I have a drawing file roughly 53MB in size that takes around 30 minutes to save over our company's network. After running some tests, our IT department seems to think the issue lies within SolidWorks and how it save files as opposed to our network. It's not just that file giving the CAD...
I have a drawing view in which only a few hidden lines need to be shown. There are a ton of other hidden lines in the view, though. How do I quickly get rid of the many I don't need and keep the few that I do?
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I recently encountered an issue with a drawing and how it related to its assembly model. In this case, I have a cylindrical bushing that has two configurations: default and swaged. Swaging is the process that reduces the diameter of the bushing. The bushing consists of an inner tube, bonded...
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I have a drawing of an assembly where some of the views need to show hidden lines of certain components. How do I change a view in order to show the normal object lines as well as hidden lines of some (not all) components? Thanks for your help.
I tried to submit data to Nissan via TC-Passion and got an error stating that there was a "Fail in Weight check". Has anyone ever received this error and if so, what needs to be corrected in order for the transmission to be successful? I've contacted Nissan's Global help desk but they are very...
I've created an Offset Section view which in turn has an auxiliary view associated with it. The customer now wants an Offset Section Cut instead. Can the Offset Section view be modified so that none of the background entities are visible? I really don't want to re-do the section view and it's...
I have an A0 size drawing that needs to be changed to A1. I know how to change the sheet size from A0 to A1 but the title block itself doesn't change. Anyone here familiar with Honda and how to change the title block?
I've been trying to create a 2D drawing based off of a previous drawing. The print references a main assembly which in turn references a sub-assembly. One of the components in the sub-assembly gets changed and there are two instances of a different component that get changed in the main...
My co-worker and I each have a seat of SolidWorks 2008. We frequently receive 2D drawing files from our parent company in Japan. When I open these files on my machine the Japanese text looks fine. That's not the case for my co-worker - the Japanese text gets converted to squares/rectangles. Does...
I have an assembly/2D drawing that I received from a customer. One of the parts in the assembly needs replaced with a similar part and sent back to the customer. I opened the drawing and did a 'Save Management' - the drawing and assembly were saved to a new folder and the rest of the files were...
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I have a CATIA (v5r20) assembly that requires a couple of native SolidWorks 2008 components. I saved the SW components as STEP203 files, opened them in CATIA and gave them proper names. The components were then added to the assembly and a new drawing was created.
The problem I'm having...
I've been having a problem with converted entities in an assembly not being constrained. Instead of being black, they're blue and I cannot figure out what's causing it or how to correct it. Thanks for any help.
I'm working on a drawing that has some test results shown as an average value. The engineer wants to express these results as 'x(with an overline) = value'. Is there any way to show the overline and have it be incorporated into the text? I've tried creating the text in Word and copying it to the...
My company uses a divided hexagon symbol to denote key dimensions. I tried to persuade them to use the actual key symbol located within SolidWorks but was unsuccessful. Does anyone know if this symbol can be created using text? I'd like to have it located within my favorite text files instead of...
I don't use I-DEAS very often and when I opened it today the 'master annotation' menu window was gone. I'm not sure how to get it back so I'd appreciate any help.
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My company has been using NX3 for the past few years and we're getting ready to migrate to NX5 soon. I was poking around and couldn't find the 'patterns' menu anywhere. I'm used to seeing it under "Format-Pattern..." but it's not there. Anyone have the answer? Thanks.
I need to start V5R18 in Admin mode in order to change/lock some options required by customer. I don't have documentation available and was hoping someone here could give instructions as to how it's done. Thanks for your help.
Viewport is used at my company to let everyone see the latest controlled version of our 2D prints. An HPG file is created from UG and then imported into Viewport as a vector file. UG is our main CAD software but we've been told to switch to SolidWorks. The only kind of file I can print to in SW...
I have a 2D drawing that references a single part. That part has been changed and is a different file than the drawing currently references. How do I make the 2D drawing recognize the newly revised part? It seems like it should be easy enough but I don't have a lot of CATIA experience and...
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I need to submit a 2D drawing only to one of our customers. They do not want the 3D data. How can I remove the associativity to the 3D data in order to meet their needs?
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