My company recently upgraded me to a new fast workstation:
Xenon 3.7 GHz CPU
32GB memory
Nvidia Quadro K2000 video card
750 GB HDD
Windows 7
The odd thing is it now takes over 10x longer to load assemblies as my old computer, unless I unplug or disable the network connection.
For example...
I have a non-parametric part, imported as a Parasolid. It's a stainless tube with varying diameters and bends. I need to find out the internal volume - how much liquid it can contain.
What's the best way wo do that?
In NX4 I have a couple detail views (the little circular window) of a cylindrical part side view.
I can't figure out how to force a diameter dimension. I can select one side, but the other side is outside the circular window, so all I an get is the radius (the 4.235 dimension in the attached...
I'm trying to connect 2 cylindrical objects, but one is also helical (a spring) so I'm not sure how to make a guide path that's perpendicular to both ends.
But the "Bridge" doesn't have to be perfectly tangent. I'm just throwing together concepts for a rainstorming session, so if you have a...
I'm running NX4. When I try to insert a datum I no longer see the "Annotation Placement" box, so I can't change the default arrow to a pyramid.
This happened to a coworker a few months ago, and after checking this forum we changed his screen resolution. That fixed it.
Now mine is...
I'm trying to create a wave washer (wave spring) similar to the attached GIF.
It's not too difficult to create the circular path with 4 "hills" and "valleys", but when I try to sweep a rectangular cross section around the path, it banks the shape so it's not parallel at the top of the peaks and...
The nVidia "nView" drivers seem very useful... in theory, but I've never been able to get them to work properly in SWX.
It creates a couple new icons in the upper right of a window title bar to Maximize to both monitors or send window to next monitor. I can also set it to keep child windows...
I modeled a flat label 0.1 mm thick, with a few rectangles simulating the text fields & bar code, extruded another 0.1 mm.
What's the best way to wrap it around a cylinder? It wraps about 120 degrees. I can do it with lines, but not the 3D label.
I'm using NX4.
Whenever I try to do a sweep from a rectangular shape into a round shape it always twists the result.
What's the easiest way to get a smooth result? I'm using UG NX4.
I have a rubber washer. I'd like to create one reference set with it in it's uncompressed state (2.5mm thick) and another compressed (2mm thick).
I created a simple extrude for the uncompressed state, then added a "Subtract" extrude, to represent the compressed state.
I was hoping to select...
I'm using UGNX4. I know how to constrain a point to a line (or 2 lines) in a sketch. How do you do it in 3D space?
I have a bent tube & I'm trying to locate points where the straight sections would intersect, if the radius sections weren't there.
I'm a NX4 noobie, trying to delete components in an assembly created by someone else. I deleted the components in an array, but it wont let me delet the Array Master.
Someone posted this question in 2004 and was told to delete the "Array Parameters". I have no idea how to get to those.
I'm a NX4 newbie, with a few years experience in SolidWorks.
For some reason my manifold assembly is rotated a degree or two, and I don't know how to make it square again (see attached JPG).
In SolidWorks the fix would be easy: In the rotated part pick a plane, axis or flat side, then mate it...
I'm a new NX4 user, coming from a SolidWorks background.
It appears the first part in an assembly is "Grounded" - locked in place.
Is there any way to make it ungrounded, and/or make other parts grounded?
We're mostly happy with our nVidia Quadro FX 1700 cards running SWX 2007 on Windows XP Professional. We run 2 monitors.
There is a problem that I can't resolve. The nView settings have an option to "Enable child window spanning across miltiple displays." Even if I uncheck that it's still...
Is there any way I can aquire a free trial version of SolidWorks?
My nephew is interested in CAD and I'd like to show him the basics of the software, so I'd I only need it for a few days.
It appears SolidWorks stopped offering their "Personal Edition" trial software but I'm hoping an old...
I'd like to display 4 eDrawings sequentially in continuous play, for an unattended presentation. Each eDrawing would play for about a minute and the 4-part presentation would loop indefinately.
Is there way to start an eDrawing (saved as an EXE) & have it automatically go into Continuous Play...
I can't quite figure out backups in SWX 2006. After my most recent crash I lost a couple hours worth of work.
When working with assemblies & parts it doesn't seem to backup often enough, but in drawing mode it backs up so often it slows me down.
I'v experimented with the Auto Recover settings...
I've been running 2 monitors for over a year now and have had few problems. A couple months I upgraded to a new system with a Quadro FX 1400 card.
Every now and then when I click "Maximize" the SolidWorks window decides to go to the right monitor, but displays double-wide (half the window is...
I'm having trouble manipulating spline handles using the mouse.
When I try to orient the spline in one view it goes nuts in the other view. A 50mm long handle suddenly becomes >400mm long and looks bizarre in a different view. But when I try to correct it in the new view it goes nuts in the...
