SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
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We just upgraded from SW2004 sp5.0 to SW2006 sp2.0
Now Cosmetic Threads are not displaying in any of our drawings (across multiple Users for both New and existing SW2004 drawings).
Can anyone help or confirm this problem?
Thanks,
Ken
Now Cosmetic Threads are not displaying in any of our drawings (across multiple Users for both New and existing SW2004 drawings).
Can anyone help or confirm this problem?
Thanks,
Ken






RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091
RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
1) Fresh install of SW2006
2) Removed SW2004
Thanks,
Ken
RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
No one else has seen this?
Ken
RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
This will answer a lot of questions on whether it's your templates or not.
Otherwise I am not seeing this nor have the customers I have talked with.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
Are the drawings of parts or assemblies? Starting with SW2005, cosmetic threads have to be inserted into drawings of assemblies. You will find that the cosmetic thread icon only appears in the insert model items for assemblies.
Regards,
Regg
RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
Thanks for the input,
Ken
RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
I was told that in the Drawing, if you set the Layer setting to NONE. Then, under MODEL ITEMS deselect everything but for the Cometic Thread option and set the LAYER setting to NONE. The Cosmetic Thread will appear in the Drawing. I'm using SW2005, SP5.0, hope this helps.
Cheers,
Ralph Wright, CSWP
SolidWorks 2005, SP5.0
P4, 2.53Ghz
1.5 Gb RAM
ATI Fire GL8800 Card
Windows 2000 Pro
RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
If you read the help it's not suppose to work that away. You must do an Insert\Model items\Cosmetic thread. This is located under the Cosmetic thread help... from the help:
It's done this away to increase performance.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
I don't think I quite understood your last reply, to be more specific...
-->This is not happening.
-->Inserting assemblies into our drawing templates used to automatically generate the cosmetic thread. And even now if I insert and assembly to one of the SW standard templates it still does. But if I insert an assembly to one of our drawing templates since we switched to SW2006...there are no cosmetic threads.
-->I do not see this in the dialog in SW2006.
Also, some Users can get the cosmetic thread to highlight if they hover over it, but it disappears again once they move their mouse. This is only on drawings there were created with our templates in SW2006.
Yesterday we redid our templates (starting with the standard drawing templates from SW2006) and everything works ok now (for any newly created drawings). We are in the process of redoing all the drawings that were done since we switched to SW2006 (ouch!) with the new templates.
We still don't understand why our templates that have worked since at least SW2001 did not work with SW2006.
Thanks for your help,
Ken
RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
In SW06 it is not suppose to import Cosmetic threads to assembly drawings. If yours is then I'm not sure why.
You will only get this option then you are trying to insert a cosmetic thread in an assembly drawing file (Annotations) not a part, since the part is suppose to pull the cosmetic thread in Automatically.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
http://swtools.cad.de/mac_copyopt.htm
RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
For Part and Assembly files, if you go to View/Types and look at all of the available choices...there is a toggle to Show or Hide "All Annotations". Good, we all know that.
For Drawing files, if you go to View\Types\ and look at all of the available choices...there is not an option to Show or Hide "All Annotations". From what we could find there is no User Interface anywhere that would allow the User to Hide (and then subsequently Show) the "All Annotations", therefore they "should" always be shown in drawing files. But you can toggle the Hidden/Shown status of "All Annotations" in drawings with the API. So at some point, we (actually most likely I) ran a macro that set the "All Annotations" to Hidden in our drawing templates. And it looks like SW2004 ignored this setting, and showed the "All Annotations" no matter what it was set to. But in SW2006, SolidWorks actually looks at this value and Uses it. Therefore, any of our drawings that were created from our template that had the "All Annotations" set to hidden, will not display Cosmetic Threads.
The fix for us was to put this line in a macro that runs whenever a drawing file is opened:
CODE
Thanks all for your input, hopefully no one else will run into this.
Ken
RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
We started with the (working) native SW drawing template, then modified the title block to match our standard. We then did a SaveAs and replaced our existing company drawing template. Repeat for each drawing size (B, D, and E for us).
Ken
RE: SW2006 sp2.0 Not Displaying Cosmetic Thread in Drawings
As Regg stated above
Ken