I was working in a file, and we had a power glitch and my system shut down (we don't have UPS's hooked up to our systems). The file I was working in is now locked. I can open a copy and rename it to another name, but I cannot do a save as to get the file back to it's original name, and I cannot...
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I'm trying to insert a BOM on my drawing. There are several assemblies (Left hand and right hand), plus several parts that are not in either assy. Solidworks will give me the parts only, but not assy part numbers, or top level parts only, or indented, with the part quantities in...
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I am working on a series of isometric explosion drawings. I've done one explosion in the default isometric view, but now I need to do an explosion from the opposite side of the model. I've tried using the arrow keys and <shift> arrow keys, but that's not helping. I need to rotate...
I have an issue that I have not been able to work out to my satisfaction, I hope someone here can help out.
I have a retainer that is essentially a strip of sheet metal, that is installed on the left and right side of a fairing. The problem is that if I create separate configurations of the...
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I have a solid model we got from another company. The model has a ton of imported bodies, and a bunch of them are bad. Fortunately, they are all the same part, it's just used in a number of places. I have one body of that type that's good, and I want to just cut and paste it to...
Solidworks comes with quite a few materials, but we need to use some that aren't available. Can we create new materials, or is there a library that we can get them from? 2024-T3 is available, but not 2024-T3511.
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Al
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I have a drawing with parts on multiple sheets. When I insert the BOM, I click on Table>Bill of Material, then click on the detail view on the first sheet and place the view. The problem is that I have more parts on other sheets that I need to add to the BOM. How do I add these...
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I have some drawing formats that I created in NX6 that I would like to use in Solidworks. When I try to open the NX .prt file in Solidworks, I get a "Could not find Parasolid data in UGII file" message. The files have no solid bodies or other part data, just the drawing formats in...
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One of our users has a drawing that opens up as modified, even though no changes have been made. One of the views has a note on it that says "Retained hinge line" with an arrow on it. I've attached a screen shot of the drawing in question.
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I have a problem with the parts list in my drawing. I'm using NX6.0.5.3 on Windows 7 Professional. The problem is that the quantities on the top assemblies are showing everything in that assembly and the subassy's. For instance, there are 4 nutplates in the -1 assy, 2 nutplates in...
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Is it possible to delete the origins of an ordinate dimension? I deleted a part in my drawing and the ordinate dim origin is still there. I'm using NX 6.0.5.3 on Windows 7 Professional.
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Al
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I have some old drawings that I am working on, and the colors are messed up. The smooth edge, hidden line and virtual intersection colors have been changed to colors other than the default color. How do I change it back to the default color for the respective components? I am...
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We will be going to use the wire harness package to route our wire harnesses, but I have a question. Can you use the information from the package to create intelligent wiring diagrams and formboard drawings as well? We are looking at Zuken to create the wire harnesses and...
I am having an issue when I try to create a pdf file of our drawings. I can go to File>Export>PDF and the file comes out fine, except the fonts are different from what we're using on our drawings. However, when I try to create a pdf file by clicking on the "Print" icon or clicking on File>Print...
I have a water tank assembly that uses an arrangement, but I'm having an issue with it.
The tank lid sub-assy has a elbow fitting that swivels. I created several arrangements to have the elbow fitting pointing in several directions. The tank lid sub-assy then goes into the tank assy. The...
We've had several instances where we have gotten an FCC Proxy error message when trying to load parts in UG. We're using NX 7.0.1.7 and Teamcenter Express V5. We're also using Windows 7 Professional on two systems, and the rest are using Windows XP professional. The XP systems have not had these...
I've just started working on sheet metal parts in NX5, and I've run into something that's bugging me. Why do we have to use sketcher to start a sheet metal part? Why can't we use a block as a starting point? I don't mind using sketcher, but I like having options on how to create my parts.
How do you copy toolbar configurations from one computer to another? I remember reading something about it a while back, but I can't find it now. I'm using NX3.
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Al Griego
I've got an interesting issue that I need some help with. I created a wave linked part of a doubler and when I used assembly weight management to find the part weights, the left hand (original) part has a different weight (and volume) than the right hand (wave linked) part. Has anyone run into...
