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AlexLachance

That's weird, it seems to be displaying ID's rather then feature names. Never seen that happen. Does the assembly contain parts/assemblies from previous version?

AlexLachance

Uncle_Hairball wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:41 pm Yes, but not this time. Yet another case where SW required delete and start over.

Was the component part of a symetry or a pattern? If so, an instance from either could have been the one "locking" it in place.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:34 am Simple rule: treat them all as scam.
Do not reply text, email, voice.
Do not contact them with email/phone number from the text, email, voice.
Go to the company website, get phone number or email and contact them there.

That's pretty much what I tell my folks.

AlexLachance

jcapriotti wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:53 am Matches your 3dx screen

https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?p=34054#p34054

indeed

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Just because it is good for the software companies, doesn't mean it is good for the consumer. I would argue, if you want to use the agile model in cad software, you should be way more careful than DSS, and put the things you broke way higher on the priority list. If the agile philosophy is "We...

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You've gotta love spam emails. I hadn't checked my spam folder in quite a while, so I just took a look. One of them is addressed to "Unconfirmed dear," and another one warns me that "Anamul" tried to log into my Facebook account (which would be a good trick since I've never had ...

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Just wanted to brag of our colourfulness

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Is the component fixed?

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I had the presentation, it was very interesting. It does translate external references. It does not translate macros. If you're a one man team, and you're tired of being bullied by SolidWorks or whichever program you use, I suggest giving a deep look at OnShape. They have a beautiful product with ve...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:05 pm Did they migrate the ER's already in the system when they created "the platform"?

Nope!

They gave it the swamp treatment, left it to sink to the bottom hoping nobody brings it up again

AlexLachance

The idea slide thing? Yeah, that now pops up when you turn on the Ideas filter rather than hiding about 3 screens deep. Vaguely kind of almost useful but more show than go. With that in mind, going on the "SolidWorks Enhancement Ideas" community and using the same filter gives us quite a ...

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The idea slide thing? Yeah, that now pops up when you turn on the Ideas filter rather than hiding about 3 screens deep. Vaguely kind of almost useful but more show than go. Oh, thanks! So it showed up because I misclicked on idea and then stayed on permanently until you pointed that out. Thanks mate!

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Did anyone have this appear on the Platform or is it just me?

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Wanna either laugh or be a bit more angry at the thing? Mine's never checked!

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I don't know, but someone else might. I've run into that also, but it's a single check box in the drawing's property manager that I can turn off, so at most it's a minor irritation (for me, at least). It most likely does, sort of like how layers come out a different color when printing from the pro...

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dave.laban wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:36 am Three years to add a row to a list

https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... F94qNwefvQ

Still not implimented according to their system.

AlexLachance

consider you are lucky that your templates actually save that option. I just wrote a post about transparency in drawings that is activated by default inside document properties, but even if turned off and saved into the templates it is not recognized as disabled. it remains turned on. SW told us to...

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I don't delete the <DIM> and replace it. I check the "Override value:" option and enter the desired text there. image.png My apologies, I assumed that is what you meant by "replacing the value with text", I didn't know you could write text in the "override value" case.

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jcapriotti wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:41 pm Exactly this.....can't tell you how many times we've had users overriding drawing dimensions. Especially with offshore contractors.

Hopefully it covers overriden dimensions but also covers those who just delete the <DIM> and replace it with text.

AlexLachance

It's a good option to have for people working with multiple users creating drawings, there have been times where I wish I could distinct it visually because someone cheated their dimension rather then fixing things to get it right.

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It's hokey, but you can add spaces before/after the weld size value and/or weld length-pitch values:image.png The downside is that when you go back into the weld symbol editor, it may look like there is no value: image.png Thanks for that alternative, less "annoying" then having to move t...

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:46 am Hi Alex.

Do you mean a "jog point"? I do not see an option for "junction".

Also, how would I lock it parallel?

Thanks.

Most likely, yeah! In french it's "Jonction" which can translate to both jog point and junction depending.

AlexLachance

You can right click on it's arrow and add a jog point and then set it parralel to the other and have it the desired length

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SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:39 pm I'm pretty sure they've been using "agile" for the last couple of years. They just haven't told anybody. There's plenty of regression in SP5 releases that I use as evidence.

I think the .1 releases speak for themselves

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I skipped the 15 minute countdown, listened to about 15 minutes of awkwardness that felt like the "User Advocacy team" weren't much interested in the discussion. When they brought a chairman to continue the conversation is when I stopped the video.

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I'll give a listen this afternoon to the R&D Updates session, that's about it. I won't force myself to sit through it though so it better be interesting and not just marketing speech aimed at corporations rather then users.

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There's a few similar bar that work in different context, I suggest pointing where you'd see the use for the bar and how it would work, though I do agree there are multiple examples where it could be used, they just don't come to mind right now. For instance, chamfers and filets have a similar selec...

