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Another ~~~~ for SaaS https://www.wired.co.uk/article/adobe-pantone-color-subscription-fee The people that use Photoshop for work aren't going to be phased by an additional $15/year. They'll just pay it. But, it does make me wonder how much business Adobe has lost to amateurs that may be freelancin...

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I think it was jcapriotti that recommended Publisher a while back for project documentation. And I've been using it with good results. It's a helluva lot better than word. Good news is version 2 includes embedding dwgs. They say if the dwg changes it updates in the document. My wife has a Cricut so ...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 10:02 am i'd pay in a heartbeat if that meant implementing some form of integrity and accountability over there. Sadly, it'll remain an endless pit of dream shoveling and deception.

@AlexLachance,
You are unfortunately wrong...it'll also include a lot of despair and frustration.

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Just set your PC clock back to 2010, and you won't have to worry about it...That should give you 12 years. You should be retired by then.

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I stumbled across this little gem today: Create a part Right click the material in the feature tree Select a material from the Favorites listed in the popout menu Click Edit in the menu bar and look at the item in the undo list. For me, it looks like this: image.png The Undo text is clearly wrong, ...

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(rant mode on) So today I got notified that once again an error that has been returning time and time again for more than a decade will once again be fixed in 2023SP1 Woohoo ! To qoute "The following SPR (SolidWorks Performance Report) status has changed to Implemented." And the automated...

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establ wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 4:42 pm So true. I have a 1 year old.

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No, this is false. We have a lab that's 4 1/2...Still a velociraptor...

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berg_lauritz wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 1:29 pm one of the downfalls of the Property Tab Builder is that it does not offer the possibility to edit custom properties on components from the drawing level.

How about creating a custom BOM with the fields you want to change? Then you can edit the fields in the BOM and it would update the parts.

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Have you tried Property Tab Builder?

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(Preface: I'm a bit surprised that AutoCAD is categorized here as Miscellaneous, lol. Dinosaurs still live.) Today I read about AutoCAD's partnership with Epic Games. Revit subscribers will have access to new tools as they are released. New cloud platforms are being created over the next 5 years, t...

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Besides, deciding to not 'carry over' data isn't so bad, as long as it's still accessible to view and edit if there aren't additional costs. For instance, I had to search last week for something I designed in 2011 on AutoCAD before we transitionned to SolidWorks. The design was carried over to 3D, ...

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KaMei wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 1:23 am

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I don't see what's funny about that...It appears to be a well kept secret if only 7 people know about it.

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DennisD wrote: ↑Thu Sep 15, 2022 12:25 pm Since we're posting jokes, here's an oldie but goodie.
https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... dgY7-jbZPg

@DennisD,
Jokes are funny, that's just sad...It is "the dark pit of despair and frustration", afterall.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Thu Sep 15, 2022 3:04 pm Someone having a really bad day:
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I reported as Abuse

Well the response checks two of the three boxes. It was concise, provided clear direction of what to do, but the advice given probably won't solve the problem.

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Just had this "feature" of move/copy body bite me today with SWX2020, so I thought I'd keep this thread alive. It appears that the constraints solver of move/copy body is just sort of weak, and if it fails to find a solution, it will just leave the body in the as-imported position. In my ...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:13 am Best is current version of Inventor

How did I know that's exactly the answer I was going to see you posted?

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 7:32 am Yeah, as Zhen stated, don't go the 3DX path, you'll only find pain, anger and anguish

C'mon @AlexLachance quit spreading such disinformation...as you know, he'll also find despair and frustration...

We call it the "Deep pit of despair and frustration" for a reason.

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I'M BUSTED! Actually, I was on their forum " steering autopilot committee" for at least 1.5 years FTFY , from it's inception to its termination a few months ago. There were several of us that were passionate about what was wrong with the move to and the design of the new forum. We were no...

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I understand what you mean Matt, but I like to remain optimistic delusional FTFY (and you know I'm joking!) and believe that companies who have the second mentality you spoke of don't last and get cornered into foreclosure. I think we are in the middle of it. When you live through the middle of som...

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I just noticed the 3DXperience platform has an interesting and awful interface layout design. It can easily be accounted for that each tab is 30% and that the middle is 40% of the interface. In short term, the totality of both tabs should be more compelling then what's in the middle. Not only that,...

