Recent content by alexsasdad

SolidsMaster, Try adding three or four weeks to big projects for the management of data. This will help put it into perspective. If that doesn't work allocate one of the solidworks users to do file maintenance for twenty hours a week. Alexsasdad

I have reduced my crashes to once a day when I am working on a large assembly.

Thanks for the quick response. I did try this and though they report as the same item number they were still two seperate rows in the table. I want them to combine and be added together in the qty. column and represented by a single row. Mike

I am using the same o-ring twice in an assembly. The problem is that I use two different installed congiurations. The gland designs are different and therefore the installed shape is different. I specify that each configuration use the document name for the BOM. When I place a BOM on the...

What we have always done in the places that I worked for is we get a CURRENT tooling list from manufacturing. Then during the design process we try to use features that we have tooling for. If we don't have tooling for it we ask, "Does this feature really need to be unique or can I use a...

I have reinstalled edrawings 2004. I can open a solidworks drawing from edrawings 2004, the rotate and animate icons are grayed out. An edrawing has very little value if it can't be rotated. Thanks

I have loaded the add in for EDrawings 2004 and when I publish the EDrawing nothing happens. If I have the add-in available shouldn't it work? I am on service pack 3.0

Updated windows 2000, Solidworks and installed the latest certified driver for my video card and still was crashing. Changed my settings per MElam's tip and this fixed it. I still would like to know a good video card to use for large assemblies, 2000 to 5000 components. Thanks for the...

Forgot to mention that I use a batch file to clen out the temp directory upon startup and I shut my computer down every evening. Thanks

Having a problem with SolidWorks crashing while editing a drawing. Most of the crashes occur when dealing with balloons (deleting or moving). I've lost nine hours in the past two days. System Configuration Wildcat II 5000 video card driver version 5.4.0.15 Dual Intel Xeon 1.8 GHz...

You would be doing yourself a favor if you check out the ADEPT software by Synergis. They are a gold partner and we are currently looking at their product. They have been very responsive to all of our questions and they have recorded web demos that are available for downloading. This will let...

Is anyone using the Adept PDM software from Synergis? If so, how is it going so far? We are seriously considering this software and I am interested in any information I can get. Thanks

I am looking into different methods of creating features to see which method is better from a file size standpoint. If I bring up a file, save it immediately and then close the file. When I check the file size it has increased. It does this every time. Why? Thanks, Mike

The main issue here is that SolidWorks is a surface based software, not feature based. Therefore you can't dimension from features. You can only dimension from edges of the surfaces that were created by the features and of course datums axis, etc.. If that surface or edge is removed by...

This issue is just a side effect from having bi-directional mates. Renaming the mates is a very good tip. This is also a great tip when you have configurations that use different mates ar different values for distance mates.