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AlexLachance

Jesus christ, I did it again, my apologies. I thought you were speaking about SolidWorks and not SolidEdge. I need to be more careful about where the topics are..

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Some sad news this morning in the US with the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Thoughts and prayers with those affected by this.

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We had the opportunity to head a few hours south this weekend and enjoy the Texas Hill Country. It always surprises me how much a few hours drive can make in what season you are in. Our bluebonnets are just starting here in the Dallas area, but the ones down near Fredericksburg, TX are well are the...

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Hidden part appearing in the drawing is most likely caused by how it was made originally. Most likely was hidden in drawing originally then hidden in part. So the view most likely has the body to hide/show selected in it's view properties. The angled cut most likely don't appear because they are not...

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philem wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:55 am You mean I have to save it as a templeate ?

Yes. Unfortunately it's one of those things that should be a system setting but instead is a document setting that is also used in more things such as rendering.

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If Dassault truely is doing this, then Mesh2Surface should approach SolidWorks competitors. How absurd to ask someone to discontinue a program because it brings no added value from their point of view. Who are they to determine what is added value and what isn't? Sounds more like one of the followin...

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We started with individual parts and then went with configurations instead, the reason being that we had a promoted assembly with each length in it and switching between configuration of the promoted assembly to reach the individual part would cause the drawing to lose it's references such as dimens...

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The cause was my collegue got a production call and opened another file with the solver still open to be able to answer the question.

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:14 pm I typically do all of my simulation work outside of PDM to avoid this problem.

Thanks mate.

For those interested:
https://kb.dsxclient.3ds.com/mashup-ui/ ... 0000366012

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Anyone ever got this warning?

My collegue has had this warning a few times and he can't figure out what is the root cause. The message says : a sharing violation occurred when accessing an unnamed file.

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To be fair, they did address that problem a few years ago. It still happens to me occasionally, but much less than before they worked on it. "Still happens occasionally" is pretty much a resume of most of the issues they fix lol I'm on 2023 SP4 and still get the seed issue fairly often. C...

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That was a quick example. Frequently you don't want to mirror the entire body, just a single feature. True. For hole wizards, I try to recreate an entire feature rather then mirror it because there are too many times where we've started with symmetrical sides and ended up with non-symmetrical sides...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:04 am Be fore-warned. Solidworks definition of "mirror" only works in certain conditions. I can't fathom why the programmers think this is good.

I'm a GIF. Click me.
mirror.gif

Hey Scott, try mirroring the body rather then the feature

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Hello, I also have a question if thats ok? I am here in the UK and about to start my Freelance Product Design business. The most common design ill be working on are bespoke cycle shelters, bin shelters usually with timber cladding, mesh cladding, green roof. What should be the basis of quoting the ...

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Yes you are right there that SW is broken beyond repair and ask the dev to add/change or even repair will brake the tool even more. But I think you are wrong here to not have the tool to not be consistent. In the other CAD you are giving guidance's on where to cut with a regular cutout. image.png O...

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mp3-250 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:13 pm do you have a SPR number for those issues? they sound scary...

Not sure. I can't find SPR's on the new platforms or previous SR/ER's.

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The key is given free. If you do not plan to upgrade or pay subscription later, you can continue using the key. So there is no recurring cost. And you can use the key on multiple machines. The only downfall is that the key is not forward compatible i.e. it can not read/write data form future files....

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Really?!? Linking the bom to a configuration and a view to a configuration isn't enough? I also have to link the balloons to the BOM? Thanks for explaining what I was doing wrong. I never would have found it on my own. You can have multiple BOMs in a drawing. I'm guessing this is the case for you a...

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Link the view to the BOM

https://www.gsc-3d.com/blog/how-link-bi ... olidworks/

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we got SW official reply which sounded like: LOL everything works as expected. Still on pre 2019 files? LOL you need to open them one by one and set rebuild on save on each configuration, otherwise we rebuild only the active one. LOL no problems here get away. I may add that after their botched con...

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.. seem to be rock solid this designer tool ... I don't know .. perhaps I'm becoming a SW user at all. So this ... .. that "Trough All - both" is just sudden is not a valid option in Hole wizard. image.png is just .. okay that's also broken ... so I have to work me around with mirror inst...

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Yeah, uh, how knowledgeable are you about SolidWorks or I.T. in general?

The error you just posted speaks of Microsoft SQL Server, which means you tried to install the server image for the licence manager.

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They are not compatible with Windows 11. If I am not mistaken, SolidWorks 2022 was the first version to be compatible with Windows 11

Edit: Indeed

https://www.solidworks.com/support/system-requirements

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Try to run as Administrator then. The errors seem to point to something causing the files to not be created. Lack of space, lack of rights, missing setup files, something like that.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:16 pm Check this out:
https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=2951

Good point, it would be a good add to all the others.

