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  1. danlayzell8

    PDMWorks lifecycle status contol

    Its OK ... I just needed to reorder the status in the list. Dan SW2011 sp2.0
  2. danlayzell8

    PDMWorks lifecycle status contol

    I am trying to set up a PDMworks system but am having some difficulty with the lifecycle status. We have 4 status levels "Work in Progress", "Pending approval", "Approved for Prototpye" and "Approved for Production". These status are so that differnt people within the company can only see what...
  3. danlayzell8

    Drawing Sheet number -1

    Hi We make a lot of profiled sheet metal parts and I am trying to modify our drawing sheets. In the Drawing template I have added a separate blank sheet that will have a 1-1 unfolded profile of the sheet metal part so that we can easily create a dxf for CNC manufacture. We would rather have...
  4. danlayzell8

    Rotating sketch text in Solidworks

    Thanks chaps Its not what I expected and a little inconsistent with the way that other sketch entities work. However it works well and that is good enough for me. Just moved to 2008 and Im going through the joys of finding new stuff and the pain of nothing being where it was last week! Dan...
  5. danlayzell8

    Rotating sketch text in Solidworks

    I have just been asked by a colleage about this and have never been able to to it myself. We have a sketch open with Text in it. We would like to rotate all of the text through 90°. When you create the text there is an option to rotate the text but this just seems to rotate each character...
  6. danlayzell8

    Issuing/naming Drawings

    Paul I dont know of any standard but i would say that you are correct if the parts are all identical ( including finish colour) What happens in the stores? Do they have a separate location for each part number? Do the stores have to renumber? Do you or did you work for ATL? Dan
  7. danlayzell8

    Toolbox Material properties

    I am back on solidworks after 18 months on Solidedge and glad to be back. We are running Solidworks 2007 although soon to go to 2008. I am trying to set up a toolbox in a shared location ( on our server). The files have been copied across and it seems to be working ok. It has been set up to...

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