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[indent][/indent]We have noticed a couple of issues come up recently that may be related. First we are using 2023 SP5. [indent][/indent] When closing several of our older assemblies we have started getting the warning message "Non-C2 data detected" "file created with 2007 or earlier ...

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That is indeed pretty much the price, even the 'basic' version of SolidWorks has a bunch of things forced on it. Try renewing a single SolidWorks Standard licence and see the outcome. They'll tell you there's been a price increase but justify the price increase by all the new gimmick features they a...

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We're attending a little OnShape presentation this friday that includes a segment about this, kind of eager to see how powerful it is. This might be a game changer, it might actually force SolidWorks to adress their issues because a better program found a way to translate files in their integrity fr...

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You do a great job at adding little things here and there that complement the forum experience. I feel like this forum does exactly what it was meant to do, encourage people to collaborate while also filling the void left by the closure of the SolidWorks forum.

Keep up the great work.

AlexLachance

Here is a quick (dirty) macro that does the jib. Sub Mian() Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Dim swPart As SldWorks.PartDoc Dim swFeat As SldWorks.Feature Dim swSubFeature As SldWorks.Feature Dim FeatureName As String Dim i As Integer Set swApp = Application.SldWorks Set swPart = swApp.ActiveDoc Set ...

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Just fell upon a bug that is making us revert back to SP4. The bug is more something we caused upon ourselves but it is something that worked before and now is buggy so it's still a bug nonetheless. Basically we standardized components inside our company. The standard component remained and the one...

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Look up OnShape rather, for a hobbyist I'm sure it'll convey your needs and it is free up to a certain extent.

I wouldn't throw money at a burning fire pit to be honest.

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Man, I'm just thinking about the issue I have with the bar not showing at the top and how a lot are facing the same issues. This means, the compass is not accessible, I'm guessing this most likely means they can't access the Cloud version of SolidWorks or xDesign or the cloud tools altogether..? If ...

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mp3-250 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:16 am "It will be fixed in the next release"

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@AlexLachance I am the PDM admin and "I had enough". We had all sort of troubles and little by little we are fixing them. And I am trying to push SW devs as well as my VAR as we pay a lot of money in license fees etc and we need to make them pay back. I am developing my own tools as I am ...

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Looking at your line of thought with the posts and threads you make, it seems that you are trying to figure out what are all the conflicting factors to then point them out efficiently to SolidWorks. Either that or you're looking to take the SolidWorks code and refine it and remove the ambiguities fr...

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dave.laban wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 7:37 am So the new version of 3DSwym is live. Basically none of the feedback provided during Beta testing has been resolved, and some more bugs have shown up for good measure.

Isn't it wonderful? They certainly listened and are doing a great job at communicating changes efficiently.

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Gosh darnit they seem to have banned the guy...

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 8:49 am He's back at the Swamp, and getting about as much help as you'd expect (nice comment from @josh).

https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... s7Yi1etSDg

Thanks for the share Glenn, this guy is a national treasure.

AlexLachance

@AlexB nailed it. You can also check this out:

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SolidWorks 2023 SP5 Regression from SolidWorks 2023 SP4 Items with different file names that callout same item number combine and merge themselves into one item in the BOM, in SP5 they combine themselves but one of the item is not balloonable. When the items are named differently and the configurati...

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IV does too. Don't change any system setting, ribbon, menu bar. Make sure you don't open same file in both session and edit. It actually better to run different versions at the same time with SW. It's not surprising, I'm sure most programs have a hard time handling multi-sessions. Programmatically ...

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I've watched or seen a few stories like this that say many of the factors that made cloud computing attractive 10 years ago are no longer the same. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3700153/cloud-computing-is-no-longer-a-slam-dunk.html Not sure what that means for companies who are pushing their cu...

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I don't think it will add an additional layer of stress/issues. I see it as an addition to what was existing. If you wanted backwards compatibility, then it's somewhat possible now. If you did not care about it before and are stressed of what it could cause, simply enforce people to continue working...

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I think DSS has adopted the "agile" model but has kept the old naming. For the last couple of releases, SP5 has bugs that didn't exist in SP4. That's not how it is supposed to work. I believe they tweaked something in how BOM's work in 2023 but I don't remember exactly what. I'm guessing ...

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Just fell upon a bug that is making us revert back to SP4. The bug is more something we caused upon ourselves but it is something that worked before and now is buggy so it's still a bug nonetheless. Basically we standardized components inside our company. The standard component remained and the ones...

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After some annoying doubt, if I did register this behaviour right: In SolidWorks 2019, anchors of the different tables are set to the desired positions, and saved in the templates. If a second sheet is added, the anchors on the second sheet are still in the correct position. In SolidWorks 2023, new...

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For some products, we need to put the mass, density, volume, surface area on the drawing, and a number without the correct units is nothing. :) All the dimensions on the drawing, are in millimeters, as indicated in the title block, conform the used standard. To cheat the units not being displayed I...

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