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by MadMike
Thu Oct 26, 2023 8:06 am
Forum: How To Questions
Topic: How To: Speed Up Mating in Assembly Mode
Replies: 29
Views: 7280

Re: How To: Speed Up Mating in Assembly Mode

Check your graphs in your Task Manager (the performance Tab). Do the thing that causes the lag and see which graph spikes. If I were a betting man, I would say it will be your Ethernet graph. Check it out and report back. My ethernet graph is spiking while trying to run simple mates. What does this...
by MadMike
Wed Feb 22, 2023 7:19 am
Forum: SW General
Topic: Sketching along a spiral
Replies: 3
Views: 456

Re: Sketching along a spiral

Quick thought is to make your spiral and just make different planes at the depths you need, convert entity the spiral in a sketch at every plane and make your shape where it needs to be.
by MadMike
Mon Feb 20, 2023 2:56 pm
Forum: SW General
Topic: Geometry turning black intermittently
Replies: 4
Views: 478

Re: Geometry turning black intermittently

We're currently using SW 2022 SP3, I'm using a Nvidia Quadro P1000 card. It is currently on version 517.40. I recently updated the drivers (maybe a month ago) to try and fix this problem to no avail (I'm not sure which drivers I had before). I tried turning off enhanced graphics as suggested and hav...
by MadMike
Thu Feb 16, 2023 1:42 pm
Forum: SW General
Topic: Geometry turning black intermittently
Replies: 4
Views: 478

Geometry turning black intermittently

Hello, I've been following along with this forum for about a year now and thankfully haven't had any show stopping problems to ask about up until recently. For a few months I have been plagued with an issue in that when I open a new sketch on a part, for example, the whole part will turn black and I...
by MadMike
Thu Jun 02, 2022 8:08 am
Forum: SW General
Topic: What are your most impressive tricks of Solidworks
Replies: 162
Views: 76994

Re: What are your most impressive tricks of Solidworks

Harris wrote: Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:47 am Here's a GIF of a really fast way to add intersection relations!Intersection.gif
Can't see the GIF now, can you re-upload or describe?