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A colleague in another department has informed me of his plans to move on, am I duty bound to mention it or should I keep quiet? thoughts? James

A local company to mine has gone into administration our current CEO is a board member and has asked me if there is a possibility to transferring a license, has anyone had any experience in doing this? James

In the past when I moved or changed a part or assembly used in a top level assembly when opening the top level file I’d get a message stating 'unable to locate file, go look for it' which was good. for some unknown reason this has stopped happening and now when I open the top level assembly...

Not solely related to SW but I figured a good place to start, I'm trying to get my head around change control and the process behind it, my company is moving from a R&D to a manufacturing phase and we are looking into the use of an ERP system, presently most of the BOM managing and purchasing...

I guess a silly question but it's bugging me! How do you get the image to appear in the drawing, I have imported the image and added it to a part and it transfers into the assembly but does not show on the drawing? Any ideas? Thanks

Is there a function that will allow me to extract a BOM from an assembly? Basically I have many complex assemblies(The manufactured parts all have a manufacturing drawing)I have not yet created drawings for them, and to be honest I may not due to time constraints, I do however need to rip the...

Hi all! I model a wide range of things, I model the odd cast component and do this in the part environment, as I have this machined in different ways the casting has a number and so do the parts that I can have machined from it. Rightly or wrongly I bring the casting into the assembly...

All I have been the sole user of SW in my company for many years now, this now is not the case as due to work load etc.. I have hired more staff to meet the demand. Basically when the first new guy came along with SW exp all was well as he worked on a separate project, now however I need the...

I have started dealing with a new company whom work with AutoCAD, they have requested my models in a 3d dxf, I have experience with saving SW drawings as dxf but not the models, as I don’t have the option when saving. So my question is how can I get my SW models into a 2d dxf? Thanks

Some help with this would be great. This material comes in various conditions normally brought in condition T. Condition T, U, V, W, X, & Z are achievable but I can’t find the heat treatment process temperatures. Can anyone point mew in the right direction? Many thanks James

is there many users out there whom have a dual monitor set up, I have just added a second so i have two 19" monitors Solidworks is spread over both with the user interface on the left along with tool bars and the whole of the screen on the right display solely the model. Is this the preferred...

How similar are the two packages, basically on a recruiting front a ideal candidate has much experience with Solidegde but not much on Solidworks, how closely related are they and could the Solidegde skill be of use when learning Solidworks? Thanks for any input!

I may be totally wrong but I'm sure there was a way of displaying view of models. in the part environment I thought you could click an icon which would display four views, plan RH LH and iso, like split screen. May have been on a early version of the software? just so i can do a screen dump...

I guess this is a yes or no question but is there anyway of solidworks viewing the above files? I think not but just making sure thanks!

Seam to run into problems when trying to import iges files (SW2005) I run through the process and all I get at the end is the assemble tree all the file structure is there (in each part there is no features). I have played with all the different setting to no avail. I asked a friend who runs...

Unsure whats going as nothing will display, I have my model views but i cant add any dims or even centre lines? very odd!

Before I start what would be be most speediest way to creat a wave spring like http://icrank.com/data/spring/wave_render.gif any thoughts much appreciated James

I need a very simple model of a truck, just the tractor unit with no trailer. Is there a free source on the net?

I have been sent a file from a vendor and the format it's in is unusable basically it manifold but not a solid it's simply one surface, is there a tool to convert this to a solid? Thanks

Hello guys! I Work in the turbo machinery field and as such I deal with complex geometry. I work with splines both 3d and 2d and presently I’m working on a aerofoil (wing shape) I have this modeled and can simplify the spline to give me spline points. Is there a way of getting these points into...