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  1. diamondcat

    Property Tab Builder-Custom Properties

    SWX 2010 SP0.0 1) I recently (today) learned how to use the Property Tab Builder, I have created a .prtprp file and can use it in my part files. When I go into a drawing file and hit the Custom Properties Tab, it does not give me the option to select template files that I created and used...
  2. diamondcat

    An Ortho from a Broken View

    I have limited MDT(2004DX) experience and I am trying to work with a broken view. I finally figured out how to make the broken view but now I am stuck. 1) How to make an ortho view off of the broken view and have it broken in the same spots and inline. 2) How to add a break line symbol to the...
  3. diamondcat

    Internal Audit Issue....No employees left to audit!!

    Hello, I am hoping someone here can give me some insight into how I can handle this situation. We are an automotive engineering company. Last year we were ISO 9001:2008 certified. At that time we had over 50 employees and we had the following groups: Management Sales Recruiting Auto Group...
  4. diamondcat

    Best software/file type to use to make a dumb solid to scale

    SWX 2009 My customer sent me an assembly of a pump that has many pieces that are not mated. The assembly is drawn 25.4 times too big so I need to scale it down. I saved it as a part file and inside this new part file is a bunch of solids and surfaces. I tried to use the scale command and it...
  5. diamondcat

    Double split on a single part

    SWX 2007 I have a rectangular part which is 1"x1"x7". Picture it standing on end, so it is 7" tall. I need to split this part twice so that it ends up in three pieces. I would like the first split to make the top a seperate body that is 1"x1"x1". I have managed to do this fine. Now I would...
  6. diamondcat

    Can you cut-extrude to an offset from mutliple surfaces?

    SWX 2006 SP5.1 Lets say I have a block with a flat front face and a wavy, multi-surfaced back face. I make a sketch on the flat front face that, if projected, would intersect with a couple different surfaces on the back wavy face. I want to make a cut into the block, using that sketch, so...
  7. diamondcat

    Measure Tool Problem

    SWX 2206 Hope fully this is is pretty simple question, I just can't figure it out. I have a checker here who sometimes needs to open the Solidworks 2d drawings and measure some distances. I showed him how to use the measure tool but there is one instance where we have a problem. He wants to...
  8. diamondcat

    Eng-Tips Search function won't work for me

    Just wondering if anyone knows what I could be doing wrong. Whenever I do a search on this forum it doesn't find anything. I can do a search for the word 'the' and it won't find anything. I have never had problems before, but the last two times I've tried to search it won't work. I wrote a...
  9. diamondcat

    Bringing in Iges file, need to 'Stitch' surfaces

    Hi, I have a customer that had his Solidworks file altered in another software (Surfcam). When he brings the file into Solidworks now, imported iges, all he gets is surfaces. He is asking me to help him and the Surfcam guys said that all I have to do is "bring the IGES into Solidworks and then...
  10. diamondcat

    Surfcam file into Solidworks

    My customer gave me a .rar file which was drawn in Surfcam. Does anyone know of a way to get this into Solidworks or to convert into a .stl file? I also have Pro-E and Catia that I can use to convert as well. Thanks
  11. diamondcat

    Is it possible to Pattern a Decal?

    I have a small round cord that would hang around someones neck. I was wondering if there is a way to pattern a decal along the entire length of the cord. I wanted to put my customers logo along it. Thanks
  12. diamondcat

    Looking for Military Spec or SAE Fastener Library for Pro-e

    Hi, Does anyone know of where I can get a fastener library that is either Military or SAE spec and is in a Family Table Driven format. We are checking into PTC right now but I was wondering if anyone knew of any other ones. Thanks
  13. diamondcat

    Balloons on sheet #2 (details) need to match Sheet #1 BOM

    SWX 2006 SP 5.0 I have an assembly and its BOM on sheet #1. Sheets #2-9 (within same drw file) have dimensioned details for that assembly on them. I want to be able to put a balloon on each detail sheet and have the number in that balloon read the same as on the Assembly BOM from Sheet #1. I do...
  14. diamondcat

    How to Get a Wrap Feature to Show up on Drw

    I have a curved surface where I used the Wrap feature to deboss some letters onto it. These letters do not show up on the drawing file for this part. Does anyone know how to make these letters show up on the drawing? Thanks
  15. diamondcat

    Weldment Sub-Details

    SWX 2006 SP4.0 We have a part which is drawn using the weldment feature. On our 2d detail sheet, we need to show a sub-detail view of one of the plates because there needs to be machining done on it before it is welded into place. I thought I could make a separate configuration where I turned...
  16. diamondcat

    Photoworks + Transparency Problems

    SWX 2006 SP 4.0 My end product needs to be a plastic cylinder with advertising on the outside and some mechanisms on the inside. I just started using Photoworks this morning and have managed to get my advertising decal on the outside of my cylinder but I am having problems with transparency...
  17. diamondcat

    'Insert Exsiting Part' Missing from menu

    SWX 2006 SP4.1 I have a guy here who is working on smaller assembly file. He typically uses the Insert/Component/Existing Part-Assembly to bring in new parts. He was using this command, in this assembly, previously this morning. Now it is not listed as an option. So he went to...
  18. diamondcat

    Problems with Fastners

    I have a job that I completed over a year ago. The customer comes back now and says he doesn't think he can find all of the final docs and wants us to send him a new set. The problem is that when I open these assemblies, that I did over year ago, all of the fasteners blow up. I am not on my...
  19. diamondcat

    Multiple File Document Properties Change

    SWX 2006 SP4.0 I have about 100 drawings which need to be converted to our standards. Basically arrow sizes, text sizes, etc. I thought I could fix one file, then save the Sheet Format on that file, then open each other file and replace the Sheet Format with that one. I was hoping all of the...
  20. diamondcat

    List of Missing Parts

    SWX 2006 SP4.0 Is there a way to get a list of all of the parts missing in an assembly? We have customers who have trouble giving us all the required parts when they send us assemblies. Up to no, we have just been copying and pasting, into a word doc, the file names from the error notes that...

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