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CarrieIves

Something we have noticed on my drawing templates in SW 2023. I decided to only save as my 2023 templates from my 2022 templates. If I open a template in 2023 and do a save as new drawing template filename, when I open that new copy, the template thinks it is the old filename as far as the bar acros...

CarrieIves

It looks like I can open drawings at normal speed from our just upgraded to 2023, SP4.0 vault.

CarrieIves

Related - In SolidWorks 2022, if you have two cut extrudes to create a counterbore, you can use the hole callout to create a hole callout with the counterbore symbol and depth. (You have to pick the outer cut for it to work, I think.) It will not let you apply a tolerance to more than one of the dim...

CarrieIves

We have a company sharepoint where we have pages for various types of info people may need. I have been putting a lot of our information on there. (For example, how to create a new user in PDM with screenshots.) We do have a couple of formal procedures, but that doesn't cover the other things. Gener...

CarrieIves

We had some trouble with showing missing mates as errors. If we had configurations with suppressed components, we would get errors. I think this was SW2022 SP3.1, but I don't remember for certain. I just know we about lost our minds because one engineer (me) had that checked and another didn't. Took...

CarrieIves

This is a late reply, but I have accidently overwritten the BOM item number before. (I think I did something with the BOM balloon to change the number accidently.) It's hard to figure out that is what happened. Double check that you don't have anything overwritten in the BOM.

CarrieIves

Do you have flag notes in the drawing? I have had some interesting issues around flag notes. Though, I think I couldn't open the drawing. We tend to have multipage assembly drawings with lots of flag notes and the numbering continuing on the next page (Manually adjusted through paragraph properties)...

CarrieIves

Didn't see this in time to reply to the poll. We use a note on the drawing sheet that says "DRAFT" until the drawing is released. Then we toggle it to " ". We have a toggle set up in our custom properties tab builder to do the toggle. We often send out drawings for quote or custo...

CarrieIves

Late reply, but do note that the "Delete Child Features" check box carries over between parts and assemblies.

CarrieIves

Is anyone running PDM? I have a friend who says they are having trouble where it takes minutes for SolidWorks to open the drawing if you click on open drawing from the right mouse button does it open the drawing for you? In a reasonable amount of time? I can't check it's behavior with PDM without up...

CarrieIves

Many thanks. After google the command "derived sketch", it seems that it create a rotated curve as expected (but seems mirrored, as the object is mainly symatric, I created a half body at begining, and it goes to the other side). And it seems that I cannot modify the derived sketch direct...

CarrieIves

This is a late reply, but it was something we ran into. We use PDM Standard. We were having trouble with files being shown as modified right as we would open them. Or files used in assemblies would show modified. It was files with configurations. We had at add a display data mark to each configurati...

CarrieIves

@AlexLachance Can you rename the surface features later?

We have a sister company that is on SW2023. We want to bring them into our PDM vault, but we'll have to move our vault from 2022 to 2023. I don't know if I do want us on SP3 with this bug.

CarrieIves

Have you tried using the main revolved sketch as a derived sketch on your plane that is at your angle?

CarrieIves

Our VAR suggested having a "No longer employed" group. We move users there and they have no permissions anymore, but are still in the database. I may add the "No longer employed" or some acronym to their full name. That looks like it could be pretty useful.

CarrieIves

Thanks. I don't think we want to add the custom property (We have quite a few released parts at this time.), so I guess I will find out about modifying the script and not worrying about that property.

CarrieIves

We are using SolidWorks PDM STANDARD and SolidWorks 2022. We have quite a few people who can write python scripts at my work. This allows us to export a CSV file of a BOM and transform it easily into an Excel BOM. The problem is telling what has changed since you exported it. We have a lovely script...

CarrieIves

In the end, the project we were quoting that would have needed this, ended up not happening, so we didn't go with anything. I have played a little with the online free Simscale. I have seen they have a connector to SolidWorks now, but they didn't when I played with it.

CarrieIves

the_h4mmer - We are still waiting for a server upgrade to be able to install PDM. Our company got purchased last summer, which delayed some things and changed the process for a lot of others. At the rate we are going, I hope I took good notes on what we planned to do so I can revisit them when we f...

CarrieIves

Zhen-Wei Tee , FloTherm, Coolit, and SolidWorks Flow have perpetual licenses. They were 2-3 times the annual license. Flotherm and SolidWorks Flow have an annual support fee with the perpetual license. Our notes say Coolit didn't have the annual support fee. SmartCFD has an option of a perpetual li...

CarrieIves

We've gotten quotes on Flotherm, Icepak, Coolit, Simscale, and SolidWorks Flow Simulation with electronics cooling. (The electronics cooling is a separately priced add on.) I'm not sure that I can share pricing, but Flotherm, Icepak, and Coolit were all in the same ballpark on pricing. They were abo...

CarrieIves

We did get a quote on SolidWorks Flow and the cooling module. We have added it our comparison. We have a potential project that has a very intense thermal management design. We don't have the project yet. We may not get budget for software until we get the project.

CarrieIves

Is anyone using the the electronics cooling module in SolidWorks Flow Simulation? Can you bring in a board that has already be laid out in Allegro or Altium with layer/copper information? How well does that work?

Thanks,
Carrie

CarrieIves

I'll second Zhen-Wei Tee 's idea of using a macro. We have separate properties in our drawings and our parts. we often copy the description and have a macro to do that. I started with a macro from gupta9665 and modified it to match our property names. I've attached what I think is the unmodified one...

