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Peter De Vlieger

In summary, do all of the heavy lifting for the VAR/SW, and hope they actually do more than blow you off. That's been my experience as well. They are helpfull with general SW question such as ASM/PRT questions or Weldement questions or anything else that is core functionality etc.. But when it came...

Peter De Vlieger

SP4? Don't care... wake me up for SP5. I can't be bothered with their beta releases anymore. Most of the new things they 'advertise' don't really make anything better or easier, and if you do dare to rely on them, by the next release it will be broken and the work around will be *drum roll*... not t...

Peter De Vlieger

It's about communication... Words have meanings... There is a LOT of misinformation out there and it is generally caused by people not understanding the terms/words they are using. A bit rich considering that we get constantly bombarded with marketing speak and managerial word salad from Solidworks...

Peter De Vlieger

By the way, why is there a draftsight section in the Solidworks what's new? Draftsight is a completely seperate product that needs to be bought on it's own. What's next, having a section about Catia ? Who cares about Draftsight? There are far better acad clones out there and with far better LISP sup...

Peter De Vlieger

Another year without any love for 'routing'. They added 2 things for 'piping', yep two whole things: -Naming Wires and Cables in the FeatureManager Design Tree -Discrete Wires with Auto Route Once again they worked on electrical, like they do every single year, while there are even less people using...

Peter De Vlieger

Blocks in SW are indeed sub-par BUT for something like this I do find it to be the best solution. Like you we use a single drawing template but have lots of different sheet formats. Not just the different papersizes but also different languages in the titelblock and different 'entities' (daughter co...

Peter De Vlieger

Multiple sessions of solidworks on one computer? Heck, I'm happy if even just one session runs without throwing a fit, freezing or crashing By the by, running multiple session is indeed not impossible but it wil mean that the auto recovery functionality won't work AT ALL instead of only some of the ...

Peter De Vlieger

Frederik,

How about an upside down, backwards, chinese, braille bible with half the pages missing..

(for those not getting the reference : George Carlin)

Peter De Vlieger

Thank you Jason. Sure, according to that it should be fixed in 2023 Beta... not that it really means anything because I have experienced myself that something was notified as fixed in a beta version 2 years down the line but by the time one can actually get the supposedly fixed version I ended up re...

Peter De Vlieger

Jason, To get the correct weight of the entire part I added a column in the design table $SW-MASS with all the correct data for each config. In other words, yes, every config has it's own value in the design table specifying the value it needs to use to override the weight. The part in question bein...

Peter De Vlieger

Matt, I guess I wasn't clear enough in my description of the issue I face. So I'll try to bring it back to the basic elements. 1/ We talking about a part that has a design table that drives all dimensions of that part's different sizes in the different config's. 2/ The part has two bodies. One body ...

Peter De Vlieger

I don't have a solution. Things to try if you haven't done so yet to get parts smaller: - check to remove display states as well as non needed configs - purge cached config data - and just re-saving a part, yep saving the same part without changing anything can make a part smaller with a factor of 1...

Peter De Vlieger

Recently someone asked if we could put the weight of our routing parts in them so as to have an easy way to see the complete weight. Seeing that there are ample parts that aren't uniform in material, e.g. flanges that have a steel core although the outside is in a PP glass fiber enhanced coating I h...

Peter De Vlieger

Comes down to the following. GIVE US ALL THE MONEY NOW ! or GIVES US EVEN MORE MONEY LATER ! Either way you WILL pay for things that barely work and which hardly anyone even needs or wants. Let's be honest here, most of the 'collaboration' tools are a nifty idea but an idea that most small and mediu...

Peter De Vlieger

Saw a presentation by my VAR about it all yesterday. *facepalm* I didn't expect much but it was even worse than I had expected. If I had played Bourbon-Bingo for marketing lingo and managerial platitudes I would have to had my stomach pumped. Not blaming my VAR, they have to do what SW tells them to...

