I have a Dell M4600 15" laptop. It's a reasonable spec. (i7, SSD, 16Gb RAM, etc.) and runs SW nicely. Trouble is it's a BEAST... After a long day out this week, several train rides, cabs and walking around with it all day the size and weight were annoying me. It's impractical on a train, the...
Owing to a job change, I've transferred in from SolidWorks. Used the SW forum on here a bit but need some Inventor help now!
When creating a parts list on a drawing, I notice my item numbers are often out of sync. As part of our issuing procedure we:
- RMB on the view > Bill of Materials,
-...
A friend has asked me to lend a hand with some work short term as they are over-stretched. The work on my part would be done evenings/weekends as a second job and I live a long way away so I can't be under the same roof. So my question is, what is the neatest way to execute the job in terms of...
A friend called me with an odd problem: he's created simple sketch, dimensioned it and the info. bar at the bottom of the screen states 'fully defined'. 'Everything is black, including the line end points' he says. Yet, 'if you left click and drag a line, you can move it. Once you drop it, the...
I'm getting an error message as per the title when trying to edit a design table... I've tried searching t'interweb and found an old thread which has a few suggestions, but nothing has worked so far. Behaviour is as unstable as they describe, however: I had the misbehaving file open on Friday...
Ok guys, here's a quandary... I've set up a dummy model for you to have a look at. Think of an old-fashioned telescope. The telescope has four sections: part one (the outer one) is fixed. Part two slides in/out of part 1 by a limited distance. As part 2 extends, it takes parts 3 and 4 with it...
I was sent one from a client: 35mb in size! Tried opening in SW but it unpacked into about 3500 separate files... I opened a couple of the unpacked files and they seemed to be individual surfaces with no obvious assembly or usable part. I tried opening in Inventor thinking if it worked better I...
I work for one of my clients one day a week on their site, the rest of the time I'm office-based. I have a laptop for site and a desktop machine in the office. I have data on the office server that requires copying to the laptop before going on site, then back from the laptop when I return to...
As a final delivery for one of my clients, I have to export 12 different formats into a folder, which I then zip and send off. Currently, I have macros for save-as pdf and dxf, but do the rest by hitting save-as, navigating to my chosen folder then picking the format I want and saving. Bit slow...
Is there a way of creating a hexagonal hole with the hole wizard tool, or another wizard? I like using feature driven component pattern to add fasteners into wizard-created holes, but if I want to add a Hexsert I currently have to cut-extrude a hole and therefore lose my pattern feature.
The...
Another poser for the masses: I've been asked about detailing some parts for manufacture, which were created in Rhino. Some are quite free-form and organic, while others are flat with radii on the corners. Client wants to have a functioning model made for approval.
Trouble is that so far it...
I have a new toy: a SpaceMouse Pro. I quite like it so far, but one real irritation is that in assemblies it doesn't seem to changed the centre of rotation in the same way as it does in parts. In a part, if I zoom to a particular detail, release the puck, then rotate around, the centre of...
Hi all - got an interesting query. We have a staircase to model and detail design: I've attached a model, which has been created by a colleague. I've not looked into it in depth yet, but will be doing as you read this! The basic dimensions have been supplied by an architect and we have to fill...
I have what I think is a reasonably simple corner on a sheet-metal panel, but cannot use the sheet-metal 'welded corner' tool to create a welded corner. I've attached an image and the offending part.
Pretty sure you'll be able to see what I'm aiming for, so any suggestions to achieve that are...
Done a bit of searching (and will continue to try myself...) but not found what I'm looking for yet. I have a client who wants to use my Solidworks model as a basis for some graphics work. He's asked me to produce an image of a part (flat sheet-metal) in plan view showing the various colours I...
I'm designing a part that will be milled from aluminium. I want to specify a chamfer feature but do not want it to run the entire length of the edge it will be placed on. I don't know what this might be called, and I haven't managed to get exactly what I'm looking for by searching, but I have...
Hi folks. I created a pack of drawings some time ago and the client has called this morning asking for all the BOM's in Excel format. I know how to save one BOM out as Excel, but wondered if there is a faster way than opening each drawing individually and saving-as. Any suggestions welcome...
I went to site recently to help with the build of something I've designed and it seems something slipped the net... On one of the parts - a flat 10mm thick piece of alu. - I specified some countersunk holes: they were correct on the part, and I went so far as to hit edit feature to check I...
I've just opened a drawing, which was sent to a client a week ago and was fine (showing four views of a part) to find that all my views are now just dashed boxes with a cross through! What has gone wrong?! Part is in the same folder as before (all parts and drawings are in one folder) and...
Hi guys - I'm more of a regular over in the Solidworks forum, but have a query on AutoCAD today...
One of my colleagues has come in this morning and tried to open a file in AutoCAD Mechanical 2012. When you double click to launch in the normal manner, the ACAD icon appears on the start bar...
