GRF and all others thanks for the replies it seems it's a half solution to a problem .I'm not bashing it but now I have a handle on it it doesn't,t quite do what I was thinking it did and the reasoning is quite simple but ibthink it does take a while to get rid of the old way some of us work.
Jeff they seem to be reference dimensions not the actual sketch dimension if for example I draw a disc of material 90 diameter +/-0.1 and 10 thick +/-0.25 I set the tolerance in the model sketch I can reuse this in the drawing.
I get going with dimxpert ,set primary ,set secondary datums and...
Sorry perhaps I should elaborate more
I can create my geometry the way I always have and add tolerances
to the model dimensions i used when I sketched my features.
however it seems if I wish to add geometric tolerances etc to my model for the purpose of model based definition I need to swith to...
Yo can run quadro cards in the mac
My latest i picked up for 1300 its last years twin harpetown model but i installed a 1700 quadro (again cheap) with no problems
some on here might know but solidsmack are fans of the mac and a great resource if your new to solidworks on the mac
At this moment in time we are testing all sizes
theres a great deal of debate on this topic and a lot of bullS$$$ that goes with people not knowing or understanding the requirements and making rash conclusions ...the majority of the time these false positives are achieved by people with little...
i was using something called designfoil to generate the xy points but its difficult to get it into cad soi i just thought maybe someone knew a section that was in that speed range and could point me in the right direction
thanks for the rplies though
precicely why i got out of the bike industry but am now working back in it...a certain element of fun thats hard to find anywhere else but drop me a line if theres anything you want to know
Unfortunately dont know what happened to my other thread?
Does anyone know of a good NACA aerofoil generator I want to take the xy plot int a 3d cad system
I need the section to have low drag and work between 20 and 50 mph
any advice freatfully recived as i am not an aerodynamics whizz by any...
Im Now on my second mac
The first mac which was last years suffered a problem after 3 months of use ,dead inverter board
I personally think it was something to do with windows as I read more and more it seems that the power management is far less in tune with the hardware than when the macbook...
You need okino polytrans it wil open a native solidworks file and export as a .3ds
The following from solidworks to 3d studio
iges is painfully slow
parasolid is not supported
its like any thing take time to learn what you have
ive seen great results with
photoworks
maya
cinema 4d
rhino
3d max
houdini
renderman
brazil
final render
if you can work the software then you can get a result
the photoworks renderer is a good implementation of mental ray into a cad...
guys its early days yet with this so ill keep posting my findings
ati cards have really always been off(way off) my picklist
the problem with the graphics isnt major for me at any rate
i can have 15to20 parts openedin their own window and itrunsno problem if i tile then thisis when things get...
cbl
i tend not to take offence by comments made by yourself
and in general find your posts informative
the medium of type more often than not does not provide much of an incite into the lightheartedness a comment has has been made
such was the case when i mentioned the derision (dry sense of...
any of the intel based macs ( ihave a macbook pro 17" 2.33ghz 2gb ram)
it has an ati card but that doesnt present any problem
bootcamp (downloaded free)
parralels runs in parralell to osx the problem is that it doesnt have complete rule of the roost when it is being used
you can toggle...
ps i had the bonus of my partner being a graphic designer
so even if i came up short she could in theory just use the thing
now we argue over who gets to use it before this i used to slate her crappy i book not anymore
it was me that asked
however since being derided by the community at large and in the interests of going boldly
yes i did buy a mac pro
yes i run boot camp rather than parralels
so i have osx and windows xp which works on the same hardware the only gripe now is i hear rumours of a octo...
