Our European parent company is forcing us in America to go to ISO drawings standards, metric, and 1st angle projection. Metric I can wrap my head around with time, but why this dimension alignment of following the dimension line? It makes the drawing harder to read, no one is rotating the sheet...
Is it part of ANSI standard to put the initials in the title block? That is what we have traditionally done but are considering using full names of the engineers and drafters. If ANSI doesn't specify, what would be the pros/cons of doing this?
Jason
SolidWorks 2017
We have sheetmetal panels with up to 500 holes. The parts are punched or laser cut then inspected before forming.
Traditional, there is an X-Y coordinate table on the drawing with the X and Y position and hole size for each hole with 0,0 on the lower left corner of the part. The hole positions...
We model part families as configurations in SolidWorks. The model file has a Prefix number and the part number adds a suffix to that number. The Prefix is also the drawing number.
000001 (Drawing/Family number)
000001.001
000001.002
000001.003
000002.001
The question is in regards to trying to...
This setting just sometime checks itself for no apparent reason. Its greyed out with no documents open and you have to reboot to clear it. Just wonder if anyone else has seen this.
Quadro FX 3500
Jason
SolidWorks 2007 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2008 SP0.0 on WinXP SP2
I'm an API noob at worst but was trying to run Lenny's InforFileBuild(DSO) version.
http://www.lennyworks.com/solidworks/SWXMacros/InfoFileBuild(DSO).zip
I think the problem is the Dsofile.dll which this macro relies upon to read the file properties. The Dsofile makes this faster I've read...
Does anyone here have experience with the full Driveworks product (not express)?
Any idea of the cost of the different licenses?
Does it have an API for additional customization beyonds its current capabilities?
Jason
SolidWorks 2007 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2
Situation:
I have a part that is modeled in-context of an assembly. Basically a C-Channel. Its extruded depth is linked to a "layout sketch" in the c channel part file. The layout sketch is linked in-context to a sketch in the assy.
Problem:
I need a pattern of holes, equally spaced along the...
Got a new project to create a parametric assembly. 200 or so parts with some sub-assemblies. Question is, top-down.....or the skeleton approach. Any suggestions? I've done some top down in the past but have only played a little with the skeleton approach.
Jason
SolidWorks 2007 SP3.1 on WinXP SP2
Guess what!!! I'm now in charge of training in Solidworks for our company. Question is what material (books) to use and provide for the class? Of course it will be customized for our type of work.
I thought at one time you could buy the manuals from your VAR (haven't asked yet), not sure if...
The Swx 2008 beta registration is open.
If you have never signed up....please put my email down as a referral ;P
gildashard at gmail dot com
http://beta.solidworks.com/
Jason
UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
UG NX4.01.0 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2007 SP2.2 on WinXP SP2
When dealing with part families and a PDM system, in this case eMatrix, is there a recommended setup? Matrix supports part families in UG but we don't have Matrix setup to handle a "Template" file. So the question is what would we name this file. All the famaly members will have 8 digit part...
Early Visibility SP1 for SolidWorks 2007 is up on the website for those brave few who wish to sacrifice their souls.........
Jason
UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2
This is interesting......think Solidworks will counter? Not sure if there are any strings attached (watermarks, etc.)
http://www.solidedge.com/free2d
Jason
UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2
Greg Jankowski, customer satisfaction manager for SolidWorks posted this survey for your top ten wants. He mentioned that he would followup with a summary of the results.
So fill it out with your needed enhancements and/or bug fixes.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=711482492767
Jason
UG...
A little 2007 info from http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/
Some 2007 enhancements
*Balloons now link to any attribute, not just part numbers.
*Leaders automatically provide full datum information
*Chamfers and fillets are automatically noted in leaders, and double leaders can be created...
For those of us that didn't get to go, Solidworks has posted some podcast mp3's on their website.
http://www.solidworks.com/pages/news/MediaPcasts.html
So far, some of things announced look very interesting. Cosmos Motion will be included in the Office Premium package. As of SP4, users of...
Is there a way to insert an image(jpeg, bmp, gif, etc.) into a model to sketch over?
Jason
UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2005 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2006 SP0.0 on WinXP SP2
Is there a macro out there that will hide/show all Planes, Sketches, Axis, Points, Curves, etc..
Jason
UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2005 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2006 SP0.0 on WinXP SP2
