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Has anybody heard of a vendor that deals in manually operated, spring return open, 6" and 4" NPT valves for a low mass flow application?

Ok folks, I've been asked a question and I'm hoping for a real-world not advertising propaganda response. What is the advantage to my company to spend the money to get at least one of my designers certified as a SolidWorks certified Professional? It's easy to see the the benefits for the...

Is anybody aware of a relatively painless way to redefine custom properties in a part or assembly file without having to go into each individual file? Currently we are using a series of custom properties <Description1, Document number> and the like and I'd like to transfer our system over to...

Has anybody dealt with the error codes that define which errors are coming up on loading a part? I'm working with my VAR on implementing PDMWorks in my office and they have a pretty cool app that loads every SW file your company has and reports what little error screens come up. Unfortunately...

Our IT guy just pushed out SP 3.0 this week and in plotting drawing I noticed that the option to convert draft to high quality has been grayed out. Has anybody else noticed this, or have they just changed things so that box is only selectable when there are draft quality views in the print?

Has anybody had the issues of adding an angular dimension to a sketch, then setting it to >180 deg, only to find the SW "interprets" what you want and gives you the angle you want in the wrong quadrant?

Ok guys, everything seems right here, so I can't figure out what code I have screwed up. I'm trying to supress certain parts in configurations with a design table. SW07 will accept my table without any erros, but when I set a component to supressed in the assembly DT nothing happens. The...

Has anybody seen anything that would suggest that the file size or rebuild time of a smart component is higher/larger than the dumb component it was made from?

Does anybody know how nicely PDMWorks and E-Drawings play together? I've seen the E-Drawings options in the PDM Admin tool, but my distrivutor sold my IT guy on the PDM Web client. Do we really need these clients or can we use E-Drawings for all of this?

Has anybody seen the issue where SW will magically and randomly decide that it wants to draw the annotations and such on a 2-D view, but not the model that is in the view? I'm running 07 with SP 2.2 installed, but I saw this issue in 06 as well.

Does anybody knwoo what changes were made to SW in SP3.0 or where I can look to find out what was done?

Ok guys, I'm new to this field, fresh out of school with my Bachelor's in MET. I've been working for an OEM in the vacuum industry for about 6-7 months now as a design engineer. After about two months on the job my boss handed me a title he dubbed "Manufacturing Engineer", meaning that any...

Ok folks, here's a good one. In SW2006 we had configurations set up for different lengths of pipe of the same diameter. When we would finish the system we were working on we would grab all these different lengths of pipe and put them into a flexible sub assembly with the main system. When we...

Does anybody know of a method to copy and paste a sheet within a drawing file?

I want to create a Library feature of fork holes to be cut into custom base plates that my company makes. What I want to know is if it's possible to have the cut feature for the fork holes only do a cut at the top level of the assembly or if Solidworks will always propagate the cut down to the...

In 2006 we had our printer options set to default to Black and White for the drawing color. I know there should be a default in 2007 to do the same thing but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Does anybody know where it is?

Ok everybody, got a real tricky one for you. When dragging different configurations of the same part in and out of sub-assemblies SW2007 randomly decides what configuration should be assigned to each part rather than the configuration that was selected in the main assembly. Has anybody had this...

Does anybody know how to dimension to the maxium edge of a circle instead of the center? There used to be a command for it in the more properties section of SW2006 but it doesn't appear to be there in '07.

Does anybody have a realtively quick and easy method for tracing out a sharp that is laying off center on a pipe. Currently we use a rolled shell with a pipe inserted X" from the shell center line. We cut an elipitcal hole in the shell to insert the pipe. Most of this is done in Solidworks and...

Does anybody know where I can find a quick reference chart for ANSI flange and NPT connections vs. DIN connections?