If you're attending SWW17, and will be in town the Saturday before, come out and join a bunch of us for dinner at the annual CAD Monkey Dinner. Details here.
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As Anna said, you need to order the correct machine online. You're going to want a minimum of 8gb of RAM and an approved graphics card. You'll be wasting money otherwise, not just on the computer but on lost time while you struggle to complete projects.
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What you can do is insert the part into the new part. You'll have the option of what it is you want to insert, simply make sure that you deselect 'solid bodies', but select 'absorbed sketches'. This will create an externally referenced sketch that will update with the parent sketch. You will...
Most graphics cards needed their drivers updated when moving to 2016. Running SolidWorks Rx, after installing 2016, would have provided you with the information.
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Have to ask the standard question: have you run SolidWorks Rx to see if there are any conflicts? From what you're describing, I'd say your graphics driver needs to be changed.
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Take a look at limit mates to control how far you can move the handles. That should, at least, help to lessen the frequency of the handles flipping like that.
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You'll need to use 3D sketches and surfaces. I'd suggest going through the built in tutorials as well as looking at YouTube videos.
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A simple search within the C:\Program Files\SolidWorks Corp folder for 'transparent' will give you what you want. In this instance, it's a png file.
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Ctrl+1 Front view
Ctrl+2 Rear view
Ctrl+3 Right view
Ctrl+4 Left view
Ctrl+5 Top view
Ctrl+6 Bottom view
Ctrl+7 ISO view
Ctrl+8 Normal To
You can also customize the 'S' key and have the 'Normal to' button there.
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drawoh - I suspect his school is supplying the seat, so it's zero cost to the OP.
OP - as durablack2 says, you'll probably have graphics issues and could experience more crashes. On some laptops, you can swap out the graphics cards but you'll need to talk to the manufacturer to find out.
Jeff...
The only issue I see is that SolidWorks may have problems running properly where the computer you've picked out doesn't have an approved graphics card. You might want to take a look at ebay for used workstations.
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