I am working on the design of a clip that will be used in our manufacturing process to help stabilize the corners of some flimsy frames.
It is basically a corner clip that will snap into the frame to help hold the corner square. It will be used a couple of times and then thrown away. It will...
Alright, I have searched all over and I can't find the answer to what I thought was a simple problem.
I have designed a table in SW and have calculated the CoM, now I want to know what force is required to tip it over. I am disregarding friction at this point and assuming the table will not...
I have spent all of my SW experience as a Product Design Engineer, but have sense made a career change to a Process Engineer.
My dilema? Plant layouts done in ACad! I hate it, I have picked up enough to survive, but man, I don't want to start up a new plant trying to wade through ACad.
The...
I am trying to figure out if there is a way to exclude a directory from a file search. I am trying to find a file on our network and during my search I would like to exclude a directory that is used for back up that takes forever to search through.
Anyone know if this is possible? I am doing...
Alright, I am relatively new to cutlists and assemblies. At least at a formal level of making prints with BOM's and Cutlists.
Here is my question. Picture a basic swingset, with two A-frames at the ends (made of 6 pieces total, 3 pairs of the same cut) and a couple of boards tying them...
I think I have an easy one here, but we will see. I know how to get custom properties from my model when my ActiveDoc is the model: SwModel.CustomInfo2(). How do I get to the custom properties if my drawing is my ActiveDoc?
I am working in the drawing and trying to update the title block, but...
Alright, I am making progress on my automation of our drawings, but I have a question. Is there a way to auto scale a view so that its no closer than 2" from the nearest border (after the view has been centered)?
I have a drawing with a single view in the middle, but my product ranges from 6"...
I am looking for a way to unselect all dimensions that are selected as "Mark for Drawing". I only need about a dozen dimension for my automated print, but part of the automated print generation is the importing of model items. Since I use a lot of weldments, all of the dimensions for the...
I am playing with a VB program that I downloaded through the API help, but I have run into a problem. First off, the program opens a SW assembly, creates a drawing from the assembly. It then cycles through each view to determine the size and rescales it to fit the border that was picked. It will...
I am trying to learn this macro and API stuff by looking at samples, but when I downloaded the sample, I can't open the files. I downloaded a SpotLightonAPI file that contained 6 files:
BeamSectMod.frm
BeamSectMod.vbp
BeamSectMod.vbw
Rectangle.sldprt
SWW02Spotlight on API.ppt
Tee.sldasm
The...
I am having some problems getting my custom properties to load from my DT. When I set up my DT, I use $prp@OrderNumber, but when it load to the custom properties it goes into Configuration Specific, but not the standard Custom Properties.
I have not intentially setup any configuration in this...
Alright, I am new to Macros so I have just been recording and reading at this point. My goal is to create a macro that will combine two or more fields from the custom properties as the file name and save in the current directory. Is there a macro out that does something similar to this that I...
Alright, I am looking for answers at the 30,000 feet level (aka no lines of code!).
Here is what I am trying to do. We have a basic part, different styles of window grids. Each style of grid fits in infinite different sized windows. The goal is to be able to take customer data on the window...
First off, this is my first post, but what a help you guys (and gals I presume) have been! Very helpful forum.
I am trying to figure out whether or not I can change a dimension from driven to driving through an equation? I have a situation where if a formula meets a certain criteria, I want...
