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I feel like the 10 ten list is mostly a pointless exercise to make the users feel like they have input. The developers priorities are set by endless hours of meetings. Every once in a while one of those priorities align with the top 10 list and they get to say "See, we are listening to you.&qu...

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Let me get the SW QA/QC program straight... Hold top ten on the 3DXP platform with 0.001% of SW users participating. Ignore number 1 and 2. Kludge together code to implement a new feature which may or may not have been on the top ten list. Confirm that feature does in fact do something. Release the ...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 1:21 pm They just got it where the normal mirror features reports the correct count for hole wizard features. They will get that fixed for double mirrors before the end of the decade.

That is if Glenn, as part of the beta team, filed it.

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 12:51 pm Yes.

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Well it should be expected behavior...This is new functionality in SW...So, obviously nobody tested it yet.

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Shouldn't that be 4x?

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SPerman wrote: ↑Mon May 15, 2023 2:30 pm Is there a summary of solidworks websites and the purpose of each webiste? I can usually get where I need to go, but it involves multiple web sites and multiple logins.

AFAIK, that's the intended functionality.

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I tried accessing this again today to check something and I can't access the customer portal via solidworks.com or the Admin portal via my.solidworks.com It keeps saying I don't have an account with Solidworks and fails on the login screen, but I do have an account and it works on other login scree...

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Yes, very much. I'd like to get my hands on the one who came up with that. Dwight Yeah, that's going to be about as popular as an "uplift in rent"...Once again demonstrating the company's disconnect with their customers...It's almost like they have Onion/Babylon Bee people working there u...

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I stumbled across this page when poking around. Clicking on the 'Roles' category and then 'SOLIDWORKS' reveals 18 different roles! Good luck figuring out what you need. From those 18 roles, 3DEXPEREINCE SOLIDWORKS Professional lists these 5 'apps': image.png 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Premium lists th...

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Thanks for tips, but I had one meeting with my VAR and him convinced me that Dassault would make this a excellent PDM/PLM system. The folder 3Ddrive where you can export manufacturing drawings and share with subcontractor was what i looking for. Good luck! And please let us know how your experience...

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Yes.. !! It feels like it's a lot..😯 Yup. It is shameless. They also pile on a virtually scammer level of urgency too. "You must accept this never to be repeated offer before such-n-such date, (within the next couple of weeks) or you will pay full price." Needless to say, we now have a sl...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 4:39 pm So is the bridge I'm gonna sell you.

He may not be wrong...He said, "It's relay nice." That is if this is the relay:

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TTevolve wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 11:22 am "This uplift in price is still a fraction of the cost of the additional value"

If we don't use the cloud, what is the additional value?

You're making an assumption...The additional value goes to the SW marketing department...Why would you assume that you would get the additional value?

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It appears that new licenses are seeing the increase. Not just new customers. So if we want to add a few seats those will be at higher cost. I speculate that it's just a matter of time before maint prices take a hike for similar reason. Namely the "free" access to hollow functions in the ...

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Would the below command work if it is placed after the code to insert the virtual part?

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bRet = swModel.ForceRebuild3(False)

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bnemec wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 6:15 pm Perhaps they could use some AI chat bot like the other social media PLATFORMS are doing. Artificial Innovation that is.

Good idea! I suggest this as the avatar for that account:

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Today's Update: Tech support sent me a firmware update that was supposed to help with bed adhesion. The update failed and bricked the printer. I've contacted support to return it. Well, you don't have bed adhesion problems with it anymore... Kidding aside, working with ABS is difficult. Fred's give...

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jcapriotti wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 12:11 pm I guess after July 1st, it will be 100%. That should get the stock holders excited

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Are they giving us back Draftsight on the cloud?

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 1:36 pm I wouldn't touch it for less than $50.00 per hour (unless I was hungry).

Got it. So, best to hire @Glenn Schroeder before lunch? Probably shouldn't post that on the internet...just sayin'...

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Negative. I finally got a response from DS over the weekend, apparently there's a bug that prevents SLDASM files from saving properly if they contain components in Released maturity state ...so you know, just another one of their much-vaunted PLM features that just stopped working and brought my wo...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 8:41 am Working on addin to 3DX SW to remote flush the toilet at home.

That's probably as good a use of your time as trying to do work over at 3DXP...

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I use obs @AlexLachance - The best way to think of it is like powerpoint (with layered elements). But the key difference is that the layered elements can be: - Still images - Video footage - Video feed (from a camera) - Video feed (from a screen capture) Hit me up on my contact page (TooTallToby.co...

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We call it a 'Non-Revision Change'. I drill it into users that it is primarily to make corrections to parts that haven't 'escaped' Engineering (i.e. they haven't hit the shop floor) or for changes that are strictly clerical (misspellings in a note, adding a missing dimension, etc). They are also ab...

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Solidworks would be great if you didn't have to deal with drawings.

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I was a huge proponent for using the TTL and the ER system. The 3DSwamp is just so convoluted that I rarely even go there. For the simple needs of a general forum that thing fails. It is bloatware on steroids. It takes far too much dedication to use it. My hat's off to those of you that do navigate...

