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image.png You can vary the pitch increment of your spiral by defining its radius (or some portion thereof) as the opposite side of an angle. Then vary the angle in the pattern. In the pic below, my radius is defined as the opposite side of a 45 degree right triangle whose adjacent leg is 30mm. I’m ...

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I don't know about the OP but we cut many sheet metal parts on a laser, so we need to export the dxf. We've always exported the dxf from the model, not drawing. We also use CNC wood routers that use a dxf. To model those parts we use sheet metal environment and obviously those parts do not have ben...

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Are you guys "Authors"?

I tried to look it up on the "Members" page, but it looks like it will only load about 25 people.

If anyone goes to look at it again... I just set it to "Nobody". Hopefully that works.

josh

@dave.laban here's what I can see for you:

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Interesting... Looks like Dave can see more than Alex can? What a garbage platform that privacy settings don't even work. Unless I don't understand what "Company only" means. Actually, now that I think of it, the swamp was originally intended to be a collaborative workspace or something, r...

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Nope... Looks like he edited my first reply to remove the part about asking incomplete questions. In a DM he was like "we don't want to devolve into a reddit type flame war" or something like that. He also said that my company name is publicly visible. Not that it's so terrible, but based ...

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I dunno why, but this one really grated my cheese.

josh

If possible, I would recommend not using flexible subassemblies for this... It sounds like the components you're using as flexible are sort of two halves that move relative to one another. One strategy I have used for this in the past is to actually break these assemblies into two separate parts (or...

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I don't know of a setting to get only hole callouts for metric holes to automatically come in with dual dimensions. I believe it would be possible to write a macro that would check all hole callouts to see if they are attached to holes made using a metric standard and turn on dual dimensions for tho...

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Good line of thought... The Dimension object does have an IsDesignTableDimension property. However, it appears to me (after an admittedly quite brief test) that this returns "True" if the dimension is controlled by the DT in any config, whether or not the currently active config is control...

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I can't see where that's exposed in the API. It's obviously stored somewhere because the tree shows a different icon for DT controlled configs, but I don't see it anywhere.

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I also agree with Glenn's auto insert settings. However, they are entirely irrelevant to your question since you're asking about centerlines and not Center Marks.

Unfortunately, there's no way to specify that only holes get centerlines.

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Because this should never be done, ever. I would be glad PnG is preventing it from even trying to copy the structure until this issue is fixed in the files. Did I mention this should never be done, ever? Of course it shouldn't be done, but I didn't want it to copy the files. I didn't even want it t...

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Interesting... How is this different from using convert entity on face and trim it? It's the same, just a little quicker. SW isn't using a different function (offset vs convert). The difference is between selecting a face vs selecting edges and converting them. Somehow that "convert" oper...

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Putting all parts and assemblies into one SW file is terrible. Highly recommend against this. Combining all PDFs in a folder into a single multipage PDF is pretty trivial with the right tool. Irfanview is free and can do this in a few seconds. Doesn't sound like that should be too much work for Prod...

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OK, that was the ticket... Thanks for the push to revisit. My issue was using the Equation button to pick the value, although I still don't understand why it doesn't update properly when you do so. I would think either way should be correct every time. Anyway, when you first select a cell, the popup...

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Thanks for checking it... I tried both with a macro that we usually use and through the custom properties dialog. Either way the table never updated until I double-clicked the cell. I wonder... How did you add the links? Did you use the Equation button and pick properties from the dropdown, or did y...

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Thanks, but...

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Does nobody else use these things? I'm not necessarily looking for a diagnosis yet. Even a "They work just fine for me" would be a start. Or, if they don't update for anyone else, it's SR time.

josh

Hey folks, we're trying to get into the whole MBD scene here. One thing we're trying is inserting a Title Block Table (Insert->Tables->Title block table) into the Notes Area of parts (not drawings). I've created a title block table that links to the custom properties of the part. The link works fine...

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Have you tried doing a manual sort through the UI using he exact same parameters? How is it inconsistent? Does the same BOM sort the same every time, just not as you expect? Or does the same BOM sort differently if you run it twice? You've specified literal sort order. This will cause 10, 11, 12, et...

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The setting Glenn Schroeder mentioned enables the functionality where a dimension and numeric input box pops up during sketch entity creation. , allowing you to immediately specify both the length and value of a dimension driving that length. image.png The setting I mentioned enables you to enter a ...

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To read the file on disk you can use the Document Manager API to get a swDMdocument, get its ConfigurationManager, and use GetActiveConfigurationName.

josh

Here's an updated version. Changes: It supports differently-sized or aligned monitors in the vertical direction, or any portion of the SW window off the viewable area. If some of the SW window is off the viewable area of the target monitor, the macro will compensate for that and not re-size the docu...

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The Name is an input to the function. You have 7 light sources in your model. You have to specify the name of the light source you want. You will need to run GetAmbientLightProperties 7 times, each time with "Name" having the value of one of the names you retrieved using GetLightSourceName.

