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Jim Steinmeyer

Ok, no problem, I thought that was behind up but I guess these were posted before that.

Jim Steinmeyer

I hate it when people attach useful videos and files but I am unable to access them. What setting do I need to change to fix this.

Case in point:

Jim Steinmeyer

Frank_Oostendorp Short of hiding lines in the BOM is there a method of selecting which subassemblies to expand while leaving the others flat? Marco One additional step you may desire to take is to create an additional balloon for the o-ring. Change that balloon's properties to not have the balloon ...

Jim Steinmeyer

Mates: Now I am not a fan of mates at the best of times, but of course I do use them too.. (people who model without parametrics and simply mate everything together are pure evil.!!) Yep.. That was quite a rant. But since you asked.. .... and I needed to get it off my chest. :roll: Curious, "M...

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I have another "sort of" use for splitting revision tables. With some of our mixer shells we will have a basic dimensional drawing for the shell. Then on a separate page we will quarter the page and place an assembly view with BOM and revision table for 4 different variations of the shell....

Jim Steinmeyer

As the job is with Firefly Aerospace what are the chances we get to work with Mal and Kaylee?

Jim Steinmeyer

SPerman wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 7:52 am And 2021 came out after the great push to reduce bugs and improve performance by the development team.

I thought that happened a couple of years ago with "ONE AND TWO".

Jim Steinmeyer

Now open up the contextual menu and right click in a blank space. A "customize" icon pops up so select it. Now you can find and drag in any command icon your heart desires.

Jim Steinmeyer

We did an update from SW2019 SP4 to SW2021 SP2 just about a week and a half ago, to keep op with allied partners. These are the type of moments you wish you could actually turn back the clock. implemented welds in weld assemblies keep on disappearing from your view from the sheet when zoom function...

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Tags are doomed over there as a tool because they have put no controls on them. I posted over there that you would end up with Solidworks, Soldiworks, Slodiworks and so on and so. Eventually the tags mean nothing unless they are mandatory and non user created. So you have to pick a pre created tag ...

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I actually don't mind the tag sort approach. The problem I have with it is that there is no method to enforce it. Essentially anything new posted in that forum will be difficult to impossible to find and impossible to sort in groups because there is no tag enforcement. My biggest problem with the t...

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Thank you for the details Matt. Ya, I knew that fewer cores didn't really speed things up but I have had a struggle trying to convince people that more wasn't better in this case. I didn't have any idea how turbo worked and while 4.7 GHz sounded good I was hoping to have more than 3.7 for running S...

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I know this has been asked ad-nauseoum but I can't figure out how to find it in the swamp so... This machine will do far more CAD than FEA and most of our models are fairly large. Especially since some in the past have liked threads on hardware ect. There will be some programing and little to no ren...

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josh wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 3:04 pm Umm, so when I open your assembly I see two curved right mouse buttons, and one is upside down. In order to make a mouse, you need a left button and a right button. Two right buttons will not work any better than two right shoes fit your feet.

Picky, picky

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charlesculp wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 2:30 pm Hey, anyone seen any fun dialog boxes?

"This file was last opened in 5430 minutes and 34 seconds."

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Just had one of those myself. It actually opened this time in under 2 min.

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I know this has been answered, but can't you save illustrator files in DWG or into JPEGS? If you were to save into Jpegs, you could then either convert the jpeg to DXF with a web application and then scale it to the appropriate size I thought I recall something about Photoshop/Illustrator being abl...

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Well, for what I got paid and everything, I didn't care too much. So I came close,
Then I put our company logo in the plasma file.

Jim Steinmeyer

Well, at least you can get a dimension.

Jim Steinmeyer

Ok, I went to the main panel and it worked.

Jim Steinmeyer

I am going to suspect you don't want us to vote. Every time I follow your link I get logged out.

Jim Steinmeyer

Like @zxys001 I kind of miss it but rarely used it because I would open it and go for a cup of coffee while I waited. It was nice to be able to find all of the where used locations but because of the slow operation I have found workarounds for anything else you could have done with it.

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Guys,
Thank you for the links to both Go Engineer and Javelin. These are what I was looking for. While I am in need, I wanted this information here for others to find as well. I am going to mark one as correct so that it shows answered, but all 3 answers were what I was looking for.

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Jason, Agreed. The units we sell are in the $140,000 range but that doesn't seem to matter. A few years ago our manager showed a ROI of 8 months for installing the full version of PDM. Two years ago I was given the go ahead to setup the version included in the Pro seats of SW but the company balked ...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:40 am Hope you'll be proud of a $6000 workstation which work as fast as the old one and crash as much

Oh no. A $6000 workstation would be much faster, thus it would crash much faster.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:32 am That's two completely different issues.

Start with a new computer .....

https://www.javelin-tech.com/blog/2013/ ... olidworks/

The last "work stations" the company purchased, they were proud to get them for under $1500.

