I am using cement blocks in an assembly and corresponding assy drawing to show how a product is installed to the block wall. The problem is with the automatically generated weight in the title block. SW is including the cement blocks. Is there a way to have the weight calculation exclude...
I have moved a SW drawing from one directory to another. Now when I try to open the drawing, the preview window in DBWorks states that the file does not exist. This is correct, it no longer exists (in that location). How do I edit the path to the new location? I thought this would be a...
To make my question as simple as possible, assume I have a sketched line 24" long. Now, I have a steel rod extruded along that line that I would like to automatically update based on the length of this line. Example, I make the line 30" long and the steel rod is now 30" as well. It seems like...
I noticed that the flat washers in toolbox (SW2006) are created using the revolve command. Whenever I have created them I have always extruded my sketch of 2 circles. Is there a benefit to using the revolve over the extrude in this example? The 2 circle sketch and extrude seems like it would...
OK, what I need to do is link specific drawing detail views into a Word document. I am making an instruction manual and I need to give them detail views for assembly. How can this be done while maintaining a link so that if the model changes, the drawing view in the Word document updates as...
I have an assembly with the exploded line sketchs that work just fine. I have even brought that view with the line sketches into my drawing, that works fine as well. Here is the problem, when I make a detail view of a section that has the exploded line sketch, the line sketch does not show up...
I have a cement block that I patterned into a wall. Can I have the pattern shown as transparent? When I right click on the pattern I do not have that option listed. The block that I used to make the pattern does have the option.
Thanks in advance
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Is there a way to check for duplicate sketch entities? I have a sketch that for some reason has 2 sets of identical lines on top of each other. I can go through and highlight each line and hit the delete button and there is another identical sketch there. I thought there was something said in...
Is there a way to drive a design table based on the weight calculated in the mass properties. Example: I have a plain alloy steel bar that has a 5" diameter and I leave it without a length dimension, but I want it to have an exact weight of 53 lbs. Can the design table make the model based on...
Anybody have a suggestion where to look for wood moulding profiles? At the very least I need the dimensions, but cad models would be just fine as well. Crown, chair rail, hand rails, etc. I did a search on the nest but no luck.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Cygnas
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OK, here we go.....We are having a major battle here on how to go about a standard of dual dimensioning. Previously we have always dimensioned in english units only but we have decided to add dual (in/mm) dimensions to all of our drawings. Our biggest disagreement is with the conversion of the...
OK, here we go.....We are having a major battle here on how to go about a standard of dual dimensioning. Previously we have always dimensioned in english units only but we have decided to add dual (in/mm) dimensions to all of our drawings. Our biggest disagreement is with the conversion of the...
OK, I am trying to formalize an SOP for publishing Operation & Maintenance manuals for our mechanical products. The current problem is that we do not have consistency in our Word forms that are used for making manuals. I know that SW can link information with both MS Word & Excel but which is...
Has anyone bought the $50 subscription to this website? They now have a big database of material physical propereties that they say will download right into the solidworks material database. If it works, I think $50 is worth it.
http://www.matweb.com/help/SolidWorks_intro.asp
I have been searching the net for the most widely accepted standards for showing threads on drawings but no luck. Can someone point me in the right direction where to find this type of information. I went to the ANSI site but I can not justify purchasing a subscription to answer one or two...
Is there any undesireable results if I save an assembly file as a part file? I want to import the "part" into another assembly file and be able manipulate the different pieces of the "part" file in the final assembly.
Thanks
When I use dual dimensions (upper & lower format) SW automatically puts the mm dimension in brackets and on top while putting the inch units on the bottom. Since inch units are our standard I would like to have them on top and the mm with the brackets on the bottom. Is there a setting to...
All right, I have a simple sketch (weldment, part file) consisting of 2 lines connected and in the shape of an "L". I have inserted 6"x6" square tubing structural members along the sketch profile. What I want is a 45° miter flange where they intersect each other. When I try to do this I get a...
When creating a circle sketch SW2004 asks for a Radius dimension by default. Is there a way to change this to ask for a Diameter by default?
Thanks in advance,
Cygnas
