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  1. slcad

    Drawing dimensions extracted from sketch

    Thanks, good to know I'm not going nuts (yet)... For some reason, it's not generating for my file... I'll have to play with it a bit. Thanks again! Best regards, Stely
  2. slcad

    Drawing dimensions extracted from sketch

    Hi all, I might be going crazy, but I seem to remember about an option in Drafting allowing to automatically create all the dimension from a sketch... Is this even possible, or am I going nuts?... [ponder] Best regards, Stely
  3. slcad

    Hatching (again...)

    Thanks for the reply PeterGuy, but it was something else I was after... I had to highlight multiple areas in a front view and hatch them using various patterns (see picture below). The 45° hatched area is a flat face and I needed to define smaller profiles within that face. The inner edge...
  4. slcad

    Hatching (again...)

    Hi all, Back in V4 :-( there used to be a neat feature for hatching management... You could do booleans on the shapes that defined the hatches (i.e. remove a shape from another one etc)... Any similar feature in v5? Best regards, Stely
  5. slcad

    Graphical Properties

    Very interesting... It seems that the color is somehow driven by the color of the last feature in the specification tree... I applied a split and colored it and I got the same result as you had by assembling the empty body... It's so weird, I didn't have to do so many workarounds back in R16 (my...
  6. slcad

    Graphical Properties

    Derek, I deleted the settings, redone the thing, same result... It's not an iso203 problem, it is picking up colors, it's just that the color of a subtracted body is assigned to the whole resulting body after the step conversion. I've uploaded a small file to illustrate what I mean. When I...
  7. slcad

    Graphical Properties

    Hi all, This has been a nightmare since working in R18... When we export data to our suppliers (STEP format), we usually assign a certain color to the areas that were changed from the previous version. Working in PartDesign, it's obviously very easy to assign a specific color to a whole...
  8. slcad

    Multiple Objects in Specification Tree

    Sorry, I'm running v5R18 SP7 BN18. I'm VERY surprised that didn't take care of it... Haven't used R19 yet, it might behave differently... maybe another one of Dassault's "improvements" :-( Best regards, Stely
  9. slcad

    How to straighten a tube??

    Another variant on a theme :-) (actually PetterGuy's suggestion is simpler and should output the same result...) 1. GSD extract surface /w tangent continuity 2. Create 1 isoparameter on it 3. Measure the tube radius 4. Create a linear swept surface with the following parameters: - Subtype...
  10. slcad

    Multiple Objects in Specification Tree

    I suppose you are trying to use the "Control Points" Shape modification of the FreeStyle Workbench. Whenever you access the FreeStyle Workbench, you should see a toolbar named "Tools Dashboard". The third button on this toolbar, called "Keep Original", is what sets this thing for you. See...
  11. slcad

    Oversized sheets in drafting

    I have been looking for this for so long... Stars for both of you! :-) Best regards, Stely
  12. slcad

    Drafting / Insert > Object

    Derek, It's a longer story... Mainly it's all about time constraints... We have received some tools from overseas for 13 different parts. We had received 13 part drawings (as pdf's), needing to be translated. No 3D data, and even if we had it, there was no time to redo all the drawings. So...
  13. slcad

    Drafting / Insert > Object

    Sorry, I forgot to mention that... R18 SP7 BN18 (10-09-2008), both 32-bit and 64-bit Win XP Pro/Prox64 SP2 Workstations: Dell 670 /w 4G RAM IBM Intellistation Z Pro /w 8G RAM Just for fun, I tried it in R16 SP9, it's the same (shame :-()... Best regards, Stely
  14. slcad

    Drafting / Insert > Object

    Has anybody ever used this command at all? Besides the fact that it's not documented (at least I didn't find anything...), the few times I've tried to use it only gave me headaches... What I'm actually trying to do is to insert a pdf drawing inside a CATDrawing (Insert > Object > Create from...
  15. slcad

    64 bit

    Eric, The machine I was using (and I still do, once in a while) is an IBM Intellistation Z Pro, 2x Xeon @ 2.66GHz and 8G of RAM. Win-XP-64, SP2. PeterGuy, nice "tutorial"... Thanks... Best regards, Stely
  16. slcad

    64 bit

    I once had to run CATDUAv5 on a big assembly (wouldn't open on 32-bit at all), trying to clean some errors. It raised the Task manager "meter" up to 10.5G+, it took several hours, but it didn't crash. Now this was a while ago (more than one year), I ran this in R16, SP8 I believe... Best...
  17. slcad

    Reset colors

    Hi there, R17/SP8 In R16 I often used to perform a "Reset properties" for a body, which would bring all the features and their faces (if "Apply to children" was checked) to the default color. Not possible in R17, i.e. when you have bodies linked from other files. The linked body will keep the...
  18. slcad

    Dimensions appear after drawing update

    Thank you! Your suggestion worked perfectly! Best regards, Stely
  19. slcad

    Thread sizes from MM to IN

    Slaen, Try to use the attached text files. They work for us here... Best regards, Stelyhttp://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=c32a7526-8dc9-4ee8-8746-13cf02ff6929&file=Imperial_Thread_Standards.zip
  20. slcad

    Dimensions appear after drawing update

    Hi there, I have a drawing that is not up to date (parent CATPart was moved). I re-route the link (via menu commands Edit - Links - Find/Replace...) to the right CATPart, and the link is accepted. As soon as I update the drawing, a whole bunch of green-colored dimensions appear all over in my...

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