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    SW Properties disappearing when saving dwg as PDF

    Has anyone had issue with erratic (not all the time) occurrences when saving (maybe printing too, but for sure saving) a dwg as PDF where properties such as description are still existent in the dwg but they have been "emptied" and their value is blank? This then leads to the PDF not having...
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    Disassociate Model Item dimensions after inserting them in dwg

    Wondering if there is a clean way to: a) Disassociate drawing dims from the model after inserting them "automatically" via INSERT MODEL ITEMS OR b) Insert dimensions a different way, without doing manually, so that they are not associate to the model Basically trying to QUICKLY (obviously I...
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    Reference text in the parameter cell of design table

    I thought there was a way to show reference text in the parameter cell for a design table. i.e. "D1@Sketch2 Moment arm" where "Moment arm" is the reference text. Am I just remembering wrong or is there a way? I realize you can change the name of the parameter, but adding in Excel, at least for...
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    Scale problem plotting with a custom size in SW

    I have a part that is about 49 in lg. When plotting it 1:1, using a custom sheet size (i.e. ?" x 55"), it scales bigger, by about 6% (i.e. 49" comes out at about 52"). When use a "std" size, like "E", the scale is good. It is just that now I have to print more than one because "E" is not long...
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    Backing out of Print Preview in SW

    Hi all, Does anyone know if there is a way to "back out" of print preview in SW, back to the print dialog? Seems to me that the only way is to select "Close" or ESC but both completely close out the print dialog and you have to reopen. Now, I use CTRL+P, so not a terribly big deal, but...
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    Alternate Section View with Same Label

    Anyone know if there is a 'clean' way to have an alternate "Section A-A" for example. Maybe that is not correct to have an alternate view, but I want to. And by clean I mean I can 'fool' it by making another section and call it A-A and essentially blanking out the letter in the parent view, but...
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    Weird display anomalies

    Anyone get weird video anomalies of inactive windows, usually the most recently active, popping up partially in SW and then going away with a click of the mouse? When I go to use SW OpenGL, goes away, which I have been told means it is the video card which I know is insufficient already, but has...
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    SW09 Tolerance Issues in Dwgs

    Anyone having or know of an issue with tolerances in '09? We have been having these seemingly random occurrences of tolerances changing in what appears to be as a conversion from 0.1mm to inches based on the initial value as inches but treating it as mm to be converted. AND it shows the negative...
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    Loft problems

    Anyone know why all of a sudden "edges" are now appearing on my loft? They are indicated by the "no" symbol in the image. They are where I have my guide curves (the 2 you can see and the symmetric ones on far sides). They have not been showing up and now all of a sudden they do and they...
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    Video Card - SW

    We have video cards that are not SW Cert but we dont see a lot of problems (we work primarily with relatively small files, which i assume is why). But occasionally we have some "anomalies" which I suspect might be the Card. One in particular that a couple of us have seen rarely is when...
  11. SWISGR8

    Radius Dim Arrow Positioning

    Anyone know how to get the arrow for this dim to contact the radius while still being on the side I have shown? I have played with the arrow orientation grip/toggle to no avail. Come across this now and then but just keep. We have preferences here to no use the "witness arc" if possible. Thanks
  12. SWISGR8

    Auxiliary View

    Anyone know why when I have an auxiliary view for which I change the relative angle of the parent entity, the view orientation doesn't change with it? Thanks
  13. SWISGR8

    Sweep instability

    I have helical torsion spring part with of course a helix-driven sweep as the base. It has a straight "tang" on one end and a formed "tang" at the other, both sweeps are off the base helix. The formed tang is on the end opposite the beginning of the helix curve and uses a 3D sketch for path...
  14. SWISGR8

    Dimensioning in Detail Views ...

    I did a quick search on this in FAQs but don't know what to call it, so didnt find anything. My situation is that I am trying to dimension in a Detail view to a centerline in the parent of the detail view, BUT that centerline is not in the Detail view (it cant be due to the magnification...
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    Graphics card issues

    My new company ordered a quadro nvs card for my new SW computer before I got here, but to my understanding, this is not a good nor approved card for SW. I have this problem when viewing OLE images in dwgs (maybe other things too, this is all I have come across) that they appear and disappear...
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    Design Binder

    To me, a convenient way to add files to the Design Binder, especially when there are multiple files, is to drag-drop them from the windows explorer, but it seems like the only way SW will do this is to make them linked attachments. This, in my experience makes the requirement that the files...
  17. SWISGR8

    Airplane Models ???

    Anyone know a good place to download models of airplanes such as C-130's ??? Free preferred or minimal cost. Thanks, Mike
  18. SWISGR8

    Design Journal Shown at Open

    Anyone know if there is a way/setting to make SolidWorks open a document with the design journal showing? I would like it to be more utilized and made aware of, but even for me, I dont always think to use it. But Id like it to pop up right away so any important design info that is in there...
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    Section heading subtext

    Anyone know if there is a way of changing the text size on the Section, View, Detail, etc subtext (i.e. Scale 1:2) from what is used for the "SECTION", "VIEW" .... w/o manually doing it and loosing the parametrics of the scale value? Thanks, Mike
  20. SWISGR8

    Toolbox ??

    Seems we have always had problems with the Toolbox fasteners, etc. We have it located on a "server" and of course between unknown issues and server issues, we occasionally have problems with these fasteners (ie not finding specd config, etc and then messing everything up). Anyway, my opinion...

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