< Finally - Thanks to @bnemec I have solved the issue. I had Admin in all the groups and the group policy prevented the "check out by other user" to be check-in. I was afraid of that. I have heard from several sources (our VAR, other VAR blogs, other users) do not ever put the PDM sys...

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Took a family trip down south last spring and passed through Mobile AL. Couldn't resist stopping to see BB60. Walking on USS Alabama's Teak decking, looking up at the battle stations was surreal. Also went through USS Drum sub. Sad to see the A12 was parked outside. As I remember back there was a pa...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 3:56 pm PXL_20231008_175037704.jpg

The longest of the Iowa class. Amazing ships.

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This is a screen shot of the "Undo check out". I was expecting a warning that the file is checked out on another computer by another user, but that it will still allow me to undo the check out image.png The stop sign is hinting to me that your Admin (or whatever user you're trying as) has...

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Screen shot of the dialog?

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Dwight wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 3:26 pm You could have a hidden view of ZPAINT in the assembly drawing and link the drawing to the ZPAINT finish property directly, instead of going through the assembly model.

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This would work well if you don't use PDM.

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We had this a lot when users would open files in Solidworks, then go back to vault view or search tool instead of the SW PDM Add-in to do PDM actions, especially check out. There are settings in PDM Pro that will block users from checking files in or out when the file is open. What it boils down to ...

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Completely hack and maybe not acceptable in your use, but... I assume the "paint" part model has no bodies in it? Does your assembly have a BOM? Would it be acceptable to show the finish in the BOM? Perhaps part number: "Finish" and description would be color, texture, etc. Secon...

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We need to update some data Inside our vault, during working hours, but we want to prevent our users to open them with solidworks or explorer (even read only without checking them out) while retaining access for administrators to modify those files. I don't understand why it would matter if a user ...

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Try logging in as admin, not a user with admin privs. The admin user has a few extra powers.

Have all the files been checked in at least once?

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But on an even number of the pattern, you are not actually building "on center" but building from an offset value from the center. With an odd number, you are building on center. edited, corrected odd to even. That's exactly the point. Should be able to sketch the profile at midpoint of p...

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Why not use two directions and have only the original occurence be repeated in the second direction..? That would give you the desired result I believe..? I think in the case of even number of occurrences the pattern would not be centered. This doesn't sound like a big deal, just edit the feature s...

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Not sure, but it looks like they've combined the Extrude and Boolean Common features into one op. So to answer your question, yes that can be done in nearly every other CAD system, it will just take extra steps. IMO Inventor extrude and revolve features UI options have been ahead of the other parame...

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I would prefer to have Sub Topic 3DEXPERIENCE under SOLIDWORKS Main topic, the reason is Catia 3dx is not exactly 100% SOLIDWORKS 3dx. Please consider about that Matt.., thank you. Understandable. Although, from what I've seen the 3DX doesn't really belong anywhere. It's no more Solidworks than Cat...

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Hello, I see that no one has responded to your question. I had a similar issue a while back & my VAR told me that I have to add that feature into the mirrored part! :roll: There was a thread a while back discussing hole wizard info & a mirrored part: https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?t...

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Using the Insert -> Mirror Part... method to create a mirrored part in a new file, with no context ref to an assembly. On some parts we need to make small edits to the part for laser cutting, removing chamfered holes, adding material for an edge that needs machined tolerance, adding a little divot t...

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Also, for the last week or so I've been getting notices that someone has replied to that thread, but when I go there I never see anything other than the one reply from @Frederick_Law. Curiosity got the best of me and I went and logged in. <()> Maybe Alin can update the subject to " The missing...

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PCObelcz wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 2:59 pm That would get a rise out of some of our users.
Thanks

Yes, it did.

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