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    Sheet metal help

    How can I change a helix to a sheet metal part? The item O/D is 384mm,the I/D is 284. made from 10MM thick plate, with a single revolution 250mm pitch helix. We would like to show the profile on a flat plate. Is this possible in solidworks? Alex
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    Solidworks Animator question

    Yeah figured as much. I'll have a go at that on Monday. Thanks Again Alex
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    Solidworks Animator question

    I would like to add annotaions in an animation? I've manged animate a machine showing it's operation cycle. I would like to add some text about half way through indicating the secondary phase of the machines operation. Is this possible? How's it done? Cheers Alex
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    Solidworks Animator question

    Nice one! Thats sorted it Thanks Alex.
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    Solidworks Animator question

    It did a rendered animation of the pump. It rendered the animation frame by frame, and took half an hour to calculate it. Does that mean that it was using the PhotoWorks material buffer? Can you create an avi. file of the assembly not rendered? as the solidworks assembly is good enough. Is it a...
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    Camera View Quality

    Hi I'm running Solidworks on a low spec machine, which we upgraded. Before the up-grade the slider on the shaded & draft quality moved showing a rounder circle in the picture box, but didn't make a difference to the actual model (especially cylinders). Sounds like an hardware problem as the spec...
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    Solidworks Animator question

    Hi I've just spent most of the day trying to get my head around Solidworks animator and it's now driving me nut's. I followed the online tutorial (oil pump) and saved it as an avi. file, Which took forever (low spec machine). The movie it created though didn't show the pump housing fade out...
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    Sheet metal help

    Could some one explian to me how to create a sheet metal part. I need to make a storm screen element on solidworks. The element is a perforated sheet i.e 300mm wide x 1000mm long. I need to put 3 bends in it, all length ways to make an half cylinder shape with 2 cureled edges, if you can...

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