CarrieIves

Today, I listed to "Fully Define Every Time"

We have a high school intern in the office and wanted to make sure I had the right song before I sent it to him. It still makes me smile. @TooTallToby

CarrieIves

@Jaylin Hochstetler Thanks for the example of asking if the user wants to paste or browse. I have put my macro out to the users for feedback. I may change to this. Or since it's something we won't run real often, I may just leave it as is if it is adequate.

CarrieIves

I really enjoyed @Alin 's Assembly Visualization presentation. I learned quite a few things I didn't know from that presentation. Thanks Alin!

CarrieIves

mattpeneguy I found that sometimes presentations would start OK and sometimes I had to reload a few times and go back to my calendar and try again. I also had some of them start with the sound turned off and it took me a bit to find the button to turn the sound on. Work got busy today, so I have th...

CarrieIves

I think the simplest solution will be to follow gupta9665 's suggestion and put in an input box. I will plan on copying the path from a window's file explorer to make it shorter than navigating the whole way there. Also, since I have a few macros that use similar functions, should I figure out how t...

CarrieIves

From the Find References, you can also save the list out or print it. We've had some messes to untangle at a previous job where we had a big assembly and had to go through and make sure everything was looking at the right thing.

Good luck.

Carrie

CarrieIves

To tell where the files were opened from, in your assembly, select "File, find references". This will list the full path name for all the files in your assembly. image.png We work on network drives. I try to keep a flat folder structure for each project, but there have been times that wasn...

CarrieIves

Like many people here, I am a SolidWorks user who is stumbling around trying to make a couple of macros to help our workflow. Much of what I do is from others macros. I have some understanding of what I am doing, but it's still at the beginner level. I'm using SolidWorks 2020 on Windows 10. I have b...

CarrieIves

I only had to restart my browser about 4 times (since the SolidWorks customer portal is so stable) to vote on the 42 enhancement requests I had from the SolidWorks top 10 list voting. But at least it's Friday.

The best error was when I was told I didn't have permission to go to www.solidworks.com.

CarrieIves

Do you know if it is better to vote for enhancement requests from the Knowledge base or the ER search? image.png If I search the knowledge base for the number, I get a window that looks like this when I select it the SPR: image.png If I search from the ER menu, when I click on the SPR, I get a butto...

CarrieIves

Lock row height didn't work on the table I originally used for my example. That one was on an older drawing that was created with old templates. It did not show the lock symbol when I selected Lock Row Height. It just popped up a window with the option to adjust the row height. As I wrote this, I we...

CarrieIves

I am trying to understand what is controlling the row height on my revision table. image.png For the row with 1 DRAFT A, I double clicked and the height adjusted to be a tighter fit around the letters. I added a row using insert row (not insert revision). That got me 1 DRAFT B which was back to the ...

CarrieIves

@JSculley THANKS

CarrieIves

@JSculley ,

My save as PDF macro is in VBA. Are the code snippets you provided in VBA or something else? I'm still learning my way around macros for SolidWorks.

Thanks,
Carrie

CarrieIves

It's not just science, but true of a lot of situations, especially when politics get involved.

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2016/01/20

CarrieIves

Depending on what you are doing, the freeze bar can be helpful. If you are going to be working on a portion of a complex part, here is a trick that you wouldn't think would help as much as it does. This is probably from about SolidWorks 2015 or 2016 since I think that I was working on this part in 2...

CarrieIves

The way I would generally approach a part that is purchased and then modified is to make an assembly of the part and make the modifications on the purchased part in the assembly. If I make a drawing of it, I am likely to call out the purchased part as the material. (Cutting certain lengths of gasket...

CarrieIves

Because they added multibody to sheetmetal, you can now copy/mirror bodies. I haven't ended with a multibody sheetmetal part, but I have had multiple bodies that I brought together later into one.

CarrieIves

Looks like they're just using another variable (pg Get FileNames) to gather the newly renamed file list, to display in your Immediate Window, to show that it's working. Notice they're only 'getting' the new filenames, without doing anything else with it? Not sure the ReDim is necessary I commented ...

CarrieIves

So, first you make it work, and then try to understand it? From the example http://help.solidworks.com/2020/english/api/sldworksapi/pack_and_go_an_assembly_example_vb.htm So most of the things are being done with the array pgFileNames. then near the end, you suddenly see pg Get FileNames ReDim pgGet...

CarrieIves

@Glenn Schroeder (or others) Do you have any suggestions on how to make oneself learn mouse gestures?

CarrieIves

@JSculley Thanks!

That works!

CarrieIves

JSculley , Thanks for the suggestion. I made that change and the list it prints looks OK, but I still end up with the screw being renamed as part of the pack and go. The new assembly is referencing the renamed screw. There is something different between pgFileNames and pgGetFileNames and I'm not fi...

CarrieIves

Currently, I'm doing everything on a network drive, so the part I'm messing with isn't actually in the library. I just want to leave it referencing the original file/file location at this time. I have hard coded the file names and locations at the moment as I am working through this problem. I start...

CarrieIves

I found the example of how to Pack and Go an assembly with a macro (VBA). I will want to add a prefix. This works great, except, how do I not include my library parts? I don't want to rename them or change the folder location. If I were doing a manual pack and go, I would uncheck my library parts an...

CarrieIves

If possible, having a trainer that is familiar with both the old and new software is very helpful. I had a training class once where the trainer was familiar with both the new and old software. He also was familiar with the company processes and understood what we were trying to accomplish. It was n...

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