How would one show using GD&T the timing of (2) indentical sprockets on a shaft? There will be a conveyor chain with slats that will run on the sprockets and need to be timed pretty close or there is a good chance that the conveyor slats will skew and possibly become jammed.
Scorch
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Here is the story line. We have a weldment/assy that is complete, drawing and all. We need to make an almost identical weldment/assy with the exception of (2) parts. Is there a way to do a Save a Copy, give it a new number, change the (2) parts in the weldment/assy open the drawing and change...
Does anybody have a cheat sheet on what the differences are between the two standards? Doing a search for the differences give me many opportunities to attend classes to learn what the differences are. I just need a quick and dirty list of the major differences, any help would be appreciated...
I was thinking it was possible to pattern a component in an assembly to follow a sketch/path. I can not find in any info on how to do this, I have found the info for patterning a feature in a part but not a component in an assembly. Am I wasting my time thinking this is possible, my memory has...
How would one dimension a cross hole in a round shaft? One method that was presented was to use a straightness on the cross hole and two perpendicular call outs to the axis of the hole, is there a preferred method of doing this? We have not been able to find any examples of this anywhere...
Is there a way to add a chamfer to a weldment (machined feature), or does the chamfer need to be added to the component part it self and the display of it controlled by a configuration. It has been a long time since I have had to machine after welding and I thought there was a way to add the...
I have been asked to do a little research to see if Visio plays nice with Pro/e. We are going to be changing over to Pro/e from Solidworks in a about a month and they want to know if you can embed a Visio file into a drawing in Pro/e like you can in Solidworks. I can not find any information on...
Inserting a PDF into our titleblock regardless of the check box that says display as icon the PDF will only be a icon in the titleblock. On some systems it will work correctly and on others it will only display as an icon. Am I missing a setting somewhere?
Thanks,
Scorch
SWX 2006 sp3.4
Win2000...
When inserting a Rev Table the row height will default to .34 we want it to be .17. Is there a way to get the template to save the row height that is entered. I have adjusted the Rev Table with the info I want and did a save as template by right clicking, but the row height defaults back to .34...
I have created a macro that will take a model view and insert it on to our DXF drawing sheet and will do a save as and save it to the user specified location. On some computers the macro runs without any issues on some other computers the macro fails to create the DXF and save it to the location...
We just upgraded to 2006 sp3.1 from 2005 sp5.0 yesterday and now when anybody starts a session of SW a dialog box pops up and tells you "A journal file could not be created. Another session of SolidWorks may already be running on this machine." I have checked and verified that no other instance...
I've looked for the document property for "Apply same color to wireframe, HLR & shaded". I am looking at making a macro to check or uncheck that box, but I am unable to find the call for it.
Thanks,
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Does anybody know if there is a software that will export a SWX file and convert it to a HPGL file. I have only found add-ins for importing HPGL files into SolidWorks.
Thanks,
Scorch
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Hey All,
Has anybody using SW2005 gotten the "Exclude from BOM" to work. We have tried it on a couple different workstations to no avail. We are using an excel BOM and we are on SP 4.0.
I searched and found thread559-102859 which refers to SW 2004 and is no help in finding a solution. We need...
Has anybody experienced this problem? We recently changed our titleblocks and updated the sheet formats for our different templates, when an old style drawing is opened and you reload the template with the new sheet format the Rev Table always defaults to Letters. Our new format has the Rev...
Is anybody having a rebuild symbol in the feature tree that just refuses to go away. I have a rebuild symbol on the top-level and one on a sub-assembly below, I expand the sub-assy and have a rebuild on a part file. Opened the part file did a rebuild and a Ctrl+Q, It keeps the symbol needing a...
I looked in the API help and could not find anything to return the perimeter value that you get when using the measure tool. I want to retrieve that number and use it elsewhere in a titleblock via a macro.
Scorch
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll...
I have an exploded assy drawing using jog lines to show construction of the assy. I have a need for detail view that just happen to include some of the jog lines. Is there a way to hide the jog lines in the detail view? I searched the forum and looked in the help, but no help at all. The jog...
I think this is the best place to post this. Let me know if this should go into another forum. I was asked if there was a standard that stated material up to a certain thickness is call "sheet" and anything above that thickness is called "plate". I can not recall if there is a standard for this...
I currently have a macro that will create a PDF and save it to the active docs current directory. I am having trouble finding any reference to do a save as and change the directory that the file is saved in. The final result that I am looking for is to run the macro and have a PDF saved in a...
