Well, the model FINALLY arrived. Geeze. 14,124 surface bodies.

As suggested, above I'm going to remodel a very limited subset of the interface areas as necessary and call this done.

I could spend the rest of my life on this.....

Thanks all who chimed in.

Wow! Lot's of good responses. Sorry, was off doing something else and forgot about this thread. Agreed, the easiest solution is to get a real model. Unfortunately they want a lot of $ for that and management doesn't see the value.... My time is seen as "free".... grumble. Sorry not able to...

So, When the genius' at my company wrote the PO for the design and construction of a piece of equipment that we will include in a larger system, they neglected to include fully functional solid models as a deliverable.... The vendor balked at the request of providing a full model, but did provide th...

My favorite trick is to directly edit custom properties from Excel with user-defined functions, without having to open SW at all (via Document Manager API). https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-document-manager-api/ https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-document-manager-api/document/data-storage/cus...

mike miller wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 11:54 am Does this help you? https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php? ... 85&p=13065

Kudos to @MJuric.

Wow. That's brilliant. Yes, thanks!

Hiya, I do a lot of work with ship layout and one of the basic layout items for all ship systems is a baseline sketch defining the frame spacing. The layout of the actual spacing is easy enough, but it would be AWESOME if I could generate a sequence of text labels to call out the frame numbers. As t...

dpihlaja wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:23 pm This has to do with what template the program is using when it pulls in the STEP file.

The template that is defined here (see below) is the culprit. It probably has a sweep in it.

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Dude. You are THE MAN! Have no idea how this got changed.

Thank you!

So I got a bunch of step files from one of our contractors to use in our assembly model. Importing them into Swx v2019 results in every part having a Sweep inserted in the part on top of the Imported part in the feature manager tree. The Sweep is broken due to relations to elements that no longer ex...

Hello, I need to send a Pack & Go to a client, however, I want to keep my work to myself. The goal is to send the pack & go with all the solid bodies as "imported" rather than sending the solidparts with all the details. If I use a speedpak, this doesn't allow the client to click ...

Got it.....

Thanks to http://joshuaredstone.blogspot.com/2015/

longstatus = win32com.client.VARIANT(pythoncom.VT_BYREF | prythoncom.VT_I4, 1)

jeebus....

Argh.....

Playing with the VBA code that I'm translating, if I replace longstatus with 0, it works just fine.

Need a pulling hair out emoji....

Thanks. Well with the untyped nature of python, you have to assign a value to longstatus prior to usage. I've tried casting longstatus to an int using int(), but I get the following: pywintypes.com_error:(-2147352571, 'Type mismatch.', None, 13) I've looked around and can't find any reference to thi...

Greetings all, I got a wild hair to apply my rudimentary python skills to write macros for SolidWorks. I'm making good progress. Some interesting gyrations to jump through, but I'm establishing a good book of knowledge to use in the future. But I'm hamstrung on the longstatus parameter used in AddMa...

Roasted By John wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:41 pm Fushion 360 isn't that bad - seems a lot elementary, lot of missing stuff

It's not that good either. Lot's of bugs they don't seem interested in fixing and no configurations.

I gave up on it a while back and have stopped recommending it to folks.

bently