I want to control the length of a spring in an assembly by having that length related to the distance between two components (one static and one movable).
I remember back in my Pro/E days that I could create an equation that made the length of my helix equal to a measurement of the distance...
Is this possible?
What I'm looking for is a way to kind of "link" each Rev symbol to the dimension or annotation that it belongs to. The reason I would like to do this is so that if I move a view or a dimension the rev symbol would move with it. Currently, when I move a view or dimension, I...
Does anyone here show the revision level of component parts in their BOM tables on assembly drawings? I can foresee that doing this will cause major problems in the future, but am being told that I must do this going forward...
What happens when you revise a component part that's used in a lot...
Is there a way to mate two hinges to a door and frame in such a way that when the door swings, the second hinge follows?
For your reference the two hinges are two separate sub-assemblies that are essentially mirror images of each other. I set the sub-assemblies to flexible and mated the first...
I have a part that was created by mirroring another part. I used the "insert mirror part" command. I broke the link to the original part during creation. I now see all of the features for my mirrored part in a folder called B0014030_Mirrored Features1.
However, when I try to create a drawing...
Is there an option to create a reference pattern in solidworks?
For example, I create a cut on my part and then create a linear pattern of that cut (4 instances). Then using the hole wizard, I place 18 holes on the first cut. I then want to pattern the holes by referencing the pattern of the...
When you create a pattern in a part, the pattern feature only gives you the option to define the spacing distance between features. Then in the drawing, the model dimension that shows up is the spacing dimension. I would like to have each hole dimensioned from the end of the part to minimize...
I noticed that in these forums there doesn't seem to be a complete process for inserting logos into SolidWorks parts using Adobe Illustrator files. Yesterday I kind of stumbled upon the trick for successfully creating the logo in SolidWorks using the .AI file. See below.
In Adobe Illustrator...
Is there a trick to showing model dimensions in a flat pattern view? I have a sheet metal part with several cuts that go across bends. So, in the model, I unfolded the part, created my cuts, and then folded the part.
In the drawing, I have created a flat pattern view. For some reason, in this...
Here is another quirk that just appeared (or I just noticed for the first time). I searched the forum and found a post about the exact same problem that was written in 2005. Unfortunately, the recommendations from that post didn't solve the problem.
So, here's the problem... I'm revising a...
Preface... I have found several postings on this subject, but all are closed and I don't see any valid solutions posted.
My company uses alpha revisions on our drawings (A, B, C, etc.). Through PDMWorks, we want to track primary and secondary revisions (A1, B1, C1, etc.), so that when we check...
I apologize in advance, as I'm sure this has popped up a million times on this forum, but I have searched far and wide and haven't found a solution...
In Windows Explorer, the Solidworks icons are slow to populate. They take maybe a half a second each, but I can watch them populate one by one...
