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Alin

I wasn't speaking of that particular feature, but the idea of adding new features with every release. SPs will introduce simple to implement enhancements that have a big impact. Think about what we call “the missing 5%”. Major releases will continue to introduce more complex enhancements that will ...

Alin

Very few of us consider this an improvement. As I said in another thread: If the agile philosophy is "We'll fix it in the next release" you have to actually do that part. It depends how much time you spend working with assemblies. This is very useful for me and many of my clients. They as...

Alin

New enhancements are now added every service pack. For users like me who are in LDR mode a lot, having breadcrumbs available in LDR mode is huge (2024 SP1).

Next month (2024 SP2) we get the Component Preview Window in LDR, also.

Alin

dave.laban wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 4:22 am

Thanks for sharing, Dave! Voting now.

Alin

Here is one I "might" be willing to continuing paying for support for.... Instantiate tabs into the viewer window for different parts/assemblies/drawings that each are a separate process utilizing separate processor core. Most high end machines nowadays come with at least 4 processors so ...

Alin

Today is the last day to vote on the TTL 2024.

Alin

Nice challenge and quite simple. Are you OK if we record a video demonstrating the technique for solving this problem?

Alin

xSurface doesn't even come close to nPower in terms of capability. I've spoken with the PM about the need to step outside of the CAD lane and start looking around the SubD modeling world because there's a lot to be desired. nPower is about the best we get natively. That is the add-in SW should buy ...

Alin

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:09 pm Because it will get lost in the swamp and noone will really vote on it next year if it's lost so might as well hold on to it.

You can do both. And it will not get lost if you ask all your colleagues and all the forum users to vote on it.

Alin

I'll be happy to do that next year, if you will remind me when it gets to be that time. The chances of me remembering are pretty close to zero, in spite of my best efforts. Why not submit it now in the ER Community? https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:I23-EB1ZRQyk2sLG5...

Alin

Arthur NY wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 1:29 pm It is 100% insane that a user would have to use a whole new platform to get SubD functionality when ALL other platforms have it built into it's core.

I would also love to have SubD brought back inside SW! Like the nPower add-in, only better.

Alin

RichGergely wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 2:40 pm Nice list Alin and appreciate your effort, a few items would help me.

Trouble is I have totally lost interest in the future of SolidWorks, dassault have worn me down to this point.

Sorry to hear that, Rich.

Alin

Looks like I keep failing in explaining the benefits of the idea. Let me answer your points: @Alin my concern was about the man hours the 3d process is pushing on engineers. This functionality will use the dimensions and annotations in the existing drawings. Press a button, and each selected drawing...

Alin

dave.laban wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:16 am Another low-hanging fruit idea if I might be so bold; https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... k2GOSBg0Ng

Voted.

Alin

Alin, Looks like it includes access to the 3DX platform, but very limited to no roles included. Those are extra. The only people excited about the announcement of the addition (forced) to the desktop subscription at Experience World last year were the DSS and SW execs. I like the new share with mar...

Alin

I thought MDB point was to avoid 2d data at all. The drawing is simply pushing back in the model Annotation Views (if the users needs that). Those dimensions are parametrically linked to the model, so when the model changes, they change. The drawing functionality stays the same (when the model chan...

Alin

The source of truth remains the model. I will explain in a video, once I find the time to record it.

Alin

Update: watch this video for more details https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhxRHBsGazQ Are you ready for one more revolutionary idea? What about an automatic conversion of 2D Drawings into MBD 3D Views? Vote for it using this link: https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:YxU...

Alin

Thanks Alin, I did look up a few of the ideas but I await a list like yours every year, I find that the platform just does not do a good job at putting up front the deserving ideas leaving the user having to go through them one by one which can be quite time consuming. I will read up on this tomorr...

Alin

Many of you are too busy using SOLIDWORKS and 3DX to find the time to read all the 300 ideas submitted in this year's Top 10 List 3DEXPERIENCE contest. This why EngineersRule.com took the time to compile a short list of 20 ideas split in two major groups: Low-Hanging Fruit Ideas Shortlist (Easy to I...

Alin

I noticed the forum being very laggy this week. Am I the only one experiencing this?

Alin

At home I have a Bambulab P1P. So far I have printed only PLA.
I like the speed and ease of use in addition to the generous 10" x 10" x10" volume.

Alin

Check to see what the new subscription includes. Most likely they added several new tools and services to justify the price increase.
I am not saying that this will make you change your mind, but I hope they did not increase the price without offering extra benefits.

Alin

I'm convinced the TTL is nothing but a marketing tool. The software team knows what they are going to work on, and is not influenced by the TTL. But the marketing team knows there will be overlap, so they can say "See, we are listening to you" despite all other evidence to the contrary. I...

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Automate Tedious and Repetitive Sketch Operations • Select Multiple Edges using Y/N Shortcut Keys https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:YxU3ReG0QkqGc0lvBHo6TQ/idea:8KCue6KnQ6qr8Xd0lbmdeA • Enhance Offset Entities Command by adding a "Machining Mode" https://r11...

Alin

Large Drawing Performance Ideas • Instant Save As Dialog https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:YxU3ReG0QkqGc0lvBHo6TQ/idea:d501NhWMTW6qcmPxZ6bCGw • Exclude Specific Drawing Views from Standard Rebuild https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:YxU3...

