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  1. andrzejls

    Mold Design

    adam48180, Looks like you have "undercut" in your geometry. What it means that you can not have straight up and down molding. Your mold design software sees it and will not continue to automatically generate parting surface. You will have to do it manually. Also, your mold will require internal...
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    I-DEAS MS7s1 locked resource

    robspace54, Look for *.loc or *.lock file and delete it.
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    Solidworks 2010 printing 1:1 scale at 100% of 11x17 paper is not right

    Hi, guys If I am right, the federal law prohibits printer manufacturers to produce printers capable of printing true 100%. It has something to do with money.
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    Good deal?

    Looks good, but I would change your HD to WD 300GB 10K Velociraptor and go for 8GB of ram.
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    Just started I-deas from Solidworks

    arcticcatmatt. I am with whagen1974. I was on I-DEAS for over 12 years as user and sysadm. I started with I-DEAS MS 1c. that goes a lot of years back. Rigt now for past 3 years I am on SW. Yes, it is a nice software, nice GUI and all that happy razmataz, but when it comes to cabability and...
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    Swept cut in SW 2009

    Jeffroot, If you working in Vista x64 and SW-2009 SP3 you will not be able to sweep. It is a bug and right now the only remedy is to go back to SP2.1 or work on x32 system.
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    Part Numbering + Database Question

    rtrnka, Thanks for input. My problem is, that we do not work in isolated environment. My engineering department database (Microsoft Access), I was referring to, is connected (some tables) to company wide (128 countries) Oracle database. I am familiar with PDM Enterprise package, also known as...
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    Part Numbering + Database Question

    printing724 maybe you cal help me. I have a Access Db that generate project numbers and drawing numbers based on "Project#"-"DivisionCode"-"sequentialNumber" (for example:2045-CL-0001). How can I in SW have an aplette to connect to DB and pick Project#, Drawing# etc. and store it in part Custom...
  9. andrzejls

    Use cell value to "Save as" file Name

    Hi, I am not an expert in Excel, so I would like to ask a question to the "gurus". What I would like to do is to use a cell value (for example: Test) to be used as a flie name when I go to "Save as...". Is it possible ?. Thanks
  10. andrzejls

    Unix files

    Hi, To the best of my knowlage, UNIX and PC based files are not binary compatible. You can unzip them, but Catia PC version will not (as far as I know) be able to read them. Best regards
  11. andrzejls

    I-DEAS does not support spaces in filenames.

    Hi, I-DEAS comes from UNIX and is sensitive to empty spaces. Check if your file name has an extra space on the end. Best regards
  12. andrzejls

    Tell SW to ignore a error in part

    Hi, IGES was never any good anyway. Ask your supplier for STEP or parasolid (x_t) files. You will do better. Hope it helps
  13. andrzejls

    SP4-bad experience

    Hi, I share your pain. There is one more very important (for me) "improvement" that was made in SP-3.4 and up. In the column properties of "revision table" drop dowm box to select custom property is gone. What is left is "title". So if you work with SW "revision table" make sure, that you do not...
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    ENOVIA LCA v5R15

    I am trying to setup Enovia LCA with oracle 9.2.0.1 on WIN XP Pro. What are proper procedures and requirements? Thanks.
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    Oracle 9.2.0.5 Pachset

    Hi, All Does anyone have oracle 9.2.0.5 patchset?.
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    Combo Boxen klappen nicht auf

    valepp1 My German is very rusty. I can understand your question, but I do not know the answer. My advise is that you ask in English. Best regards andrzejls
  17. andrzejls

    MENU

    Thanks, This was an excellent info. There are "bmp" file names in this file. Do you know where those bitmap files are located ?.
  18. andrzejls

    NX-3 Customer Defaults

    Hi, all Does anyone knows where "Customer Defaults" file is located ?

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