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CarrieIves

Because we are on PDM standard, we can't modify the task. So, I have asked all my users to make sure and uncheck the "View PDF after saving". This should allow the PDF creation task to work. (I was working with my VAR, and we thought we had changed a setting that fixed the problem, but it ...

CarrieIves

This probably isn't your problem, but I saw this from Alin about "Make "Automatically populate View Palette with views" a Document Property" https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:YxU3ReG0QkqGc0lvBHo6TQ/idea:WiuTqg6_QhGsCeeri93_Sw Are there more views i...

CarrieIves

AlexB Thank you for the example. I don't know what I had wrong in my macro, but was able to finally step through and get it to line up with what you provided (with my filename and location adjustments) What I am thinking of doing, is having all our users uncheck the "View PDF after saving"...

CarrieIves

@gupta9665 It would be nice to save the SolidWorks properties into the PDF, but I'm not sure how to see the PDF properties.

CarrieIves

SPerman - I tried your suggestion of entering swExportData_ExpoprtAllSheets instead of 1. I got runtime error '424' "Object required" gupta9665 - I updated my macro to what I think you suggested and got error '438' "Object doesn't support this property or method" in the Set swEx...

CarrieIves

So, I have been trying to rework my regular save as PDF macro (not what is used as a PDM task) to follow the example. I want to always save all sheets. The number of sheets varies by drawing. So, my macro did use: swModel.SaveAs (fullfilename) fullfilename is derived from properties in the model and...

CarrieIves

We have a Save as PDF macro we run from SolidWorks. If I were to manually save as PDF, I can adjust the check box "View PDF after saving". Is there an API call for SolidWorks that can toggle this? image.png Also, the description property from SolidWorks shows here. I don't know that the in...

CarrieIves

AlexLachance - I usually get pretty good response from my VAR, but I do know they are stuck with SolidWorks functioning as it does. I'm really trying to determine if this is normal functionality in PDM standard. Mostly, I would like to know if other users of PDM STANDARD have run into this issue. T...

CarrieIves

We recently updated our PDM to SolidWorks 2023. We only have PDM standard. The only task we can run during a workflow transition is the stock save as PDF that they have available. This task has the admin account open the drawing and save as PDF with a specified filename, copies specified properties ...

CarrieIves

Glenn Schroeder Maybe because of the chill, we might get more colors than just yellow here when the leaves change. (Our leaves have just started changing here in the Dallas area. And yes, we do have trees.) I was able to wear my cape last night when walking with the kids trick-or-treating. AlexLach...

CarrieIves

@SPerman
How has your PDM Standard been doing on Azure? Our company is looking to move from on-site servers to Azure in the next few months. Anything we should watch out for?

Thanks,
Carrie

CarrieIves

It was 31 C (89 F) here on Friday. We have a freeze warning overnight. I was late leaving the house this morning because I didn't plan to deal with frost on the windshield. Looks like we get a few days of fall this week. It's currently 16 C (61F) and sunny. Looks like it should be a good night to tr...

CarrieIves

I really like the shared Excel and Word and PowerPoint. Having more than one person working at a time is nice.
We use Trello here also. We use it for tracking project status and working with our customers capturing requirements.

CarrieIves

On the custom properties, are you modifying the configuration specific properties? The @ tab in PDM and the configuration specific ones sometimes update where you don't expect them to.

CarrieIves

If you have the option "Automatically populate view pallet with views" checked, it will create the config for you when you start a drawing of the sheetmetal part.

CarrieIves

We are successfully saving right now and it is STEP 203.

I added these two lines:

Dim stepversion As Long
stepversion = swApp.SetUserPreferenceIntegerValue(swUserPreferenceIntegerValue_e.swStepAP, 214)

Now it is saving in STEP 214.

Thanks.

CarrieIves

I'm not figuring out how to specify the STEP format in my save as macro. We go thru a bunch of stuff in my macro to set the name with the revision and the correct file path. Here's where we set up fullfilename and then our save command. fullfilename = FileLocation & sFileName & "_Rev&qu...

CarrieIves

What happens if you uncheck the "Read file contents" check box for that state in your workflow for the groups that aren't the supervisors? The image below is the permissions the engineers group has for our template files. They can see them but that's all. Or you may want to remove that gro...

CarrieIves

Something we have noticed on my drawing templates in SW 2023. I decided to only save as my 2023 templates from my 2022 templates. If I open a template in 2023 and do a save as new drawing template filename, when I open that new copy, the template thinks it is the old filename as far as the bar acros...

CarrieIves

It looks like I can open drawings at normal speed from our just upgraded to 2023, SP4.0 vault.

CarrieIves

Related - In SolidWorks 2022, if you have two cut extrudes to create a counterbore, you can use the hole callout to create a hole callout with the counterbore symbol and depth. (You have to pick the outer cut for it to work, I think.) It will not let you apply a tolerance to more than one of the dim...

CarrieIves

We have a company sharepoint where we have pages for various types of info people may need. I have been putting a lot of our information on there. (For example, how to create a new user in PDM with screenshots.) We do have a couple of formal procedures, but that doesn't cover the other things. Gener...

CarrieIves

We had some trouble with showing missing mates as errors. If we had configurations with suppressed components, we would get errors. I think this was SW2022 SP3.1, but I don't remember for certain. I just know we about lost our minds because one engineer (me) had that checked and another didn't. Took...

CarrieIves

This is a late reply, but I have accidently overwritten the BOM item number before. (I think I did something with the BOM balloon to change the number accidently.) It's hard to figure out that is what happened. Double check that you don't have anything overwritten in the BOM.

CarrieIves

Do you have flag notes in the drawing? I have had some interesting issues around flag notes. Though, I think I couldn't open the drawing. We tend to have multipage assembly drawings with lots of flag notes and the numbering continuing on the next page (Manually adjusted through paragraph properties)...

