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    Making a stupidly simple part.

    I have used bearingizing tools in the manufacture of sintered bearings. This probably suit your requirements.
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    Ordinate dimension-Change origin question

    CADone; You can pick the end of the witness line on your zero dimension and drag it to that edge. All other dimensions should update automaticaly.
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    Hole call outs

    It used to be that when you created a hole in hole wizard as," Up to next" that the call out read as THRU. Now no matter what I do I get the exact depth, that is to say if my block is .750 it reads as a .750 deep hole. Whats worse is that I can not edit the value to replace it with thru. Has...
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    Anyone tried this?

    Ok just for fun I tried making a cylider then revolving a funel type top. I then created several balls, placed them above the funel, and aplied gravity.When it calculated the gravity the balls fell and settled randomely. I then exited the simulation highlighted the entire assembly and fixed it...
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    Spanish tutorials for Solidworks

    skill set apears to be minimum. I am looking for something more than the help files.I did find some solidworks professor videos on youtube in Spanish
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    Spanish tutorials for Solidworks

    I am currently working with a engineer in our Juarez facility by phone from Buffalo Grove, IL. I am looking for tutorials in Spanish that deal with save as methods, and assembly issues such as edeting incontext. Can anyone point me in the right direction. Thanks
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    Converting to Autocad geomtry inacuracies

    between points no diiference witg dwg editor however I opened the sketch of the solid model the drawing is of that dimension was corect and I checked it to 8 places just to be sure I was not having a issue with rounding. The dimension was correct. I then deleted it and redimensioned the exact...
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    Converting to Autocad geomtry inacuracies

    I am getting errors like .0005 to .0035 The other problem is that it is not consistent throughout the engineering departments. I am in the process of elimination right now. Some are using acad to open files some DWG editor. I have a feeling this problem is a ,"between the keyboards and the...
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    Converting to Autocad geomtry inacuracies

    here are the settings I use export options: version r2004-2006 fonts: Autocad STANDARD only line: Autocad standard Styles scale output 1:1 base scale: sheet scale + 1:1/1:count=1 Enabled x warn me if enabled x end point merging enabled export all splines as polly lines export active sheet only
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    Converting to Autocad geomtry inacuracies

    When I convert a Soliddraw file to a dwg file, my geometry is not matching the original file. If I measure a dimension, and this happens in dwg editor or in acad, I will get dimensions different from the originals. Also when using the converted drawing views as blocks, and then trying to locate...
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    Default template location

    Thanks Ken that did it!!
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    Default template location

    yes,it won't update
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    Default template location

    I am currently helping our I S dept set up a image of 2006. I can not get the template location to change. They remain greyed out?
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    COSMETIC THREADS DISAPEAR

    I am currently taking a 3 piece punch, and making a 1 piece punch. I join the part models in an assembly, then save as a part. I then knit the surfaces. When I do this all my cosmetic threads vanish in the drawing? Is this normal? Mark
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    Slow access to SolidWorks ToolBox on network

    Alex; There are only 6 Toolbox users. As we create new hardware Solidworks writes to the toolbox files. The only thing that was done, was that a description was added to hardware as it was inserted into assemblies. The reason for this was at the request of our management to make...

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