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I am trying to teach myself routing. my company uses victaulic connections in the piping scheme. i have modified the standard library to include the victaulic end feature and the proper part size. i.e. elbow and tee. the problem is the connection points as shown in the image. the ends but up...

I am trying to to a fly through animation of some of our product. I haven't done this in a while so i'm testing the concept since i forget. :) I have swept a surface about a 3d spline. create a dummy part, and attach the part to spline. then attach camera to dummy. when i drag the dummy the...

Is anyone having issues with the image quality slider with SW 2010 x64 sp4.0? i have it set towards the high side, and it looks good. but a lot of times if i roll back in the tree, and do some edits, the slider will fall all the way to minimum, and i have to constantly keep restoring it. My part...

Hi all, I am new to Routing and was wondering how i can do this. I have a power supply, and it has wires coming out of both ends of it. 2 wires go into connector, and the other to a ring terminal for ground. It is an off the shelf unit and the wire is attached and a certain length. i need to...

hi all, I have an assembly that needs to have over 100 different configurations. i know what the names of the configs are to be. can i create a design table with all the config names and descriptions, and have SW do the work? There are no dimensions changing. I've tried a bunch of ways, but all...

Hi all, I am running acad 2009, and have a dwg file created with building systems 2005. it is an electrical plan, and my problem is that all the recepticle blocks are scaled down so small that i cant see them but a dot. The creator of the drawing basically told me to pound sand an recreate the...

I am all of a sudden getting this error screen whenever i start SW or SW explorer. Iread that it can be caused by a sevice pack mismatch, and its used with pack and go. SW and PDM are all on SP 1.0. I've uninstalled and re-installed SW twice now and still the message. I had upgraded to SP 2.0...

Hi all, I'm trying to make a macro that will change my current format to a new format. When i record the macro to do this, I and up with drawing scale parameters that are locked to the file i originally created the macro from. Are there values i can input in the fields where scale number goes...

Can anyone tell me why this macro will run when i press play inside the macro editor, but it i try and do it from SW or a custom macro button i get nothing? I copied from the API help, and made a button just messing around. thanks!

Is there a way to add custom properties to a library feature, add the feature to a part i am making, then in the drawing have a custom property so that when i insert a note, and touch the edge of the feature i can link the note to the custom property of the library feature, and the description...

I'm having a problem with PDMWorks and E-Drawings. When i do document information to print of just view a few drawings. my performance drops through the floor. I go to task manager and there are a ton of EdrawingOfficeAutomator.exe I guess that every time i view a drawing an instance of this...

Hi all, I have a 64 bit dell workstation, running 32 bit SW2008 SP4.0. Ever since i installed SW the icons next to file names in windows explorer just show the generic pic like ther is no program associated with them. In the type column it know that they are SW documents, but the image would be...

I'm having a BIG problem, and my VAR is not getting back to me. I'm trying to use the view document information option in PDMworks to view and print drawings without having to open and copy them locally. the problem is that i can sometimes look at 1 drawing. if i try to open another drawing the...

Hi all, I am running a dell x64 system with SW x64. i am having serious stability issues with this version. If i run x32 version SW will it take advantage of the 8gb of RAM i have? Thanks in advance!

Hi all, I'm getting ready to build a new PC, and was wondering if anyone had any experience with SW and the athlon phenom quad core processors. Any stability issues? I have a athlon 2800= at home now, and SW runs good. I'm getting a quadro vid card, 4gb ram running SW 2008. thanks for any info

I have an assembly that has a label. the label has a default config, and assy config, and another config that has a derived config inside of it. In the column that gives the quantity, it says default/qty, and all i want is the qty. The actual quantity is right @ 1. i've tried the options in the...

hi all, Has anyone successfully done a walk through animation? I am following the example in the help with no luck. i have the camer a attached to the sled, and i can drag it all thru the spline path. But when i try the distance mate to make it move, it follows the staright line, and when it...

Hi all, I've been thinking about this for a while and can not come up with a solution. Is it possible to animate cutting a path? for instance. i'm doing a part, and wanted to animate some of the tool cut paths removing material. I know you can animate sectioning of parts, but what about...

hi all, Does anyone know what happened to the interactive rendering option? I'm trying to do a composite render with a real background photo, and i need to show b4 rendering to make sure my models perspective and angle is correct. thanks in advance! Tony

Hi all, I've hit a bump in 2008 where when i use a custom made material with a satin finish, and i select accurate reflections. some options that are in 2007 are no longer available. Specifically the ability to adjust difuse brightness and specularity. My material now is way to dark, and i...