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    Section Views in SW2006

    when i talk about section view it refers to the sction button on the standard views toolbar.
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    Section Views in SW2006

    Can anyone help? Is it me or could you change configuration in SW2004 and your assembly would still be shown in section. In SW2006 this does not appear to be possible. Is it a setting that I don't have set, or is this a discrepency in SW2006. Any answers would be greatly appreciated.
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    Do you know how to move a sketch from above a plane to below a plane

    What you need to do is this, in your model click on the feature you want to move, then click edit sketch plane. If your sketch is on the front plane then just click on the top plane. Repeat the edit sketch plane and then select your front plane. Your sketch will now be below the line if before...
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    SOLIDWORKS VISUAL BASIC

    meintsi Thanks for your help, looking at your code helped. What I did was modify it to suit my needs, as shown below. Private Sub CommandButton3_Click() Set swApp = CreateObject("SldWorks.Application") Set Part = swApp.ActiveDoc UserForm1.TextBox16.Text =...
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    Assembly material macro

    Sorg, I don't know where to access your email
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    SOLIDWORKS VISUAL BASIC

    Let me try again, I know how to create the custom property using visual basic and I know how to get it to populate the drawing. What I want to know is can you reverse this process, can you get your custom property to show up in your text boxes when you run your macro, so that you do not have to...
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    SOLIDWORKS VISUAL BASIC

    You are correct on both counts, I want the macro to read the text on my drawing sheet so that you dont have to keep typing it out again if you have made a simple spelling mistake. the text I want to be centered in the note, but I will also need to move the text so that is in a central...
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    SOLIDWORKS VISUAL BASIC

    I am using Solidworks and have created a macro that populates text in a drawing sheet. It puts information in the custom properties that gets read by the text on the drawing sheet. Is there a way to input text from your drawing sheet or custom properties into the text boxes or pulldown lists in...
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    Assembly material macro

    I am using SolidWorks 2001+ and have written a macro that might help, there is a lot of other things on there that will not be of much use. the material bit though assigns a material and changes the part model colour.
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    How to line up balloons on a isometric view

    THanks for you help, but let me be a bit clearer, an isometric view is at 30º (well most of it). What I want do do is line up these balloons at 30º as well. Is there a way to do this. I know about the align buttons like horizontal and vertical align. Regards, Neil
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    How to line up balloons on a isometric view

    Can anyone help, if you have an exploded isometric view in an assembly drawing, is there a way to line up all the balloons on the same angle as the view Thanks Neil
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    Geometric Tolerances

    If you want to add a positional tolerance to a dimension sometimes it lines up perfectly with the dimension, ie it lines up with the arrows on a dimension, however sometimes the leader on the the positional tolerance lines up with the start or finish ot the witness lines. Hopefully this will...
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    Geometric Tolerances

    Does anyone ever add a geometric tolerance to a dimension and find that it does not line up with the associated leader line of that dimension
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