Can someone please give me some practical examples of where you would need to use a reference geometry coordinate system. I don't really understand what they are used for.
If I'm in an assembly and I right click a face to edit a part is there a way to make all the other parts in the assembly automatically display in wireframe mode?
I can't figure out why I can't use Surface Offset 8 so that I can use Cut With Surface. When I try this I get an error message. The part can be found here.
http://www.mydatabus.com/public/belinda/Handle2.sldprt
I remove the check mark from Auto Select and manually select the 14 solid bodies...
In SolidWorks 2007 I find that I constantly have to go back and forth between shaded and wire frame mode in order to select the entities I want. This is because when I right mouse click in wire frame I get different choices with Select Other than I do when right clicking Select Other in shaded...
When I try and fillet some button holes that are in the top cover of my model it causes the sketch that I used to make the buttons to go dangling. The sketch for the buttons are just offsets of the holes in the top cover. The top cover fillets fine but it destroys the button sketch and I can't...
I have an assembly drawing. When I choose wireframe display I would like to have it display the wireframe lines without colors. Right now I get the part color as the line color. How do I get all the lines to be black?
I start off with a sketch that contains the OD of the big and and the OD of the little end. I extrude. I then create a sketch for the material between the big end and the little end. I use the previous sketch for reference to create the arcs that go halfway around the big end and halfway around...
Once you insert a sketch picture into a sketch, place it where you wish, and then close the sketch how do you move the sketch picture if you later decide the placement of the sketch picture is not right?