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    Still Purchase Solidworks 2007???

    Thanks for the help. I am pretty comfortable witrh 06-07 I was just worried about 08 since it is fairly new.
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    Still Purchase Solidworks 2007???

    It's going to be our first. I was just more inclined to get 2007 since I think it is up to SP 5 and hopefully is more stable than 2008.
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    Still Purchase Solidworks 2007???

    Is it still possible to buy Solidworks 2007 instead of 2008?? I can't seem to find any info on the solidworks site. Thanks in advance.
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    SW BOM Restructuring

    My company is planning on switching to Solidworks in the near future. We are also going to run into the same situation. Right now it looks like the plan is to just reorder the MRP based on the BOM that Solidworks generates. BOM's that are still in Autocad will just stay with the empty...
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    Detail in Drawing Views

    I started working here about 6 months ago and no one was using inventor. It was on the computers, but everyone was still using AUTOCAD, blahhhh. Anyway, I started using inventor to do my machine designs and since we haven't officially switched away from autocad and so everyone can use what I...
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    Detail in Drawing Views

    Thanks for the quick response Little things won't be an issue at all. In Inventor we could see large cabinets from the wrong wide of the machine. It was almost like every line was shown. Very weird. Thanks Matt
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    Detail in Drawing Views

    My company is getting ready to switch from AutoCad to Solidworks. Right now we are using Inventor V5 as a middle step and creating our models and then exporting the geometry to Autocad to dimension. One thing I have noticed is that on larger assemblies Inventor doesn't show all the lines or...
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    Configurations and Customer Properties

    I added that property to the design table and it worked great. Thanks for the help.
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    Configurations and Customer Properties

    I am in the process of creating configurations for the fasteners that my company uses and I am using a table to drive the properties. The descriptions that I set in the table show up in the configuration window, but not in the custom propeties box and therefore not in the BOM when I do an...

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