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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.

bnemec

The settings under Groups\All Users, does that apply to all the groups? Or could they be different for each Group? Simple question hopefully a simple answer. I'm new to administrating PDM but have been using it since 2016. I am waiting to get training "patience my young Padawan". edit: TL...

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this is bad! Is there a possibility to run the task processing as a service? Nope. Need a user to be logged into the vault for tasks to be sent to that task host machine. I agree, it's not good because someone must either go log in to the task host machine whenever it restarts (consider the inevita...

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Is anyone running PDM? I have a friend who says they are having trouble where it takes minutes for SolidWorks to open the drawing if you click on open drawing from the right mouse button does it open the drawing for you? In a reasonable amount of time? I can't check it's behavior with PDM without u...

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Could you please upload the SW file? I didn't save it. Nothing novel, as stated by Josh the screen shot is just a loop with a 360 deg twist. Only thing different is instead of rotated sweep I used the flex (twist) feature to get the 180 deg twist. First I extruded a surface and twisted that, then l...

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If you're writing the task Add-In then it's up to you.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 4:53 pm Let's give you a headache:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle

Maybe this will help:

Damn YouTube:

Oh the irony of that video on you tube and it being linked to in a forum thread.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 2:56 pm Outside surface became inside.

Right.

That was my layman's understanding of the concept. I'm used to things going over my head so I assumed there's more to it than that.

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I don't really understand all the details or the proper definition of a Mobius Strip. It sounds like the requirement of being a continuous surface rather than a solid was added for this discussion. If we trace a solid body Mobius the trace would go around it twice to get back to the starting point. ...

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That's good to know. Thank you. But, we've been focusing on 2023 as our next version. Trying to get time to set up test PDM servers etc. This seems to be the norm though, get into testing a version & SP then find out there's a dangling carrot in the next one. Oh well. Good answer never-the-less.

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I've received questions several times over the past couple of years about adding comments to check out action as well as why can't we see the check out event in the file history dialog. Obviously, all the check in events show up, some create new version. I'm guessing the two are related? Is there a ...

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jcapriotti wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 6:09 pm In SolidWorks......hold "control", grab line and drag,....let off control and drop line.

I'm an idiot. I copied the line three times before I came back and reread your post.

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Sorry for sounding uninformed, but what is "Shake and break sketching"...? 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 po...

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Google results say ST7 had shake and break sketching. I just tried in 2019 and it's not doing it. Thankfully though, I would not like that. Maybe it's a setting.

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To open the same model twice you'll need to rename it, not just a different folder, must be different name. AFAIK, Solidworks will not allow you to load the same file in two instances of sldworks.exe at the same time. This is not the reason we do sim on copies of the "real" file, but that ...

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Let me make sure I understand, you have a model that was either modeled in bad orientation or imported from a CAD system with Z-up. You made a drawing with all the dimensions. Then realized the model orientation is not ideal and you fix it by simply rotating the body. While move body is a solid mode...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 3:44 pm With all the online cloud integration, everyone got their head in the cloud.

Except for when the cloud is down, then they got their head in the fog.

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Is this of any help?

https://help.solidworks.com/2021/englis ... _vbnet.htm

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 3:28 pm ...You'll need to avoid all the ZTGs

Will extruding as different bodies (uncheck the merge option) avoid the ZTGs?

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:51 am image.png

Stuck in the mud but still staying straight as a line.

That is impressive. Keeping that CoG between the wheels vs sloppy shift off to the low side is... I just don't have words.

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AlexB wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:21 am Good luck! Sounds like you don't have to worry about a PDM upgradedate... I'm jealous.

FIFY

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Update: after the error above asking for email validation (which I have not yet done) https://kb.dsxclient.3ds.com/ is working again https://kbsw.3ds.com/ is showning a blank page, an improvement since the error 20 I did literally nothing on my side. Well, aside from the typical fruitless troublesh...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 9:22 am Cloud as in smoke.
Now you see it,
now you don't.

Smoke from the burning trash bin?

If the cloud is down, wouldn't it be called fog then? They're working in the fog...

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2023 2:04 pm

The spectators in the first clip are very stoic.

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The "whole" industry is not "moving" towards this. The developers of the software are PUSHING customers in tyrannical way towards this goal that is theirs. Nothing to do with customers moving anywhere. Enough with the marketing b.s. You're biases are showing. Close. It's not the...

