All,
My company makes ballistic protective eyewear for the military. We are expanding our product line to head, face and neck protection. This creates some new challenges when it comes to SolidWorks and documenting our designs. I'm hoping some of you can offer suggestions to help us with a...
In SolidWorks they give us an option for finish symbol with an "all around" modifier. Yet the shop has never seen this before and the ASME/ANSI Y14.36M does not show it. I really like the symbol because I can point to an edge of a feature with it and this tells the machinist that the entire...
For those of you who are running SW2006, it has been rumored that we can now mirror a part and have all the features go with it AND have the option of breaking the link back to the original. Any truth to this?
Trying to put a tapped hole in a round part. However, there is no surface for the cosmetic thread to be created. In the past I have created a c-bore at the diameter and depth necessary for the cosmetic thread to work. But this isn't a true representation of what I want. It also makes it...
We turned on the "bind ownership" feature in PDMWorks right after we upgraded to 2005. I love it. Some of my users are complaining that they are having trouble opening documents. I think it is because SW is converting the data from 2004 to 2005. That is why is takes so long. NOT because we...
We have Dell Precision 450's, 3.06 GHz Xeon, 1 GB RAM. We are trying to improve performance, especially for large assemblies. We plan to double the RAM and try higher end graphics cards. Anyone have some recommendations on high end graphics cards? We currently have Nvidia Quadro FX 3000...
I'm working on our "Best Practices" guide >:-O
Is there a general consensus as to which is a better practice....use Feature Patterning or Sketch Step and Repeat patterning? I understand that the design intent and part revision is a huge part of the eqation but I'm also interested in the...
In the best practices it metions that you should not exceed "1000 or 2000" items per project or it will affect performance. Has anyone exceeded this limit and seen a difference. If you break the project into sub-projects will this make it better or no difference? For example: you have project...
We often need to show the top level assy (TLA)of a machine in phantom on a sub-assy drawing so that we can show how the sub-assy is to be installed. What is the best way to do this? We don't want to put the TLA in the sub-assy because this would make the sub-assy huge and create a loop. Do we...
