Recent content by rocky640

Are you working away again in PDMville? CAPINC has the tune for you to get through it. Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXPX3vzolXM&feature=youtu.be

Ok, I have a question about the activation of a Solidworks 2007 SP3.1 on a laptop that is used only when I am away from my Desktop. I know it is in the Solidworks Guidelines that I can use Solidworks on a portable device as long as my main computer is used more than 80% of the time. My company...

Hey Guys, Thanks for your help. I submited a help request through Solidworks apisupport division. The problem it seems was I was using Solidworks 2005 SP0.1. Once we upgraded to Solidworks 2005 SP02 the program worked.

In the "Custom Map Solidworks to DXF" option there is a checkmark beside enable and the "Map file:" location is set to the correct file. I also changed swDXFDontShowMap to true. But the DXF file it creates is only one layer. If I do the save as dxf file manualy it will work with the layers.

Still doesn't work engAlright. I am starting to think it can't be done. Has anyone been able to do this?

Yes, I have successfully saved with mapped layers directly from SW in both .dxf and .dwg formats. To do this I have a drawing open. Go to File Save As. Change file type to .dxf or .dwg. Click the options button if the mapping isn't already enabled and enable it (if mapping is aready enabled you...

I tried that. It still doesn't work. It still saves as a drawing but with everything on one layer.

Ok, I am trying to save out some solidworks drawing sheets with the maping on using VB. I can get the file to save out as the sheet name but the mapping never happens (aka: everything is on the same layer). Does anyone spot something in my code that is preventing this? Public Enum...

Does the gap you created leave a surface that is parallel to a plane? If not it will not flatten. The way we do this is to create a round extruded feature and then in the next step creat a cut the is a wedge. The wedge is only 0.01 degree and one side of the wedge must me parallel to the...

I ran across a bug while working on some center marks in Solidworks 2005. If you have a view that has been rotated on a drawing and you create a detail view off of the rotated view any center marks created in the detail view will "disappear" when the view is moved or the drawing is closed and...

That worked! Thanks. The only thing I don't get is why you need 3 sets of quotations.

Hi, we just upgraded to 2005 this week. I am having an interesting problem with the design tables. We use design tables to control different configurations of parts. For example a bolt. We would use a design table to control the dimensions of the bolt but we also use it to control...

I am trying to export a solidworks drawing to a DWG file that will open in autoCADD. This drawing has multi views and sheets. The steps I have been using is: File Save As Save as type: Dwg Then I set my options to the correct version of AutoCadd and set the scale. This creates an AutoCadd...

Thanks! That helped a lot!

Does anyone now how to change the active configuration of a part while it is in an assembly? I know that to change a configuration in an active part you use: Set swApp = Application.SldWorks Set Part = swApp.ActiveDoc Part.ShowConfiguration "configuration name" End Sub But how do you do this...