Is there a way to copy and paste an Excel spreadsheet to a Solidworks general table without having to copy and paste cell to cell? I know I can paste the spreadsheet onto a drawing but we use Smarteam and have found Smarteam and embedded spreadsheets don't play well with each other. We currently...
Is there a way to add additional text to a SW BOM cell and keep it smart, similar to adding additional text to a dimension (ex. <DIM> SEE NOTE 3 )?
I know I can override the value but it loses its "smarts". I would like for my QTY column in my BOM to read the true quantity but appear as “10...
I have a "D" shaped plate with a center mark locating the center. Due to room limitations remaining on the drawing, one of extension lines of the center mark runs off the edge of the drawing and is really of no use for dimensioning or anything else. Is there a way to hide one extension line of a...
I need to show Nondestructive inspection (PT, RT, MT, etc.) symbols with my welding symbols, where, according to ANSI standards, they are combined into one callout using two reference lines. (As crudely shown below) How can this be done in Solidworks?
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Can an exsiting part/sub-assembly in an assembly model be changed to an envelope item without deleting it from the assembly model and re-inserting it as an envelope and remating again?
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I must be losing my mind here but I swore that I read somewhere that an auxiliary view could be created along the selected edge rather than normal to the selected edge using a certain key stroke (ctrl, alt, etc.). I know that I can create a sketch line normal to the edge and create the auxiliary...
