Recent content by merz38

I'm in the process of building a title block, I'm trying to avoid drawing the whole company logo out by hand. Is there a shorthand way to take this piece of clip art from the word doc and convert it to something that acad can interpret? Thanks in advance

This is true, but as some of these parts are fairly complex, and I'm running sw2010 off of a computer w/ a Pentium 4 I'd prefer to keep the feature tree as consolidated as possible.

If the people from Dassault were listening, they should note that this would be a nice thing for the extruded cut feature to have.

It all depends on what you're doing, we had a 50k machine at the place I was working at a while ago. I believe it was a dimension brand printer. It would take days to do some of the more intricate parts. The printer itself had a tolerance of.... oh +/- .005 inches I think, maybe less. The neat...

I haven't seen any settings that will do that automatically, I have the 'normal-to' view option hotkeyed to something near my left hand, (I'm right handed). I just use ctrl+d, clicking the scroll wheel on the mouse allows you to pivot the part in any direction you want. Try out different...

Okay that's what I thought.

I'm wondering if there is a way to do an extruded cut on a part through specific features only such that it cuts some features and leaves others alone? is this possible?

Exactly, the design table has everything suppressed//unsuppressed correctly. But SW isn't reflecting that....

That's the interesting thing about this, there weren't any constraints or parent/child relationships, that was the first thing that I checked.

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I have a model with 40+ configurations. I have several layers of sketches that are all tied to a single main feature. None of the sketches are tied to each other. This is verifiable via the parent/child relationships window. All of the configurations in the configure component window show up...

The one thing that autocad does better than SW......

I think your best bet is probably to do a derived sketch, esp if you're going to be making any changes to it.

Does anyone know if there is a command or function that solid works has built in which allows you to replace parts within drawings? Thanks in advance!!

It's in the dwg for solidworks. Its SW 2010 SP3, and running in XP, 32 bit i believe