pgrandamgt,
I never noticed that icon there b4, I went back to SW2003 and found that it is there also. Does anyone know how I can assign a keyboard shortcut for smartmates either under customize or with the use of a simple macro? I havent been able to find smartmates under customize/keyboard.
I have been using Solidworks for several years and a couple of versions back they introduced "Smart Mates". We were told by our VAR how much easier hardware mating was using it. Well,,I didnt like it at first and grumbled for a while about it. Then eventually, I got to the point where...
Because you are creating assembly features, they are only in the assembly file and the assembly drawing. If you make a drawing of the component part, it will not have the assembly features. As far as I know, you cannot move a feature from an assembly to a part. You can always put the feature in...
assembly features will go at the bottom of the tree below the mategroup and components are above the mategroup no matter when in "time" they were created. by changing the feature scope of the assembly feature like shaggy said, you can easily control which components will be affected by...
Johnhenry,
you could add a sketch to your chain sub-assembly that is an under-defined closed spline. Then all you have to do is add relations to the spline to both the links and the pulleys. One problem with this is that when you create the chain, because of the number of links,the chain...
I have set up a spreadsheet that contains legacy data used on a daily basis. I have another spreadsheet that is completed for each job and stored. I want to create a routine in the job specific file that will call(start) a routine in the legacy spreadsheet(file). Is this possible and if so how...
