Recent content by mackman

darnell I use the line format toolbar. I window the items on the screen that I want to change. Then I pick the paint brush (line color icon) on the line format toolbar. This changes everything selected to the color you pick.

Dennyd Use tools; sketch tools; modify. This will bring up a ucs icon on your sketch. As you drag your mouse over the ucs icon you will see a representation of your mouse and the buttons will show different symbols. The symbols represent mirror, rotate, etc. You can also move the ucs icon...

I agree with Macduff, the BOMs could be a little more user friendly. We use SW2004 and I still prefer the excel based bill of material. This was suppose to go away in 2005, is this true? mkmech, I find when I have trouble, I tend to make the Bom in an excel sheet outside of SolidWorks. Then...

other alt codes also alt 0216 is diameter symbol also alt 241 and alt 248 can be used for degree and plus/minus symbols

mkmech have you created BOM templates? You can make different templates for different types of Boms. If you have to add parts to a BOM that are not in your assembly, I would actually create the BOM in excel, and then insert an object and browse for the excel file. The only problem with that...

mkmech if you are using SW2004 or earlier, and using the excel based bom. You do not want to edit the bom through excel, or by double clicking and editing the bom in the drawing. Because, when the assembly and drawing updates, it tries to overwrite all the info you typed into the bom and...

mkmeck wouldn't a design table do what you need?

mkmech Under insert; annotations; centerline, or by picking the centerline icon on the annotation toolbar. You can create centerlines by picking two parallel lines. This will put a centerline between the two lines you pick. When the centerline is there you can select it and drag the ends as...

Thanks Bradley Alex, The website Bradley shows has a today macro that might help you too. Thanks

Stoker, doesn't the SW-Short Date keep updating to the current date?

Alex good point on the new file creation. I thought I had found a macro that someone had created to update the date to the current date. I will take a look. SAP has a created date also, but it comes in the wrong format. It looks like I will have to look into SAP further, and find how I can...

Hey, I am Using Custom Props to fill out my titleblocks, and would like to use the SW-Created Date to fill in the date on the drawing. The only problem is that it puts time along with the date, and I want just the date. Does anyone know of a way to get just the date. This would be a big help...