Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations waross on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  • Users: BBJT
  • Content: Threads
  • Order by date
  1. BBJT

    SW2003 Performance

    Does anybody have any input on the performance of 2003 yet. I have seen out in a couple of other forums that the sketcher is really slow. I have not run into any major issues yet but I am a far cry from a power user. Any feedback would be appreciated. The users here have started beating on...
  2. BBJT

    SolidWorks 2001Plus SP5

    Service Pack 5 is available on the SolidWorks websit for people with subscription service. According to the release notes SP5 has fixed a quite of few quirks that we are having. I usually go by the rule "if it works don't fix it." In other words read the maintanance notes and...
  3. BBJT

    Tiff Images come out to lite

    When a SW file is issued here, a tiff image gets magically (API) created for viewing and printing purposes. The same goes for our AutoCAD drawings. The problem lies in the line weight in the SW Tiff. I hate to say it but the AutoCAD tiffs come out fine. I have tried manually saving out a file...
  4. BBJT

    Keeping Uniform Thickness in a part

    Is there an easier way of linking the thickness of a part other than linking all the dimensions? This question has come up many times since I have been using SolidWorks and the answer is yes. 1.) After you create your first extrude double click on the feature to show the dimensions. 2.) Next...
  5. BBJT

    To Break or Not to Break External Ref

    We have our own home grown PDM system here that works really well for AutoCad. It is pretty much a check in check out and where used web based application. We are now able to check in and check out SolidWorks parts and assemblies. The question I have pertains to the assembly side of things...
  6. BBJT

    Adding a Cust Prop without opening the file.

    Does anybody know how to add a custom property to a SolidWorks file using C++ without having the file loaded in SolidWorks? Thanks in advance for any responses, BBJT CSWP

Part and Inventory Search