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without seeing the part it's hard to guess, but direct editing is one of my first go-tos when dealing with "dumb" geometry.

Can you rotate faces about the axis of the bend?

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Yeah, ITAR requirements are a burden and are really based on 1980-90's type of data security. Sure wish the US Government would update its requirements! I'm no lawyer and cannot read legalese, but my dumbed down understanding of the whole thing is an adaptation of the the old cliché, "I don't ...

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doobes wrote: ↑Sun Aug 06, 2023 4:11 pm This is new:

Is this English?

The DS Offering?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Goal is to confuse the customer into ignorant non-compliance.

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matt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 1:08 pm ... I've got to go through posts manually to make sure they make sense.

Well there goes half of my posts...

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JSculley wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 1:24 pm There is no such thing. If it is on-premise it isn't cloud.

Contemporary definition of Marketing: The art of confusing customers into giving you their money for products and/or services that they don't know they don't need.

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Sorry to dumb it down, but I need simple terms.

Can a company that designs/manufactures components that are used in products sold to the US Govt. DOD use the DSS cloud hosted storage of component design data and still be ITAR compliant?

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I chuckle at the conversations about all the various "Fast" "slick" "efficient" ways of managing selection behavior or turning selectable items on and off in Solidworks. Going on in the SP3 thread now. Solid Edge users aren't much interested in all that; Solidworks has ...

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Can you post screen shot(s) of the error message that the user gets?

Any problems with right click menu in search tool or explorer?

Same behavior when using the PDM Add-in in Solidworks for PDM actions?

No problems with Getting versions of files?

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Solidworks gets very unhappy when the freeze bar isn't at the end of the tree. It will cause you endless headaches. (I can't remember the specific circumstances.) I would recommend creating a configuration with those features suppressed. We're both talking about the Orange/Yellow bar right? You mea...

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Is this going to be a sheet metal part or machined?

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A typical SW day for me is 3 crashes. I've never had the feeling that I was doing anything particularly complex CAD-wise when they happened. But the crashes aren't really the deal-breaker for me. The main thing that makes SW never my first choice is the lack of speed. SW is simply slow. I am not an...

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TTevolve wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 8:49 am oh man, crashing while saving, that is the worst!

After 1600 it's a toss, I just leave.

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With the Save File dialog open...

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I cannot find how to do a mid-plane extrusion up to vertex. What am I missing?

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Solidworks crashed on me in the middle of working on a drawing a little while ago. I had saved often while working on it, including not long before the crash, but it somehow wiped out everything I had done in the last 3 hours (it crashed around 2:00 pm, but the drawing shows it was last saved at 10...

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Since this is a 'modified' purchased part, why not just build that into the assembly structure? TopAssy +---ModifiedAssy +--PurchasedAssy Then you can fiddle with transparency and such in ModifiedAssy without affecting PurchasedAssy. Add in the component line font and the new See through transparen...

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Right-click on the component (again, either in the tree or drawing view) and select "Show/Hide > Show Hidden Edges." If you have used the component line function referred above to have the hidden edges of these components the same thickness and style as visible edges it should show just l...

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It may be slightly tedious, but you might be able to do it in the Drawing by right-clicking on the components (either in the drawing view or tree) and selecting "Component Line Font..." from the drop-down. You will adjust the line style and thickness for Visible Edges for the "ghost&...

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I think Alternate Position might work. In the Default config hide the parts to be removed. In the "alternate position" config show the components. But the drawing becomes very slow to work with.

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I've been trying several things, changing line types, display state, etc. none are giving a drawing that's going to work very well. What we have is a purchased sub-assembly, lets call it "AsmP.sldasm", that goes into a bunch of different assemblies we build in house. A few of those upper l...

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We keep most of macros in PDM with the folder set to cache latest on login. Generally works pretty well. The only catch is if you check-in a new version, we have to tell everyone to cache the latest, or logout and back in as the auto caching only triggers on login. Be nice to have a push function. ...

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usually when the property is linked these boxes are checked.

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What are you guys talking about an "add-in" instead of a macro? Add-ins use the Application Programing Interface (API), a set of classes exposed by the software company that allows 3rd parties programmatically control the running application. Add-ins are most typically written now-a-days ...

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Yes, but for this scenario you have a customer who is only allowed to look at the outside of the unit (some fixes will be possible by them with a sealed unit, others would have to be return to base so stripping apart and getting part revs will be easier). Does the scenario MES/ERP system track revi...

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