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What are you expecting to get from the function? It returns true or false. Do you understand what ByRef means? You have to pass variables into the function to receive all the values.

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Please see this article in SW help. Short summary:
Do not use logical operators with returns of these functions. Always compare returned value to False.

https://help.solidworks.com/2019/englis ... _types.htm

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SolidKeke wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 1:38 am Congrats, you were the only one to read the original post with brain mode not turned off

Did you read my post? It achieves the breadcrumb method, but with one keystroke instead of a keystroke plus a click.

josh

//alert( "Error obtaining SwHtmlControl interface. 'swHTMLControl.dll' must be registered. SPR 162520 will get this registered for everyone, or see JPS.");

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Map this macro to a shortcut key. After you select a face or edge etc, hit the key. It will un-select the face/edge/etc and select the component instead. It only acts on the most recent selection, any previous selections are unaffected. Depending on your workflow, you may be needing to select the to...

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image.png Pretty sure this is going to be a game changer for us. We build assembly machines, and often need to show the workpiece in position with phantom line font, but show what's behind it as object lines as though the component wasn't there. This usually requires an alternate position view, whi...

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Looking at the code again, one of the additional complications that the macro does is automatically select the top level assembly if nothing is already selected.

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The simplest is actually to right-click and hit "W". You do have to click to select it after all. Might as well right-click instead of left. All of the items in the right-click menu have a letter you can use to activate them. You can see that letter by going all the way to the bottom of th...

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You have to ask SigmaTube.

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Pack and Go is bugged - 2022 is the same. If you have an assembly that references more than one file with the same name (for example, Screw.sldprt that's stored in multiple different locations), PnG will never allow you to proceed. Even if these files are de-selected for copying. Even if these same-...

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Wow... Is Frederick the only person here who realizes that so much time is being spent analyzing the trees that the forest is being completely missed? The ONLY thing that matters for bouyancy force is the external volume. That means the volume of whater that runs out on the ground when you force the...

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Off topic, but I would like to see/hear more about this. I try to keyboard my way around the command managers but I'm not doing very good. For example, in the selection boxes, sometimes pressing delete key will remove the selected object from the list, sometimes I have to right click and delete/rem...

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Just got this configured on my machine and it works just as described. It doesn't seem to re-draw the border when a full-size window is moved left or right, but besides that slight graphical oddity this is likely something I'll use in my modeling. Thanks Josh, you continually provide some cool stuf...

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Someone on the Swamp was complaining recently about multiple monitor support for SW. Basically (as far as I know) the only real "support" there is for multiple monitors is the "span" button that will spread the main SW application across two monitors and the little left and right...

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I believe it depends on how the STP file was exported. SolidWorks has export options for STP files to do this. The terminology is "Split periodic faces". A full understanding (beyond what the help file here states) prolly requires a lotta math. https://help.solidworks.com/2016/english/Soli...

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You may have to edit the feature scope to include all components instead of "selected components"

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Unfortunately, VSTA seems to be some sort of bastard child. When it first came out, I thought it was gonna be the bees knees, but I ended up having stability problems using it where the same thing in VBA ran just fine. I read of real programmers having issues with it as well - specifically Artem and...

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Fri May 27, 2022 11:48 am
And it was a joke...Or it was meant to be, maybe it wasn't funny, but I meant it to be and definitely didn't mean any offense.

Of course, appreciated the joke. No offense received.

josh

Hopefully the sarcasm is tempered with sufficient useful information to the point where my participation is at least chaotic neutral...

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Some weirdness today... I downloaded a parasolid model of a vendor part. Imported to .sldprt (none of that 3DInterconnnect crap). I didn't like how it was positioned in space relative to the primary planes, so I selected all the bodies and did a move/copy body feature to reposition, using the "...

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Nope, nothing screwy like that. A lot of these assemblies are ones I created myself. When you open them in SW nothing appears different or amiss - nothing suppressed or anything. All you have to do to restore the tess data is just open the file, save it, and close it. I thought maybe the tess data w...

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We typically approach it from the other direction. The BOM is Parts Only (which by default shows every part), but then for bought-in subassemblies that don't' need to show individual components, we set the option that Mike specified above to "Hide".

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Has anyone here experienced this? We updated a month or two ago and didn't have any issues during the design process. However, those projects are now hitting the assembly floor. Our assembly techs use eDrawings to open the assemblies directly as they do their work, and we've found that quite a few o...

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Meh, I'll post it here too for posterity. Sub main() Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Dim swDwg As SldWorks.DrawingDoc Dim swAnnot As SldWorks.Annotation Dim swView As SldWorks.View Dim swEnt As SldWorks.Entity Set swApp = Application.SldWorks Set swDwg = swApp.ActiveDoc Set swView = swDwg.GetFirstVie...

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