Good after noon, what I would like to do is make a dovetail form tool blank and save it as a part. Then insert it into an assembly and and then import a mfg. part and mate them, so that the the mfg. part is on the face of the dovetail form tool. Then I would like to do an Extrude Cut, thru all...
Good after noon. I have a link of jack chain, which was made by sweeping a wire diameter on a composite curve. It kind of looks like a figure-8. I would love to create 10 more of these links, but nothing is working right for me and I keep getting nothing. I just need to be able to move these...
Hello, I have a dumb question here, is there away to change the cross-hatching of free-cutting brass from straight hatching to diagonal hating, like "Brass"? Thanks for any help.
Good afternoon. I am finally on SW2013 and we have recently started to using weld beads in our assemblies, which we can see. My question is, is there away to make the weld beads visible in the drawings? I would like to see more that the weld symbol in the drawing. Thanks in advance for any...
Good after noon folks I have an interesting mind teaser. I have to modify a model and in the process I have to delete a couple of features, like a chamfer and a radius, but there are some relationships that appear when you try and delete them. My question is, is there a way to break those...
Good afternoon. I am looking for a way to view our drawings on computers which do not have SW on them, like the one in the toolroom. I found this free download called SolidWorks Viewer. So my question is can it run in a stand alone environment and view drawings in read only, and it does not...
Good after noon, I have a simple question or maybe it is a wish. I have a configuration in one part that I would love to be able to copy and paste into a configuration in another part. I have been playing with it and so far I have not figured this one out,, so my question is, is there a way to...
Good morning I hope. Does anyone know if there is a way to copy or import one or two extrusions from one model to another model? The two models are very similar. Thanks in advance for any help.
Good morning, I have be trying for the last hour or so the to do this and so far nothing. I have a cylinder with a configuration in one part file and I want to copy that configuration to another configuration in another part file, but I have not figured out how to do it yet. Anyone one out...
Good afternoon, I just made a part and saved it as an .sldprt, which is a part. In our other plant they have Gibb's CAM, which is a Gold VAR for SW. They just tried, several times, to import my part to Gibb's, but when it arrives it is a .sldasm, which is an assembly and totally unusable to...
Good afternoon, I am not sure this can be done in SW, but here goes. I have a hose, which is inside of a armorguard tube, which is basically a ahose within a hose, so to speak. In the drawing I would like to be able to peal back the armorguard a short ways to expose the inner hose for...
Good afternoon folks, sense you are some of the most knowledgeable people I know on the subject of Solidworks, I have a really tough question I need an answer for. We did this 20 years ago with a Bravo system on a Mac and I hope we can do it with SW as well. Here is what we want to know if SW...
Good after noon. I have a drawing with one sheet of the drawing exactly what I want, so I would like to copy it. I have a second sheet in a different drawing and I would like to paste the copied sheet into the blank sheet in the second drawing. I have tried CtlC and CtlV and nothing comes of...
Good morning, I have discovered a small problem and I am not sure if there is any way to fix it other than to delete it. I have a profile on a plane and I turned it into a composite curve and then I created several profiles and attach them to the composite curve and all was well. Then I had to...
Good after noon, I have one assembly with a tube with a single loop, helix and swept, in the middle and a part on each end. I can use the weld bead on each end and get a weld and the is what I want. I have a second assembly with a tube and a double loop, one loop up and one loop down and made...
Good afternoon, I have an assembly I am importing into a drawing on the first sheet and I am selecting Isometric for the view orientation. This shows the back of the part and on this sheet this is what I want to see. I do the same on sheet 2 and I get the same thing, but I need to see the...
Good morning, I just installed 09, Lord Help Me, I tried to just reorder the drop down tool buttons, like Fillet/Chamfer off of Features so the it is just the reverse and chamfer is at the top. Customize menus still does not move chamfer to the top and so I was wondering if there is a way to...
Good afternoon, I have notice that right after upgrading from 06 to 08 that the color of brass changed from a brass-like color to a ugly mud brown. I tried copying a o0 material table into my files but that did absolutely nothing. This is of course the color applied when making a new part and...
Good morning, I was wonder if there is a way to change the command button in the tool bar. For example the fillet command button and the pull-down arrow, which is chamfer. Is there a way to reverse that so the Chamfer is the command button and fillet is on the pull-down arrow? We use chamfer...
Good morning. I am trying to make a model of a hose with an inner core liner. The model is a coiled hose and so I am using a helix and I can sweep either the core profile and the braid profile, but not both even if they are in the same sketch. There are a dozen different versions of this...
