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Our engineering deptartment is made-up of engineers and detail drafters. I was wondering if anyone had an opinion on what a good ratio of drafters to engineers was or what their paticular engineering department's make-up was like. Currently about half of our engineers use SolidWorks to make...

Sorry, Just figured it out. Clicked off the "Normal Cut" button when I cut out the sketch containing the text, and selected the body I wanted to keep (not the body of the closed loop on the "R").

I am trying to add a single pass Laser cut of a letter on a sheetmetal part. Only need a simple "L" and "R" be added on a symetric piece, so that the part can be properly formed. I have tried adding sketched text and cutting the part, but always get an error on the "R" because of the closed...

Dumb question of the day... How do you get a 180 degree dimension to show up? Thanks

It was the video card driver. I should have thought of that myself. Thanks for slapping me out of my brain freeze.

I waited to install 2007 until SP1.0 was released. I am seeing a problem that I was wondering if anyone else has seen. Our drawing borders are missing all of the text. When I call up an existing drawing all border text is missing. When I call up a sheet format the text is shown as tiny question...

Hello all. I am currently in a project that is creating solid models of buildings that house the equipment that our company produces. When finished our goal is to be able to show potential customers a file that they could "fly-thru" to see how our equipment would look in their building. Does...

Also been noticing the pdf's produced have some screwed up data. Things like weld symbols look perfect in the SolidWorks drawing but on the pdf the weld symbol type is is not attached to the body of the symbol or it flipped to the other side. Contacted our vendor and he didn't see the problem...

Wondering if anyone else is having any kind of similar problem. We use "save as PDF" to create our archives of SolidWorks drawings. Since going to service pack 3.01, we have noticed anyone using Acrobat Reader 5.0 (and I assume any version before that) has problems reading the PDF files we...

I too use pdf995 and that seems to be the problem. Other users here do not seem to have any problems. I will work around it. Thanks for the help.

After installing 2006 I am having a problem with the "save as pdf" command. When I attempt to create the pdf file I get a pdf message box with the message "Get Printer Step 101". Has anyone else had this problem and if so is there a fix? Thanks.

Thank-You Heckler. Worked great.

I have been working with cropped views and have wanted to edit them or delete the cropped view and return to the entire view. The help file said that you can right click on the view and select either "Crop View, Edit Crop" or "Crop View, Remove Crop". When I do this I do not see either one of...

This may not be the best solution, but what I do is delete the sheets that you don't want to PDF and then just do a Save as PDF. You just have to remember not to save the drawing like this or do an undo before you save.

Hello, I am currently having problems with our shared toolbox installation. Whenever an assembly is built which contains a type of toolbox fastener (let's say a panhead machine screw), later when trying to add another panhead machine screw I get a "toolbox drop file error" and am not allowed to...