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    Getting a spreadsheet out of a non-excel BOM (SWX06)

    I have been very frustrated about copying data from the non-Excel bill of materials out of SWX into a spreadsheet (for costing analysis etc). I like the new BOM as Excel seems to be clunky, but you can't copy and paste the data easily. I have been reduced to creating two drawings with the...
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    Draw a box around a dim? (theoretically exact)

    The ISO Handbook suggests that for defining the position of holes on a plate, one way is to use postional tolerance (circle with centre mark) for the centre of each circle and a theoretically exact dimension. This is signified by a rectangular box round the dim, but I can't see how to do this...
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    Non-White Paper Color TIF File from Drawing

    A rather long-winded workaround is as follows: If you want a 300dpi image, and the screen capture gives you 72dpi, you will need 4x4 times as much detail (as dpi is dots per linear inch, and we are talking area). Therefore, zoom into the part ~4x and take multiple screen captures of different...

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