I have 2 unrelated questions:
1) When trying to drop a forming tool from our network directory onto a sheetmetal part, SW asks "Do you want to make a derived part?" instead of adding a form to the part. It happens with all of our forms on the network, but the tools provided in the SW install...
I am looking for a way to determine if 2 parts are within a specified distance from one another.
Example: a battery terminal needs to be 5mm away from any metal surface. I would like to be able to pick 2 components, the terminal and the enclosure, and have Solidworks tell me if there are any...
has anyone taken it? My company won't spring for the whole course (ROI blah, blah, blah), but I may have an opportunity to get the materials used in the course for self study.
So far I've taught myself the basics of VB/VBA (e.g. I've written a custom prop macro and designed a nice dialog to...
Just curious: Anyone know the difference between a 'force rebuild' (ctrl-Q) and a regular rebuild (ctrl-B or on the menu or the traffic signal looking button)? A force rebuild seems to be more thorough, as the name would suggest...if I have something that doesn't respond to a regular rebuild a...
Well our company has FINALLY decided to roll out SW2003 (they are doing it through Win2000 advertised programs which is done by the user - no IS visit needed). I've read several posts that indicate that you should turn off anti-virus protection before installing Solidworks. We have a Norton...
Our company likes to wait for the 1st SP to come out until deploying new software so we are still on 2001+ (that's what the IS guys tell me anyways). Recently, I've had some free time so I've really started exploring macros/VBA. I don't anticipate any problems with the macros I've written so...
Our company uses an Excel template to submit BOM requests (trust me...this is a SW question, not excel). The only required info is the part number and quantity. I wrote a macro to assign custom properties to parts and assemblies, one of them being the part num. I would like write an excel...
