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    Weight Distribution on Four Wheels

    After reading ivymike's last post I rolled up this thread and notice that somarp has only started this post and not commented since. Though I appreciate the generally good content on these forums I'd like us to maintain a level of professionalism in our posts - both the initial ones and the...
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    minimum thickness between holes in aluminum plate

    ebegt, A lot of the answer depends on what you need and how you plan to achieve the holes. From my aircraft days we used an edge distance of 1.5t (t=material thickness) between the edge of a hole and the edge of the part (or in this case another hole of appreciable size). This was for pullout...
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    Part name/flat pattern question

    Nate242, It is possible that the "(Default)" is making reference to the default configuration of your part file. I am not sure how that is ending up in your part name, perhaps there is a setting that needs to be changed somewhere. When you flatten a sheetmetal part and save the drawing of the...
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    Copy Sketch

    Select the sketch in the FM tree, Ctrl-c to copy, select the face or plane in the destination part and Ctrl-v to paste. You then will likely have to use the move/rotate command to get it exactly where you want it. - - - Dennyd
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    How to sketch on a sheet metal cylinder

    je696763, How about making some temporary or reference "points" on the cylinder that would represent the boundaries of the sketch and then unrolling the cylinder to show where they would be in the flattened state. I think you would have to make these a through cut such as a hole or rectangle...
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    Solidworks Viewer Error - will not open model

    As Jeff pointed out, it is important to make sure all the locations work. From the top-most assembly use the Find References to copy the files out. Select "No" when prompted to preserve the directory structure and then select the option to create a new destination folder. Before sending it to...
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    IronCAD, anyone convert from it?

    kmaren, It's not healthy to hold things in. Let it go, you'll feel much better! - - -Dennyd
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    Mating issue

    There are several aspects to assembly mates that I've learned to pay attention to: 1. Use subassemblies in the files. Build up subassembly models as you would actually put the parts together. This speeds things up a lot, reduces file size and complexity (the mates are MUCH easier to...
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    Relative View and Round stock!

    Would it work to add a sketch with lines to select and orient the view, then hide the sketch? - - -Dennyd
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    Miniature Bearing Load Too High

    Have you looked into needle bearings? - - -Dennyd
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    Has anybody got impression that LAYER function is totally messed up ?

    jack3108, Your last statement brings to mind a similar situation that drove us nuts. It turned out that we had drawings (and for that matter part and assembly files) created on different machines. We found that our problem was the default templates for these files were different from machine...
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    SW to game map export plugin/ add-in

    Mindnumb, Would it work to export your SWX file as an STL file? STL is basically a very fine set of triangular facets. - - -Dennyd
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    How to flip sketch to other side of plane?

    CBL, The FAQ you reference deals with moving a sketch to a different plane, not flipping a sketch. Scott, I had been using the Modify function but did not realize I could pause over the dots to get more options. I had only been using the Modify for rotation and translation. Mackman solved the...
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    How to flip sketch to other side of plane?

    jksolid, I am not trying to mirror entities within a sketch. Think of it this way: A sketch with the word "LOGO" exists, perhaps in this part or another, it doesn't matter. pick the sketch, Ctrl+c to copy it then Ctrl+v to paste it on a sketch plane out in space from a coffee cup. The idea...
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    How to flip sketch to other side of plane?

    Does anyone know how to flip a sketch to the other side of a plane? I have a sketch of our logo that will be molded into our product. When I copy the sketch and paste it on a plane it sometimes ends up on the backside. Rotation of the sketch doesn't achieve the flip or mirroring I need. I...
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