Because our EE's don't use or have seats of Solidworks. Our products have assemblies with electrical and mechanical components that need to be built up in tandem to finish the assembly.
Our EEs could give us the information, but then a great chunk of our Mechanicals' time would be integrating...
Well, I don't have access to 2005 now. Is there any way to accomplish this other than breaking the document into multiple one page documents and then having an unholy mess when repagination is required in the Word document?
Ok, I have several Word documents that I use that our electrical engineers update in order to accomodate changing electronic procedures without having to get the mechanical engineers and SolidWorks involved with every change. Previously, we've kept the two separate, but what I would like to be...
Ahh, your help, even though it is for the Excel based BOM helps. I can do the same thing for the table based BOM. I just wish SolidWorks were smart enough to have an "override" of sorts. Basically it should have a column and a property that operate as such...
1) If the property is null, the...
Ok, here's my problem. I work with models that have things like cabling, conduit, etc. that have BOM entries that list linear feet as a quantity instead of a part count. Now, these elements are modeled as a part in SolidWorks, so when the BOM is created, is parametrically points to the...
I'm looking to start using SolidWorks routing for electrical cabling and connectors. Now, the SolidWorks help files say nothing at all about using the routing package for cabling, and instead focuses on piping. There is no way my company will ship me off for several days and spend a couple...
Ok, I have many assemblies where I have a circuit board enclosed in a box that's about 4"x2"x1" with a cable that is up to 12 feet long. What I'm looking to do is to be able to model the cable true length. The problem is that when it comes time for assembly prints, the cable is so long that no...
Ok, last update to this thread, I promise. I think I've figured out what's going on here in case anyone cares. When you have a drawing view in a drawing document that is shown in the exploded state, it appears that any part that has sketch references to another part reverts to a state in which...
Yeah, I forgot that tidbit of info. What throws me for a loop, though, is that some parts will allow themselves to be annotated on and selected in the exploded view, but others won't, and I can't figure out how they decide which is which.
Ok, I found out a way around it, so someone might be able to come up with the reason why this is happening. Basically, if I make the view unexploded, I can select and point to the part. If I were to make the view exploded, the leader stays stuck to the part, but I can add no new leaders, and I...
Actually, it is a custom view created through a macro. I modified the 8-iso macro to also produce 8 dimetric and 8 trimetric views. However, this problem has occured before I began using this macro.
Ahh, I didn't say that at the beginning. Yes, I am trying to add a note, but nothing else works either. I can't select the part just by clicking on it with no function selected. Balloons won't attach to it, I can't put a weld on it because I can't select it. I can't dimension it because it...
