Has anyone had good success savings 200-500 pc sub assemblies as parts and building a upper level sub with these type parts in order to get drawings out. Our upper level assys may have 3300-5000 parts total and even with a light weight config with fasteners turned off we may still have 2500...
Does anyone have any ideas why copying and pasting drawing views from one drawing to another is causing SW to crash. If there is a broken out section SW crashes every time. Is this a known issue? Solutions?
SW2006 sp4.1
We are having problems when we cut a section in a drawing getting a message that SW could not properly section the model and to check to see if the section line in fact intersects with the model. We use a lot of sections in our drawings and we had a drawing sectioned and balloned and now that...
I have downloaded an assembly (native solidworks) with a layout sketch that drives the stroke. I added a configuration (by changing the layout sketch depending on current config) for the stroke and it behaves as it should. However when I insert this assy in the upper level assy and have two...
How do I reload a title block. I have edited our title block but cannot reload. If I start a new drawing I get the desired changes. On existing drawings I cannot seem to get the changes to appear I have saved the the template as a sheet format.
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I need to show a before and after modification (alternate position view) for a part. I don't want to insert this part into an empty assy and chg configs there because I will have to redo model properties. If this were just one part no problem but we may be looking at this for close to 100+ parts.
Our company is starting to impliment digital signatures. Does anyone know if you were to save a SW drawing as a pdf will you get a pdf that Adobe professional would be able to edit (in other words is it a smart pdf, or is it the equivalent of a scanned pdf)?
Is it possible to have a drawing view that includes a large alternate position view and crop out most of the phantom that is not needed. I cannot seem to crop any of the alternate position view entities. Is this a software limit?
How can I set up the paper size when I want to schedule a print task? When I try and print some existing drawings I go to the pull downs choose my printer and try and select the paper size but the selections seem to be the same regardless of what printer I choose and the selections I need are...
When I am mating parts together most of the time I will see the two parts come together in a default arrangement i.e. bolt and hole will assume a concentric mate and allow me to change the orientation or do someting different if this is not what I need. But some times I will see no preview or...
Is anyone having problems opening simple drawings? We are seeing open times around two minutes for even the simplest parts after they were converted. Save, rebuild close and reopen does not change the times. The task manager is not seeing a hit on memory or cpu times. Dual xeon 3.2 2mb...
We use a lot of 11X17 booklets i.e. one solidworks drawing with multiple sheets. This works well when we create new drawings, we have received a large number of 11x17 drawings on single tab drawing files. Is there a way to create a new drawing file and add a sheet that is an exact copy of the...
I know this is a tiny nitpicky question but it is a procedural requirement on this project, but on our section
views if we change the scale of a section from the view the section was cut from we are required to show the section label at one size and the scale below set to one half the font size...
Is anyone having problems with PDMworks crashing a session of SW? I am having problems getting a unhandled error if I try and even open the pdmworks flyout, (many times I may not even have a part or assy open) We are running SW2005 SP4.0, and PDMworks sp4.1. Problem presents itself in several...
I have an assy that I need to section, when I try and create the section at a prescribed location I get the error that a section at that location will produce invalid solid bodies. I have also found the same thing when I tried to create a section veiw in a drawing I get an unusual section view...
Does anyone know a way to use a balloon as a column line symbol and force a straight leader to be either vertical or horizontal. I have tried using a balloon without a leader and getting it close to a sketched center line but it never looks as good as it should. What is a good method to locate...
We are having to make some changes to our title block and must reload the title block on several hundred drawings. Can I do this with the task scheduler run custom task and how would I do this.
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We have numerous booklets of details which may contain anywhere from 2 or three up to 50-75 sheets (one per detail). I cannot seem to save the entire file as a dwg, only one sheet at a time. Is there something I can do to save the entire file with all sheets as a dwg in one step.
SW2004 sp5...
