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    Flattened parts drawing

    Hi All, I flattened some simple sheetmetal parts in "Generative sheet metal" module. All looks good but when I try to create a drawing to export to laser cutter it shows the unflattened parts. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?? thanks thixoguy
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    Transparency control

    Hi All, Just wondering if anyone understands how to control the transparency level. That is, you are given a slider which you figure would offer you some sort of control. Mine simply acts like an "on" "off" switch. Any comments? As usual, Thanks in advance thixoguy
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    Send To...

    Hi All, I have a fairly large assembly that contains quite a few sub-assemblies. I would like to, if possible, do a "send to" that allows me to select only a few of the sub-assemblies. Is there any way that I can select the subassemlies to send and have the system automatically select all of...
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    Annotation To Drafting

    Hi All, I am creating a quick layout for some machines to be placed on our shop floor, it is nothing fancy. I am creating the machine footprints in sketcher. I am identifying the machines by creating an annotation inside the box that represents each machine. Is there a way that I can carry...
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    Scale in lower right corner

    Hi All, Could someone please refresh my memory... how do you turn on/make visible the scale in the lower right hand corner of the screen? Thanks, thixoguy
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    Slow Performance... Any Tips

    Hi All, I am running R18 on a 64bit system but with very slow performance. I am not doing anything fancy, simple operations seem to take forever. Does anyone have any tips? My work files are all on my local drive but my licence is on company server. Could the license file retrieval be...
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    Catia and working on networks

    Hi All, At work I keep all of my files on the company wide network. I find that I am encountering problems with significant wait times for very simple updates. The CAM guys have similar problems so they routinely copy the file to their own drive and things seem to work a lot quicker and at the...
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    Hand operated press

    Hi All, I need to design a simple press. Our R+D guys currently use a small arbor press (press in/out small bushings etc). They would like something with a handle and perhaps an acme thread with a handle on it that they could turn to advance it. This is something we want to make inhouse. Do...
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    Using assembly "scenes" in drafting views

    Hi All, I am using assembly scenes to generate views in drafting. The problem I have is when I have a catdrawing with several sheets, each with a different scene I don't know how to track which scene is in which sheet. I look under links but I don't see any reference to the scene used to...

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