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For those not wanting to bother going over there (emphasis added):

More gold from @josh.

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Aug 31, 2022 3:57 pm If the issue happens in sections, then this is most likely the culprit

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It has nothing to do with the problem that the dialog is in French...

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I'm not trying to start a fight I have just pointed out some oddines that I have found to this date. Perhaps you can help me with this (which I find a bit odd.) I want to replace a file named "plain washer 10669...." with a articel. image.png Checked all intances.. image.png Everything se...

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@Pernils So basically what you've done is walk into a pizza restaurant, that specializes in thin crust pizza, and complain that it doesn't taste like deep dish pizza!!! Me I'm a fan and can appreciate both and I think at the heart of this is really what you're missing. This isn't a zero sum game, t...

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Let's stop right there. Why are you trying to learn a new software then? Why did you not look for a job that required SolidEdge? Looks to me like you're showing only the side that favors your arguments, not the other side. Are you trying to start a fight! You stop right there! You apparently don't ...

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I've seen worse...

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Thanks for the suggestion @Glenn Schroeder. I changed from "Custom" to IPS and it fixed the problem. Still confused as to how it happened.
Stupid SW, buggy software...Are my templates now broken? I guess I'll follow up next week with a coworker and check it out.

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DennisD wrote: ↑Fri Aug 26, 2022 10:21 amPEBCAK?

Not an unlikely guess.

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It worked fine for me. I started a new sketch, inserted a construction line, and set its length equal to the global variable. I hate to ask this from an experienced user, but have you re-booted since you first noticed this? image.png And if yes, and it's still acting up, maybe change the units from...

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 7:50 am That's probably because they're some of the few people who can find the articles.

@Glenn Schroeder,
It's very simple to find things over there....You just need 2 things:
1.

2. An infinite amount of time.

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I'll slip in a few IV screenshot and see if they notice LOL That's hilarious! Yes, you should do that. And we should all go over there and up vote the entry. May I suggest something on the way IV handles equations? I watched a video a few years back and it seemed that IV was much more robust, but t...

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I have this file where I enter the units as inches for a global variable it's doing a conversion as if I entered them in metric when I try to use the variable. File units are set to IPS, but SW is altering my 1in = .0254 when I try to use the global variable. Anyone know how to fix this? Here's a vi...

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Where's @zxys001 on this? This seems like a surfacing problem.
Someone else who may have a suggestion is @Alin.

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There are many reasons not to use color in legal engineering documentation. Let's just cover a few quickly. 1. Color blindness- Statistics show 1-12 male humans have a form of color blindness. With a heavy male dominated industry color blindness is an even higher ratio.- Someone can miss content on...

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I like to use colors in these ranges for my annotations:

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I just was sent a link to an assembly in Autodesk Viewer today. I was curious if SW has anything similar? The tools in the viewer are pretty intuitive and you can easily hide things and take measurements and such right from the browser and the assembly is in Autodesk's cloud. No login required. I'm ...

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That's good news Alex. Good luck!

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Looks like a good opportunity. Will the person hired be working with you or in a different group?

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Hey Fred, is there any free version of Inventor out there that we can use non-commercially..? I'd like to look around it, like I can with SolidEdge for instance, so that I could have a better idea of how it works and it's Pro's and Con's. How you feelin' from being back to it? Did it take a huge le...

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Contractor forgot the handrail.

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We've both been saying that lately as we make groaning sounds moving from one place to another. We were very smart and let someone handle bringing in the rock and landscaping the back yard (which is happening right now!) Moving several tons of rock from the driveway to the backyard did not sound th...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Sat Jul 02, 2022 6:43 am I friend of mine signed up for this and it has turned into a mess. It got booted from kickstarter due to IP claims. I think Creality is now trying to sell them directly, but I don't think they are available yet.

Tell him I'm sorry for suggesting it.
Did he get his money back?

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Configure Dimension does not come up when I right-click the dimension. I'm not quite sure how this works, but I'm also trying to avoid having to create a huge list of configurations in the pin model, to go along with the huge list of configurations in my assembly. Fortunately the pin model is a gen...

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Configure the dimension?

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Yes, I used to use it too. But you know how things in SW works. With every update things keep getting worse. Since 2022 version, if Instant3D is on, when you click a component in feature tree, that ugly "Move with triad" like thing shows up and it's large enough to fill a good amount of s...

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