CarrieIves

Didn't see this in time to reply to the poll. We use a note on the drawing sheet that says "DRAFT" until the drawing is released. Then we toggle it to " ". We have a toggle set up in our custom properties tab builder to do the toggle. We often send out drawings for quote or custo...

CarrieIves

Late reply, but do note that the "Delete Child Features" check box carries over between parts and assemblies.

CarrieIves

Is anyone running PDM? I have a friend who says they are having trouble where it takes minutes for SolidWorks to open the drawing if you click on open drawing from the right mouse button does it open the drawing for you? In a reasonable amount of time? I can't check it's behavior with PDM without up...

CarrieIves

Many thanks. After google the command "derived sketch", it seems that it create a rotated curve as expected (but seems mirrored, as the object is mainly symatric, I created a half body at begining, and it goes to the other side). And it seems that I cannot modify the derived sketch direct...

CarrieIves

This is a late reply, but it was something we ran into. We use PDM Standard. We were having trouble with files being shown as modified right as we would open them. Or files used in assemblies would show modified. It was files with configurations. We had at add a display data mark to each configurati...

CarrieIves

@AlexLachance Can you rename the surface features later?

We have a sister company that is on SW2023. We want to bring them into our PDM vault, but we'll have to move our vault from 2022 to 2023. I don't know if I do want us on SP3 with this bug.

CarrieIves

Have you tried using the main revolved sketch as a derived sketch on your plane that is at your angle?

CarrieIves

Our VAR suggested having a "No longer employed" group. We move users there and they have no permissions anymore, but are still in the database. I may add the "No longer employed" or some acronym to their full name. That looks like it could be pretty useful.

CarrieIves

Thanks. I don't think we want to add the custom property (We have quite a few released parts at this time.), so I guess I will find out about modifying the script and not worrying about that property.

CarrieIves

We are using SolidWorks PDM STANDARD and SolidWorks 2022. We have quite a few people who can write python scripts at my work. This allows us to export a CSV file of a BOM and transform it easily into an Excel BOM. The problem is telling what has changed since you exported it. We have a lovely script...

CarrieIves

In the end, the project we were quoting that would have needed this, ended up not happening, so we didn't go with anything. I have played a little with the online free Simscale. I have seen they have a connector to SolidWorks now, but they didn't when I played with it.

CarrieIves

the_h4mmer - We are still waiting for a server upgrade to be able to install PDM. Our company got purchased last summer, which delayed some things and changed the process for a lot of others. At the rate we are going, I hope I took good notes on what we planned to do so I can revisit them when we f...

CarrieIves

Zhen-Wei Tee , FloTherm, Coolit, and SolidWorks Flow have perpetual licenses. They were 2-3 times the annual license. Flotherm and SolidWorks Flow have an annual support fee with the perpetual license. Our notes say Coolit didn't have the annual support fee. SmartCFD has an option of a perpetual li...

CarrieIves

We've gotten quotes on Flotherm, Icepak, Coolit, Simscale, and SolidWorks Flow Simulation with electronics cooling. (The electronics cooling is a separately priced add on.) I'm not sure that I can share pricing, but Flotherm, Icepak, and Coolit were all in the same ballpark on pricing. They were abo...

CarrieIves

We did get a quote on SolidWorks Flow and the cooling module. We have added it our comparison. We have a potential project that has a very intense thermal management design. We don't have the project yet. We may not get budget for software until we get the project.

CarrieIves

Is anyone using the the electronics cooling module in SolidWorks Flow Simulation? Can you bring in a board that has already be laid out in Allegro or Altium with layer/copper information? How well does that work?

Thanks,
Carrie

CarrieIves

I'll second Zhen-Wei Tee 's idea of using a macro. We have separate properties in our drawings and our parts. we often copy the description and have a macro to do that. I started with a macro from gupta9665 and modified it to match our property names. I've attached what I think is the unmodified one...

CarrieIves

Today, I listed to "Fully Define Every Time"

We have a high school intern in the office and wanted to make sure I had the right song before I sent it to him. It still makes me smile. @TooTallToby

CarrieIves

@Jaylin Hochstetler Thanks for the example of asking if the user wants to paste or browse. I have put my macro out to the users for feedback. I may change to this. Or since it's something we won't run real often, I may just leave it as is if it is adequate.

CarrieIves

I really enjoyed @Alin 's Assembly Visualization presentation. I learned quite a few things I didn't know from that presentation. Thanks Alin!

CarrieIves

mattpeneguy I found that sometimes presentations would start OK and sometimes I had to reload a few times and go back to my calendar and try again. I also had some of them start with the sound turned off and it took me a bit to find the button to turn the sound on. Work got busy today, so I have th...

CarrieIves

I think the simplest solution will be to follow gupta9665 's suggestion and put in an input box. I will plan on copying the path from a window's file explorer to make it shorter than navigating the whole way there. Also, since I have a few macros that use similar functions, should I figure out how t...

CarrieIves

From the Find References, you can also save the list out or print it. We've had some messes to untangle at a previous job where we had a big assembly and had to go through and make sure everything was looking at the right thing.

Good luck.

Carrie

CarrieIves

To tell where the files were opened from, in your assembly, select "File, find references". This will list the full path name for all the files in your assembly. image.png We work on network drives. I try to keep a flat folder structure for each project, but there have been times that wasn...

CarrieIves

Like many people here, I am a SolidWorks user who is stumbling around trying to make a couple of macros to help our workflow. Much of what I do is from others macros. I have some understanding of what I am doing, but it's still at the beginner level. I'm using SolidWorks 2020 on Windows 10. I have b...

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