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Jaylin Hochstetler wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:51 am ... Kyle Aruda ... Kyle said he's known you @matt for quite some time!

Kyle was at Siemens when I first got there. Or maybe we met at one of the PLMWorld conventions before I started. Say hi to him if you see him again!

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I think this place has a few of those. Nice mobile view, splitting/forking, it can do 2fa but I haven't set that up (I think it would be a pain to use), I set the paging to a high number but I can set it higher, reply by email is in here. I do wish it had tagging, indented replies, better sorting, a...

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This project was inspired by this passage from matt in his excellent 2013 Bible image.png ... You know, when I wrote that, I was a younger man with more time on my hands. I never really expected anybody would do anything with this. I just wanted to get down this little bit of arcane knowledge befor...

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I'd make this a poll, but there would be too many choices. I recognize there are so many ways of using Solidworks that it is hard to see the software from every angle, but what area of the software would you say that you and your company need the most help? What do you look to get from training, onl...

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I think you can import/export entire libraries, but individual materials have to be done individually.
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Merovingien wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 10:35 am it only say "Roanoke, VA"
i don't know if it's in usa, or canada, or...

but you should precise the delivery price is only for USA ? if you are from USA

Oh, yeah, to send this to France would be like a million rupees. Probably not worth shipping it out of the US.

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Solid Edge still uses separate file type for sheet metal and solid part. It mattered a long time ago it's irrelevant now because they have added function of switching back and forth. IMO, SE is better overall with sheet metal stuff than SW. I kinda think they should just get rid of the .psm file ty...

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I certainly will stay. ;) I just don't want here to become the next 3DSYWM where we lost sight of what's matter (in this case, CAD) But I guess I am just worrying too much. 8-) Cheers. We're glad to have you. We won't lose sight, I promise that. I've been pretty focused on CAD for, uh, longer than ...

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Merovingien wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 10:24 am should precise the "country" in the post ?
because this is an international forum

My location is in my info on the right. I can tell where you're from by your accent

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mike miller wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 10:06 am Deepak is here too as @gupta9665 , FYI. We need to draw him out.

Whoa, how'd I miss that!

Hey, @gupta9665 Deepak!

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I see your point matt, but my thought is that unless we have a strong enough community for that particular CAD software, user will not stay. People (at least for me) use the forum to get "answer" for their "question". Unless we have a people like Deepak for every software, peopl...

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Solid Edge from the early days was known for mainly sheet metal and drawings. They have always done a good job there, and still do. In more recent years, Solid Edge is better known for synch tech and convergent tech (which means basically the ability to deal with mesh-based data in several ways). Yo...

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Roasted By John Thanks for the nostalgic summary of our time over there. There were certainly good times and good friends. But there is hope. Before the current incarnation of the SW forum that you eulogize, there was another incarnation, and before that was USENET - comp.cad.solidworks, started in...

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I'd really love a modern alternative to a BB forum, this feels like going back in time 10 years. Jive is bad and 3DEx is an enterprise facebook, the wrong kind of modern, but I hope there are better options :) You're going to have to be more specific than that. You must be pretty young, going back ...

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It's hard to answer anything without knowing what kind of stuff you're doing. But I'll just assume your parts don't use lofts or complex shapes. If most of your features are extrudes, and you don't use splines, then SE will work well for you as long as you can embrace the synchronous technology way ...

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Here's why I started this as a multi-CAD site: I'm interested in more than just one CAD system. You'd have to be blind to not see that SW is imploding. They killed off SW World, now the SW Forum, two big and popular customer favorites. Their goal is to kill off SW desktop and drive you to the 3DX. A...

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@bnemec Yes, I think these are the same issues. I'm working to find an answer, although you should be able to keep your response even through a re-login. I know that switch is set. You might be able to login, then hit back a couple of times and your half written post will be there still.

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Rob wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:26 pm hi matt...
I am not able to post VBA code though.

I get ...

Yeah, phpbb is set up for a minimal secure forum, and by default they don't allow active code to be posted. You can post it if you put it in a zip, which it sounds like you've figured out already.

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I really dont like rule number 5. If i want to be sarcastic , last thing i wanna do is be so obvious. Yeah, ok. You see, I was being sarcastic, and it didn't work in print. The sarcasm thing is obviously NOT a rule. I just wanted to make that a suggestion. I thought that was obvious, but see, I can...

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Yeah, I avoid configurations. I know there are situations where they are difficult to avoid, but they cause all sorts of problems. Configuring sketch relations just sounds like asking for trouble. I'd rather swap out features than try to reuse one sketch with swapping relations. Configurations are j...

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Jaylin Hochstetler I don't really know much about the weldments in SE. I did work with the multibodies, and it is different from SW's implementation. In SE, you can have a single body that is made up of multiple volumes. I think the terminology they used was "lumps". You can have multiple...

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We can fund the forum in other ways. Right now I'm not worrying about it because I have other resources, and this is essentially piggy-backing on left over resources from other projects. This situation can last a year or so. Advertising and/or sponsorship are ways to fund it. I also have some though...

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Hey Matt, Someone over at the SW forum ended up at the unsecured http site and was questioning how to get to the secure site. I believe there's a setting somewhere to redirect anyone who types http to the secure site, somewhere. It's probably at the hosting level, not forum management if I had to g...

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@mike miller Mike, that screen shot is from the SW site, not this site. I'm not sure what they're talking about. Maybe they're just saying that you can't hack the site.

