To me, 3 jobs in a 5 year period isn't incredibly off-putting if the 5 year period is the first 5 years of someone's career. Early on, most people are trying to figure out their career path and not many hit the lottery with a career job as their first.
Three jobs in a 5 year period later in...
Thanks to all for the various suggestions - keep them coming! We obviously have more research to do but have more avenues now than we did a couple hours ago.
IRstuff, agreed on the acceptance criteria.
potteryshard,
We've toyed with that idea, or something similar, but didn't go too far because of cost. In any case, thanks for the suggestion.
Additional useful information for anyone else thinking about this is that the devices will be made by the millions and of course are cost-sensitive.
We're in the process of implementing Teamcenter. In our evaluation of the various PLM products, we found that TC licenses are not available as floating licenses. We're using Solidworks for MCAD (floating licenses) and the TC licenses for the Solidworks integration do float. Not sure how this...
Our products generally consist of a PCB assembly that gets sealed in a plastic enclosure (roughly 8"x4"x1.5") via a hot-plate welding operation. Our current method of verifying that the welding operation produced a fully sealed unit is to heat the sealed product for a period of time sufficient...
drawoh,
Have you created any features after the import operation? If so, the import diagnostics will be unavailable. Even the creation of reference geometry will cause the diagnostics to be grayed out.
IIRC, you can roll back to just after the import feature and then perform diagnostics.
In your original pattern (the one that was giving the weird results), am I reading correctly that your pattern axis was a sketch entity?
I'm not sure why a sketch entity wouldn't work, but would it be possible to create your axis via reference geometry (intersection of two planes or something...
You can pattern the part multiple times and cut each pattern instance from the part that needs the cavity.
For example, if your handle will rotate through 30 degrees, create a pattern of your handle which creates an instance every 1 degree. Cut each patterned instance from your "mating" part...
Colin,
I'm able to download and open the file in 2009, but I wouldn't say it's a native SWX 2009 model. The part opens and displays as I would expect it, but it contains two imported solid bodies and no history.
In the VaultAdmin program, confirm:
1) That you have read/write access within the relevant project(s)
2) That you have read/write access for the relevant Lifecycle status (if enabled)
cardiomed,
Use your sketch with the multiple contours as your master sketch. Then for each extrude of different depths, create a new sketch and convert the sketch entities of interest from your master sketch. One master sketch to edit, multiple features of different lengths based from the...
Agreed on checking with your fab shop. Even if the blank will be punched you have some latitude with your relief cuts, provided the cutouts can be made by nibbling the profile with a standard punch. In your example, this is not the case because of the sharp corners that are internal to the...
Tom,
You can use the sldsetdocprop utility (<install_dir>\SolidWorks\Toolbox\data utilities) to change the property that Solidworks uses to flag items as Toolbox parts:
1) Run sldsetdocprop.exe from the relevant directory
2) Choose the part (Add File) you want to check in to the vault
3)...
