I just started playing around with the "peg in hole" smart mate. It seems that this doesn't work if there are radiuses or chamfers on both ends of the pin. These features must be suppressed in order for the smart mate process to work. They can then be resolved and everything is fine. THis seems...
Here's a new one in 2007 drawings. I don't seem to be able to select the dashed circles around threaded holes so I can hide them. This is important because I don't want them to show up in the DXF files I send out to the laser cutting service. I can remove them from the DXF file after I create it...
I run SolidWorks on a laptop. In the office I have a second monitor Which is where I have my main SolidWorks window. Typically dialog boxes (save, document properties, etc) open on top of the main window. When I run SolidWorks without the second monitor the main window opens on the laptop screen...
I have run into an issue when trying to use H-W to make holes in an assembly. I am able to create 5 or 6 H-W features then, for some reason, H-W is no longer available (the button is grayed out). It's like I've hit some limit. I also can not make H-W available again by deleting some of the...
I need to copy one assembly file, all it's part files, and all the associated drawing files from one folder to another folder. SWExplorer does a fine job capturing the assembly file and all the associated part files but I don't see a way to grab all the drawing files as well. Can this be done?
Is it possible to align break lines in adjacent drawing views?
I have a drawing of a long part with three holes in the top view. I put in a couple of vertical breaks, so I can fit the part on the sheet and still see the holes. Now I want to break the side view and position it so that the ends...
I wonder if there is a way that a group of files can be renamed all at once. Our file names are ten digits long, three of these digits denote the specific machine. I have an assembly file and group of about two dozen part files for which I want to change those three digits. I know that I can use...
I’ve just noticed a problem with SolidWorks Explorer. I don’t use SolidWorks Explorer frequently so I can’t say for sure when this started but I noticed it yesterday. The last time I used it, about two weeks ago, it worked fine.
Anyway, when I (try to) start SolidWorks Explorer, from both...
How do you select a part, for inclusion in a balloon stack, when you can't see it? I've tried "select other" with less than good results. I've also tried "3D Drawing View" but the balloon stack disapears. The only reliable way that I've found is to put some sort of cut into my assembly, so I can...
Does anyone have any current experience RivaTuner and SoftQuadro? I would like to tweak my NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5650 but I want a bit of direction before I start.
I had to replace my hard drive, without being able to export my SolidWorks settings. The old drive is still readable (just not bootable). I have pretty much gotten things back to normal , all except my custom Hole Wizard databases. I was able to locate folders that have the same names as the...
I just replaced my old Microsoft 5 button optical mouse with a Logitech wireless mouse. The only wierdness I've noticed is that now when I zoom with the wheel the "Zoom Origin" is the center of the display, not the location of the mouse pointer. I can't seem to find any setting that effects...
Has anyone out there created a custom Hole Wizard database for G Series British Straight Pipe Thread holes? I have been trying to do this based on the ANSI Inch standard, but I am not having any luck. The format seems fairly straight forward, but I never seem to get the desired outcome. Either...
I just added a couple of custom databases to my Hole Wizard. I would like to modify the verbage that Hole Callout creates when it is used to dimension holes created from these custom databases. I figure that this will involve editing calloutformat.txt and/or calloutformat_2.txt, but I really...
Is it possible to "pre-configure" a table so it has different text formatting on different lines when it is inserted in a drawing. For example; I would like to have my weldment cut-lists to use one font in the top row, where the column titles are, and a different font in the other rows, where...
