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I need to create a cavity in a part to accommodate this lever handle as it rotates back (just the blue one): http://www.mesatactical.com/images/262.jpg Because it is an irregularly shaped part, I am having trouble working out how to make the cavity for it. Ideally, it would be cool if I could...

I am trying to use circular pattern of bodies with SolidWorks 2010 SP4.0. The axis of the pattern I want to use is a line along the Z axis. However, when I tell SolidWorks to use this axis, it instead makes a pattern based on a line along the X axis that passes through the center of the axis I...

With SolidWorks 2007, I suddenly cannot select the origin while working on a part. Knowing SolidWorks as I do, I gather this is probably a configuration option that turned itself off for some reason. Anyone know how I can turn it back on again?

Normally I hang around in the SolidWorks forum, but I have had an idea for a while and I thought you folks here might be able to help me with it. Some of our products include, as a component, a length of 1/4" OD Santoprene tubing. We buy this stuff in 200 foot lengths and cut it down using -...

Now that I am using SolidWorks 2007, I see they have managed to come up with even more nebulous and mystifying error messages than ever before. This is certainly an accomplishment of sorts, as the software was already in my personal top five of most baffling error messages of all time. So now...

Please excuse me a little as I am not a trained engineer and am not sure of the terminology. I am attempting to reference from one drawing view a datum target in another view. Basically, I have to locate a feature based on the location of a feature visible in aother view. The datum target is...

I have a requirement to produce vector line drawings of my SolidWorks assembly sections. What I need to do is produce a section view of the assembly in SolidWorks, then export that section view to a drawing (after which I save the drawing as a DWG file for further manipulations). The problem...

I did a little searching here and didn't see an answer. I have some parts which take advantage of the SolidWorks configuration and Design Table utility. I have already produced a dimensioned drawing of one of the configurations. I would like to make drawings of the ohter configurations as...

I am making use of the Auxiliary View feature in my drawings. Unfortunately, SolidWorks insists on using what looks to me like a section arrow (two arrows connected by a dashed line) to identify the face fof the projection. I would prefer an arrow pointing in the direction of the view, but I...

I am making a drawing that has the following views: I have been playing around with SolidWorks and can't figger out how to align the ancilliary views so they are not slanted like that. I would like to set them straight, both for clarity and also to make autodimensioning easier.

This is a sort of general "how to proceed" question regarding building new models from already existing solid models. We make parts for shotguns, so what we will typically do is send a shotgun platform out to a service bureau to get a 3D solid model of it back. Then we can use the solid model...

Please excuse me, I haven't had any training on lofts, just going by what I see in the help files. I am attempting a very simple loft: to make a sort of conical section, a tube that is one diameter at one end, and a smaller diameter at the other. But when I try to loft two sketches of circles...

I was folling around with making new drawing templates, and suddenly I can no longer access my templates when attempting to make a drawing from a part. Instead of getting the templates dialog (which browses .DRWDOT files), I get a Sheet Format/Size dialog (which looks for .DRT and .SLDDRT...

I am to design some new parts that fit on a specific shotgun receiver. I have a SolidWorks solid model of the shotgun receiver, except that it is in the form of an assembly (actually a .SAT file that I can import). It would be simple enough for me to make the required sketches for the new part...

In the following image you can see how some features project over the countersinks: Since I place the countersunk holes in a face lower than the overhanging features, I'm not sure how to extend the countersink up so that the features don't overhang. I was hoping I wouldn't have to resort to...