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AlexB

It's in the Options menu on the Document Properties tab. I'm not sure what the standard units are but I would guess mm.

Edit: I measured the dimensions of the dashes on a drawing and have no idea how the values correlate to units

AlexB

But why? I'm not allowed to keep any other legacy features. I don't have to go to every extrude and say "upgrade to latest version." It's because it makes something behave different that depends on legacy behavior. So, instead of fixing it, they left it up to us to determine if it will me...

AlexB

Anyone try installing PDM Standard Server on a non-server Windows OS? Makes it easier if it can be on a PC because it could just be installed on the instructor's PC instead of having a dedicated PC. I've had a test vault installed on a Windows 10 PC for a long time now. It's using a development lic...

AlexB

I have a similar one for a folder card using the IEdmEnumeratorVariable5.GetVar method. SPR 1111411 Desc: GetVar Method (IEdmEnumeratorVariable5) for folder returns values from deleted folder while actually value is empty My specific issue was that if a folder of the same name existed in the 'recycl...

AlexB

MMartens wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 3:07 pm That's what I initially thought but it doesn't work.

Okay, I played around with a task add-in and can replicate your issue. I even tried to intercept and cancel the keypress event and was not able to get it to do what you're looking for. Sorry

AlexB

I believe there is a property for TextBox controls called AcceptsReturn that you can set to allow it to create a new line when enter is pressed.

I believe this line should get you what you need.

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myTextBox.AcceptsReturn = true;

AlexB

How? Every time I tried to change a component to a different layer, it changed it for every single view. I even toggling layer for a specific view didn't do anything, just changed the active layer. If you edit the component line font for the item shown in the view, you can select the layer and chec...

AlexB

I just remembered this thread. Will something like this help? I'm not sure if it will work on a google drive but it's worth a shot
viewtopic.php?p=27453#p27453

AlexB

Unfortunately, the problem is that we are completely off the school network. For one, the school network has very restrictive access. The students can save their practice SWX files, but cannot even save their menu preferences. That is unfortunate. It sounds like the Solidworks PDM Standard will not...

AlexB

PDM requires a central server for file storage and running of the archive and database server processes. This could be as simple as a PC sitting in the corner of your classroom that's always on and only your computers can access. Is that something that's possible? If they will be using their persona...

AlexB

Some of you said about Task-host machine that could run the tasks, but doesn't that require are a new license? My employer is too cheap for that kind of luxury. This has been in my mind for a long time but I have been very sure that it needs extra license to do that. If you're on a network license ...

AlexB

I have had very little luck using "record macro." It records some things, but misses the majority of operations. Recording a macro almost always results in unusable code that doesn't capture most of what the user is doing. It gives insight to some operations, but 99% of cases require some...

AlexB

I was going to say the same thing as @AlexLachance that it would take a customized API task add-in to accomplish this all in one go. Another option, which we utilize at my company, is to have a dedicated task computer that all of those time consuming conversions are offloaded to. This way, our engin...

AlexB

There's built in performance testing in Solidworks Rx on the benchmark tab that does exactly this.

AlexB

Per a post from April on the Help forum for the support app, the ability to view/manage licenses will not be available until sometime in May. Tick.....tock.... Thanks, I'm starting to dig through some of those posts to glean information on the plans for transferring everything over. It's really coo...

AlexB

I tried accessing this again today to check something and I can't access the customer portal via solidworks.com or the Admin portal via my.solidworks.com It keeps saying I don't have an account with Solidworks and fails on the login screen, but I do have an account and it works on other login screen...

AlexB

Can you wrap the code in your GetAddInInfo function with a Try Catch block? This can happen if there's an unhandled exception within that function since it's called when an add-in is loaded. For example, I forced an error by converting a string to an int that was definitely too big for an int type. ...

AlexB

I agree with @JSculley

If we can see your code, it'll help us help you. I've had PDM return errors that have nothing to do with the actual problem before so the only real way to verify if there's an access error on check-in is via the warnings on the batch check-in dialog he mentions.

AlexB

You'll want to look at the following example to get the "Contains" files for a PDM file.

https://help.solidworks.com/2022/englis ... _VBNET.htm

AlexB

I wish I could test it on a 2019 vault for you but I don't have anything older than 2020 at the moment. The option appears to be there for my installations of those.

AlexB

SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2023 4:39 pm I find it here, but I'm not sure that is the "new" home.

https://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/downloads.htm

This is fun, apparently nothing can work right the first time. Got it on the 2nd try though, thanks!

AlexB

Trying to find where the downloads moved to...

Seems like the right spot, but no SPs listed. Maybe the "Find Media" search will work?

Voila! Works just as expected! I just needed to pick an option from the blank list of options!

AlexB

Most of what our VAR set up went right in the trash shortly after they were gone. You simply cannot explain your processes and future needs to them in the time available. I requested the Admin Guide after we purchased PDM but before we implemented it. I read it cover to cover before they showed up ...

AlexB

1. The migration can be as simple or as complex as you decide to make it. It's sounding like you don't have any SW files right now so would you essentially be re-modeling everything in Solidworks and saving that into PDM fresh? If that's the case, then you won't have to worry about a file migration ...

AlexB

I'm actually in the early stages of developing something like this myself for our internal processes. I'd be curious to see this post you mention as well if someone else knows where it is. My approach right now is to build a PDM add-in that will launch the tool from the "Tools" drop-down m...

AlexB

The only issue, or quirk really, that we get is via the PDM add-in with the Get Version dialog. It will stop showing who the user was that checked it in if they're deleted. However, the file's history shows everything correctly. image.png image.png Users are still stored in the PDM database, but are...

