I'm not having much luck with my Google-fu at the moment... Does anyone have a lead on a rather small high-pressure blower? I only need about 20cfm at about 40" of water. I've found plenty of regenerative blowers that can hit that pressure and be at like 700CFM to boot, but just about all of...
It's been far too long since fluids for this guy... I'm looking to roughly design a sorta long, thin nozzle/outlet, something like an air knife but with a much lower supply pressure (maybe 5~10 psi), and a really low flow rate to go with it. I figured "air flow through a narrow slit" would be...
Possibly a dumb question but: I just purchased a 5 gallon paint spray pot (http://www.tcpglobal.com/TCP-PT8361.html?sc=120&category=2665695#.W8TEn2hKhhE). It's definitely over 6", and definitely more than 15psi operating pressure. Therefore, as far as I understand, it's a pressure vessel...
I'm designing a part that's basically a large-ish (over 2" diameter) disk/cylinder with a small-ish (less than 1/8") concentric hole. Then the disk is cut such that it has a flat, sort of like a wrench flat. So the cylindrical surface is no longer complete. I want the hole to be concentric to...
Hiya Sparkies!
I am sure this is going to be a very noob-sounding post, but it's been a few years since my Circuits class...
I have what is essentially a ladder-shaped arrangement of resistors. Each "rung" of the ladder is a resistor, and each segment of the "legs" from rung to rung is also a...
I've always liked the way SW shows certain distance information in the status bar when you select certain entities without having to activate the "measure" tool. However, I use SW stretched across both monitors, so I often have to look to the opposite monitor to get my distance information...
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1. Create a non-configuration-specific custom property in the main assembly called "Cfg4Qty". In that property put the name (case-sensitive) of the configuration of the main assembly that you want to use to drive the quantity.
2. Create two non-configuration-specific...
Any of you who didn't have grandparents in Appalachia (of the USA) may not be familiar with the term "play-purty" (play-pretty), but it's a term for a little bauble or child's plaything. This is one I've been playing around with in the back of my head for a while ever since thread559-214976. I...
I'm dimensioning a weldment part (picture attached) that has a couple of H7 toleranced dowel pin holes for alignment of a linear guide component. The component has a datum edge that will be "bumped up against" two dowel pins in the H7 holes before being tightened down with screws into the four...
Has anyone else noticed that 2008 (I think) dropped the functionality that when you select a component in the design tree of an assembly drawing (.slddrw) it used to draw a brownish box around the component? This really helped in figuring out what was what. I really miss it.
So guess what. I...
As an assembly equipment machine design guy, I deal mostly with prismatic parts. Anything you can't easily model with extrude cuts and revolves usually makes for difficult to fabricate parts, so we try to keep it simple. However, I'm now in a situation where I need to model something to...
I have an odd problem with a user's machine here. Friday his machine worked fine, but today SW will not open. We're on 2008 sp3.1. When he tries to run SW, the splash screen appears and SLDWORKS.EXE shows up in the Process list. However, right about the time that the splash screen should...
As referenced elsewhere, here are two macros that may help you out. The first one de-selects the last-selected item of the current selection set and instead selects the parent subassembly of that component. It's basically the same as the "Select Sub-Assembly" in the RMB menu, except it's...
Maybe a crazy/stupid question, but can an individual (networked) workstation be used as a "server" for an administrative image install? We're getting ready to upgrade to new machines, and it would be handy to be able to use one of them as a "server" to install to the others so we can possibly...
For those of you who write VBA macros, here are a couple of quick user forms I made as substitutes for MsgBox and InputBox. They are not intended to replace every use of MsgBox and InputBox, they are only for use when your user might want to interact with the model before continuing with the...
As a continuation of thought from thread559-206248, I thought it might be handy to be able to save and recall selection sets in a more general sense. The macro posted in that thread was specialized for faces and surface area. This macro is more generalized, and works on faces, edges, vertices...
I'm getting ready to submit an SPR on this issue, but I wanted to make sure I'm not smoking something first. Could someone on an older release or SP of SW (I'm on '07 SP5) and/or someone on SW08 just try to add a BOM to the drawing in the attached file? Please save all your other work first as...
Sub main()
Application.SldWorks.ActiveDoc.ForceRebuild3 (False)
End Sub
I think this is the smallest macro I've ever written. Depending on the assembly, it can also take very long to run. Its function is that it does a Ctrl-Q type forced rebuild on the active document and all referenced...
I posted some quickie mate macros some time back for coincident, concentric, and parallel mates in thread559-175155. I'd been wanting to do a distance mate, but I liked the SW functionality that uses the current distance between the chosen components as the default distance. Calculating this...
