Recent content by arcticcatmatt

Yes I have played with fixed text height. My problem is that every day all day I have to use Solidworks, Catia V5, and NX 7.5. Catia and Solidworks do have names for dimensions but it isn't displayed in front of the dim. If you want to know the dim name you just check the property of the...

New 7.5 user here. I have a sketch with 100 dimensions in it and they all have the name of the dimension in front of it. Example = p280=6 I just want it to say 6 instead of cluttering up my screen with the p280= garbage. Thanks in advance!

Just did.. wasn't aware of that feature. THANKS!

got it! Thanks!

Thanks Jack. It appears you are right but when I right click there is no half dimension option pops up

My catia V5 is now doing this ugh.. Its only showing 1 arrow in a dimension and the dimension is double what it is supposed to read. I have a view that is 2:1 and when I put a dimension on it, it looks like this (I circled the dim in red) The dim should read 24.05 and have 2 arrowheads of...

OH.. version is NX5

Anyone had to do this? Looking to create a macro to seperate a model and its drawing. Right now the model and dwg is in the .prt file We need to do this to parts and assemblies. Any advice would be appreciated. I am a avid solidworks user and have done macros in that before.. that is my...

sorry for calling it stupid blocks haha.. perhaps my recent working in SDRCideas/Catia/NX5 has me frustrated. Happy to be back in SW (till I have to go back to the others of course)

upgrading to 2010 fixed it! BUT I have another issue.. all thumbnails show up like the attached picture when I try to view them large.. if I change the setting to tiny they all view as parts but when making large I get stupid blocks...

thanks for the replies I did both suggestions with no luck.. installing SW 2010 now.. SW website says SW 09 doesn't work with windows 7.. but SW 10 does. Will report back

There is a gray box over where I need to click in solidworks explorer. SW 2009 SP 4.1 Windows 7 x64 Anyone seen this before? I rebooted and it won't go away. All I want to do is add a new folder to the search folders in solidworks explorer.

I set 0 from the center of my part and located some features with ordinate dimensions. I then added a feature and want to add it to my ordinate dimensions (dimension set). The only way I figured out how to do it was, start a new dimension set and locate my component, then delete the 0.

Question - Ordinate dimensions on a drawing. I used them but I missed something. How can I add it to my dimension set?

Whoops.. forgot to answer what a dowel pin symbol was.. http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=135587&page=9 Of course in SW it is one click http://www.kxcad.net/SolidWorks/SolidWorks_Online_User_Guide/detailing/hidd_dve_dowel.htm I just had to make sketches and fill in the sketch in...