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    Linear Motion Systems

    My intent is to replace in-house fabricated dovetail ways, with pre-made rail and roller or ball systems. Hopefully, the precision and reliability under continuous duty will be improved. My questions to anyone experienced in this area woould be "are you satisfied with the precision and...
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    Linear Motion Systems

    Does anyone here have any experience with pre-made linear ways and rollers, or the Utilitrak system by Bishop Wisecarver Co.? I am trying to find an alternative to fabricating and precision grinding miniature dovetail ways. Anyone having had experience in this area that would respond to this...
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    Annotatiions fails to display dimensions

    Thank you all Gentlemen, I had another driver for my Nvidia card that I thought was older than the one I had installed, however whether it is or not, the problem seems to be solved and my Real View Graphics workings have not changed. Many thanks again...
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    Annotatiions fails to display dimensions

    I have not heard of "setting" the Nvidia card to Solidworks, and wouldn't know how to. I know that my real view graphics works fine. gdea
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    Annotatiions fails to display dimensions

    I am using an Invidia Graphics card, and it is certified by Solidworks for Real View Graphics. I am using the latest driver for it as well. Thanks for your response, gdea
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    Annotatiions fails to display dimensions

    Hello all, I am using SWX 2007 and at RMB and in the Feature Manager selection of Annotations, and then of "Show Feature Dimensions", the feature dimensions fail to display. View>Annotiions is greyed out leaving no option of use. Under Tools>Options, under the heading of "Annotations Display"...
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    Compressing Solidworks files

    I would like to thank all you Gentlemen for your time and responses to my query, which thanks to you yielded a wealth of Information for me. I now can treat most clients the way that they need to be treated, with regards to how is best for them to view files sent by me. Most have Solidworks for...
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    Compressing Solidworks files

    Thank you all for your response. gda
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    Compressing Solidworks files

    I have been experimenting with several different methods of shrinking Solidworks files for E-Mail byte-size limit purposes, including surpressing the features in the design tree, and also encompassing the model itself with an extruded box in the graphics area. Both of these methods seem to work...

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