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Need mating macro help for solidworks assembly.

Need mating macro help for solidworks assembly.

Need mating macro help for solidworks assembly.

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hi,

I've been a solidworks user since solidworks 95, and have done some solidworks programing in c# but really don't have the time to work on this one. I'm looking for some help with a macro or suggestion for the following.

One or twice a year I make a suggestion to solidworks to add a quick show of planes for parts in assemblies. I would love to see a feature that would show planes when you shift click a part. This would be a huge time saver for mates in large assemblies. Some of the assemblies here a 200+ parts and 3 and 4 assemblies deep. It is a nightmare to mate part #185 right plane to part #34 right plane. While In mate mode if I shift clicked a part I could see the planes It would save me hours a week to not have to ever dig through the tree.

I recently tried to explain this to a solidworks rep at a show, they looked at me like I was crazy and said all you have to do it select view/show planes. I got frustrated with him, have you every tried to work on a dense assemble with 600 planes showing.

thanks
 

RE: Need mating macro help for solidworks assembly.

Have you tried using the Isolate function?

Ctrl click the parts of interest, hit Isolate (I use a keyboard shortcut) ... everything becomes hidden except the selected items, which makes exposing the planes much easier.

RE: Need mating macro help for solidworks assembly.

Check thread559-175155: Plane/Origin Selection Macro

Map that macro to a hotkey.  Then, you can select any component and use your hotkey to cycle through selection of the planes of that component.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

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