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  1. heritagesurf7

    Motion Study cutting off some of my Parts during movement

    [SOLVED] Hiding the menus worked with both... thanks for the help. Even though it's fixed, any explanation would be appreciated, unless it was just a glitch with SW or my graphics card.
  2. heritagesurf7

    Motion Study cutting off some of my Parts during movement

    GeForce 9300GE. I figured it must be a graphics issue but I wanted to be sure. I know it's not supported by SW. However, the interesting thing is I turned off all of the on-screen menus and it started consistently rendering properly in one of the two videos.
  3. heritagesurf7

    Motion Study cutting off some of my Parts during movement

    Thanks cor, I just tried turning Perspective mode on. The parts still get cut off, but now (if you look at the first picture I posted), the two left posts in the back now explode properly, instead of just the one. The rest still disappear behind that line. I have no idea why that would change...
  4. heritagesurf7

    Motion Study cutting off some of my Parts during movement

    Update/bump: I just tried a new motion study on a different computer (SW2010, Win7) and it is continuing to cut off the pieces at both ends of the big fixture. However, instead of disappearing like on the other computer, SW converts the parts to wireframe as they cross the "invisible plane"...
  5. heritagesurf7

    Motion Study cutting off some of my Parts during movement

    No one has any idea? It is now doing it in a second, completely new assembly, with a new animation. Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=7af83417-288b-4f89-a0a6-bfe52597418e&file=still_not_working.JPG
  6. heritagesurf7

    Motion Study cutting off some of my Parts during movement

    I am trying to make a Solidworks animation (2010, Win7), and every time I try to have my model explode, it crops some of my parts as they explode outward. Instead of exploding off the screen, it looks like they go behind an invisible curtain. I attached a picture. It only happens to those...
  7. heritagesurf7

    Body color randomly "zebra striped" when selected

    Solved after looking through each feature again. When I added the long, sweeping split line, it split my body in two, which I guess changed one of my mirror references, from one of the engines to cover the entire body of the plane, thus doubling the entire thing. Pretty weird, but I just hid...
  8. heritagesurf7

    Body color randomly "zebra striped" when selected

    Any way to PM? Since it is a half personal, half work model, I can't post it publicly. Thanks a lot Jeff, you've been helping me out on several issues this summer.
  9. heritagesurf7

    Body color randomly "zebra striped" when selected

    Thats what I thought, but based on my interaction I have to conclude that it's only one surface... even acts like two surfaces when I paint. I can paint one part, and then the next, but can't select the two as different surfaces. When I hide the split curves, only the lines disappear. When I...
  10. heritagesurf7

    Body color randomly "zebra striped" when selected

    Jeff, could definitely be the issue, but I don't think so just because it only happens during a very specific application, and have done similar splits that have no issues... but who knows, SW and the hardware together always make for some kind of random unpredictability. Hardie, it's not...
  11. heritagesurf7

    Body color randomly "zebra striped" when selected

    2010, Nvidia Geforce 9300 GE
  12. heritagesurf7

    Body color randomly "zebra striped" when selected

    I don't know the exact phrase for what is going on, but after applying a few split curves to a 727 I have created, all of my body faces are zebra striped when clicked. When I hide (not even suppress) one split curve, all of them disappear. Then, when I click a body face without the curves...
  13. heritagesurf7

    Coloring one part multiple colors using lines

    Ah got it, thank you. Now the last thing is that I did the curve split successfully on one wing. It won't let me do a feature mirror, so I decided to do a sketch mirror. However, when I do "curve split" it does one wing right, and only parts of the second wing. Any idea why? It doesn't...
  14. heritagesurf7

    Coloring one part multiple colors using lines

    The problem I've run into in splitting is that, since I only want it to split the fuselage and tail, I need to roll back so it doesn't split through all of my parts. Then, when I roll foward, half of my rebuilds are incorrect since there is now a second body present, and any references to parts...
  15. heritagesurf7

    Coloring one part multiple colors using lines

    I have created a commercial airplane in Solidworks and I would like to finish it off in Photoview with a nice paint job. I was wondering if there was any way to just draw lines to define where a color ends, rather than having to extrude or cut in order to create a different surface. The...
  16. heritagesurf7

    Motion Study Springs

    SOLVED! Hey thanks for all the help everyone. I followed one of the guides. In the end, I had to create to end peices for the bladder, and had a line connecting them whose length depended on the position of the endpoints. Then, I applied a linear motor and as the end points were pushed...
  17. heritagesurf7

    Rotation of non-circular components in motion study

    uploaded a picture just to get a better ideahttp://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=1414b1b7-fb1f-4beb-aa73-320eaf44fb1f&file=Capture.PNG
  18. heritagesurf7

    Rotation of non-circular components in motion study

    I'm trying to animate an underwater camera that travels by rotating tread, kind of like tank wheels/tread. I was wondering if anyone had any idea how to animate this using motors in Motion Study. I know they have a rotational motor, but it isn't a circular structure. I need the tread to keep...
  19. heritagesurf7

    Motion Study Motor Randomly Stops during Calculations

    Regardless if it's the computer or not, any solution to the problem?
  20. heritagesurf7

    Motion Study Motor Randomly Stops during Calculations

    In my never-ending quest to run into Solidworks Issues, I have completed everything in my project (that you guys helped me get to), and now I am trying to render the animation. My last piece is applying an oscillating motor. Issue: when I apply the motor and click "Calculate" it will begin...

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