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  1. 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...
  2. mountaininventor

    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...
  3. mountaininventor

    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...
  4. 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?
  5. 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...
  6. 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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