New 7.5 user here. I have a sketch with 100 dimensions in it and they all have the name of the dimension in front of it.
Example = p280=6
I just want it to say 6 instead of cluttering up my screen with the p280= garbage.
Thanks in advance!
Anyone had to do this? Looking to create a macro to seperate a model and its drawing. Right now the model and dwg is in the .prt file
We need to do this to parts and assemblies. Any advice would be appreciated.
I am a avid solidworks user and have done macros in that before.. that is my...
There is a gray box over where I need to click in solidworks explorer.
SW 2009 SP 4.1
Windows 7 x64
Anyone seen this before? I rebooted and it won't go away. All I want to do is add a new folder to the search folders in solidworks explorer.
I was a solidworks admin for our company. Took me many years to get to that level.
Now, I was moved and I am using NX I-deas 5. WOW is this different. I can't use my spaceball since I am using a windows PC to dial into a Unix station. There is no feature tree, there are no planes, I had to...
Just curious how all of you do it.
Example - You have a rectangle block (a.sldprt) and its drawing (a.slddrw). You want to make another block that is the same as that one but different. You want the new part (b) and new drawing (b) to be automatically generated and linked so you can go into...
How come when your mirror a part thru a plane, none of the hole information goes with it. So, when I try to create a drawing of a mirrored part and use the hole callout, junk.
Today is not our day. This 2009 upgrade is hurting.
2009 x64 SP1.0
Whenever any of us goes "file-browse recent documents".. system locks up. Happens to every PC I have tried it on.
I have an employee that decided that when she wanted a new part that was the same as an old part but minus the last 2 features, she would save as copy then roll back the feature tree 2 features. UGHGHGHGHG
Now I have a 50 part assembly on my screen and solidworks keeps telling me that some...
I searched and found nothing.
Just got 2009 SP1 x64 up and running. Was running 2007 SP5 x64.
All of the nice macro's I have written are not working at all with the new version. What am I missing?
I downloaded this neat batch printing example from the SW API help website. I gave it a list of 30 drawings and it printed them out in less than 2 mins! It didn't need to open solidworks every time to print.
It also did "scale to fit" for every drawing so every drawing printed out perfect.
I...
Currently when we have a part up and we want to see the drawing, we right click on the file name in the feature tree, then "open drawing".
Some users keep constantly searching for "open drawing". Some times it isn't there and they have to hit that little arrow to show more options, then it...
Trying to make a button on my toolbar to get write access. Every time I open a part now we have it set to open everything read only. I am sick of going "file, get write access". I just want to click a button. I also failed at making a macro for it.
Any advice?
We have an outside vendor that has started to do some work for us recently and we are running into problems. I know what the problem is but I am having a hard time explaining it to management.
Lets call my fellow employee E and the vendor V for the example. E makes a part and drawing and sends...
See where it says Harden R/C 57/59.. I want there to be a selectable list of different hardening levels. Every time I hit "edit list" it just allows me to add a property to the "Property Name" column drop down.
Thanks!
We all know of the standard 3 views button, but is there a way for solidworks to automatically generate them? I would like to put it in the template so this happens. Thanks
SW x64 2007 SP 5.0
Have a part with metric holes in it.
Edit all of them and make them english holes.
Save it and reopen it and the holes are still labeled in the feature tree as being metric (but edit the feature and you can see they are english).
Example - Edit a M6-1.0 and make it a 1/4-20. The hole...
We save all of our drawings to PDF that get stored onto an AS400. Everyone on the floor can use the AS400 to retrieve the PDF's to view.
For some reason, we lose dimensions on the PDF's from time to time. If we re save it, they are restored.
Sometimes, all dimensions are missing from the...
We had our SW VAR come down and evaulate our network setup. They told us we need a dedicated server. I want to run it past you pro's.
Details -
8 Designers
SW 2007 x64 SP5
Fiber optic line running down to the server 2000? feet away
1 gig lines from PCs running to the fiber optic hub
1 gig...
Hello all,
I am the SW admin for our group of designers.
I installed SW 2007 on a summer students computer and went to copy my settings to his. To my surprise, the options to check are greyed out on his computer
keyboard shortcuts
menu customization
system options
toolbar customization
I...
When overriding a dimension with "a" for example, I cannot save the drawing as DXF or DWG. This is every designer here. We are all running XP 64, SW2007x64 SP4.0.
When I click the box to not override it, I can then save it as a dxf or dwg.
Very strange. Anyone heard of this or have advice...