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This forum and most of the added functionality were written with the Prosilver style in mind. So if you use one of the other styles (I use Breeze), you may notice some things that don't work or look perfect. You might try switching to the Prosilver style and see if that resolves the issue. I can't f...

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The default attachment types allowed on phpbb is kind of restrictive, but I have the ability to add a lot of different things, including custom file types (SolidWorks, Solid Edge, etc). Don't be surprised if you try to attach a ZIP file and you get a Netscape icon (ships wheel). The site groups seve...

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After further reflection I'm pretty sure the problem was that I already had 3 screenshots in the post. I know you're working on the 3 attachment limit thing. And like @Merovingien mentioned, the "Remember me" button only worked for a day or two. I'm using Chrome, if that matters. Yeah, I ...

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Here are a couple that I like: - using the A key to toggle between line and tangent arc - using TAB and Shift TAB to hide and show bodies or parts - using F8 to toggle the Display Pane that allows you to hide/show stuff and see its state easily - F9 to hide/show the FeatureManager - F10 to hide tool...

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@bradb and @Jaylin Hochstetler welcome! Thanks for signing up!

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Solidworks Terms Of Use https://www.solidworks.com/terms-use#_ga=2.105976837.749032668.1615771623-77b07e50-852d-11eb-8104-2be82e4f8fce says you can download the material from the site for your own personal use but you can't display it publicly. Here's what I recommend. If there is material you want ...

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@Tom G I know what you mean. If Jon Ba***uer were to show up, I'm not sure I could be respectful. One of my personal rules is that there is an exception to every rule, which maybe should have also been added.

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Tom G , phbb does have some capability around usergroups. Is SWUGN a thing any more? I ended my SWUGN activities about 10 years ago. I overextended myself and burned out on it. I'd be willing to help, but SWUGN is more of an official SW organization, and believe it or not, I'm sensitive to what som...

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Krzysztof Szpakowski wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 4:34 pm Hello everyone!
When I look at those who are already here, I think this forum has a chance of success. Great idea, Matt!

P.S.
It is not easy to get rid of me

Hey, @Krzysztof Szpakowski , very glad to see you here! We've got a lot of serious SolidWorks brainpower here.

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Alin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 9:48 amHello World!

Hey, @Alin ! I was wondering if you would show up. Make yourself at home. We're open to suggestions. Good to have you here.

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Thanks for coming! I hope you enjoy it here!

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I wound up with someone just giving me an Afinia. It's in my basement and I haven't even hooked it up yet. It doesn't look like a great printer. If they were willing to give it away, it probably isn't. Still should be able to find a use for it

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Yeah, y'know, uhhhhhh.... No. I just don't think I could duplicate it or do it justice. I would need at least 3 more layers of management to begin to understand what is going on with that.

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Jason, that's what I hear from an insider. It's a conversion tactic combined with an upper level irrational belief in a vision that industry and press just do not seem to buy into.

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KQuigley Thanks for that! I'll probably bookmark that and re-read it as I need more subd info. I haven't been able to do a subd project yet because I generally do work for a dedicated SW workflow and need editable SW data. But yeah, I get what you're saying. The subd needs to be part of a complete ...

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Hey old people community, did you think you could get rid of me .. 8-) Google translate works here too .. :D I am very happy that I will not leave this quality community. Although I can't answer questions like you guys, it's good to be here. I'm welcome too. :mrgreen: Well, it's good to have you he...

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jcapriotti wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 6:36 pm
Smother What You Made
SolidWorks, You're Murdered
Senseless While Yelling Madly

That's beautiful

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@matt So how is it possible that you put together a forum, that's better organized, easier to use, more fun and probably has more users in a week than a company with the resources of DS can do in months and months of planning? I was looking for a fun project that might turn into something. Some of ...

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burhop started to ask a question about what we all thought the future of CAD held for us. He had a link to a podcast he starred in, and talked a lot about additive viewtopic.php?f=30&t=4&p=74&sid=7ac359e909b2f4561a597b3c2e6c3339#p74 Anyway, I just wanted to write a little about what I t...

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Now you can really mention another user by typing "@" and then start the name, and a list will appear. Like "the other place".

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Howdy! My, this place is off to a running start! Thanks Matt, for doing "the impossible". :D It's not as hard as it looks, you just have to have the right stuff in place, which I did, and a little bit of time on your hands, which I don't, really, but this is kind of fun. Good to see you h...

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Matt, you were one of the ST pushers that kept me looking at it again and again. We could never get over the lack of fixing the geometry. I don't know that I ever fully understood the "design intent" rules or what they were called. I can see it being indispensable for some use cases. We c...

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jcapriotti wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:50 pm
We have our company laptops at home with us. I suppose an option to upgrade SolidWorks/PDM on them is to bring them to the office but our building is locked out without prior permission to get in.

My wife can go in by appointment for express network connection or suffer the vagaries of VPN.

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Chinese new year ended recently, maybe that has something to do with it in the short term.

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Guys, remember one thing: 3DEXPERICENE is a PLATFORM! It is not a website..it is webpage that pulls data from different database stores. So, no I highly doubt that collaboration tools- I didn't say "forum" will allow for external searching. I would be shocked actually if it did. The 3DEXP...

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SolidWorks has internal IDs. It can tell the difference between a copy of Part1 and a part created and named Part1 independently, but it doesn't use that ID for finding files, just telling you if the file you found is definitely the wrong one. It can't tell you if it's the wrong copy, just that it w...

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