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@Alin, Have you done any testing to see if it works as advertised? ^^^^This. Sorry Alin but the SW team has limited resources and there are a lot of new features here. So, unless they increased the budget for testing, this may not be the good omen we think it is. Don't get me wrong, I sure am hopin...

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in the rare event someone at SW read my comments: 1 just TEST all of your stuff BEFORE every release. Pfft...That's your job! 2 after a double check on point 1, check if legacy data are compatible and not broken like that time you localized the description variable in weldments making 10yrs of our ...

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It's Saturday morning and I don't have time to get to my desktop. So, I haven't read through the entire OP. But there maybe a good solution for this. Check out Driveworks. You get the Xpress version with SW, but you may need the full blown version. Check out some youtubes and see if it will work for...

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Alin wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 11:49 am ... and none of them satisfy the requirements I stated.

You want people to post files and meet the requirements?...You need to lower your expectations...

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matt wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:34 am Paul Salvador did this a couple decades ago....

http://www.zxys.com/swparts/

I think those files were listed above by @Arthur NY.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 12:25 pm Found this in Inventor forum:
PainRelieve-01.jpg

It should be in SW forum.

Why are you posting that here? Shouldn't you be cross posting material like that over at 3DXP?

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Welp, just got a critical one this morning. Most likely linked to the language bug previously encountered with surfacic features. Some of our properties have accents in them and those properties with accents get created without accents for new bodies. That causes our drawings to not show the materi...

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I was using the cad admin dashboard to monitor the reliability of our workstations. now it is gone. "Dassault Systèmes (3DS) has been working towards a unified ordering and support management system to improve many aspects of our business , including the end-user experience. " so basicall...

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Hey @DennisD,
You get your power back on yet? (If you even lost it).
Our friends in Sarasota lucked out. It tracked far enough north that they only lost power for a couple of hours.

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Sounds like you aren't enjoying your "best in class experience.":

I guess I just wonder which class they mean...One like this?:

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Wow! Recognized his voice from that commercial. The actor was Matt Frewer. He's been in a lot of things I've watched. He's had a pretty good career in television:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001242/
I guess the digitization was also based on his face...I didn't even realize it.

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Are you all old enough to remember Max Headroom? He was the embodiment of AI before AI was a thing. https://clickamericana.com/wp-content/uploads/Max-Headrooms-Guide-to-Life.jpg matt , Sure am. I think I'm a little older than you...If I had to guess. All I remember really is the stuttering that he ...

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0,0,0...model everything where it goes.

Mate everything to the origin and the pesky mate problems disappear.

Inferred above, but worth repeating, drive all external relations down the feature tree, never up (up is a good way to get circular references, which SW doesn't like).

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While Glenn Schroeder enjoys some nice cool rain, here we are: image.png Good news is the feels like temperature tomorrow will be 116F. If you are going to have record temperatures, may as well have some humidity with it, too... Kidding aside, I hope everything goes well with you, Glenn, with this s...

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Here's the loop through assembly that will be the other part: https://help.solidworks.com/2023/english/api/sldworksapi/traverse_assembly_at_component_level_example_vb.htm?verRedirect=1 The API help the people at SW provide is pretty darn good. If I get some time today I may be able to kludge it toge...

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Here's further information:
https://help.solidworks.com/2019/englis ... ties6.html
Looks like it's the second to last true in the above link that needs to be changed to false:

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There's this from a quick google search on changing a part to an envelope part:
https://help.solidworks.com/2021/englis ... ple_vb.htm
You'd need to figure out which "True" to change to false and then wrap it in a loop to go through the assembly.

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You should be able to do it with a macro, if there isn't an easier way.

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See the attached 13x19 drawing template. If you want to use what you are working with, make sure you are in the Edit Sheet Format. Looks like you got the automatic border set correctly. So, just copy the title block from the other border. Paste it, make it a block then move it into place. Explode th...

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Sigh, Well, one step forward, one step sideways.... After a bit of jiggling, all my "regular" sized templates are working hunky dory. I've got a Canon Pro100 Printer that can print up to A3+ size (13" x 19") that I'd like to create a template for the sheet size. So I open up my ...

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Use display states instead of configurations. Then the BOM will be identical on each sheet. Hide rows in the BOM that aren't relevant on each sheet: image.png Jim's onto something here. That should work. But, if this is a weldment and you don't want to deal with Display States, then you can use Sel...

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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. Why do we have to spend so much of our day trying to keep SW ...

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Have to look it up: MetalPrice-01.jpg That reminds me. Years ago one of the electrical engineers here put a place holder for the material for a bus bar, intending to go fix it later. It went out with the place holder still in the plans...Platinum-Iridium...I guess the electrical contractor didn't l...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 1:21 pm Have to look it up:
MetalPrice-01.jpg

Wow, I always thought platinum was more expensive than gold...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 10:30 am Silence with duct tape is diamond.

Wrong, we are talking about metals here. The correct answer is platinum.

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Looks like a nice weekend:

Good news is that it's also very humid...

