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maintaining PDM data is already a pain with single configuration, not to mention that the file version upgrade utility is completely broken and iy is even more broken with multi configuration parts. the simpler yhe better.

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Pernils wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:54 am Hmm

This is exactly the path SE have chosen. They call it "Family of parts".

(I haven't used it my self..)

I think they took the concept from unigraphics-NX. it had family parts more than 20yrs ago

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From What's New 2020 2020 Batch Conversion Not Required.png We have already that opion activated, but I can guess it affects only SAVE time. and that is fine, but the main issues here is that we have 10yrs old data that need to be updated. their file structure is getting too old and potentially bro...

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SPs will introduce simple to implement enhancements that have a big impact. Think about what we call “the missing 5%”. Major releases will continue to introduce more complex enhancements that will be the subject of the annual Beta testing. In the case I mentioned, the enhancement was easy to add, w...

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In pdm the best would be a single configuration file, simple and effortless to maintain with the bugged tools sw offers.
even without pdm, if you have 100s of configurations it could not play nice to performance.

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I do not use the sldsetting file for mine. anyway I discovered this problem while editing the admin image deployment options on a unrelated workstation: the settings reverted back every time I closed the option screen.

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2023 SP5 I am on the verge of deployment and I am making the last adjustments and checks on our admin image. I have multiple deployment groups and SOME machine inside one of them had the toolbox customized to a different path. so i tried to RMB those machines and force their group settings back. it ...

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bnemec wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:29 amimage.png

sometimes I forgot that I am using SW and press CTRL+Z out of habit and regretting it like 0.1 seconds later...

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IMHO at SW someone had the idea to simply hide what on other cad would simply show as an error. So no matter how dangerous, potentially illogical or simply wrong, action we performed the tree is SHOWN as error free, withou bad red icons that are a sore in the eye if you use another CAD. like orphane...

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example: the new transparency in drawings available i 2023 is half broken in sp5. sw devs managed to even break sw document properties in regard to that setting. a hotfix was finally released last week to address half of the problem, just in time for me to deploy sw on 100 pc. in one month of testin...

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for me having a bit of PDM actually working without a minefield of bugs would be huge. administrative tools are so bugged they break more things than the problems they are supposed to fix. For once I would like the devs to come to my place and enjoy their UI in Japanese with beautifully truncated di...

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Little suggestion. Use undo rather then unsupress. Undo will bring the child features back to unsupressed. Unsupress won't unsupress the child features, because the feature you are unsuppressing does not require those features to generate itself. You could unsupress the lowest feature and it would ...

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Thank you. if it does not have any collateral effect I should give it a try. Performance wise I would like to mInImize the calculation effort as on big models my main macro becomes heavier to run and as you said the action required os a CTRL+A equivalent. nothing more. the sketchbox method is indeed...

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officially SW says that task scheduler does not support PDM and FVUT must be used instead. they even removed a PDM tool that was included in t.s. back in 2018 apparently for the same reason. I can imagine how to use t.s., being careful to get ltest version of the files, check them out manually, and ...

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I have a macro that at some point needs to select all the entities in the active sketch (3d sketch to be precise). I was using a sub from codestack that looped all the entities and it worked. then i saw a macro made by a colleague used a simpler approach with the sketchbox select method. https://hel...

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After upgrading the parts in our test vault I tried to upgrade the few hundreds assy we have inside the catalog parts. it seems to work, but during the conversion some assy di not loads their components (tree component greyed out) or show the tree full of errors (red X marks). I tried to open some o...

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While I am not a fan of configurations for part files, I have to deal with them as we have our standard catalog parts and hardware using them for legacy reasons. Last time (sw2022) I tried the file version upgrade tool (FVUT) it failed on some conversion still flagging the file as successfully conve...

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this is probably the reason I often find some model with like 20% of the tree suppresed. the engineer probably tried to disable the feature suppressing it, sort of trying to delete before deleting for real, but in the end nothing were deleted leaving the model in a less then desiderable shape and no...

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in short you should setup a test environment and try it.

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this is another odd thing in SW. the printer settIngs are also saved into the sw registry hive and copied along the user settings when exported apparently. (I have found very old printer setting inside ours and that printer is not even more with us... RIP) I m reading a lot of KB articles related to...

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RonE wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:33 am There is a hotfix available for 2023 SP5 since a few days: BR10000354471 -> HF-1114811

I was sent it from mt VAR few days ago and testing it right now. once completed I will update the post.
thank you for the remainder!

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@Uncle_Hairball you could kindly ask your admin explaining how it saves you a lot of time yearly.
I am surprised many of my users won't bother to ask and keep the issues for themselves enduring them everyday for years until I found them out by mere coincidence and solve them in like 10 minutes...

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SW CRASH ON EDITING EXCEL DESIGN TABLES *HOTFIX AVAILABLE* REPRODUCED ON EMPTY PART AND ASSY FILES WITH 2023 SP5 Design Table - Editing Design Table may cause SOLIDWORKS crash. Portfolio / Domain: SOLIDWORKS Desktop / E-Apps Product: Assemblies OS: Windows 10 64 bits Detected level(s): SOLIDWORKS 20...

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Found the answer in the swamp: if the views are set to the layer -none- the arrow thickness is defauted to some general system options and do not follow the document properties... As a reference for layers (https://www.goengineer.com/blog/use-layers-solidworks-drawings) By default, you will have thr...