Peter De Vlieger

AND he completely forgot to mention anything about https://dsxclient.3ds.com/psp/CRPRD/EMPLOYEE/DS_ECO/h/?tab=DEFAULT which first someone has to access to give all the users actual permission to access stuff image.png Especially take note of the line about service requests and who can create SR's an...

Peter De Vlieger

SW COST.png HOLD ON ! So 'normal price would be 16.897 but during the limited time promotion offer you can get it for 12.954 ? In other words you can get a ±23% discount, and you know your VAR is still making a profit of it after giving Solidworks their cut. Which means after the discount period, t...

Peter De Vlieger

In short - we have to pay for things we haven't gotten or used (if you go of subscription but after a few years want to update) - we have to pay for things that we might not benefit from but will be introduced the next few years (having to pay for a minimum amount of subscription years) - we have to...

Peter De Vlieger

"The inability to see ERs, SRs and SPRs may be explained by your permissions in the new system" Nope. i have full rights. I am the security admin. On top of that I had word of my VAR that previous ER's, SR's and SPR's won't be transferred. Which means that any and all of that data since w...

Peter De Vlieger

Knowing how utterly crap Solidworks is in providing any guidance that goes beyond explaining that clicking extrude function will let you extrude things and clicking cut will let you cut things... Knowing that it's difficult if not impossible to find anyone in any department at Solidworks that actual...

Peter De Vlieger

Being in wave 2 it's clear that all the bugs and issues have been removed Which is why the email was send to our head of IT (who doesn't work with any 3DS product) and make him security admin. No matter that he can't log in, can't reset his password because no matter where he looks he just doesn't r...

Peter De Vlieger

Frederik, Correct me if I'm wrong but unlike a database, where the program can do a query on a database and there for only load bits and pieces of the database instead of the entire database, Solidworks loads a file completely. Or in other words, a file of 50MB when accessed by SW means a minimum of...

Peter De Vlieger

It's not a bug, it's a feature. I mentioned how stupid SW is with file size growth a decade ago. The general responds was that storage is cheap so why am I making a fuss about a PRT being 200KB even although it only has one feature in it because they don't understand that most ASM's don't just have ...

Peter De Vlieger

Yeah, it sucks. SW is doing stuff that even mobsters are starting to think it's taking things a tad far. ;) On the one hand they expect you to pay for services not received. That's after all the entire deal with charging returning customers for the period they weren't on subscription. Now they even ...

Peter De Vlieger

For our 2D needs we use Bricscad. If I look at what new things, improvements, QoL things, enhancements they keep adding and not only on the flagship version but even on the most basic version and then compare that to Solidworks premium..... *sigh* there is no comparison. Solidworks 'improvements' ar...

Peter De Vlieger

JSculley wrote: ↑Thu Oct 20, 2022 10:15 am What developer or QA person tests this and says: "Yep! That's working exactly as it should!".

But...eh... ah... that is Solidworks standard operating procedure, isn't ?

Peter De Vlieger

@Peter De Vlieger I would agree about setup doesn't take real long, >IF< you know how you're going to use it. Granted we have PDM Pro so there's much more to uncover than in standard, but we're three years in and still trying to figure out how to fit our processes to PDM or PDM to our processes. If...

Peter De Vlieger

Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Thu Oct 20, 2022 1:21 pm File management is only as good as user has implemented. Crap in, crap out.

AND that's is what I'm worried about.
I don't want to have to spend lots of time on setting up something that causes lots more work for me and that frankly would barely help anyone.

Peter De Vlieger

The answers to your questions really depend on your answer to this question: What problem(s) do you hope to solve or objectives to you hope to achieve by using PDM? The problem we're facing that we want to solve is the slowness of opening files. As you can imagine we use big assemblies. We created ...

Peter De Vlieger

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Fri Oct 21, 2022 12:53 pm You obviously misunderstand your role...You are part of the QA team...

Nay, I was being silly, i forgot that we the customers are the Beta testers.

