too bad nobody has already taken the McMaster Carr solidworks files and integrated them into a custom McMaster Carr toolbox for solidworks? that would be great!!!
what do you mean by "solids for fasteners from McMaster-Carr?"
I guess nobody sells a toolbox add-in or at least a custom toolbox directory that has standard hardware along with McMaster Carr part numbers on it?
I'm running Solidworks 2010 and one of the things I
really don't like is the included Toolbox. I find it's
lacking a lot of hardware that I often use in my
assemblies (bolts, nuts, washers, etc.). Plus each and
every time I need to modify the length of say a bolt it
makes a copy of the...
well I think I narrowed it down to either the Dell m4400 or new m4500... or the Lenovo w510
couple questions..
1.) Are both of these laptops now 16:9 screen perspective? is that a bad thing for Solidworks? all of my other laptops use regular screen perspective.
2.) Does the Dell or the...
I thinking I'm best off maybe buying a year old generation like the Dell m4400 or Lenovo W500 that still have the regular sized screens (non 16:9), plus they use the Dual Core 2 instead of the Quad cores.. I don't think the quad core is really going to help much with Solidworks alone.
My...
what made you go with the Dell over the Lenovo or HP? I have a Lenovo right now, great laptop, but crappy screen, not very bright at all. But I do like the little red button mouse in the center of the keyboard on the Lenovo!
some things that I would like...
-largest and brightest screen possible
-nVidia Quadro graphics card
-I like the little red trackpad button on the Lenovo/IBM laptops... not sure if any other laptops have this option
-not sure if Windows XP is still available or if you need to go Windows 7...
well the main issue I have right now is not with changing part names, because I can search all places the part name is being used and update it. The issue is when I change a directory name, etc... then the assemblies that reference that part don't automatically get updated with the new folder...
well in Solidworks Explorer, I choose in the options to add the main top level directory of where all my solidworks file live... such as the D:\Solidworks
Now when I look at an assembly file in solidworks explorer and choose the 'where used' tab.. it will search my entire D:\Solidworks...
Okay so I have a few questions.. first off I have my Solidworks file directory structure like the following..
d:\Customer Name\Machine Name\Application Name\partfile.sldprt
d:\Customer Name\Machine Name\Application Name\partfile.slddrw
d:\Customer Name\Machine Name\Application...
well I'm thinking it's also something up with the printer.. but this was interesting... I did a print using the 'selection box' option, I put the box around a view of one of my 1:1 scale parts... I printed it to a different printer.. a laser printer than can only do 8.5" x 11" prints. When it...
I have Solidworks 2010, I am printing on 11x17 paper, my sheet and model scales are at 1:1. I choose in page setup to scale 100%. I print the page out, then take my caliper and measure the actual printout to see if the scale is right on to the measurements called out on the drawing... what I'm...
