I have a couple of questions.
1. I don't have the toolbox add-on so all my parts were imported from elsewhere or custom made. From my design library when I insert my flat head screws into a countersink the coincident mate always is upside down (the screw is sticking up rather than into the...
I am using 2007 Ver 3.0.
When I try to mirror something from a plane into a left or right version in an assembly it doesnt mirror. Instead it rotates.
Also, mirrored is checked but I cannot change the setting to instanced even if I wanted to.
How do I turn a fillet into part?
I have two separate oddly shaped parts in an assembly. The intersection of the two independent parts needs to be filleted. Since you can't fillet in an assy I need to have that fillet as a piece of one of the parts or a completely separate part that I can...
Fillets:
I am having some difficulty making large fillets on several parts. Does anyone know of a good faq, tutorial, or examples of fillets on along complex curve intersections and edges? I have a small part I can email as an example.
Projections onto non parallel planes with convert...
How do you loft from a profile to a curve normal to the profile? For example suppose you wanted to loft an air plane wing or a butter knife. You have a series of cross sectional profiles but the ending profile is a curved line on a plane normal to the rest of the loft planes.
I have tried creating different planes via the pick a line and point. But when I insert a sketch (or just click the plane then normal to) the axis are all wrong. Then I did the ctrl copy of the top sketch thinking since it is the correct orientation I could edited the new plane and change it...
Suppose you had an airplane wing skeleton (spars and ribs) modeled in solidworks and also physically in wood.
Also suppose that just like physical model the solidworks model ribs cross section did not line up perfectly (so a rib to rib loft probably wouldn't work).
What are some ways to go...
Part Sketch Splines:
1. When I create splines with many control points then copy the splines to other sketches for use on similar parts I cannot get the control points back to edit it.
2. How do I join two sketch splines to create one spline?
Part Sketch Text:
It cannot be this clumsy...
It would probably save me thousands of mouse clicks and a lot of wrist movement a day if I could use the keyboard to scroll through a sketch rather than the scroll bar.
How can I redefine the arrow keys to scroll left, right, up, and down?
If its not possible with the arrow key, how can I...
I have been running into a few problems using sketch picture. I have been asked to vectorize some old hand sketched drawings (later these will be converted to 3D parts). The drawings are full scale and have NO dimensions. Again, no dimensions but there are some notations that allow me to roughly...
We use a switch (a lot) that needs a 1/4-40 tap size. How do I add an odd tap/hole size to the hole wizard? I looked in the ".sldholtbt" files but they are not in a usable format for me.
I have a couple BOM and balloon questions.
I have one large assembly that has about 75 parts and two sub assemblies. When I autoballoon it puts balloons on all the items in my subassemblies. It would be too large and confusing assembly to have everything exploded and ballooned on one sheet...
I have one assembly sketch that about 15 parts are derived from. The assembly master sketch contains several different blocks for the different parts. I created the parts in assembly, created part sketch, then highlighted the appropriate assembly master sketch block, and convert entities. Now...
I am working on a project that has about 40 parts (all hidden except the part I am working on). Most parts are pretty simple but some of the parts have as many as 1600 holes a piece.
Here are some performance issues I am experiencing while working in the assembly:
1. I have a master sketch in...
OK, I have pulled all my hair out.
I created a master sketch in a new assembly file in the top plane. Then I used the sketch to create the individual parts from assembly. When I open the parts individually they are all screwed up. For instance I have a flat plate parallel with assembly top...
Hi,
I have been using 2006 without too many problems so I would like to get rid of the old 2005 install. If I use windows remove program option will I lose any valuable information? Do I need to copy anything to the solidworks 2006 folder?
Sometimes I use color sketches to add contrast to in detailed confusing part sketches (like the component silk layer of a pcb). How do I get part sketches to appear in color after I have inserted the part into a SLDDRW? When I insert my part into the drawing and turn on sketches they are never...
I have an assembly that I have been working on for a while. It has a master sketch in the assembly that controls many separate parts. The assembly file has had a couple different names during the design process and now that I need to modify things it is becoming a problem.
When I edit a part I...
How do you window select importedcurveX?
Lately I have been importing a lot of 3d wireframe IGS to convert them to a solids. When I try to use the "Sketch->Convert" command on the "importedcurves" I have to select every single entity directly. How can I change it so that I can select them by a...
