I'm trying to make up what I know as a barrel cam. This is a cylinder with a groove around it, but the groove moves longitudinally as it goes around. You can see what I've got so far at http://home.surewest.net/mathias/posts/panel_cam_2.jpg
I've circled, in a very rough way, those two areas...
We occasionally run into a problem with how SW puts fractional dimensions on a print. If the dimension is one inch plus 1/16", it comes out on the print as 1 1/16". It is pretty easy for the shop folks to read this as 11/16". I'd much prefer that it show on the print as 1-1/16", which is...
If I have a model which has a curve tangent to a flat surface, such as you'd get if you put a fillet on an edge, all views (except wireframe and shaded with no edges) show a line along the interface between the flat surface and the fillet.
This does help one visualize where the different...
I'd like to be able to execute a command that gets a list of the components of an assembly, then gets the drawings of each component, and then prints those drawings. Seems like this should be part of the basic system, but doesn't appear to be. I've asked around about this, but have always been...
Is there a way to assign some flexibility to a part? By this, I mean the springiness that a spring or o-ring has. I'd like to simulate (with Physical Dynamics) the installation of a snap ring using a tapered tool.
This only peripherally pertains to this forum, but I thought someone here might have run into this.
Have many Word docs with embedded AutoCAD drawings in them. If we need to edit, we can double-click the drawing and AutoCAD will open. We can edit, save, and all is good.
I have a new machine...
This only peripherally pertains to this forum, but I thought someone here might have run into this.
Have many Word docs with embedded AutoCAD drawings in them. If we need to edit, we can double-click the drawing and AutoCAD will open. We can edit, save, and all is good.
New machine, trying...
We have some users who use the SolidWorks Viewer to look at and print existing drawings. They'd like to have Windows Explorer display a thumbnail of SW drawings when they click once on them, as most image files do. This would help them locate the file they want without having to open them...
We have added our own company-specific descriptions and part numbers to our 2005 toolbox so we can insert bolts and other hardware and have our descriptions show up on the BOMs. We are trying to move to SW2006, but are having trouble converting the toolbox.
If we just point 2006 to the old...
How have others "signed" drawing approvals? PDM Works might be my answer here, but I'm not using it yet.
I'm currently using properties to insert approval initials on the drawing, but that is useless for validation of approvals - it is only good to find out who messed something up.
We want to be able to print a complete "family tree" of a product assemblies easily, which we are told is not part of the out-of-the-box SW05 bag of tricks. One potential solution for us is to link a set of drawing files to an MS Word document. When the drawing file changes, the change gets...
I created what I thought was a cylindrical hole, radially through a cylinder wall (actually, a semicircular sheet metal part). (I sketched a circle on a plane through the center and extruded it to the OD.) All seemed well.
In the assembly I tried to mate a known cylindrical pin concentrically...
An assembly gets designed in-context. The part and assembly drawings then get moved to various places using operating system tools. When the assembly gets opened, it prompts to find the component parts, and all seems well. However, when you attempt to edit the components in context again, you...
I need to model a groove around a cylinder. The catch is that the groove will not go all the way around the cylinder; it only goes about 190 degrees. It will physically be machined by bringing a rotating end mill squarely into the curved side of the cylinder to the depth of the groove, then...
I just updated to 2005 sp3. SW site said to also get the new help files. I unzipped them, but now what? Should I unzip them in a particular way so they find their proper places, or do I just need to find the old equivalents and manually move them? I see nothing on the site about how to...
I have a 3-sheet SW 2005 drawing file. In SW, I can print to the Acrobat Distiller printer driver and get all 3 sheets in a single PDF file.
Another employee here has the SolidWorks Viewer installed so he can see and print native SW drawings. He tried printing the 3-sheet file to the same...
I am trying to model a part which has a tab pierced (?) out of it and bent up. I'm not sure that pierced is the correct term. It is similar in process to the old sheet metal can- and bottle-openers, where the tab that catches under the can lip or bottle cap edge is cut from the body of the...
We produce "Instruction Books" for our product, which are MS Word documents. We've tried to export SW assembly drawings, but with poor results. We've gone through AutoCAD, and on screen, they look fine, but print out too light to be of any use. We've tried jpg, eps, and pdf, all with...
Newbie coming from AutoCAD is trying to use the Hole Wizard (SW2005) to put a tapped hole along the axis of a cylinder. I have a reference axis there. Using Hole Wizard, I specify thread etc, then Next to place the point. When cursor is on the axis, axis appears and highlights, so I click to...
