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by madbrad
Wed Apr 19, 2023 9:42 am
Forum: SW General
Topic: Drawing Feature Manager Design Tree Useless?
Replies: 10
Views: 1810

Drawing Feature Manager Design Tree Useless?

I'll preface with the fact that I worked in Creo for years before coming back to Solidworks, and one of the differences I'm noticing is that the design tree in a drawing doesn't really help manage any annotations... My design tree shows a folder for blocks, a folder for annotations (which is empty u...
by madbrad
Wed Mar 15, 2023 11:30 am
Forum: 2D Drawings
Topic: Surface face not showing in drawing
Replies: 3
Views: 1111

Re: Surface face not showing in drawing

Thanks for the help y'all.

Changing the view display to Draft Quality made the view look correct but the underlying problem was in the surface thickness. I needed to change the thicken tool from one-side to both sides and that solved the root problem.
by madbrad
Fri Mar 10, 2023 11:37 am
Forum: 2D Drawings
Topic: Surface face not showing in drawing
Replies: 3
Views: 1111

Surface face not showing in drawing

I have a part that was created by using thicken on surface-extrude, and in drawings one specific face of the part isn't showing up. Every other face (made within the safe surface/thicken features) shows up just fine, but this one doesn't show up. You can see the corner of a part that is behind it, a...