Peter De Vlieger

I think it comes down to how transparent you want them to be with their process. I'm stunned how you can claim them being transparent. Imagine taking your car in for some major repairs. After a week you get a call to tell you that it's going to be ready next Tuesday and you can come and pick it up....

Peter De Vlieger

I specially didn't want to ask this in the PDM section of this forum because I don't want just those that are actively using it to pipe in but everyone that ever had experience with it. Background info We use Solidworks mainly for Routing (piping to be exact) and have been using it since 2009.Our li...

Peter De Vlieger

(rant mode on) So today I got notified that once again an error that has been returning time and time again for more than a decade will once again be fixed in 2023SP1 Woohoo ! To qoute "The following SPR (SolidWorks Performance Report) status has changed to Implemented." And the automated ...

Peter De Vlieger

ooh... I had that happen as well in the past, getting notified that an issue I was facing was going to be fixed in some version in the future. Seeing however that it's a Beta version it doens't necessarily mean that the fix will actual work in the released versions. And, in the of chance that it doe...

Peter De Vlieger

Sometimes it's handy sometimes not...

Which is why I have the key-combo memorized to toggle it on or off.
Just link a key combo to the command "hide all types"

Peter De Vlieger

This error only happens in a assembly, and only when creating and opposite hand version.

Or in other words, everything works fine except for when one truly wants a mirror.

Peter De Vlieger

*cough* 2021 SP5.1 *cough*

Peter De Vlieger

*trying to bite my tongue so as not to say : "i told you so".

Peter De Vlieger

I wouldn''t bother with an EV release unless you have a show stopping issue with the previous SP. Wait a few weeks for the regular SP5. Else you'll just end up installing it anyways on top of the SP5 EV. Better still... give it a couple of days just in case there is something major wrong with SP5 so...

Peter De Vlieger

They have been incentivizing the users for years to be their unpaid Alpha testers for as far back as I've been using Solidworks. And yes, even a 500 USD price i consider unpaid because the only way you'll be able to earn that price is if you spend way more time on testing and documenting all the iss...

Peter De Vlieger

Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 1:39 pm . . . and sometimes that works, and sometimes it doesn't.

That's my experience as well.
One caveat : most times it doesn't work.

Peter De Vlieger

One more trick for you : Define a plane by the means of 3 points. This way you have full control of which side of the plane is 'normal'. Depending on if you select the 3 point CW or CCW will namely determine what side of the plan is facing you or away from you. I find it particular useful on planes ...

Peter De Vlieger

Dark mode in Solidworks is like lots of things in Solidworks, namely half baked, unfinished, lacking QC and consistency.

Peter De Vlieger

Ron,

That is right.
However I never change that setting so there for, silly ol' me, I expect it to work.

Peter De Vlieger

Cheers Alex.

Of course now that I posted about it, it shows up

Peter De Vlieger

Did I miss a memo?

There used to be the possibility to get 'write access' when working on a PRT or ASM that someone else had open by just doing a RMB and selecting it out of the pop up.

Am I losing it?
Did I imagine it?
Should I see to up my meds?

Peter De Vlieger

I love the way SW from time to time jumps from my right monitor to the left monitor without cause, without warning. Yep, happens to me often as well. It's always a guess where any Solidworks itself, or any of the sub windows, will pop up. But then again what do you expect from programmers that can'...

Peter De Vlieger

Quelle surprise. In short, what lots of us have been thinking over the years is true. The program is in dire need of an overhaul because the sloppy and lazy programming of patching the patches with more patched patches has led to a program that can't efficiently use the hardware that it's supposed t...

Peter De Vlieger

The original forum was quick to put a special sub category up for Sustainability. I myself pointed out that after a few years there were barely any posts in there so that one either had to conclude that it was working magnificently without a hitch (ROFLMAO) or that just nobody could be bothered with...

Peter De Vlieger

I have about ... none :D Though I have been fiddling with pipes and tubes in my life before, as a maintenance technician, but specific training from the desgning point of view so far is none. But the thing on the other hand is that I don't need to make decisions about tube sizes or calculate flows ...

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