AlexB

SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 8:55 am Is it possible this setting is somehow conflicting with the Units setting?

In my short testing, one appears to control the display dimension precision and the other controls the decimal places of the dimension in other places in the UI like the Edit Dimension window.

AlexB

1. As you mentioned, this is a document template setting so every new part should match your template. I've never seen this change as I'm working on something without me explicitly accessing the menu and changing it. 2. Yes, it's possible. The code below should set it to 2 for your active document. ...

AlexB

I'm not sure about VB.NET, but when I develop add-ins I use c# in the latest release of Visual Studio. I have no issues with VS2022 and add-in development with c#. I imagine that the same can be done with VB.NET. As for macros saving in the .vbproj extension, I believe that this help page covers why...

AlexB

I do more freelance programming for PDM and Solidworks so my point of reference is a bit different, especially when I work on the order of weeks for custom projects. With that said, I agree with Glenn.

AlexB

How do ECOs work in Solidworks PDM? In Teamcenter, Engineering Orders are their own item types that contain revisions. So EO000014 has a revision called EO000014/A. This method seems odd; I'm not sure why you would want to make a revision of an EO....??? image.png The reason I ask is because the re...

AlexB

mike miller wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 7:55 am @AlexB do you require use of an ECO for every revision?

Yes we do

AlexB

In our case, we use PDM so there is some history there for all part versions. For a quick look, we also have a PDF archive of all released drawings that we can quickly look through. Changes are officially documented in the ECO referenced on the drawing revision table. Those are also all kept as reco...

AlexB

I looked in the KB and there are a few different entries regarding exploded views showing when they shouldn't. I couldn't reproduce any though. I tried to open my sub-assembly that uses and exploded view from 2021 SP5 and 2022 SP5 and all opened in the collapsed state. I can only imagine that the of...

AlexB

Like you already mentioned, my go to method is to just make everything but the "main" a function that returns a boolean or something. If I use the value at all, I'd use that to tell me if the function completed with or without error.

AlexB

You can likely accomplish this with a macro after the drawing is finished to re-name your view letters in reverse order. Otherwise, I don't believe it's possible

AlexB

revenki wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 1:53 pm AlexB: I'll give that a try in the meantime, and see if that helps with the prior problem. That actually has been stable for a while.

An alternative may be BlueByte Systems - Convert Task Extended

He's posted a bunch of videos showing capabilities on their Linkedin page.

AlexB

Resurrecting this thread... I really, really want an alternative to the convert-drawing-to-pdf task. Whether it's third party, or someone has a print -drawing-to-pdf mod that they'd be willing to share. I'm sick of the "task failed" emails coming to me on about a third of the conversion t...

AlexB

I've tried to use the settings administrator with limited success in most cases. It seems the settings I save aren't always the settings it provides to users, but I digress. I usually initially set the user settings during the Admin image install process by running a batch file after the installatio...

AlexB

This should work now. I shouldn't have used "Const" for the settings it seems. Option Explicit Sub main() Dim NAME_OF_CFG As String Dim NAME_OF_PROPERTY_TO_ADD As String Dim VALUE_OF_PROPERTY_TO_ADD As String NAME_OF_CFG = "" NAME_OF_PROPERTY_TO_ADD = "NEWPROP3" VALUE_O...

AlexB

I'm not sure why you need it to work this way, but is this what you're looking for? - Add property to link to configuration name - Read property to get property name that it's evaluated to - Rewrite property value to hard-coded configuration name Option Explicit Sub main() Const NAME_OF_CFG As Strin...

AlexB

That seems like a workaround to how PDM is intended to work... and we use PDM. It's there to lock down files so people cannot change them. If clerical corrections or other modifications that don't impact the "geometry" of the part are needed then that can be done on the issued versions of ...

AlexB

gerard wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 8:47 am

Could this be a 32 bit vs 64 bit thing? Unfortunately we are running the 32 bit version of Excel 2016.

This is almost certainly the issue. It's a similar error I get when I forget to un-check "Prefer 32-bit" when I use Document Manager in Visual Studio.

AlexB

Do the part and the drawing have exactly the same file name? If not, the right-click -> open drawing will not work right and will make you browse for your drawing.

Edit: I think they need to be in the same folder as well but am too lazy to verify.

AlexB

My graphics problems are much better. Thanks for all of your help. I can't say which of these solved the problem: Install latest drivers Install SW patch Turn on full scene AA (I think this is probably what did the trick.) Reboot. Full scene anti-aliasing is a game changer, so that is probably the ...

AlexB

It works for me when I run my code, but I had to test a few things to make sure I knew what was going on.

You can delete a scene, however there needs to be a scene applied to the part so SW re-applies the default theme. This is why it doesn't appear that the scene is deleted from the feature tree.

AlexB

There's also this blurb at their link. Try to install the patch and see if that helps.
(The A4000 launched mid 2021 so I think this probably will help)

https://www.solidworks.com/support/hard ... ification/

AlexB

What does it mean if that option is greyed out? That's odd, I don't know why that would be grayed out unless a setting in your NVIDIA Control Panel is locking it out. For reference though, bolts and other items with interference or line-to-line fit won't show edges at the intersection. image.png

AlexB

What graphics card and graphics driver are you using? Looking up your specs, it looks like you should have R515 for your A4000 card in your Dell 3660. Can you verify? Edit: Also, check to make sure you have Full scene anti-aliasing enabled in [System Options] -> [Display] -> [anti-aliasing]. This wi...

AlexB

Alternatively, you could use the Split command with the "consume cut bodies" option or delete the bodies you don't want after the split with "Delete/Keep Bodies" when it's completed. This doesn't rely on surface direction and still performs the same way.

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