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  1. tristram

    Custom Properties Drop down

    I am in the process of adding custom properties to our starter templates and wanted to know how to populate the drop down box on the value field to have a few selections for the users to pick from. We are currently running SW 2008 sp3.0 -Joe SolidWorks 2008 x64 SP 3.0 on Windows XP x64 Dell...
  2. tristram

    Electrical Routing through Cable Tray

    Is there a way when routing cables and cable harnesses to have Solidworks figure out how the cables will fit and be routed on/through a cable tray? I know that with the Cable Harness it will size it according to cable sizes but that seems to only be in diameter. I have lots of cables running...
  3. tristram

    sheet scale format question

    Can you change the sheet scale property to show "architectural scale" in the title block? Instead of the 1:24 have it read 1/2"=1'-0" or will this have to be done manually.
  4. tristram

    How to Duplicate surface

    I am new to SolidWorks, coming over from CATIA. I am top-down modeling and I want to use a couple of existing faces(on other parts) for my new part. I know this should be easy to do but every thing I try fails. Can't I just extract or duplicate that surface some how? I am learning this from...
  5. tristram

    Surface projection

    I am trying to take a surface and get a flat template that I can use to cut the material. Any suggestions? I am at a loss.....SW has to be able to do this, right...
  6. tristram

    SolidWorks 2003 Sheet Metal/Surfacing

    I have a situation where I have the flat layout profiles of some sheet metal parts and need to put them in thier formed view. The shape is pretty much formed by the two mating seams. (picture a banana, peeled it has 4/5 sides, when you stitch those seams, the shape should snap back) This is a...
  7. tristram

    How to make multiple section cuts?

    I wanted to know how you would go about making multiple section cuts in one view. I am using CATIA v5R7. I am trying to make a set of hull lines/offsets for a boat (marine industry). I want to maintain associativity.

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