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  1. dgowans

    Rate of Job Change

    To me, 3 jobs in a 5 year period isn't incredibly off-putting if the 5 year period is the first 5 years of someone's career. Early on, most people are trying to figure out their career path and not many hit the lottery with a career job as their first. Three jobs in a 5 year period later in...
  2. dgowans

    how to validate that a unit is sealed

    Thanks to all for the various suggestions - keep them coming! We obviously have more research to do but have more avenues now than we did a couple hours ago. IRstuff, agreed on the acceptance criteria.
  3. dgowans

    how to validate that a unit is sealed

    potteryshard, We've toyed with that idea, or something similar, but didn't go too far because of cost. In any case, thanks for the suggestion. Additional useful information for anyone else thinking about this is that the devices will be made by the millions and of course are cost-sensitive.
  4. dgowans

    floating Teamcenter licenses

    We're in the process of implementing Teamcenter. In our evaluation of the various PLM products, we found that TC licenses are not available as floating licenses. We're using Solidworks for MCAD (floating licenses) and the TC licenses for the Solidworks integration do float. Not sure how this...
  5. dgowans

    how to validate that a unit is sealed

    Our products generally consist of a PCB assembly that gets sealed in a plastic enclosure (roughly 8"x4"x1.5") via a hot-plate welding operation. Our current method of verifying that the welding operation produced a fully sealed unit is to heat the sealed product for a period of time sufficient...
  6. dgowans

    Import Diagnostics

    drawoh, Have you created any features after the import operation? If so, the import diagnostics will be unavailable. Even the creation of reference geometry will cause the diagnostics to be grayed out. IIRC, you can roll back to just after the import feature and then perform diagnostics.
  7. dgowans

    Bizarro circular pattern

    In your original pattern (the one that was giving the weird results), am I reading correctly that your pattern axis was a sketch entity? I'm not sure why a sketch entity wouldn't work, but would it be possible to create your axis via reference geometry (intersection of two planes or something...
  8. dgowans

    Plastics suitable for -40C applications

    Lexan EXL reportedly offers excellent performance at low temperatures.
  9. dgowans

    Ideas for a solid swept cut?

    You can pattern the part multiple times and cut each pattern instance from the part that needs the cavity. For example, if your handle will rotate through 30 degrees, create a pattern of your handle which creates an instance every 1 degree. Cut each patterned instance from your "mating" part...
  10. dgowans

    3DCC-Uh Oh..........

    Colin, I'm able to download and open the file in 2009, but I wouldn't say it's a native SWX 2009 model. The part opens and displays as I would expect it, but it contains two imported solid bodies and no history.
  11. dgowans

    Sketch Plane to be extruded

    cardiomed, Search the help for "Contour Selection" - you should find examples that clarify how to re-use a single sketch to create multiple features.
  12. dgowans

    PDM problem

    In the VaultAdmin program, confirm: 1) That you have read/write access within the relevant project(s) 2) That you have read/write access for the relevant Lifecycle status (if enabled)
  13. dgowans

    Sketch Plane to be extruded

    cardiomed, Use your sketch with the multiple contours as your master sketch. Then for each extrude of different depths, create a new sketch and convert the sketch entities of interest from your master sketch. One master sketch to edit, multiple features of different lengths based from the...
  14. dgowans

    BEND RELIEF ON INTERNAL CUTOUT BEND

    Agreed on checking with your fab shop. Even if the blank will be punched you have some latitude with your relief cuts, provided the cutouts can be made by nibbling the profile with a standard punch. In your example, this is not the case because of the sharp corners that are internal to the...
  15. dgowans

    Help saving a modified toolbox component to the vault

    Tom, You can use the sldsetdocprop utility (<install_dir>\SolidWorks\Toolbox\data utilities) to change the property that Solidworks uses to flag items as Toolbox parts: 1) Run sldsetdocprop.exe from the relevant directory 2) Choose the part (Add File) you want to check in to the vault 3)...
  16. dgowans

    Question of vehicular safety

    aafuni, I hope you took no offense to my remark, none was intended. After the thread turned to how best to extricate StructuralEIT from a tenuous marital situation I found that portion of your reply quite humorous.
  17. dgowans

    Question of vehicular safety

    Paging Dr. Freud...
  18. dgowans

    PDMWorks File Ownership help

    Tom, Adding on to fcsuper's response: You can reset the PDM login of the user on vacation, then log into PDMWorks as that user and release ownership. Log back in as yourself and you should be able to take ownership. Obviously you need to notify the other user about what has transpired.
  19. dgowans

    Teamcenter

    I was told, by our Teamcenter sales rep FWIW, that Teamcenter will generally catch up within 6 months of a major SWX release. I rarely am in a position where this is an issue for my department. I have heard that SmarTeam was an offender in this regard as well.
  20. dgowans

    Teamcenter

    I have similar concerns with Toolbox and CircuitWorks parts. I'm not entirely certain how we'll deal with these in the Teamcenter environment.

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