I have taken apart an electic motor that has a circuit board in it. Little did I know that there was also some type of oil inside it. I thought it was water at first since it wasn't working, that's why I took it apart, and by the time I realized it was some type of lubricant/coolant it was...
I had the question posed to me how to show, on a drawing, the material to be removed. For example let's say you start w/ a rec. bar stock 12" long. Then you cut that down to 8". How do you do a drawing and show the 8" in a solid line type yet show the 4" that was removed in phantom or...
Looking for feedback on what others are doing. We have 60 people that can print to multiple prints/plotters. The issue is one day a person will print a drawing on 11x17 and is happy. The next day they try to print 11x17 and get it on 8.5x11. I'm sure some settings were changed or they...
I've got a custom material db that works in 04 4.1 I can add materials and everything works fine. We are in the process of going to 05 3.0 I've tried using that db in 05 and I get a duplicate material name. Has anyone seen this or provide something to try to fix it. I've noticed that the...
I've got a macro that colorizes an assembly. I can get it to colorize it the first time but it should keep randomly appling colors, everytime you run the macro.
'Dim swApp As Object
'Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
Public CompNames As New Collection
Public CompColors As New Collection...
I've got a macro that colorizes an assembly. I can get it to colorize it the first time but it should keep randomly appling colors, as long as you keep running the macro.
'Dim swApp As Object
'Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
Public CompNames As New Collection
Public CompColors As New...
I was going to put in another enhancement request to show the threads in a lin pattern of a HW feature the other day, but noticed that the threads didn't show up in the 1st instance in sp1.1 Well after talking to my VAR and a lot of tweeking I finally got the threads to show up, but only in the...
Does anyone have a macro that will traverse an assembly file and apply a random color to all of the parts/sub assemblies. I've found a couple but the one that works the best seems to flake out when you get into the 100 parts/sub assemblies area.
Thanks in advance.
I'm using sw explorer for sw sp4.1 I sometimes need the ability to rename a file. I also know the file is referenced out of another location so I went into the search rules and changed the path to search the whole network drive. Not a good thing because it's been searching for an hour now. I...
I'm trying to do a linear pattern of a flexible subassembly and am not getting the results that I should. I've called my var and they are having the same issues. I've tried this in 04 and 05 SP 0.0. I was wondering if someone has found a good work around.
What we have is a subassembly with 3...
I found a custom addin menu someone has created. It works pretty well. It gives you an ini file that you can modify to your needs. To get it to work you have to open the .dll in SW and then it is available in the Tools addin section. My hangup is how do I get it loaded everytime I launch SW...
Has anyone found a way to get rid of trailing zero's in a dim tolerance. For example I have a dim 53 +0.1 -0.005 My setup wants to put it as 53 +0.100 -0.005. I found a section where you can set your leading/trailing zero's but it doesn't seem to change it for a tolerance.
Thanks in advance.
I was tring to create a block that had a couple dims and a surface finish call out on it that would be used by several people. When I inserted the block into a new drawing I got the dims but no surface finish symbol.
Does anyone know if this is possible to do.
I found this example code in the help file somewhere, I can't seem to find the original so this is modified a little. The original didn't work and it still doesn't. I want a macro that will tell me (in an assembly file) where all of the components are being pulled from ex. R:\standard parts\my...
Not sure if this is happening to everyone or not. When we put in a holewizard feature and accept the settings all of the annotations show up. I've made sure that the annotations are shut off before we select holewizard but we still get the annotations.
Any suggestions?
I created a custom holewizard definition by making a copy of the ISO database. I got everything to work so it shows up in the holewizard as a valid option, not too dificult. The problem I'm having is when I create a drawing that has one of my custom threads in it and use the hole callout...
I have this bit of code that I'm trying to modify to do an extrusion of a rectangular sketch with the dims that I specify. I've found in the API help where it tells me the definitions of the values I need to imput but I still can't get it to do a midplane extrusion with a value I specify.
Dim...
Is there a way to lock the widths of a BOM and if it exceeds that width then wrap the text to a second line.
I can specify the width when I setup the BOM template but but if I have a part number that is longer than my width it makes the column wider based on the text size.
I've seen some old...
