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  1. cowman

    Drafters per Engineers

    Our engineering deptartment is made-up of engineers and detail drafters. I was wondering if anyone had an opinion on what a good ratio of drafters to engineers was or what their paticular engineering department's make-up was like. Currently about half of our engineers use SolidWorks to make...
  2. cowman

    Single Pass Laser Cut Lettering on Sheetmetal Parts

    Sorry, Just figured it out. Clicked off the "Normal Cut" button when I cut out the sketch containing the text, and selected the body I wanted to keep (not the body of the closed loop on the "R").
  3. cowman

    Single Pass Laser Cut Lettering on Sheetmetal Parts

    I am trying to add a single pass Laser cut of a letter on a sheetmetal part. Only need a simple "L" and "R" be added on a symetric piece, so that the part can be properly formed. I have tried adding sketched text and cutting the part, but always get an error on the "R" because of the closed...
  4. cowman

    180 Degree Dimension

    Dumb question of the day... How do you get a 180 degree dimension to show up? Thanks
  5. cowman

    Problem with missing border text in 2007 SP 1.0

    It was the video card driver. I should have thought of that myself. Thanks for slapping me out of my brain freeze.
  6. cowman

    Problem with missing border text in 2007 SP 1.0

    I waited to install 2007 until SP1.0 was released. I am seeing a problem that I was wondering if anyone else has seen. Our drawing borders are missing all of the text. When I call up an existing drawing all border text is missing. When I call up a sheet format the text is shown as tiny question...
  7. cowman

    Software for product "Fly-Thru"

    Hello all. I am currently in a project that is creating solid models of buildings that house the equipment that our company produces. When finished our goal is to be able to show potential customers a file that they could "fly-thru" to see how our equipment would look in their building. Does...
  8. cowman

    Save as PDF in SW 2006-3.01 and Acrobat Reader 5.0

    Also been noticing the pdf's produced have some screwed up data. Things like weld symbols look perfect in the SolidWorks drawing but on the pdf the weld symbol type is is not attached to the body of the symbol or it flipped to the other side. Contacted our vendor and he didn't see the problem...
  9. cowman

    Save as PDF in SW 2006-3.01 and Acrobat Reader 5.0

    Wondering if anyone else is having any kind of similar problem. We use "save as PDF" to create our archives of SolidWorks drawings. Since going to service pack 3.01, we have noticed anyone using Acrobat Reader 5.0 (and I assume any version before that) has problems reading the PDF files we...
  10. cowman

    Save as PDF in 2006

    I too use pdf995 and that seems to be the problem. Other users here do not seem to have any problems. I will work around it. Thanks for the help.
  11. cowman

    Save as PDF in 2006

    After installing 2006 I am having a problem with the "save as pdf" command. When I attempt to create the pdf file I get a pdf message box with the message "Get Printer Step 101". Has anyone else had this problem and if so is there a fix? Thanks.
  12. cowman

    Editing cropped views

    Thank-You Heckler. Worked great.
  13. cowman

    Editing cropped views

    I have been working with cropped views and have wanted to edit them or delete the cropped view and return to the entire view. The help file said that you can right click on the view and select either "Crop View, Edit Crop" or "Crop View, Remove Crop". When I do this I do not see either one of...
  14. cowman

    PDF from multi page drawings

    This may not be the best solution, but what I do is delete the sheets that you don't want to PDF and then just do a Save as PDF. You just have to remember not to save the drawing like this or do an undo before you save.
  15. cowman

    Toolbox drop file error

    Hello, I am currently having problems with our shared toolbox installation. Whenever an assembly is built which contains a type of toolbox fastener (let's say a panhead machine screw), later when trying to add another panhead machine screw I get a "toolbox drop file error" and am not allowed to...
  16. cowman

    Save as PDF drwing sheet control.

    Thanks alot jksolid. This macro works great.
  17. cowman

    Advice on sheet metal drawing tute

    Just don't panic when the flat pattern comes into your drawing rotated. Seems to be problem with Solidworks. Just right-clk on the view and use Zoom/Pan/Rotate to rotate the view.
  18. cowman

    Save as PDF drwing sheet control.

    Heckler, Not quite sure what you mean. How do you print and create a PDF?
  19. cowman

    Save as PDF drwing sheet control.

    Hi all, Is there a way using "Save as PDF" to control which of the drawing sheets are converted. We use a second sheet on a drawing for our sheet metal flat patterns. When we create the PDF we do not want this sheet of the drawing included in the PDF. Thanks for the help.
  20. cowman

    Solidworks Tree Exploding

    Thanks for the help. I have just submitted the ER.

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