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    Wireless Mouse Glitch

    Thanks for the replies guys. I actually installed Intellipoint because I was having the problem and thought that it would fix it! Just uninstalled, per your suggestions, and it does seem to be slightly better... but the problem is still there. I've got the receiver about 3 inches from my...
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    Wireless Mouse Glitch

    My index and middle fingers have been feeling strained from SolidWorking, and I'm particularly concerned about hand health being a working musician, so I went out and bought a Microsoft Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000. Didn't care so much about wireless or not, but the shape of the mouse is...
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    thirds

    For my purposes, the "equal" constraint is all I needed... just needed to be reminded cause it's the one constraint I'd forgotten about and never used! For a simple application, consider constructing a window with 3 panes of glass horizontally, so 2 vertical supports equally spaced at 1/3 and...
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    thirds

    excellent, thanks.
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    thirds

    random question, but i'm wondering if there's a good way to partition an entity, say a sketch entity like a line, into thirds. rather than placing a point at a dimensioned distance 1/3 along the line, i'd like to make a relation between the point and the line, such that even as the line is...
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    RealView '08 is not right?

    well weird, after continued fiddling around, for quite awhile, i finally got realview graphics to update. i think what did it was simply reopening the material editors for the materials in question multiple times, and then closing them... with the green check, not the red x. good news, then...
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    RealView '08 is not right?

    I've got a model with different appearances layered on... say one appearance, green, is attached to the entire part, and another appearance, red, is attached to one face. In my experience, the face material overrides the body material, so the part will be all green, with on red face. What's...
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    "Click here to stop dissection"!?

    nice. thanks as well, i skimmed what's new but obviously not thoroughly enough!
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    "Click here to stop dissection"!?

    since upgrading to SW '08, there's this window that frequently opens up on boot up... it's appears to be a SolidWorks window with various models (many of which I've never seen before but might be in my tutorials folder or something) opening and closing in wireframe view, and in the bottom of the...
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    PhotoWorks Custom Materials Preview??

    Well at least now I can stop trying to fix it! Thanks for the reply. By the way, on the same topic, I've set my Custom Materials folder (which I keep in My Documents) to automatically load, in the Photoworks Options setting. However, when opening SolidWorks after a reboot, I seem to usually...
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    PhotoWorks Custom Materials Preview??

    Been trying to streamline the way I create, store, and use custom photoworks materials (well, just switched to '08, so now I guess they're called "Appearances"). Anyways, the thumbnail previews of my custom materials in the photoworks appearances taskpane are not updating. So for example, I...
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    Photoworks Toolbar Disappeared?

    good to know... what i actually used was "registry seeker"? i'll try tuneup utilities.
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    Photoworks Toolbar Disappeared?

    I need the CDs to do that right? I'm on the east coast, CDs are at my employer's company on the west coast. But I think you're right, I'm going to have to repair and/or reinstall, so I might as well send for them.
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    Photoworks Toolbar Disappeared?

    yeah, I didn't know if photoworks was usually an option when you right-click the toolbar, but it's not there for me.
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    Photoworks Toolbar Disappeared?

    I used "RegCleaner" I believe? I've rebooted and more. But the problem does seem to extend to other add-ins as well, I've definitely checked the photoworks add-in box to make it active, but then when I go back it is unchecked. However, I can actually render photoworks images using the...

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