I'm attempting to make a macro (not something that I'm very good at) that given a width and height of a plate, will create a centered array of holes at 2" on center. I can get it to create the right number of holes, but I can't get them to center, so that I often end up .75" from one side and...
I've been working on some animations that would loop on a display at a trade show, so I'm trying to make them as large as possible, with no regards to file size. However, I've found that once I get to certain size (a width of between 2000 and 2500 pixels at screen ratio) it all goes to hell...
While editing a width mate in a simple assembly, I found that all of a sudden I was unable to select faces, inside or outside of the mate. Yes, I checked and doublechecked the filters. I'm just making it for a rendering, so it was easy enough to workaround by inserting it into a new assembly...
Now, I've discovered that inserting an assembly level cut removes 2-D materials that intersect the cut. 3-D materials, however, are fine. SPR time. Unless anyone's got a workaround?
I have an assembly that contains multiple configurations of the same part. I have the "display PhotoWorks materials in SolidWorks" box checked, so I can see that all the materials are registering correctly before I render. However, when I render, only those with the most recently used...
We recently implemented PDMWorks without any sort of official training, so I'm sure we're doing some things less than optimally. In one sub-project, there are both parts and assemblies that contain those parts. From the PDM pane, the assemblies are visible, while the parts are not visible...
If you could add one functionality to SolidWorks, what would you do? Maybe it's something that's incorporated in an add-in like SolidMap, but you'd like to see fully integrated. The majority of my work isn't creating designs (or if so, they usually aren't complex), but presenting them, at...
I have a sub-assembly in a slightly larger assembly for usage in Animator. Within the sub-assembly there is a distance mate, but it does not show up in the tree for Animator (but a distance mate at the assembly level does). Am I missing something? This seems like it ought to be a functionality.
I created an assembly with 168 parts in SW 2007 a while back. Now, about half of the steel studs that I used to create it are MIA. They show up in the design tree, but are invisible in the window. All the mates show up as being valid, and I can select them in the tree to edit them, and when I...
I have a sheet metal part with a lot of bends in it, and I want to make an animation demonstrating how it's bent. For one set of bends I was able to make design table driven configurations increment the bend angle. However, for some reason it won't do it for the second set of bends. It tells...
In this case, I have a part named 150KAN150 checked out from PDMWorks into a folder on my desktop. Testing out how well Solidworks Explorer works (for non-SW users at our company) I searched for KAN, and it didn't turn up, though all sorts of files in the design library with kan even in the...
If I have a variable designed to be configuration specific, in this case the pitch of a roof, but no physical dimension representing that, can I enter it in a design table? I could determine the angle and enter that for each new configuration, but I'd rather be able to simply enter the pitch...
I don't see anything in the SolidWorks help about removing from multiple leaders. Say for instance, I have a note pointing to a few holes, and I want to remove one of them...is it possible? As it is, it's not a terrible inconvenience to delete the note and add a new one. Still, I'd like to know.
Some time back, I'm not sure how far, I started having problems rendering certain textures. For instance, cast galvanized is fine, but machined steel isn't. On some textures, instead of gradually fading from light to dark across the surface, there are visible lines where the shading suddenly...
I'm not sure when this started happening, but with a particular part, as I suppress and unsuppress individual bend lines to create configurations, they sometimes disappear! The bend line is still there and can be suppressed or unsuppressed, but doesn't show up in the part or the drawing. And...
I sometimes accidentally add a projected view relationship when I drag and drop into a drawing, creating an alignment that I don't want. In this specific case, I'm starting with a flat pattern and then adding views of configurations with one bend added at a time (think your old Transformers...
I recently used animator to make a video for my company's website (and for my first real attempt, I'm pretty proud). Animator saved it as an avi, then I used Windows Movie Maker to save it to wmv, which was much, much smaller, and more feasible for a website. However, they're worried about mac...
I'm making a drawing from an assembly that has a few arrays of rivets and screws in it. Some of them show up fine, but some of the rivets don't completely appear, i.e. missing the rivet head. I've made assemblies with more toolbox parts in them before, and the rivets show up fine in the...
