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    Solidworks selectively crashes

    vikdayal Heres something that might help. We have 3dlabs vp560 graphics cards and we have periodic crashes as well. I had a file this week that crashed on me 7 times in about 3 hours (PITA). I recently updated the graphics driver and I forgot 1 real important thing to do. in the...
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    Display solid leader default

    DeSimulacra Go into your dwg template and under tools->options-> document properties-> dimensions -> leaders ->have a play in here to find possibly what you are looking for. Hope this helps Brett
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    Crashing while editing drawings

    We have wild cat vp560's and they are crap I have been trying to weedle some money out the company to get the suggested nvida cards to no availe so far. since going to sp3 the system has been alot more stable so that has helped . we have done what melam suggested and it does help alot. brett
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    Indeterminate value in custom properties

    SWCADMAN Seen it lots of times , No problem in deleting it !! I always check for it when inserting design tables cause it gets annoying and can play havoc (turns up in the design table as $PRP )I have seen it in 2001plus and 2003 and 2004 Don't know what it is about though!! Brett
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    Old Pro/E, new S/W user with Assembly Drawing prob

    What we do is page 1 full assembly + bom and maybe an exploded view. page 2 cntl+c on the assembly on pg1 and paste on pg2 , then hide the bits we dont want and orientate it quite simple and the ballons we place on that page match the bom on pg 1. We found by creating configs of each part...
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    SW scam

    I agree it should support being able to "save As" at least one backwards step . 2004 -2003 at least that way those that are reasonably happy with 2003s stability and ease of use can use other models from companies that have been conned into jumping onboard with the latest version. We waited...
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    Difficult Problem

    We had a similar problem. We found that it was our back up software that was backing up wrong. It was reading the difference between our Auckland office records and our engineering office records and altering our enginnering office records to match the auckland office records. they were updated...
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    New Computer System Questions

    FYI There is a bench marking test done over on www.cadalyst.com I dont think sw was used but it is interesting anyway!!! Brett
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    I got the "Unhandled Error", will upgrading to 2004 solve this debacle

    TINKERER here I am having the same problem with 2004 sp2.1. I am getting between 2 to 6 crashes a day with the "unhandled error " message. We think it is a printer driver issue , cause when we reboot I have sent the info to microshaft and the error report says it a driver issue. We have...

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