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Glenn Schroeder

I guess I'm the CAD admin person at my job, since until very recently I was the only user, and during the last 12 years I've completely trashed the system that was set up when I started (I had no previous CAD experience; I was on the construction crew before my current job). It's been working well n...

Glenn Schroeder

We are having a flood of bogus registrations. A lot of them fit a pattern and are easy to identify, but a lot of bogus-ness comes from generic gmail accounts. It gives me great peace of mind to approve registrations that use actual business email domains. For example. Flipper@gmail.com might turn o...

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I think all to often there is an assumption that telling someone they are wrong is somehow rude and disrespectful. Personally I think quite the opposite. It shows a great deal of respect to express your position and why you think they are in error and why. When you're wrong....you're wrong and goin...

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I don't know where to start. That forum, and the people, meant more to me than I realized until recently. Part of me is sad, and part is angry. I'm not sure which one is winning. I would like to thank all the people over there who helped me over the last 12 years. I've learned a tremendous amount; s...

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Hello everyone, I recognized many of you; however, there are some new names to me I just joined the group today, same day as my current job anniversary date cc You said it's your job anniversary date. How long have you been there? I'll hit 23 years at mine on June 1, if they keep me around that long.

Glenn Schroeder

Welcome. It's starting to feel like home.

Glenn Schroeder

I hesitate to participate much in this discussion, but out of curiosity I went over there. I couldn't be all THAT bad, right? I got signed in easily enough. I got to vote in the "who's doing this right" poll. That was fun. After that I try to browse around, which is difficult enough, and ...

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Congratulations @Glenn Schroeder - That is AWESOME news! That's a great 4 generation picture @Tony Tieuli ! (I have a 4 generation picture at home that I'll have to scan and share.) We did have 3 generations jump out of a plane together several years ago. (My dad, my brother, my sister-in-law, me, ...

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Pandora, set to Shuffle.

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@Glenn Schroeder How does something like that work? Never seen a mouse like that, what's the advantages and disadvantages? It has a complete different function from a conventional mouse. You grab the little black knob, and when working with a 3d model whatever action you take with that knob transla...

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I use a plain 5-button mouse on the right side, and one of these on the left. I'd hate to have to work without it.

I know you said something about not breaking the bank, so this one might be a better option. There is a programmable button on each side.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:45 am I use windows file explorer. Double click.

Same here (except I have my computer set up to open files with a single click instead of double).

Glenn Schroeder

"I'd rather ask a stupid question than make a stupid mistake because I didn't ask."

Me

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dseibel wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:56 am A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company
Oscar Wilde

That one sounds familiar. I'm pretty sure I saw it in a John D. MacDonald novel years ago.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 10:40 am A very simple ZTG:
Two pipe/round bars touching.

. . . and that can be modeled in SW just fine.

Glenn Schroeder

Yeah, this is a feature. Tools > Options > General > External References. If you have Update Component Names When Documents Are Replaced turned OFF, it will allow you to rename the component in Component Properties. image.png That's one of those options that have always puzzled me (I know, I know, ...

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Concrats Glenn. I know the feeling. I have the privilege of being a grandfather 16 times and a great grandfather 1 time so far. They are fun. That's wonderful. We only have two children, so 16 grandchildren is unlikely, but I hope to live to see great-grandchildren. Somewhere there's a picture of m...

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Here's some of my work. I helped with designing this installation, and the modeling and drawing were all mine.

Glenn Schroeder

If all goes well I'll have a granddaughter in late October. I love being a grandfather. This will be the second grandchild (Jett will be 4 in August).

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matt wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 5:54 pm Ok, that shouldn't happen again. I tried some overlapping settings, let's hope this doesn't just invite the wrong sort of folks.

I think it's way too late to be worrying about that.

Glenn Schroeder

I vary as is most convenient. My goto is always around the origin. This is because most of my parts have symmetry . The default planes are renamed XY, XZ, YZ Most of mine do also. The Right Plane especially is almost always down the center, and the same is often true for the Front Plane (though les...

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HerrTick wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 1:08 pm My best disaster! Great design work and a great team overcoming great challenges, torpedoed at the 11th hour by an overzealous founder with an itchy trigger finger.

I watched the whole thing. It sounds like a great product.

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Here is a stripped down zip file with the error. Final Assy CS HD V8 find error.zip I don't get that problem when I open the file in SW 2020. I believe there's a check box somewhere in the Options that may be causing this. @Alin may know where it is. I'm not Alin , but do you mean this one? image.p...

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Each of my Parts has its own origin, though I do try to keep the top plane consistent between components that will intersect or rest on the ground, just to make mating easier. Many of my Assemblies are 100+ feet long, and I have a large library of common Parts and Assemblies that are used in multipl...

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I'm going to throw a few things out there, probably thinking as I'm typing. I'd say try re-installing SW, but the fact that it's only this one Assembly makes me think it probably wouldn't help. I see that this happens when you're editing a sub-assembly within the upper level Assembly. Do you have th...

