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jayar

I might be interested.

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Can you utilize the Excel format w/ your BOM. It likely won't be tied/updated with your model but you could probably do much more with it.

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"Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is."

- Winston Churchill

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The only appropriate reaction to 3DSwym:

https://giphy.com/clips/justin-lol-laug ... FziYLt3WAT

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Don't forget this Christmas, when you are decorating your tree, that your Jeffrey Epstein ornament won't hang itself!

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Roasted By John wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:21 pm Good chance - but they are super expensive, a 20lb turkey with a duck and chicken is probably $130 or so

Just imagine how fast the chicken must be traveling to not only squeeze into the duck but to propel that into the turkey!

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Happy Day Turkey!
I mean Happy Turkey Day!

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There once was an add-in for SWX from Faro Arm, maybe 15 years ago? Looked like a fast and easy way to RE. IDK if anything like it is still available.

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Yeah, that's correct. I didn't think there was an immediate solution, but I was hoping that someone might know a trick that I don't. Like Abaqus, NX Nastran also has the ability to manually set degrees of freedom right down to the node level. SW Simulation is much more automated, which is nice from...

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No comment, lol

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zxys001 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 12:40 am Hi Jayar,

Yes.
No.
It works.

TYVM, I had been a little leery of jumping in.

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Has anyone upgraded to MS Win 11 OS? Have you had any issues w/ SWX and/or any of the various programs of SWX? Inquiring minds want to know.

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"Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success."
- Tom Petty

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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

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"Each failure contains the seeds of your next success."

- Paul Allen

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"We must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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I might be a bit less active, I'm having health issues lately. I passed out and had a seizure at work this week and was brought to the hospital by ambulance and then plugged on oxygen because they were scared I was going to die. Still no idea what's wrong with me, but I'm back to 'normal', I should...

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"It pays to know the enemy–not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend."

- Margaret Thatcher

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"Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing."
- Wilt Chamberlain

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As the previous commenter said it depends by your industry, size of the department etc. When I used to design injection molds in NX (less than 10 engineers company) we had one guy that did only 2D drafting in parallel with us modelling in 3D, so he detailed the completed parts while we were still f...

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So, what's up w/ the 3DSwamp? Or is it just me that is getting the "FB Blank screen"?

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"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
- Janis Joplin

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 4:42 pm What's wrong with this picture?
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Why does it look like the entire outside of the assembly is coated with Never-Seize?

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KaMei wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 1:42 amPoleDepot.jpg

That's what she said.

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KaMei wrote: ↑Mon Sep 27, 2021 2:00 am DoNotShootDeer.jpg

How can you tell if the deer is from the motel or not? Are those the ones carrying suitcases?

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https://youtu.be/eX0A0ASwtFg

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matt wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 9:22 am The log you out setting is set to 20 days
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Nothing here has changed in that respect for months.

Maybe that is it, I had thought this was just for passwords (our IT, in their infinite wisdom, won't allow any browser to save passwords). I'll try it. Thanks.

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dpihlaja wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:30 am Do you have cookies automatically being deleted upon closing the browser?

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If so, then this is why...

The browser & window are left open all day.

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I didn't want to start a new thread so figured I'd just add this here.

Any chance of setting the 'log you out' timer extended? I log on in the morning and sometimes don't get back to the forum for a while and by then the system has logged me off. Could it be increased to at least 4 hours?

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I don't understand the connection between being a "real" engineer and SolidWorks, let alone any specific version. If you're defining your level of professional achievement by CAD platform usership, you're basically a technician. Well, if you saw what passes for an 'engineer' here in this ...

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One engineer here uses Catia (an old version), some "engineers", and I use the term very loosely, use SWX 2013, and I, I like to think of myself as a real engineer, use SWX 2021.

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David Matula wrote: ↑Wed Sep 15, 2021 2:35 pm WHAT HAPPENED TO FREEDOM?

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

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"Everything has to be earned, through work, persistence, and honesty."

- Princess Grace Kelly

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Don't recall if this has been shared before...

Little Known Fact, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the only movie in the Rocky series not to feature Sylvester Stallone.

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 10:23 am Is your Material linked to a custom property that is in turn linked to in the BOM?

Well, that might have been part of the problem. I went in to the properties and added Material to the list & entered what I wanted. That seems to have done the trick.

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SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 7:31 am Check the part properties and see if there is anything in "Configuration Specific." That seems to override the "Custom" tab. I've found SW will fill in the Configuration Specific table when I do a "Save As" on a part.

Didn't find anything like that, thanks.

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BuseHase wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 9:28 am You can also try to use "restore original value" on the specfic cell of your BOM.

Thanks, I tried that but it didn't work.

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I've got a BOM on a sheet and the part didn't have a material assigned originally. I opened the subass'y then the part and added the material to the part. Updated & saved the part, updated & saved the subass'y. Went to my sheet - still no mat'l. Updated the drawing - same thing. Verified tha...

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"There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot."
- Robin Williams

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I may not be able to afford to drink anymore.

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KaMei wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 1:59 am Crappy-Design-Funny-Worst-Fails-63-5f3e8af146f8c__700.jpg

What could possibly go wrong?

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Is there a way to show a flattened sheet metal view on the same sheet as the folded part is dimensioned, etc.? All views seem to want to have the same configuration no matter which it is. o[ OK, for anyone else with a similar problem - checked w/ my VAR (amazingly helpful here in sunny Saudi Arabia...

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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

- James Baldwin

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 8:19 amimage.png

Probably doesn't work any better at 350°

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Frank_Oostendorp wrote: ↑Mon Aug 02, 2021 5:28 am We do this all the time, SW2019, so do not know if later versions mess this up. Place views of folded part and flattened.
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Yes, that is exactly what I tried (v2021 SP 3.0) Doesn't seem to work so I placed the view on a separate sheet and locked the view as a workaround. Grrr.

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Is there a way to show a flattened sheet metal view on the same sheet as the folded part is dimensioned, etc.? All views seem to want to have the same configuration no matter which it is.

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With one vertex fixed (and two slider constraints on side faces) the part tends to rotate about this vertex. The results are correct in this case (zero strains, accurate reaction values) but I would prefer to avoid this rigid body motion. Using Inertial Relief might work just as well in that case.

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Roasted By John wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 1:20 pm My new work voicemail...

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When I leave a job I like to set my email auto reply to "So long and thanks for all the fish!"

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Prior to the invention of the crowbar, all crows had to drink at home.

Imagine how happy Barn Owls were when humans first built barns.

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