Well... Actually i used to use a lot of design tables in excel, but I thing is slower than use the own solidworks tools, because I can see the changes almost inmediatly, and see if I made a mistake... With design tables, I have to open it and close several times until finish... I use it to...
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I have to model a complicate swept from a 3d sketch. This part is in revision stage, so it probably will have a lot of changes. My 3d sketch is now full of dimension defining the poins from the origin, but is hard to my to modify because there are so may dimensions (I really get...
Yes... Is what common sense dictates isn't it? the problem is that when people wants to change something, I just don't know why just change the property (altough I try to explain them millions of times!) but the label. I know that if people understand that changing the value of the property can...
CorBlimey: Nop, I'm not the author. My macro is still under a debuging process and I'm not realeasing it to download yet. Anyway, it is not so configurable and maybe usefull only to my company. If somebody is interested in the source, I could email a copy to you, but you'll have to do an...
Well, thank you all for the advices. As the properties: I have a macro that open a window to fill all the custom properties every time a new part is saved for the first time. properties as Material (from the solidworks database) Finishing, heat treatments, hardness, etc. The problem is that...
Hi everybody! I have a question about Drawings... Is there a way to avoid that people can access to "edit Sheet Format"? Some of my coworkers use a template that I create, but for some reason, the think that is a better idea to override my links with "hard" data (I mean, Instead...
I check the printer settings. I have not change it since I got this workstation (a couple of monts) And the problem is only show when somebody else print the drawings. If I put the orientation in the printer setup as landscape, the drawings print correct, but a lot of other things print...
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I have a kind of problem here. I realize that when somebody print my drawings in other printer, with other settings, no matter if the page setup is set to print in landscape, SW2006 SP3.1 always print in portrait. I have to open every drawing, open the page setup, click in OK...
It works! When I "save as" the file size returns to the original. I just Save as another name, delete the original and rename the new file. Thank You Veri much snowcrash!!!!
Adi Corrales Magallanes
Centro de Ingenieria y Desarrollo Industrial
Queretaro, Mexico
well, I have the drawing border and the title block, plus two inserted bmp (46 and 13 kb Each). It is not so complicated. When I create the template for the first time, it has 500 Kb (is not that big) but the problem starts wheN I modify and save. I erased an old image that was so big, but no...
Hi. I hope that somebody can help me!
I was trying to send some drawings by email, but I notice that some of mi files are more than 8 mb size, while others are only 500 KB or less. I discovery that my templates have an 8 mb size, but I don't know why is this. I erase everything in the...
Yes, I'm prety sure that the problem is Novell. I just wonder if somebody else use novell and a Quadro4. I don't want to test all drivers I can get by myself in order to get the latest version that work with both. We can't change the network just because some of us use solidworks...
Actually...
This is just in case that somebody have this problem.
We use Dell workstations with nVidia Quadro4 900 and a Novell network. We use to have a problem when starting solidworks: It just freeze in the startup window and never loads. Whe had to unplug the LAN cable, start solidworws, and plug...
Well, I'll have to turn off the Auto center marks then...By the way... I'm Using SW2005 SP2... the problem is that my drawing is already done, and I realy hate to have that kind of errors in my models, drawings, etc (is like having the rebuild errors with Smart Fasteners...), But if there is no...
Hi, I have a part that have a lot of holes in it. For design questions, I have to add an extrude feature in this face, so my sketch include the holes as well as the form of the extrude (Yes, I know there are better ways to do this, but this was the best way in this case). I made my drawing and...
HI, I have a problem in my SW 2005 SP 0.1. When I put a hole callout in a drawing it looks right, but when I try to add some tolerances (a fit for a dowel pin, for example) the symbol of the depth and the fit, overrides. I mean, I have the (for example) H7 just in the same place that the...
HI, I have a problem in my SW 2005 SP 0.1. When I put a hole callout in a drawing it looks right, but when I try to add some tolerances (a fit for a dowel pin, for example) the symbol of the depth and the fit, overrides. I mean, I have the (for example) H7 just in the same place that the...
Is there a way to ignore collisions in a simulation? I want to see the movement in an assembly that have a lot of interfering parts (it was imported from other CAD, and it is so hard to try to fix it). I only need to see the motion along the full path and the simulation always stop at the...
Hi everybody... this is a macro question... I wrote a small macro that get the comercial parts of our library and copy all them in a single folder where the assembly is located. This allow me to copy a cd just by dragging the main folder, instead of save ALL references in the assembly (all my...
Yes, I know that. I always use my own little rule "If it have three constraintes, almost always is fully defined" Because I almost always constraint two axis and a face (my parts almost always have at least two drills for fasteners) three faces or two faces and an axis or two axis and a...
