Don't know what I did or what to do. All of a suddend my model is transparent (somewhat like a wireframe). I've pused all the screen buttons even gone out of model and back in no help.
David A. Johnson
Thunder Systems Inc.
Corona, CA
"drafted rectangular emboss .06h x 1.5 x 3.02: The part's thickness may not be compatible with this form tool. The thickness must be less than the minimum radius of curvature for the form tool." That's the message I get when I try to insert an emboss i created to go into .060 material...
I just installed SW on me new computer. Some of the things I grew used to in my old installation are: automatic updating of parts within an assy, vis. If you make changes to a part it is automatically brought into the assy the next time you open it. This went away in my new installation and I...
How do you turn off the Automatic centerlines that are put in DWG's linking holes, arcs and patterns. If you have a lot of holes, arcs or patterns this begins to look like a checkerboad staggered and copied several times on your drawing. It would be a lot cleaner and easier to interpret with...
I just tried to move parts in my top assy to an existing sub assy. I flagged three parts and dragged them to the sub assy. They appeared in the sub assy and they hid along with the sub assy when I tried that. But, when I opened the sub assy two the the parts are invisable. They are there in...
This is the first time I've had trouble with this. I've inserted a BOM in an assy dwg and one of the items has a character (the sine wave? I don't know what it's called) in the description and vendor columns. I looked at the parts custom properties and they seemed all right. Anybody know...
What I'm trying to do is add a rib using a .250 dia die, about 5 in long in .060 material (Sht Mtl) the rib is only .06 "proud" of the surface. I made a tool in the feature palette and it tells me that the "radius of curvature must be larger than the material thickness"...
How can I replace an existing format in a .slddwg with a new sheet format? I only have drwdot drawing templates from the Company whose format I want to use!
David A. Johnson
Thunder Systems Inc.
Corona, CA
"You cannot replace a component with another of the same name but a different directory" This is the message I got when I tried to replace a xyz.sldprt with a xyz.sldasm, Why?
I can think of many reasons why you would want to do this. Mine was pressed in hardware. And the message is...
I've just lost everything I have done today (and not for the first time). I opened several parts and assemblies (one main top assy amoung them). I edited 3 or 4 of these parts and saved them (I actually closed them and saved them) Every thing showed up fine in my top assy. Then BOOM...
My views are not projecting per usual "glass box" projection and is very confusing. Is there a way to fix that??
David A. Johnson
Thunder Systems Inc.
Corona, CA
I was working in my drawing (.slddrw) and all of a sudden I can't change or delete anything. There are a couple of notes that I need to delete. What have I done wrong.
David A. Johnson
Thunder Systems Inc.
Corona, CA
Another stupid question! How do you access the attributes is the "canned" sheet formats (title blocks) in order to fill out the required info. I will eventually have to do custom formats, but right now I'd just like to know how they work in SW. I've worked for 20 years in AutoCAD...
I added a tab and then two bends to my drawing. Everything looks ok but now my drawing is standing on it's nose. Is there any way to re-orient it so it's is viewed properly. It makes things confusing to keep it that way.
Dave
How do you generate a "dimple" in sheet metal? I thought I'd use draft and use the related diameters and link it to the thickness, but it makes the raised portion ok but the thickness isn't right. just looks like extruded feature.
David A. Johnson
Thunder Systems Inc
Corona, CA...
This may be a stupid question, but I'm new to solid works, but definitely not new to CAD. I have two "cut-extrude" sections with the same error: "Warning, could not find face or plane" How do I fix that?
