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  1. gatnact

    work to home

    I am starting to do some work at home for my company and would like to know how exactly to get all of my settings and toolbars and design library and just pretty much make it like it is at work. kind of like a solidworks total pack and go. Does anyone know how I can go about this?
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    looking for auto's

    I am looking for a place where I can find different car, suv, rescue vehicles, and law enforcement vehicles for presentation purposes. Anybody know where to find these?
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    isometric view in drawing

    I was wondering if anybody knew how to set "parts" to transparent in a isometric view of an "assembly" in a "drawing"?
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    serch not working.

    I try to use the search before I ask any questions and end up coming back with no results. Am I using the search function wrong, is there a specific way of using it. Frankly I have tried holding my tong every which way I know how. The question I was trying to look up was where can I find a site...
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    how do you make a decal?

    I am trying to make a decal out of a jpeg. and am not successful at all. Does anyone know where I might find a tutorial on how to, or good instruction?
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    Broken view problems

    I was wondering if I was the only one who had this problem. When I put a broken view on a part every time I rebuild it seams to suppress the broken part and make the part full size. Now this is an easy fix, all I have to do is hit the rebuild button again. But when I have more than one sheet I...
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    The "-" in the BOM is not showing up!!!

    I was wondering if there was a way to have the "-" show up in the BOM for dimensions. I can do it i just have to go into every part that we have ever created and change it to override and that fixes the problem. I want to fix all of them at the same time.
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    broken broke view!

    I have this problem when I use the broken view function. After applying it to a part or parts, when I rebuild, the function seems to no longer be applied to the part in which was applied to. Sometimes I am using a second sheet and if I print then the not so broken views seem to extend past the...
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    I need to learn to weld.

    I was just informed today that I now need to learn to weld in solidworks. I am running SW2007x64. Does anybody know where I might be able to get more information on this subject besides the help menu.
  10. gatnact

    AUTOCAD to DEGeditor...

    Well I just switched from sw07 to sw07x64 because they got me a new computer and is running windows x64. I no longer have AUTOCAD on my computer and am now using the DWGeditor. All of the old CAD files on my network that I open in DWGeditor open with all of the fractions with two lines, the...
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    New sw07x64,sp3.1 old settings?

    OK, so yesterday my boss brings me a new computer...HP w4400 Work Station Intel(R) Core(TM) 2CPU 6700@ 2.66GHz, 4 GB RAM. We installed SW07x64 with sp3.1. I saved my old settings to the network, hooked everything new up, then installed my old settings it says it was successful at installing my...
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    another B.O.M question.

    I don’t know how this is happening. I will insert my B.O.M., then do any adjustments then go about the drawing doing my work then the item #1, 2 and some times 3 will go away and the numbering will start from there. When I go to the B.O.M. contents my missing # will not be there and at the...
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    HIDE ITEMS IN THE BOM

    I am using an assembly that has over 500 parts. I do not need all of theos parts to show up in the bill of materials. I am hiding each item under the BOM contents button. My question, How do you hide more than one item at a time?
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    CROP LINES SHOWING...

    I am trying to get rid of the lines around the crop view. When I try to crop parts in my assembly it leaves behind the lines I used for the crop I need to get rid of all of these lines. Does anyone know how to do this?
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    unhide all

    I was wondering if there was an un hide all command. I went looking for one but never found one. I have an assembly that has alot of parts in it, I have three others working on this project with me and its a pain to go through all of the sub assemblies and parts to see whats hidden and not.
  16. gatnact

    assembly is gone man!!!

    Last night I was working on an assembly and the server decided it was going to start updating and kick me out. I waited a little while restarted Solidworks and the assembly I was working on gave me an error that said my assembly contained an unexpected object. Can anyone tell me what this means...
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    ASSEMBLY, SUB-ASSEMBLY, DRAWING.

    I WAS WONDERING IF THERE WAS A WAY YOU CAN TAKE A LARGER ASSEMBLY, SELECT A FEW SUB-ASSEMBLIES THAT REFFERENCE ONE AND OTHERS DIMENTIONS AND INSERT THEM INTO A DRAWING? THE WAY I HAVE BEEN DOING IT IS TAKING THE WHOLE ASSEMBLY, INSERTING IT INTO A DRAWING AND HIDING WHAT I DONT NEED. BUT IT...
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    LINE TANGENT TO CIRCLE

    COULD ANYONE TELL ME WHY??? WHEN YOU CREAT A NEW PART YOU DRAW A CIRCLE, THEN YOU DRAW A LINE FROM EATHER THE LEFT OR THE RIGHT TANGENT TO THE CIRCLE, THEN YOU DRAW A LINE UP VERTICLY THEN HORAZONTALY IT SNAPS TANGENT TO THE CIRCLE? KIND OF A STUPID QUESTION BUT WAS JUST WONDERING IF IT WAS A...
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    Q. about graphics card.

    I have been having a lag problem. Tech support says its my graphics card and our tech. person here says I need to install all the updates for solidworks. They did get me a new graphics card. ATI fire GL v5200 but it does not go to my computer. I am not sure if they are going to exchange it for...
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    five sided flag???

    I am working on match marks for a DWG. and was wondering if there was any way to take the five sided flag in the balloon comand and make it hidden or broken?

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