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    Sheet metal bend on radius part

    Hello all I am trying to put a sheet metal bend of a curved part. The part is one quarter of a ring that is 12.81 inside radius and 14.75 outside radius and need to bend the innner edge up. Has anyone have any ideas? I can add bend releifs as long as they are not large ones. material .09 thick
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    Setting Measurment Options Decimal places

    I think I need to explain my problem a little better. My Sheet/templates are setup to get the weight of a part from the model and display it on the drawing. The Problem is that when I link the drawing to the property in the model it uses the number of decimal places that are set in the model...
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    Setting Measurment Options Decimal places

    Hello all, Does anyone know how I can use the custom props for mass in a drawing and have it show 1 or 2 place decimal? The problem with setting the assembly or model to 1 or 2 places is that it will effect the measurement in that model. I want to beable to measure to a 4 places in the model...
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    Text wrapping in Title block

    MElam, If you don't mind and are allowed, I would like to get your files to see what you have done. rob libby
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    Deleting Block from listing in drawing

    Never mind that this post. I didn't not read enough of the help topics. thanks
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    Deleting Block from listing in drawing

    Hello all, I would like to know if there is away to remove a block that is in the drawing pull down list when you go to insert a block? I think you might call it purge all unused blocks. Does anyone know of away to do this?
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    Text wrapping in Title block

    MElam, I don't supose you would be willing to share that VB macro fill with the rest of us? It sounds like you are doing just what we need. thanks rob Libby robli@hazelett.com
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    Text wrapping in Title block

    I have been looking fro away to wrap text on to another line in the titel block. I have searched thru the post and other sites but can't seem to get it to work. Has anyone found the way to do it? I want to insert the Title from summary page one. thanks
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    Custom Materials in 2004 - Has anyone done this?

    Thanks guys, the I have already tried those things. The problem I found with Cut and past is that the file has a lot of items in it and is had to find the start and stop of each material. I am useing NOTEPAD to do this. Is there a beter way to open the files and copy the info out and paste...
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    Custom Materials in 2004 - Has anyone done this?

    Hello all, I am tyring to setup a custom Material file for our company. I tried copying the Solidworks file, renamed it, and started to modify it. I added one material to it and the file is not work anymore. I get an error about column not correct. I have added all the materials thru the...

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