Solidworks and MathCAD
Has anyone tried this integration yet.
(Need SW2005 and MathCad 12.1)
I have started to play with some of the examples that came with the download, and the integration seems to work nicely. I can see a lot of potential for this.
I am having trouble getting it to work...
I make a lot of flanges with bolt circles of varying sizes,
My preferred way to do this is to use the hole wizard in which I use a sketch with a construction circle and two construction lines which are constrined from the circle's origin to the construction circle. The first construction line...
Just wanted the expert's opinions on external references.
Is there any of you who swear by them or swear at them.
Would some of you be lost without them or some wish they had been left out of SW??
I have never made much use of them but was wondering if maybe I could increase my productivity by...
I have a bellows in one of my assemblies
I can change the overall length in the bellows part file and the bellows is constrained to open and close according to the relations I set when I made it.
Is there a way to use the sketch dimension in the part to drive the length of the bellows in the...
Excuse my ignorance but I though I had once used a option in Solidworks that allowed you to view the creation of the part feature by feature. Can someone refresh my memory if this is the case.
I know I can rollback the drawing to the beginning and step through each feature but I though what I...
When I array a hole that is diplaying a cosmetic thread, the cosmetic thread doesn't show on the arrayed holes.
Anyone know how to tell SW to copy the thread on the array command?
SW 2004 SP1
Thanks,
DG
I want to e-mail an assembly to my collegue, but I don't want to e-mail all the sub components. Is there a way I can make the subcomponents local to the assembly so I just can send him the assembled model? He needs to incorporate the assembly into a larger model but doesn't need to dig into...
Does anyone have any suggestions for creating a plane tangent to a cylinder.
Is any way better than the other? Should I avoid doing it a certain way?
Thanks,
DG
SW2003 sp3.1
I hade a complete HD failure yesterday and had to re-install everything.
Luckily my company has a backup utility.
Is there or are there configuration files that I should recover to put into the SW directories to get back my configuration they way I had it.
If so, can someone...
SW2003 sp3.1
Looking for a way to set the material type in the part file (e.g. Stainless Steel 304) and then when I create the drawing have it inserted automatically in a field in my template.
Thanks
DG
Anyone have any rules of thumb regarding how you determine whether you will use
hole or hole wizard or constrained circle/cut extrude when putting in a hole featue.
Additionally....
When I use the hole wizard I usually create a sketch of points and constrain/dimension them. Then I use these...
SW2003 sp3.1
On several assembly I have created I have inserted smart fasteners.
From time to time (not knowing what causes the problem) I see the following error on rebuilds...
Smart Fastener1: Warning: Hole series has changed. Please verify that current fastener is correct.
It's a pain...
SW2003 sp3.1
Is there a way to convert an assembly to a single part?
What are the implications.
I'm not sure why I would want to do this, but I'm am curious if it is possible. And does it save you anything?
DG
SW 2003 sp3.1
Looking for a good way two crate a single part by combining two parts.
I need to model a part that fits on a gear.
I wanted to insert a part into an assembly and insert a gear from the toolbox.
Then after mating, subtract the gear from the body of the other part so that I am...
sw2003 sp3.1
I have a part that has a shaft on it.
In the part file I created two different configurations for different shaft lengths.
I edited the shaft definition and specified which length to apply to which configuration. Works fine.
Now I inserted the part into an assembly and I want to...
SW 2003 sp3.1
I have custom dwg templates that I use as I am sure most of you do. When I insert a second sheet on my dwg, my template is not the one that is inserted on this second sheet. It is some generic template.
I checked - system options
default templates
and the...
sw2003 sp3.1
Is it possible to use the individual axes on parts to set assekmbly mates.
I can't seem to select the individual axes but maybe I am going about it wrong.
I am trying to assemble/constrain two disks that dont have holes that I can use a concentric mate on. I can constrain the two...