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I use hair spray for PLA and glue stick for ABS. I can print a PLA box the size of my CR10 print bed and it will be dead flat. I can't say the same for ABS, but It's given me the best results of anything I've tried. At least anything I've tried that is easily removable. Is there some reason not to ...

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I love it. I have one if not both of mine running almost daily. I would highly recommend one. I've retired the other two printers at work. If it ever reaches the point that this printer can't keep up, I will buy a 2nd. I didn't think I would be as thrilled as I am with the AMS, but it means never h...

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Those things look kind of off to be honest. I have thought AI androids had the Doctor Who Dalek problem. How can they rebel and take over if they can't even navigate stairs? And the ones that can like Boston Dynamic's Spot needs like huge power packs and has uptime worse than a top end gaming lapto...

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We're finally moving to Windows 10. Does anybody know what the fix between SP2 and SP2.1 was? Being on Windows 7 I can't run the installation manager and grab SP2.1, but we've got SP2 because I downloaded it at home and brought it on a USB drive. We're definitely not going to SP3 until it gets some ...

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Good suggestions... All are implemented in this version except: Total number of notes in the "Sheets" box is not implemented because accessing the drawing sheet view of inactive sheets is not possible. When you select an inactive sheet in the Sheets box, the macro disables screen update, ...

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I don't think Windows Server is required for PDM Standard. Pretty sure I've heard of small offices setting it up on one of the workstations. But I wouldn't take that to the bank. It doesn't sound like the students need PDM Pro. I remember when I setup Workgroup PDM I had it running on a PC to test ...

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As long as you don't need remote access or internet, you could easily set up your own wifi network inside the school with a basic PC running the PDM. All you would need is a router. That PC needs to be running Windows Server of some sort, correct? Also, PDM needs to be set up and administered. Denn...

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Peter,
I'm guessing the parts were made as a single body?
Hindsight being 20/20, if the parts were made as multibody you could assign materials to the separate bodies:

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Looks like fake news to me. Canada shows no active fires:

Kidding aside, looks like some of that smoke may be down all the way here shortly:

That's a lot of smoke.

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It's the age old problem of SW not having the information of configurations that aren't loaded into memory. Where is this information to be presented? Is it on a drawing or something? If you have a flange that is in an assembly and you place that assembly on a drawing, put the BOM on the sheet, the...

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There is confusion here on "cloud". There is desktop "cloud connected" SolidWorks which what we use today with an add-in that connects to the 3dx cloud to work on files located there. I'm guess files are cached locally somewhere so it acts as a lite PDMish type tool. Then there ...

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I am reading this to see if anyone else is having terrible experience in the new 3DEx forum crap thing. I have issues with it that I feel are almost intolerable. I have used forums for many years and I actually quite like this one. It is a tried and true format that works. The search feature works ...

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Good News!

It's 2023 and SW is getting Clippy!

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JSculley wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 1:38 pm Amazon AWS and MS Azure have 12 month free tiers and a signup credit. The free tier machine specs are underwhelming but you might want to give it a try.

@DennisD,
Also, since this is education related, it may be free or greatly discounted after that. Be sure to include that in the inquiry.

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No, that's the welder. He did welded it wrong and need to rework it. And still tell me he still make money for the company. Some people. Need to do it twice in Solidworks. Only once in Inventor. UU Depends what your interpretation of wrong is...Those drawings you gave him were just a suggestion...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed May 17, 2023 7:52 am I hate that with my current setup, when the internet goes out, my only remaining source of entertainment is my phone. I don't even have an FM radio to listen to.

How do you work on 3DXP when that happens?

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Good luck and let us know how it works. If you modify it to work on a multisheet drawing with each sheet starting at "A", post it back here for others who may get use out of it. Credit to where credit is due, Deepak Gupta helped me with that macro several years ago on the old forum. I'm no...

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System Options>Export
Then choose DXF/DWG in the File Format dropdown.

Then choose what you want:

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Fair warning though, it was made for a drawing file with multiple sheets. I suppose you could modify it to iterate through each sheet in the drawing and rename starting with A for each sheet. But, because the file already has an "A" view when you get to sheet 2, it will probably give you a...

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You can try the following macro when you separate the sheets out. It'll rename the views starting with A. Const A_CHAR As Integer = 65 Const Z_CHAR As Integer = 90 Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Dim swDraw As SldWorks.DrawingDoc Dim swSheet As SldWorks.Sheet Dim curChar As Integer Dim curChar2 As In...

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Do you think that's what happened when they added the feature that has the pop-up relations toolbar for sketch entities in drawings? I'm asking because I'm having trouble believing that someone thought it was a good idea for it to pop up if you select a model edge and then a drawing entity, but not...

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I submitted a request on the new 3DEXPERIENCE|3D Dashboard 3DSupport (yes, that's what it is actually called) last Wednesday. Essentially, I asked for the machine names where several of our serial numbers are activated. We've had some user/computer churn and the status of some serial numbers is in ...

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