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    Design Table Excel file (External vs Embedded)

    Thanks for the suggestions. Looks like I'll be using an internal/embedded DT and then just backing these up on our server somewhere.
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    Design Table Excel file (External vs Embedded)

    I would like to know if there are any advantages or disadvantages to using a Design Table that is linked to an external file versus just embedding the Design Table in the Solidworks file. Currently, I am leaning towards using the Design Table that is embedded in the Solidworks file because I...
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    Comparing Part Geometry

    Apologies in advance if this is a redundant topic. I have various assemblies that we automate by resizing and then saving as a new assembly. (We're talking THOUSANDS here.) Once these assemblies are resized and saved, we have no way of determining what parts are the same and what parts are...
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    Plane text

    Looks like I answered my own question. In the Document Properties under Annotations Display there's a Text scale taht I need to change, or I could've checked 'Always display text at the same size.'
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    Plane text

    I have a model that we use repeatedly with very large text for the plane names. The planes all have a custom name. Is there something I'm missing in the settings that drives the font size on this?
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    External References and Copying Models

    I think it's doing something similar to that too. Anyone know of a way to stop Solidworks from searching for these file locations? Is there a temporary directory to clean out? An option I can't find?
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    External References and Copying Models

    Just found a workaround for this. Wondering if anyone can explain why this works: If you launch Solidworks and then close it inbetween copying the assemblies, it seems to clear out the memory and the references are OK. Why would Solidworks have anything in memory after it's closed!?
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    External References and Copying Models

    Essentially, the code in Visual Studio is: Dim DocList As Object = SW.GetDocumentDependencies2(SourceFile, True, True, False) If Not DocList Is Nothing Then Dim SourceArray As String() = DirectCast(DocList, String()) Dim SourceCount As Integer = SourceArray.Length \ 2 Dim...
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    External References and Copying Models

    The original parts have in-context references to the assembly. The copied parts have out-of-context references to the original assembly. ...It gets a little time consuming to try and strip it down to a macro.
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    External References and Copying Models

    We have an API that opens a model (Assembly1.SLDASM) and copies it with it's dependents(part1.sldprt, part2.sldprt)to a different directory. When I re-run the API to copy the model Assembly2.SLDASM with it's dependents (part1.sldprt, part2.sldprt), these parts will be referencing...
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    Solidworks Process not Ending

    The API is through our custom software in Visual Studio. It does check if any other processes are running. I'll have to dig into the code to give you more answers as to how we are connecting to the application. However, has anyone experienced SW closing spontaneously when interacting with...
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    Solidworks Process not Ending

    I've been having trouble with Solidworking quitting on me unexpectedly the last few months. I think I tracked down the problem to multiple Solidworks processes running in the Task Manager. Recently, we've been working on an API to drive our models. If there is an error, the Solidworks...
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    Dimensions Flipped

    CorBlimeyLimey, I am dimensioning my hole to an edge that is changing and therein lies the problem. This doesn't happen EVERY time I resize the model and their doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason as to why some dimensions flip and others don't. So it's hard to test out these various...
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    Dimensions Flipped

    Thanks for the suggestions, wes616! I think the construction line method is what I want to do. I'm going to move/rotate this assembly around quite a bit in an area the size of a 90 story building. So as you can imagine, I'd rather not dimension to a global origin. BTW, I'm also finding that...
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    Dimensions Flipped

    Thanks for the feedback! Good to know I'm not the only one with this problem. handleman, I'll try your workaround but unfortunately I'm dimensioning to lines that aren't constrained using dimensions. This model is fairly complex as well. I'm setting it up to use an API that toggles...
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