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  1. darnell

    SW World 2006

    As planning goes...I was wondering if anyone has seen the justification letter SW Corp usually puts on their website? Does anyone have one from years past? Thanks in advance
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    Admin image question

    The admin image we create is 2.75 Gig. It contains directories like Archivos de programa, Programme and Programmi. I need to copy the image to another server but I would like to trim the dead weight of the 2.75 gig image. Can someone tell me what is safe to delete? I created the image from an...
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    Edrawings printing problem

    Has anyone noticed a problem with edrawings2005? We can print some .slddrw's but some come out as a pure black sheet using a lot of toner. Just curious if anyone else had this problem and knows of a possible solution
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    CMDDIA is not working

    Our IT dept put a new printer in our dept. They gave it a different name. I run a script file for plotting. I usually can shut off the plot splash screen so I can see the line by line questions. I have cmddia set to 0 and I can still see the splashscreen. What am I doing wrong?
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    SW2005 SP2.0 question

    I noticed that this sp was available so I downloaded it today. I also noticed that all the other products were available too. I couldn't tell i fthey had been updated so I downloaded all of them as well. We have a batch file that runs after the install. When I put the path in for the DWGeditor...
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    Capturing sys reg profile settings

    Is there a way to capture the system registry profile settings? What we are up against is if someone logs into a different computer, they lose all their settings since its on the other machine. Thanks in advance
  7. darnell

    XP Pro SP2 and Acad2000

    We just purchased new Dell Precision PWS670, Xeon 3 GHz, 2 Gig ram machines. We still have AutoCad2000. On the testbox (not the same comupter but close) we had, we had to change the compatibility to Win2000 to get it to install. On this box, that went fine but when I doubleclick on the icon to...
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    Do you use FlexLM?

    We currently use a program called Sassafras to manage our seats of SW. Assuming the FlexLM works for most, I am looking for people that have had problems with it and what they were. We are thinking about changing but do not want to change to a system plagued by problems Thanks in advance
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    Obtaining SWCP status

    I attended SW World 05 in Orlando. I was amazed at how many SWCP's that were down there. Other than the Application Engineers from the VAR's, can someone tell me what is the benefit of becoming one if you are not working for a VAR? Did your company pay for it? Did you get a raise once...
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    Text color question

    Our legacy data comes from AutoCad. When you open an AutoCad dwg in SolidWorks, how do you change the color of the text? I can change the layer which changes the color if it set to bylayer but we have some text that is a different color (due to plotting) on a certain layer. I have looked...
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    Templates settings question

    Before I started working at my current job, it was a free for all for how 50+ people created drawings. Everyone kind of used the same templates (A size, B size, etc) but pulling up old drawings, all the setvars are different from drawing to drawing for whatever reason. I created a standard set...
  12. darnell

    Raster image to sketch lines

    Can someone tell me if there is a way to take a JPG, Tiff or other raster image and make it useable as far as actually sketch lines. I do not want to try and trace the logo, I want to use the outline but need a way to bring it into Acad2000 Thanks in advance
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    Partial quantity for a part

    We have a system where a part number represents a part. I'll use a 10' bar stock for example. In our BOM in the AS400, we'll use .25 as a qty for that part number so we can get the length we need. How can I (without configurations) get my SW BOM to match up with the partial quantities? Thanks...
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    Using Japanese fonts

    We are an International company. In general, we use Visio if we are making a flow chart. We currently have one that was created in Word (.doc)in Japan and the fonts look ok in Word. I want to bring this into AutoCad so I can add some symbols. When I bring it in, there are ??? where the Japanese...
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    Different locations sharing same models - How do we?

    Our company has several offices around the country that have their own Engineering groups. We would like for each group to utilize each others models. Each location has their own server. Can someone tell me the best way to copy / replicate models that are being created at three different...
  16. darnell

    edrawings printing question

    To keep the shop floor from printing out addition copies, I would like to know if it is possible to put a watermark for the time/date when printing from edrawings automatically? If not, can the printing option be disabled? What our our other options? Thanks in advance
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    Can you lock down a BOM?

    We are currently using SW2004, SP4.1 and I have the following problem. I did not check this in SW2005 to see if they have fixed this... In a SW drawings, I have a BOM. When it comes in, it comes in ordered from the feature tree. Lets say I have 5 BOM items. Item one is a manifold. After I do...
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    Revisions without PDM

    For whatever reason, our company is very slow when moving to a PDM system. For now, I would like some ideas on how to track revisions for vaulted parts. Should we track these in the properties? Do we keep the old version? I would like some in general thoughts as we do not want to get into it...
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    Custom Material Properties question

    I accidently misspelled an alloy name when I was adding a new one. How can I delete this from my custom material properties database? The button says edit/create but when I went to change it, it just added the correct spelling along with the misspelled one. Am I missing something obvious...
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    Converting to Catia from SW

    I have a couple of questions on this. I am a SolidWorks users and not a Catia user. I would like to convert a SolidWorks 2004 part to Catia. We have V5 in-house but I am not trained on that software. Our customer needs a V4 file. I sent them a SAT and their response was that they wanted to see...

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