Our company uses a lot of nuts, bolts, screws, rivets, etc. that mate to slotted holes on large flat sheet metal surfaces. The slot spacing may vary but tends to be a repetitive (only sometimes linear) nature. So, I have been trying to come up with an intelligent approach to adding fasteners to...
I am trying to learn the weldment features using SW2012x64 in preperation of taking the certification test. I am going through the 2009 training manual I found lying around the office (I know it’s slightly outdated). The exercise I am working on, I believe to have the model geometry correct as...
Our company creates our controlled prints in English. We retain a De-tached drawing on our local network & save a copy as a PDF to send to suppliers, customers, and internal facilities overseas where English is not the native language. They open them up (currently) in English, and are having...
Are there keboard shortcuts available for Solidworks for symbols such as centerline, +/-, degree, etc?
i have found a few ALT codes that will work, but i was hoping for something similar to AutoCAD's %%p & %%c.
i know they are out there, at least some, because i have stumbled upon <T#-1> for...
My boss prefers to use eDrawings as his default program to open files (for his purposes, he just needs to view & print). Problem is when we try to change the file type association to eDrawings, it wont let us...
we RMB a .SLDDRW and click "Open with...", then browse for the EModelViewer. when...
I am using ACAD2008LT, and am trying to bring in a jpg (or bmp, gif, etc.) into autocad to trace some artwork a customer has sent us.
I used to be able to do it in ACAD2000 just fine, but in 2008LT it comes in as an empty rectangle with the file name in it.
Is this something that has changed...
i am trying to call out a dimension of a folded piece of seat belt (see pic) weaving through a round bar (not shown).
As shown in the picture, i am trying to call out the length of a certain segmant of various curves together (as the hand drawn spline). I had hoped that i could create a chain...
When ever I hit the "X" cancel button in the Feature Manager inside of COSMOS Works 2008 SP0.0 SolidWorks crashes with no exception.
For example, if I were adding a restraint & didn’t like what I had selected, it I hit the check mark, & go back to delete it, everything is fine. If I hit the...
First off, I primarily use SolidWorks 2007 Professional, but do use AutoCAD as a secondary program almost on a daily basis. So I am sorry if this is a null point of has been covered already.
Our company has recently “upgraded” from AutoCAD 2000 to AutoCAD LT 2008. As I am getting settled in, I...
I am trying to set up PDMWorks for my company and would like to have employees outside engineering to be able to view the documents in the vault (using eDrawings in Soldworks Explorer), but not be able to check out or save a local copy. is this something PDMWorks or PDM Enterprise can handle, or...