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With all that effort still hardly anyone votes (unless you have very few clients which I don't think would be the case) something just doesn't click with the users to be remotely bothered by the whole TTL. It's totally broken. I would guess some of the reasons could include any of the below 1) The ...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 10:04 amimage.png

@SPerman,
That looks like what I was looking for, how'd I miss that checkbox?

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Glenn Schroeder , Sorry, I may not have explained it correctly. From a part he goes to File>Make Drawing from Part and he doesn't get any dialog at all it just opens a drawing and he's set up to start working in the drawing. I'd like him to have the dialog presented like you show above. SW just ski...

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We set up SW on a new computer and someone new is going through the tutorials. He created a part and then went to create a drawing and there was no prompt to select the sheet format or template, it just jumped right into the drawing. Anyone know how to get that dialog back? Glenn Schroeder ? This wa...

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What format do you need? Are you just looking for a report/knowledge, or are you wanting an actual SolidWorks BOM on a drawing? The "Assembly Visualization" tool will generate the flat total info you're looking for. I forgot about that tool because I used it so long ago. It also lets you ...

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There's not a clean way I can come up with. You can use a Design Table to do the math and get that output into a Custom Property. Dirty, but it works.
I attached a file with it done with configuration specific properties.

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I always create a view in the assembly to be used in the exploded drawing. I can always get it to work, but sometimes it takes a little fiddling. I'm not sure what made it happy in this instance. Rebuild, switch to assembly, rebuild, open different drawing, go back to original and now it works. I t...

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I recall this from a couple of years ago (version 2019SP4) we could manually balloon them in exploded view, but the balloon wants to attach to where the part would be in iso view, you have to go hunting for it and watch the mouse cursor change. I cannot remember what work around we succumb to. I me...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 10:18 am Auto balloon refusing to select a part.

I am a gif, click me!

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I think I ran into something like that. If you are using exploded views you have to use the standard ISO view. If you choose another rotated view, then SW can't find parts like that.

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I can't imagine what would leave you with that impression. Over the last few years DSS has made decision after decision that makes no sense to anyone outside of the board room. Killing desktop solidworks seems like the next logical move. No one is going to move to the platform as long as they have ...

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Well just got done with an hour long presentation that was ridldled with bugs which leads me to believe they're definetly not going to be forcing people to chose between SolidWorks and that platform anytime soon. Was the platform ready when they eliminated the forum?...Is it a good replacement, yet...

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I tested this and confirm this is a bug on SW 2020 SP4. This is one of those things that would be easy for them to fix, but it's probably been around for years.
You could see if your VAR can open a ticket on this.

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Tried it, it's super slow too. Any other ideas? @jcapriotti, @AlexLachance, @Glenn Schroeder , @matt , @mattpeneguy , @Frederick_Law, @bnemec maybe? Sorry berg_lauritz , I have very limited experience with 3D PDFs. But, you can try the Bluebeam Revu in viewer mode for free and see if you get better...

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jcapriotti wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 1:50 pm Thing is, I've heard decent things about the PLM portion of their "platform". The problem is they decided to reinvent the wheel and shoehorn the forums into it. That's like driving wood screws with a hammer.

If you'd just tag everything properly, you wouldn't have any problems...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 10:39 am "There’s always some relevant Star Trek analogy, isn’t there?"

I've got one, 3DXP is like the Star Trek Enterprise TV show...

Though they've made some more attempts recently at series that may be worse. That's the one that sticks out in my memory.

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I forgot about this... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: May want to get your coloring book before they realize the mistake of creating that promotional material: image.png Anyone want to go over to the 3DXP platform to suggest a pluggin to be able to color the coloring book from within SW?

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DennisD wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:54 amThat's GOLDEN!

The youngsters won't get it.

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It was, most answers were genuine but blunt. I've never presented before so I'm not going to start presenting in a convention about something that dearly cranks me. There are a few questions I do have, though I doubt they'll ever be answered directly, I've already asked countless times. Most answer...

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Problem here is that they are trying to shoehorn people into something they don't want... So, their customers are going to have to make a decision, be forced to migrate to a cloud based platform by a company that neglected their needs or choose another path. How many of those customers will make the...

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May be a little late for Thanksgiving, but could be useful for Christmas.

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Doesn't look like you can do that, as far as I can tell.
You can just choose the view, save a new one with a new name and delete the old view.

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Nice! What do you think @matt? Seems to improve on the direct editing SE provides.

As someone posted in the comments, the big players could learn a bit about UI from this guy.

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I have v1 of all 3 softwares and haven't purchased the upgrade yet. They did raise the prices for v2 from $50 to $70.......but they run sales at different times per year. I purchased v1 on a Black Friday sale that was 50% off so $25 each. Interesting. I was watching one of their videos and you can ...

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I might get the company to buy a licence so I can create some advertisement with it, it's a pretty reasonable price if it does work as well as PhotoShop and ImageReady do. I used those back when I was in high school to design banners for websites and signature images for users. Like jcapriotti , I'...

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