I personally know of no solution to your two questions. AFAIK both of these things will need to be accomplished manually in a drawing. The unpredictability you mention, however, is likely more to do with how you dimension sketches or define features than with SolidWorks' lack of automation...
Thanks also to you, Jabberwocky. If the management is willing to spring for a little more to support this supplier that model may be the way to go.
Mark Stapleton
Watermark Design, LLC
Charlotte, NC
www.h2omarkdesign.com
Thanks, Mr. Limey. Would you say that you would actually recommend this printer, or is it just one that you found doing a search.
Appreciate the feedback, regardless.
We've got a supplier who's rather low-tech, but who is getting more up to speed (with email) so that we can share drawings with them better. I'm thinking about getting them a decent B size printer so they don't have to run into the office every time they want to see smaller detail (on the...
UNJ internal threads simply have a slightly larger minor diameter to allow for the larger root radius of the UNJ external (male) thread. For a cutting tap the pilot hole size isn't critical and you can probably use a normal tap drill unless you're dealing with hardened steel. If you're using a...
Define "files".
Files could be interpreted as SolidWorks files, AutoCAD (DWG) files, PDF files, DXF files, STEP files, IGES files . . . What does the customer actually need?
Mark Stapleton
Watermark Design, LLC
Charlotte, NC
www.h2omarkdesign.com
If your customer will accept PDF files then simply do as dgowans writes -- open the drawings in View-Only mode -- then Print the drawings to Postscript files (.prn) and convert (or have someone convert) the Postscript files to PDF. You can also save the drawings to TIFF format (SaveAs does work...
Always check the Geometry Pattern and try to create the feature. If it fails, THEN uncheck Geometry Pattern.
Mark Stapleton
Watermark Design, LLC
Charlotte, NC
www.h2omarkdesign.com
I was trying to check out Excel to see if there is a way to automatically change a flow chart if the data driving the chart is reorganized. I don't see it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. See what can be done with hyperlinks.
Mark Stapleton
Watermark Design, LLC
Charlotte, NC...
I suspect that your swept cut is losing relations because of the way your original solid is created. Try creating your original (rectangular profile) solid via a sweep. The guide curve for the original sweep can be Converted to be the new guide curve for the sweep cut. BUT since that sweep...
If you have already installed Acrobat Reader 7 version (as I did) in response to some Web site indicating you needed to update your Reader version you MAY start noticing problems. On two different systems – my home computer and the laptop I use on the road – I noticed the computer slowing down...
OK, well that makes sense.
Good, then there's not much to be confused about. Can't say I like it much that you can't edit the Configuration Name -- at least via Export and then Import -- but as long as the user has control of the Part Number and Part Description that seems to do the job...
Yes, that's the basic deal, Scott. But I'm adding to it the use of Export and Import, and directions for same. If I'd had your link I would have made my message simpler. Basically I THINK it might require a new Standard to be able to edit using Export to a spreadsheet and re-import from the...
I was just today successful in Importing new data into a new Toolbox "Standard" from a spreadsheet. Earlier I had posted a question indicating that I could not get this functionality to work. To digress momentarily, this allows one to edit a Toolbox part type definition en masse, using a...
Sounds like a relatively easy thing to design -- basically a robotic end-effector -- if it's a given that the center of the ring can be found. A 3-jaw devide that opens from the inside of the ring outward sounds about right. If the size of the rubber ring doesn't vary that makes it almost a...
Yes, I followed all instructions as well as I understand them, and I did note that I got error messages if I did anything wrong in editing the spreadsheet before trying to import it. Especially it seems the header information in the spreadsheet must be left alone. But when the Import seemed to...
I'm working "direct" for a company now and am transitioning them to SolidWorks from AutoCAD, and I'm working in SolidWorks 2005. Perhaps 2006 or the Beta of 2007 has the following problem fixed, but I can't test that. I would certainly think that it would be worth fixing if it's broken. The...
If you're trying to do something like apply a tolerance on a bore size wherein you want, say, +.0002 minimum oversize to +.0008 maximum oversize, then just place a plus (+) sign in front of the MINUS tolerance value. It ends up showing correctly in the drawing with both max and min tolerance...
