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  1. mountaininventor

    Textures on transparent parts

    I have been setting transparency from within the color editor. I did alot of playing with settings to see how it affects the drawings. If I set the body color/transparency first then apply a texture to one face (blend-color box, selected), that face becomes opaque while the rest of the body...
  2. mountaininventor

    Textures on transparent parts

    Working in SW 2004 I would like to be able to make parts transparent after I have applied a texture to the surface. For example. I wish to make a screen. It is easiest to extrude a thin sheet and apply one of the grid textures. It looks like screen. However, I can't seem to make the transparency...
  3. mountaininventor

    Modeling a wooden boat

    Thanks, Scott I'll check out the site. Boy Tick, you sure are right! I spent alot of time on this. Not only are splines hard to work with, but also partial elipses and parabolas as well as intersection curves. It seems the best thing to do is try to create the feature with excess, then cut away...
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    Modeling a wooden boat

    I'm using sw2004 to design a wooden boat. My approach has been to make a solid of the boat then use that solid as the basis for each of the major parts by cutting away material. Using this approach I hoped to have all the parts fit perfectly without having to figure out all the geometry. For...
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    Theoretical Combustion Pressure Calculations

    Thanks My e-mail is mrgl.llc@verizon.net ivymike I assume that an ideal theoretical AFR would be based on the typical % O2 in Air and the reaction equation for the fuel. ie set the molar ratio between oxygen in air and fuel such that (2n)O2 + C(n)H(2n+2) -> (n)CO2 + (n+1)H2O. Or is this being...
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    Theoretical Combustion Pressure Calculations

    Well here I am again trying to calculate something in a field where I have no experience. I know there are a lot of variables but I have been trying to determine roughly the amount of pressure in a normally aspirated gasoline engine that is generated at the moment of combustion. I just want...
  7. mountaininventor

    Need to make rollers follow a multicurved cam surface

    Thanks! Lots of good stuff to try here. I'll take another turn at it with all your suggestions and let you know the results.
  8. mountaininventor

    Need to make rollers follow a multicurved cam surface

    I have created the cam and the rollers and then proceeded to try and use mates to constrain the rollers to follow the cam. No joy! Anyone else had luck this sort of thing?
  9. mountaininventor

    SOLIDWORKS DRAWING DATA FILES NOT RECOGNIZED

    Duplicate post I am also having this problem and on every forum that I have visited, it seems that quite a few other people are having this problem. Even more frustrating is that answers to the posts for this problem conveys the usual contempt proffered when it is perceived that "this is...
  10. mountaininventor

    No Drawings

    I am also having this problem and on every forum that I have visited, it seems that quite a few other people are having this problem. Even more frustrating is that answers to the posts for this problem (present site excepted) conveys the usual contempt proffered when it is perceived that...
  11. mountaininventor

    Newbe Encounters Unknown Cursor (pointer) Symbol

    Thanks to Mad Mango for the followup! I'm just starting with this program. Less than a week into it. I'm sure I'll get to the shortcuts sooner rather than later. Thanks to macPT for the followup! What a Coooooool site. I not only bookmarked it, I synchronized. This will really come in handy for...
  12. mountaininventor

    Contaminated Drawing Template?

    The drawing template provided with SW 2001+ doesnt come up as an option when requesting a new document. Also I can't open it from the program using the open command. This is a new install, not an upgrade. Has anyone else seen this? Is it the template or the program? If it's the template, is...
  13. mountaininventor

    Newbe Encounters Unknown Cursor (pointer) Symbol

    Thanks, everyone was on target. I would say that the symbol could also be described as a funnel. When I went to the link that was provided by macPT (good link! Even though it isn't in english it has all the symbols and you can figure out the words) the symbol was in the selection filter class...
  14. mountaininventor

    Newbe Encounters Unknown Cursor (pointer) Symbol

    Thanks, I did already thoroughly check out the on-line user guide index as well as the all the add-on help indexes. I doubt that it is a windows pointer because the pointer only shows up in the SW graphics window. I can move about the rest of solid works as normal.
  15. mountaininventor

    multiple iso views

    You can divide the graphics window into 4 view sections by dragging a vertical and a horizontal divider from the side and top of the window. Clicking in each resulting section makes that section the active window. You can then set the view and magnification to what ever you want and it will stay...
  16. mountaininventor

    Newbe Encounters Unknown Cursor (pointer) Symbol

    Probably right in front of my face, but does anyone know of a list of the meaning of all the solid works cursors. I have accidently involked a cursor that does not let me do anything. It looks like a half moon on top of a stick with the flat side of the moon on the upper side. I looked all...

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