Thanks for the suggestions EEnd. I have spaced the views a long way apart and that works for 95% of the cases. I was just wondering if I could move the views closer together and still get a view that I could easily move if necessary.
The goal is to minimize any work needed prior to sending to...
I am currently saving plan views of my models as DWG files that our sales team gives to our customers so that they can drop them into their plan views. I am doing this though DriveWorks and we do not want to touch the files that DriveWorks creates.
When DriveWorks creates each model, the size...
Not sure I understand your question?
You have a BOM that displays a certain dimension on your part or are you wanting it to display the custom property "Length"?
When you say "bind" are you meaning "Link". If that is the case, then you are not using a customer property but creating an...
Thanks for that. Everyone here is happy that they will no longer have to type in material and finish call outs!
Do you have to duplicate your work if you want an option to add properties to the custom tab and the configuration specific tab?
I am wanting to add some items to the custom properties drop down list. I know how to do it for the actual custom properties name but I want to add items to the Value/Text Expression drop down list.
I'm sure this is easy but I cannot find the text file to edit and the add button only works for...
Anyone else having any problems with the "Edit All" option when working with equations?
I have an assembly that I have set up to modify by changing some values in the equation dialog box. Since there are quite a few equations, I like to use the "Edit All" option so that I can change all the...
OK. I figured it out. In 2008, when I would paste a sketch that was created in AutoCAD into my SW sketch, it would come is as line segments.
In 2010, when I paste an AutoCAD sketch into my SW sketch, it comes in as a block. It seems that the offset entities command will not find the chain if...
I just upgraded to 2010 SP2 from 2008 SP5. I routinely use the offset entities command (with select chain checked) to produce an offset of a prior sketch.
Since I have upgraded, the select chain function doesn't seem to work. I now have to select approximately 10 sketch segments to get the...
I don't think that this problem is 2009 dependent. I have had similar problems. The think that I do that seems to work is to change the view from whatever format it is in (hidden lines, no hidden lines, etc....) to another format. Then switch back. That seems to fix it.
I don't know what the problem was. I deleted and recreated the view and the centermark works as advertised.
It was a drawing made by a person no longer here so I don't know exactly how he made the view. The view was also rotated so maybe that had something to do with it.
If anyone is...
Has anyone ever had a problem with the center marks showing up off center of the holes? I have a drawing view (partial aligned view) of a part and when I try to insert center marks in my threaded holes, they show up about 1/2" to the right of the actual hole.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks for your reply. I didn't mean that all parts should be made as SM. I guess I didn't articulate that well.
I was just making a statement that I could not find an advantage to use SM for simple parts as my new manager had suggested.
As always, thanks for lending your expertise to the...
I made a simple 1" x 1" angle as both a standard part and a sheet metal part. The standard part was 111Kb and the sheet metal part was 154Kb.
I think that I can conclude that there is no reason to make a part sheet metal unless you need a flat patter for it.
If anyone can think of another...
My new manager questioned me on this one day and he said that in unigraphics, it was better to make the part a sheet metal part because it would be a smaller file as a sheet metal part. Since I had never heard of that, I thought that I would get your opinion on the matter.