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You don't need to edit anything, your Cut-Extrude1 loses it's reference upon a rebuild. Edit the cut and accept it and everything will be fine and dandy. Didn't re-happen after. Most likely, features were moved around and SolidWorks fumbled in it's reference reassignement. Since it hadn't been "...

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The ones that seem to remain on my end seem to be linked to crashes and SW Rx Reports.

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XHawkeye wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:09 pm Animagraffs video on the SR-71. Worth a look see if you have 55 minutes to watch it.

Definetly watching tonight

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Hello,

I know PDM can tell people that their drawings are outdated, are there any add-ons that would do the same thing? We are having a recurring issue where users forget to open drawings after modifying parts/assemblies and I'd like to have a way to validate this.

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I've never had trouble with CTRL+Q in a sketch, the only thing it does is it closes the sketch command to rebuild the entire feature tree, so if what you have in your sketch is problematic it will throw off errors, but in your case the feature is at the end and it throws errors on features before bo...

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In 2023 they seems to have fixed somewhat the hole wizard when it comes to sketching. image.png Midpoint line is removed for the sketch toolbox. (its just face palm...) In 2024 have they also fixed the other smart sketch feature problem by just removed it from the user ? (Thinking here center retan...

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By knock-down, you mean broken down into parts? Is there any complexity to the box? If you could give more info I'll try and give some pointers. I guess it depends a lot on what the intent is. For instance we started by making our airboxes with each faces individually so that we could have a more ef...

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mp3-250 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:43 am @AlexLachance so SW devs really made the undo command working as expected ?
it is a serious concern as there are still instances that are simply ignored during the undo, so the undo does not relly... well undo wht you have done.

Sometimes it works as expected, other times it doesn't lol

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https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... KCwdyI6oFw

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bnemec wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:35 pm Shouldn't need to train people not to hammer screws or nuts.

As I often tell my boss, common sense is not all that common these days.

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I think you nailed it .. I seems that Dasult have gone to town of crafting UI components and forced upon workflow just to have end user to give up and slab everything that needs to be edit at the end of the feature tree. In other words their own poor man "synchronic" workflow. One way mod...

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I went to an existing part and added 2 holes to the end. They are there in the model. They are visible in the front view if I show hidden edges. They are not, however visible in the end view. If I create a new end view, they are there, but the old view refuses to update. There are no hidden edges. ...

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I have been struggling with an issue in 2022 that is probably going to force me to 2023. I have an assembly with multiple configurations, and derived configurations from those configurations. I will suppress a part in one configuration, and when I come back to it later, that part is unsuppressed. I...

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MattW wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:12 pm @AlexLachance where in Quebec are you located? I am probably going to be in the Montreal/ Laurentians area for a week or so this summer.

I'm closer to Quebec then Montreal, in "Chaudières Appalaches". Montreal is about a 3 hours drive from here.

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Okay, I was mistaken after all, my apologies for the confusion. I do get the ones that my templates point to after all. It's just that the basic part template is rarely ever used over here so it's a bit different then every other part template.

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Must be the french version doing it's own thang then

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We are on 2021. Templates are in PDM, and the only location in File Locations. going to new... gets this screen. image.png The home screen is the same as the one in the first post, ie, Part, Asssembly, Drawing. Clicking on those opens the template listed in file locations, in spite of the label on ...

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That's interesting... I'm using 2023 SP5.0 and those open my defined default templates. Do you still have the default templates listed in c:\Program Data\Solidworks\Solidworks\Templates? Perhaps if those are still there it could mess things up? I don't really know though. I'm on 2023 SP4, rolled ba...

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Those buttons open up the default templates that you define in your system options (Tools -> Options -> System Options -> Default Templates). If those point to a custom template of each type then there shouldn't be too much of an issue. Otherwise, clicking "Advanced" will show all the tem...

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Wow I had never noticed that, thanks for bringing it up. I don't think you can change or remove these from that bar. Perhaps you could overwrite the default templates so that they are your templates..? That would sorta do what you require, have it use your standards and keep it shown on the home tab...

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gosh i was nagivating the swmpy to look at the slides/recording for the 3dexperience world https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/community/swym:prd:R1132100503382:community:52/wiki?content=swym:prd:R1132100503382:wikitree:RALlNsSGQx-GKuq6RaQ4kg it is really beyond terrible (why am ...

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Buncha stuff seems to be down since a little over an hour ago including things linked to Meta such as Facebook and Instagram

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SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:40 pm Instead of enjoying the nice weather here in NC, I did something stupid and got to spend the last few hours in the ER waiting to get staples in my head.

Eek, what did you do..? Hope nothing too bad

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Probably named Rulers in the english version

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I thought this was an interesting listening surrounding the subject of A.I.

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