No thank you.

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Thank you for the input everyone. I tried to get a better file from the school but the "drawing" is coming from the Marketing & Public Relations department and I suspect they are unclear just what a File is let alone what a dxf file is. The interesting thing is that they said this 25&q...

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zxys001 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 5:20 pm ..here's a DXF of it (I used Rhino3D)

Thank you Paul.

Jim Steinmeyer

I am having a challenge. The local community collage wants me to create a plasma file to cut some bench supports. They first sent a file that came as an edrawings file that I could open in our edrawings viewer but not in SW. No dimensions but I was able to measure it, sort of and it was 135"x 1...

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matt wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:57 pm Oh, this is right up someone here's alley. Maybe they'll shave your head and put electrodes on. I know some of you guys will be up for that!

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Fred's name came to mind immediately.

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Thanks for all your input. I fully realize I've inherited a less-than-stellar server full of data....... :oops: Mike, If it makes you feel any better, I took an engineering manager job where I was the 5th in the last 6 years, Didn't learn that fun fact until one of the welders told me he didn't nee...

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I guess maybe I should add that this is an agricultural trailer that we are looking at with the blocks on the sides that have the constraints (fixed and springs) added are the contact locations for the 2 axle suspension. I have been in this so much that I forget that it isn't clear to those not buil...

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I am attempting to analyze the frame. The rectangle blocks on the side of the frame represent the hangers that the leaf springs are attached to. There is one spring between the front and middle hanger and another between the middle and rear hanger. I could model a beam in those locations and give it...

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Ben, In the view itself can you set it to the default view and then back to the exploded view? Usually for me going through that cycle will get the balloons to attach as needed. With your dimension issue that I think you have solved, this is one reason I attempt to never show a dimension that is not...

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Turn your nightlight on: Go into PC settings -> System -> Display 2021-04-05 21_15_49-Window.jpg And if you go into "Night Light Settings" you can adjust the strength. This gives the screen a reddish hue which greatly helps with eye strain. And if that isn't enough turn the lights off in ...

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John,
If you want to play with your boss just pick up a wireless mouse and stick the dongle in a rear USB port of his machine. You can make his cursor move all on it's own for days, if you can keep from laughing.

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I was going to say that with 20 years of CAD I have never used mutli-bodies, and then Mike mentioned weldments. Yes I tried them for a week or two and there are some cool ideas, until I have to break them apart to make drawings and enter them into MRP. Or until I decide to reuse a part from mixer X ...

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Hi, Tried the simulationxpress for the first time evidently I don't have the inputs correct: image.png Regards, Jim Having never tried this, my first thought is that you would want to deflect at least the two opposite tangs at the same time and have them set for "No Penetration" so they w...

Jim Steinmeyer

Hey Jim, In the quickmate panel, if you click on the mate icon of the one you would like ignored, you won't have to give a selection. That should answer your needs! 1st and 2nd turned on, 3rd turned off by clicking on it: image.png Thank you Alex. This is exactly what I was wondering about. I thoug...

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Would it be simpler to mirror the first gusset about the center plane of the bracket? It could be, except I would have to dig into the tree and locate the center plane, if whoever modeled the part had created it with a true center plane. In reality, the workaround was easy enough that it took less ...

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I just came across a new need when doing copy with mates and thought I would see if anyone knows if there is a way of doing this. I have a gusset at the top of a suspension hanger. It is located with the outer face of the gusset inline with the left side rib of the hanger. I would like to add a seco...

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Ok I know this has been a topic of discussion many times on the old forum but I don't think it was ever given it's own FAQ and I think it should. Can a knowledgeable person go through the method of completely removing SW to do a clean install to get rid of the persistent bugs hanging on the machine?...

Jim Steinmeyer

I am looking for a realistic method to represent a suspension and springs on a trailer for use in simulation. In the screen shot below I have the tongue on a roller slider and the center hangers of the suspension fixed. I then placed springs under the outer two suspension hangers. I don't think that...

Jim Steinmeyer

The best I can give you is that 15 years ago we implemented Windchill in our system that was using pre-wildfire Pro-E and it worked well. But that was Pro-e and a Looong time ago.

Jim Steinmeyer

I suppose you complained about the icon color change that SW made a few years back, too. Only thing, I don't like is the blue banner at the top. But, I'm pretty sure I can change that. Have you guys tried tweaking the colors before changing it to Dark? Edit to Add: Guys just changing to Carbon give...

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image.png A few decades ago the gas company finally ran natural gas lines in our part of the country. We already had the missile silos in the area with underground cables connecting them. When the natural gas line approached the missile line in the neighbor's pasture it made a large half circle wit...

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Glad to see so many familiar names. Well it looks like we will be FLAWed again but I guess we can handle that.

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