What would Y’all recon would be the best way to get some shape file defined text out of AutoCAD into Solidworks, for a sheet format? We don’t have the font anywhere as a ttf, and solidworks wont interpret the shx file, I can text explode the text, but it’s rather thick text, that’s been filled...
Ok thanks guys, yeah I figured I was just doing it the hard way, although I'd still say it’s poorly coded, or looks like an area fit for improvement.
thanks,
nick
Hi guys, I'm drawing some panels, which need text silk-screened on them, I've drawn the text as extruded features on the sheet metal. Now I'm drawing the art work page, and to highlight what needs silk-screening, I'm trying to hatch the text with a solid pattern, which works, except that every...
Hey guys, does anyone know how to dislodge, as it were, a section view form its parent view? I have a rather awkward view that I need to place elsewhere, not on the like perpendicular to the section line. Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Nick
Damn!
Yeah you're right, was thinking when I wrote that, that equation looked like it ought to reduce to something, that’s what I get for laziness. Actually if you want to get really technical, it evaluates to d*sign(w), just to be pedantic. And on the same note, l is just sqrt((1/2*w)^2+h^2)...
yo,
I'm having problems linking custom properties in some sheet formats I'm setting up, I'll make one property equal to $PRP:"SW-Short Date", and it will work correctly, but if I save the sheet format, and use it in another drawing, when it loads, it loads whatever $PRP:"SW-Short Date"...
Sorry, this is going to be lengthy, skip the first and second paragraphs if you haven’t the patients.
Yes, the amount of work required to bring your table to the point of tipping is, or at least I agree that it is, a good measure of how stable your table is. However considering how much force...
Well I more or less got it, just imported various text boxes from AutoCAD, and used them more or less as a template, I was just wondering, because it’s pretty obvious that SW can have text of varying width, I guess they just don’t want people to use it or something.
Thanks,
Nick
So you recon a table with CM 20 meters above the ground will be as stable as a table with CM 1 meter off the floor? Assuming same basses.
Confounded,
Nick
Sorry, meant to say,
a = angle table makes when CM is directly above fulcrum, so its 90 minus angle between the vector from fulcrum to CM, and horizontal of table)
If I’m not mistaken,
l = distance between fulcrum and center of mass
a = angle between horizontal and the line between CM and fulcrum
m = mass
g = grav. constant
t = angle that table makes with floor, has to go from 0 to a, in order for table to fall over.
Then evaluate the integral of...
Well I would, but I'm having to convert title blocks from AutoCAD, which our documentation department set up with narrow date boxes, so any font small enough to fit horizontally is a bit hard to read.
Thanks,
nick
Does anyone have any clue how how you can change how wide a font appears for a text box in SW? It does not seem to give you any control over that, however im sure it's able to, as I can import text boxes from AutoCAD with varying widths, and they display more or less correctly, with the same...
Is there a way to get SW to return "SW-Short Date" as a mm/dd/yy format? I can't seem to find anything on this, I would have expected that it would be a setting for document properties, as that’s something that varies form company to company.
Yeah, thats what I've been doing, but if I save the sheet format and use it in another drawing, it more or less forgets what width I set the box to, and does not wrap.
I’m setting up our sheet formats again, fun... I'm trying to set it up such that all the title block fields are filled out by custom properties, and we want the drawing titles/descriptions to be one property, that means, that for long strings, the text box has to wrap, which is where I’m having...
Thanks that works well, but doesn't accept mtext. Does anyone have a routine like that that does accept mtext, or a routine to convert mtext to regular text? Thanks again.
