For some strange reason, when I insert bolts from the toolbox into an assembly, they have the rebuild icon attached, and will not rebuild even with a cntrl-Q?
It just started happening the other day. Its not every config of the bolts however. For example, in a current assembly I have 1/2-13 X...
When I set a part in an assembly to be excluded from the BOM, it still shows up. Any Ideas?
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I have O-Rings that I have turned into smart components. The Smart Component cuts the O-Ring groove geometry into the plate its is placed on. When I mate the O-rings in my assembly, I mate a circle sketch thats in the O-Ring part, concentric to holes on the block that seats flat against the...
So I saved my drawing of an assembly that contained some sections on friday. This morning I open it, and it tells me that one of my sections is a partial cut, and will now make that sectaion a partial section. I cant figure out why it does that. I can see in the resulting section that some...
As a user group leader, I figured I would try and put together a technical presentation that I could give to our group. I choose mates and relations for two reasons. First, when I first started using SW, this is an area that took me a while to understand. Second, there looks to be numerous...
I know I can use the File>Find Referances to copy a complete assembly to another location. Is there a way to also copy the drawings? I would like the copied assembly and drawings to be associated with eachother, but be completely disassociated with the source assembly and drawings.
Mike...
When im in a large drawings, and save it, SW will sometimes give me a dialog box stating that some views will be saved in draft quality, and will be updated to best quality next time the document is opened. Anyonw know how to force the best quality before saving? When I go to print, the views...
I have a solid body that I want to mirror, but the source body has a logo that I want to use on the second body. When I mirror about a plane, the logo on the second body now reads backwards. Any thoughts on overcomming this issue? The logo is cut into a imported solid, so I dont have the...
First, I hope this post wont be against the rules, im just trying to inform people heading out to Vegas for the conferance.
Upon arriving at my hotel tonight (sat) for the 2006 SW World, I noticed a stage set-up located behind the Imperial Palace. Plastered infront of the Imperial Palace are...
I create an assembly on my computer using toolbox items such as bolts and save it on our network. When that same assembly gets opened up downstairs on a different computer, Solidworks changes the configuration of some of the toolbok items to different sizes. Example would be a plate that I put...
If I have an assembly that has 5 different bolt types in it, all inserted thru the toolbox via drag and drop, how do I set independant properties so they show up in the BOM automatically.
Since each bolt in my assembly is just a different config of eachother, when I go to file>properties, and...
For anyone using the DWG Editor, the recent 1.1 SP for SolidWorks has disabled the internal link inside the DWG Editor to activate the help files when you click help.
I spoke to tech support today, and they acknowledge the problem, and are fixing it in the next SP. For now their work around is...
