I'm looking for a way to have our total part cut/burn length (combination of outside & inside) for our SW part files and have this total distance information displayed on our drawings? I'm sure this would involve a macro or something similar to achieve this and was wondering if anyone else has...
I have a slot that I need to pattern. The number of instances that I need to pattern is 11 with a distance of 1.125 between the slots. One end of the slot needs to stay on the same horizontal axis and the other end needs to shortenwith each instance by .0773". I'm pretty sure that this can be...
I've got an assembly that has a part that telescopes in and out and I want to show a it in both states, fully extended and compressed. What's would be the best way to do this?
I'm thinking by using a configuration in the assembly but I'm not really sure how to make it happen the way I want it...
I've got a sheet metal part that has some cut outs that are rather close to bend lines and when we go to bend them the cut out areas flare out. Is there anyway to leave material inside the cut out in my model so that they can open the cut out after forming? I've attached a picture of what my...
Can you help a guy out please. What would be the best way to model this part. I guess I have an idea of how to start modeling it but it doesn't work out for me.
It's .024 thick 304SS. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I've created a piece that I've inserted bends into and when I go to do my drawing in the view pallete the flat pattern is showing up as the top view not the piece in the flattened state. Am I doing something wrong? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I have a whole bunch of files that start out with the following two symbols: ~$ {file name}.sldasm
These files correspond with other SolidWorks documents, what are these and should they be deleted or what should I do with them.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I'm building an equipment skid and I need to place some connection plates in the part to allow bolting and unbolting of the skid assembly. Whats the best way to accomplish this?
I recently upgraded to SW2009 SP01 and noticed that I no longer can retrieve files from the vault for PDMWorks. Has anyone else encountered this problem??
I have a little dilemna/question and I hope I'm not making more of this then I need to. I have this assembly which is made up of two separate parts the first part we'll call "A" is a piece of flat plate that gets machined.
Part "B" is a piece of round bar that gets welded into part "A" to make...
This is kind of a newbie question i'm trying to get my part description to show up in my BOM's on my drawings but for some reason I can't get them to show up. I'm running SW 2008 SP 3.1.
It's got to be something simple that I'm missing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I'm having a heck of a time adding multiple leaders to balloons in an assembly. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't work worth a hill of beans. It's very frustrating, any ideas why this happens??
I've searched other threads on this subject and found one that was useful but I've tried doing it the way that TheTick had outlined in thread 559-199521. I create a revolve of my cone and only revolved it 358 degrees but when I go to insert bends I keep getting an error.
Can anyone help me out...
I have a sanitary weld fitting that is a certain distance from the bottom of a radiused hopper and I'm trying to extrude cut my pipe for the fitting into the bottom of the hopper. Everytime I try to it comes up with an error saying it needs a surface or that it can't find an end to the feature...
When I go to open a file in SW I used to see a small picture of the part before the file name but just recently those have disappeared. Any ideas why and how do I get those back? Thanks.
We are a job shop who does a lot of different stuff and I was wondering if anyone has experience using SolidWorks for heavy structural steel projects like ladders, platforms, handrails and the such.
I have a seat of SW08 and would like to implement it company wide but need to make sure it will...
I've created a cylinder that is going to be made from plate and rolled which has pipes running into it and I need to dimension to the holes in the flat pattern view but I can't dimension to the holes in the flat pattern. Any ideas??
I have a piece of pipe with one end at an angle and a mating piece of pipe that has the same angle on it and I'm trying to mate the two elliptical faces together.
It won't let me do a concentric mate, what's the best way to mate these tow pieces together. Thanks.
Why when I'm in an assembly and want to create a new part in the assembly and move it along the X-axis does it move it along the Z-axis. Any ideas? I'm new to Solidworks and I'm trying to figure some of these things out on my own.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I'm fairly new to SolidWorks and I'd like to know what's the best way to create a hollow sheet metal cylinder and unfold it to a flat pattern. I can create the cylinder I just don't know how to unfold it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