Alin

Large Assembly Performance Ideas • Add "Rollup and Rolldown to Selected Component" Icons in Assembly Visualization https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:YxU3ReG0QkqGc0lvBHo6TQ/idea:Gs314oIXS6GgJMezIAdLaw • Display States Managed by Tables https://r1132100503382...

Alin

These are the ideas submitted on behalf of my clients: Fundamental Performance Enhancing Ideas • ESCAPE Should Terminate Any Process and Return the Model/Drawing to its Previous State https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:YxU3ReG0QkqGc0lvBHo6TQ/idea:Bno0bzERT5KUe4z9FPXY4A...

Alin

Do you have high quality or draft quality views in the original drawing?

Alin

SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 8:19 am I remapped the Q key to something else years ago. What is the name of the command that is being called?

Alin

What I showed above is after all of my work. This is what I was given to start. image.png Autotrace does a good job, as long as you scale the picture way high. I made it 20 meters wide and it works acceptable. Then scale it back down. image.png More information about this technique, here: https://y...

Alin

Cadmonkeychris wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 9:16 am Just a thought: does this mean that SW is now locked into a final version of parasolid? If so, what are the implications for further development?

No. R&D for SW 2025-2028 is on the way.

Alin

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 8:05 am This is why I try to test run any SW SP and any new functionality. I've been burned more than once and I recommend anyone reading this thread about this new functionality make sure to fully test it before implementing it in their workflow.

Sage advice, as always.

Alin

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 10:47 am I'm surprised Alin hasn't spoke of this yet, there's a few interesting adds.

I am speechless of how many crazy enhancements were crammed in SW 2024. One of them is something that no one thought would ever be done - saving files to older versions!

Alin

Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 12:38 pm Most of the links in that discussion don't show up for me, and the ones that do don't go anywhere useful.

Yup. Same.

Alin

@Alin I've said this before.... I'm not the normal run of the mill Solidworks user. What you're point out in no way shape or form comes close to what I'm talking about. It's ok.... you can just agree with what I said and call it a day. I realize that it's hard for AE's to say as such because you ha...

Alin

@Krzysztof Szpakowski So let me break it down for you to make it easier to follow.... Geometry Creation Features/Tools like Extrude, Revolve, Loft, Sweep. There have been NO new tools really added of any significant in over a decade. If you look at SW 2002 vs Solidworks 2012 there were huge jumps a...

Alin

Thanks to all for the suggestions. For me, the fact that a twisted face cannot be knitted at both sides to a surface body is very interesting.

So, no closed continuous strip of knitted faces can be created in SW if there is a half-twist anywhere in this "chain" of faces.

Alin

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 11:10 am I think those files were listed above by @Arthur NY.

... and none of them satisfy the requirements I stated.

Alin

bnemec wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 2:07 pm
I wound up with this model attempt, I cannot find a blue line in the loop as you mentioned in the video, all four are black. But Checker still says there's one open surface.

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Could you please upload the SW file?

Alin

@Alin Not that hard.... Here's a model done in Solidworks 2001..... moe-figure-8.SLDPRT moe-figure-2-surfs.SLDPRT moe.SLDPRT Cool. I opened all three files. 1. Moe is not a surface body. As you could see in my video, I acknowledged that a solid body can be created (8 faces). Also, Moe is not a Mobi...

Alin

A few of us started a discussion about the limitation of SW in creating a Mobius Strip as a surface body. Long story short, we failed to create one, even when we used multiple faces. https://youtu.be/8T8dXC1Zn6c The original conversation is there https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.co...

Alin

Just in case you have time for a little modeling challenge, we launched the latest SOLIDWORKS Power User Challenge, focused on reverse engineering this part.

Link for the challenge: https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... GqglTMR3KA

Alin

Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 12:08 pm Let's pull @Alin here.
See if he knows.

Such clients would use on-premise cloud.

Alin

I just learned about that this morning from Betty Baker's weekly email tip. It looks like it will come in very handy for those of us who don't like a bunch of reference geometry in the way all the time, but use planes often for mating. Has it always been a thing, or is that a recent enhancement tha...

Alin

I just learned about that this morning from Betty Baker's weekly email tip. It looks like it will come in very handy for those of us who don't like a bunch of reference geometry in the way all the time, but use planes often for mating. Has it always been a thing, or is that a recent enhancement tha...

Alin

Huge? A minor annoyance at best for me. The primary planes are hidden in all my templates. They are hidden in all my files, too. That being said I am using the magic “Q” key to temporarily reveal them when I needed. :) So useful! Press Q, select a plane, start a sketch. The plan hides automatically...

Alin

A huge bug in SP3:
BR10000357296: Unable to select through assembly primary planes

Alin

gristle wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 5:50 pm Ok, thanks for confirming.
I tried reinstalling SP3 but that did not help. I've rolled back to SP2.
I'll report to my VAR now.

Edit - reported...

Known bug: BR10000356957: Surfaces created in 2023 SP3.0 are created with incorrect feature name. (Surface Features are name --1 then --2, etc.

Alin

I have added one more "top-secret" enhancement in SW2023 in the original post. Why are these not documented in the What's New? Some of these seem little, but one of my students told me today that one of them will save her a ton of clerical work (clicking once vs clicking all over the place).

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