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the url says solidworks connected so my guess is this question is cloud related..

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Mine's pretty short:lol: image.png -Adding dimension will "overmate", would you like to have it be driven -1:1 scale output warning -edge fusion is defined at 0,000001.... -One or more functions of this part is based on other documents... -Performance warning for add-on I found out and re...

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no the admin image point is to simplify, automaize and standardize the software deployment for multiple workstations. you have to properly setup the installation options as you experienced with the pdm client. it does not change an existing installation unless it is run again on a specific machine. ...

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STILL OPEN FROM SW2022SP5 REPRODUCED ON 2023SP5 AS WELL workaround unbreak, remake balloons break again, but if you move the balloons they show an asterisk again. BR Auto Balloon Balloons on a detail view disappear after the creation of a Broken Out Section View Portfolio / Domain: SOLIDWORKS Deskto...

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We don't always get mates deleted when components are deleted. I have found that sometimes those will come back if a component was deleted and then added back to the assembly. So, I put a component in (forgetting that it had been in that assembly weeks ago) and try to add new constraints to put it ...

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As a sie note since I looked at MBD and while I think it could make sense for NC machining and other few cases where manufacturing is almost 100% 3d data driven, I find MBD "drawings" too complex and time intensive to make and to read. 2D drawing is a succint way to communicate things and ...

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For our drawings we decided to make the section arrows and the short thick lines at the end of the cutting line they point at a bit thicker as the default at 0.18mm was confusing with dimensions and it was difficult to see. So I changed the font to 0.35 and the sections changed accordingly. image.pn...

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bnemec I can speak for unigraphics-NX. ug had retained some non parametric tools since the old times. like primitives(cube, sphere etc) , curves and splines, some surface, and commands like split, delete face, move face. some of them were non parametric: e.g. you selected the face push the button t...

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I saw a post claiming that more then half of the new top enhancements are In MDB. is it true?
I have no words. nc machinIng aside it Is just useless junk for many other fields let alone it requires an additional license fee...

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No we do not have access.
I dumped all the settIngs in a txt format numbered and run a comparison.

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While I agree it is a minor annoyance, this is one ADDITIONAL minor annoyance. With dozen of people using SW within the company it is hard to keep them ALL in line with a pIlining list of issues. You cannot tell them to remember a list of minutes settIngs and workarounds they need to use or avoid fo...

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consider you are lucky that your templates actually save that option. I just wrote a post about transparency in drawings that is activated by default inside document properties, but even if turned off and saved into the templates it is not recognized as disabled. it remains turned on. SW told us to ...

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We received a mail from our VAR today about the transparency in dawings that is enabled by mistake in 2023 and 2024 even if the template is supposed set to off. this kind of setting if ignored could show some odd lInes In your drawings as a transparent 3d component is handled as transparent also in ...

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we use black dimensions, but sometimes is better to see at glance if a dimension is set to driven. So we tried to set the color for that kind of dimension in blue. everything works as expected until we loaded some old 2d drawing and a lot of dimensions turned out blue. if deleted and remade all the ...

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Former mold engineer here. NX with moldwizard and I confirm that direct modelling took a good chunk of our daily work. Almost all automotive models we received were in STEP, parasolid or even IGES. A collection of garbage geometry up to 500MB for a single bumper part file. Almost all of them had pro...

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Another drawing related issue introduced with the new transparency option for views BR Article: BR10000354471 Status: Opening transparency related problem (again: this was supposed to be a new enhancement in 2023!) BR Drawing Template saved with option 'See through transparent components in HLR/HLV'...

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I leave it here as a warning to what happened to me today. I was editing my templates from the dot files and some new setting (drawing transparency) was not applied to the drawing created with that template. in the template file document properties the flag is OFF same flag, in the file generated fr...

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One way is change every options in SW after first start so they're not default. Might need to export after start, restart, change all options, restart, export. Don't need to change any file name, path. Change on/off, number, list. Yes lot of work, but it must be done for parts, assy and drawings se...

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Great work. Another resource that I've used is Copy Drawing Option from Stefan Berlitz at http://swtools.cad.de/us_index.htm . It's a bit old, but easily updated to grab all the various values. Good luck with your quest! thank you very much for the link. I downloaded the excel data and it looks alm...

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that's why I made the post above: legacy data should not be converted at all imho. because it could and will fail in the process. btw I stumped in a similar issue the first months I started working with sw 2014 and almost immediately switched to 2015... a surface just collapsed In the middle of a ve...

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I thought it was supposed to be a new enhancement available from 2023...but the what is new mentions tranparent "bodies" not "components" Assembly components are not displayed as transparent with See through transparent components in HLR/HLV enabled in HLR drawing view Portfolio ...

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@jcapriotti may I ask the spec of those machines?
For 5000 USD (?) we do not get a single storage unit I think it is about 50000USD the minimum budget here for a db server (dual CPU <3Ghz and under 128 GB RAM with RAID controller)

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"it's the customers problem"

case closed.

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ok so it is expected behavior.
thank you for helping.

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make drawing from part-assrmbly

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no luck. when I reset solidworks to our defauts the model view creation is disable in both the ui and the registry, but still show the creation dialog when making a new drawing.

I am at loss.

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