Perhaps interesting for those wanting an easy overview of the difference between the current cpu offerings:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/dualcore-shootout.html
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer
Searching Eng-Tips forums
For the early adapters:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Audiosrv]
"DependOnService"=hex(7):41,00,75,00,64,00,69,00,6f,00,45,00,6e,00,64,00,70,00,\
6f,00,69,00,6e,00,74,00,42,00,75,00,69,00,6c,00,64,00,65,00,72,00,00,00,52,\...
This tip might work for you if:
- you like the SolidWorks Search function
- you have a lot of models to index
- you get annoyed by the stain the WDS indexing service puts on your system at times you need the performance for other tasks
- you have a laptop and don't want WDS to drain your battery...
Current situation:
I have a part with a cirular fill pattern, 3mm holes.
In these holes I want to place tubes. The first is allready shown.
SolidWorks won't let me use a feature driven component pattern (I get a message I can't use a fill pattern for my feature driven component pattern)...
Born out of necessity (in my opinion):
Custom Google search engine for Eng-Tips forums
1. Enter your search terms
2. Hit search
3. Use the forum links to limit your search to the specific forum
This works better than my previous tips (in my opinion)
If you want a specific forum included...
If you want to search a specific Eng-Tips forum you can do the following:
- find the forum number (see red box in picture)
- open a Google window
- enter in the box: "site:.eng-tips.com inurl:559" and your keywords (see picture)
- Replace the 559 with your forum number
- Enter your...
Here is, in my opinion, a very informative read for people wanting to compare computer mice:
ESReality.com - Benchmarking mice
They benchmarked a lot of mice, the things they tested:
The Perfect Control speed should equate to how nice a mouse responds when moving around a lot (higher value...
Check out your tech alerts, SolidWorks got permission to distribute the patches needed for the file size reduction!
Search the knowledge base for 012243 to get the x64 version and 012242 for the 32 bit version.
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student
I have this just about in every x64 SolidWorks version (currently SW2007 SP1.1 x64), anyone know how to 'fix' it?
(re-install of OS doesn't help, and yes I have the certified driver for my graphics card ;-) )
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student
For those of you in the early visibility programme, visit the download center. Both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions are available
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student
Getting the proper videocard for your solidworks needs can be a bit of a guess (since most of us who do not have a couple laying around to test), so here a little bit that might help:
When playing around a bit with rivatuner in my coffee break I found out there is a really nice monitor tool...
I was wondering if there was a switch similar to the one in the featuremanager options (name feature on creation), but then for sketch dimensions.
This would make the time needed for giving sketch dimensions sensible names (for use in design tables) much faster.
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions...
This card looks to be a good mid-range card. The reviews look promising, faster than my current (problematic) Quadro FX1400.
The card is reasonable affordable (570 euros) over here, not much more than a Quadro FX 1400.
Is there anyone here that has first or secondhand experience with this card...
I just noticed SW released SP4.0 EV, including motion (for the premium users) according to the site.
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student
For those of you still running the x64 edition pre release version of solidworks there has been a silent update from SP3.2 to SP4.0 recently.
It is not noted anywhere, but after downloading it again (I wanted to do a repair install on my test system) it said SP4.0!
COSMOSWorks is still at SP3.2...
I guess many of you don't even know what I mean, so a litte explanation first:
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DISCLAIMER:
This info is based on my personal experience / findings, this is not coming from SolidWorks!
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In SolidWorks the kernel responsible for the geometry functions and consists of a...
Just did the update to SP2.1 (check site for details & download), now I can't seem to find any settings to control PDF quality (which is pretty crappy with the new plugin!).
Also annotation hyperlinks don't work anymore (just now I found a very good use for them!)...
Stefan Hamminga
Mesken BV...
In another thread here the use of programmabe mice came up. I was curious which settings others use.
Here are my settings:
Stefan Hamminga
Mesken BV
2005 Certified SolidWorks Professional
Mechanical designer/AI student
Hello, I'd like to start with some background. I'm 24 years old, been working as a full time engineer/designer for the past year, it kind of crossed my path... I have no diploma's or anything, I got hired just on my rep. and am doing really well.
Ofcourse this is a good thing actually, my boss...
