Automatic Axis?

[a0r0t]

Can SW 2004 create an AXIS automatically when one creates a Circular Extrusion?

Thanks!

-Art

 

[MadMango]

Yup.

View>Temporary Axes

Then you can select and use them.

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[ctopher]

fyi ...I noticed that AXIS is misspelled in SW help. It shows AXES. But the text within the help is AXIS.

 

[MadMango]

Yup, that's why I typed "axes" and not "axis"... I love SW that much.

"But what... is it good for?"
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[pdybeck]

plural vs singular form.

 

[ctopher]

Thanks pdybeck, but it is confusing if a new user is looking up AXIS.

 

[pdybeck]

I agree, the help is often weird for finding help. Its kind of like searching our ERP system here - you have to know the language (tomatoe tomato) in order to search, so its real difficult for new users to search (especially when coming from another CAD package with different terminology). You almost need a built in thesaurus.

 

[MadMango]

Don't get me started on ERP queries. In our system, just to find a hydraulic fitting, you have to search for:

"fitting"
"fitting,"
"fitting-"

and then variations of the above.

"fit"
"fitg"
"fit'g"
"fttg"

You get the point.

"But what... is it good for?"
Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
Have you read faq731-376 to make the best use of Eng-Tips Forums?

 

[pdybeck]

ERP systems were created by the devil

 

[Tmoose]

If I want to see more than one axis then axes is right

 

[pdybeck]

Why not a google search in the help? It could at least provide another search possibility. "Axis" or did you mean "Axes".