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I actually kinda like that the end points of "Convert Entities" lines aren't restrained. It's come in handy for me a number of times.

Glenn Schroeder

Chrome on my desktop and Firefox on my phone. I switched to Chrome from Internet Explorer because Pandora quit working on Explorer. I've always used Firefox on my phones. I'm not sure why.

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I learned years ago that in many cases it's not necessary to restrain the end points of center lines, and in fact, as long as the location of the line itself is fully defined the sketch will show as fully defined even if the end points aren't. image.png Sometimes that little status block lies. Here...

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In chrome this seems to work for me: image.png image.png image.png image.png Great!. I'm happy to start to get this behind us. I've switched my browser to Chrome. As much as I don't like Google, with their "don't be evil" and all and owning everything anybody ever put on the web, I gotta ...

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Bright, obnoxious colors that won't be applied in real life anyway I made the under defined sketch entities a bright obnoxious red color so that they would stand out better: image.png image.png You guys would go nuts on my surface models. First you'd go nuts that half the sketches have something un...

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Yesterday I was asked to log in again several times when refreshing the "New content" page. When I was taken to that page all my information would be filled out, I just had to click the "Remember me" box and then the Log in link. Yesterday evening I shut my computer down (it had ...

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CAD_Scratch_Fever wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:47 pm Ahhh this is so pleasing to the old eyeballs! Thank you @matt! I am still wanting a bible if you have some laying around collecting dust... just saying!

I have a 2010 edition on the shelf, but I don't plan on parting with it.

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Dan, You might find this little icon helpful. It will take you to the discussion with the first thread that's been posted since you last visited the site at the top, with the later posts below it. I use it often. If there haven't been any replies since you last visited the site then that icon won't...

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Yeah, that brings up another pet peeve......"Don't mate to the pattern instances, don't mate to the pattern instance......repeat." I gotta admit, I do this sometimes. I've also recommended avoiding it, but it isn't unusual for me to have an Assembly that's well over 100' long, and mating ...

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image.png I saw a cartoon in a magazine decades ago that showed a large building with a large black semicircle on the side of it, and a couple of smaller black blobs. There were two guys wearing hard hats standing there looking up at it, and one of them is saying "Damn it, Joe, I TOLD you not ...

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Dan, You might find this little icon helpful. It will take you to the discussion with the first thread that's been posted since you last visited the site at the top, with the later posts below it. I use it often. If there haven't been any replies since you last visited the site then that icon won't ...

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@AlexLachance,

Thanks for the help. I tried several times without success, and finally noticed that when I did the Resize operation in Paint it was set to percentage instead of pixels.

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Sooo, about those large assemblies with lots of virtual components...Say ya want to change something, ya make a pack 'n go of that asm...You may not get all those virtual components in the new assembly. Anyone else experience that? Have they fixed it and if they have, what release? I also had troub...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 3:45 pm For the last couple of years, disabling "Enhanced Graphics" has been the answer to the majority of these questions.

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Yes, I know. That's why it's the first thing I said to check above.

Glenn Schroeder

I found the process, but how do I get a file size small enough? On every file I've tried either the file size is too large, or it has too many pixels.

Glenn Schroeder

I don't believe I've ever encountered that, or heard of it. Can you do a Pack and Go of the Assembly to a zip file and post it here?

While I'm typing something else occurred to me. Is this behavior restricted to this one Assembly, or do other Assemblies behave the same way for you?

Glenn Schroeder

I was reminded today of "advanced delete". I use this when SolidWorks wants to delete dependent features (especially some of which aren't truly dependent). image.png Hello CarrieIves , I can't believe that in 12 years I've never clicked on that button, though I have learned to pay attenti...

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@matt I'm not sure if this is something you can change on your side, but it would it be possible to have links open in tabs rather then in the current window? If not, doesn't matter. Just a personal preference Clicking on a link with your scroll wheel instead of left mouse button will open the link...

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He said ". . . and it makes sense to migrate to our own forums tool, SWYM, part of 3DEXPERIENCE Works. " I will respectfully disagree. What would have made sense would be to migrate to another platform that was developed for user forums, not one that was designed for maximum synergy (I'm ...

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https://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksblog/2021/03/the-future-of-the-solidworks-communities.html#_ga=2.47014247.1922106472.1616503559-4eb55880-1742-11eb-bbae-ed2da884e436 We have been preparing for a long time to migrate all of the content and provide everybody access with the same credentials for...

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First, if you got this Drawing or Assembly from someone else, without the referenced files, there's nothing you can do on your end. You'll need to get the person to do a Pack and Go operation of the Drawing (or Assembly) to a zip file and send that. If your Drawing is showing dotted line boxes with ...

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...at least to the general public when the old forum is shut down? Pretty much no matter what I search on for SW at 25-50% of the links are to the old forum. I'm going to be so much less productive when that thing shuts down. ...at least to the general public when the old forum is shut down? Pretty...

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The Technical Definition of Convoluted is intricately folded, twisted, or coiled. (according to Google).. You might find it hard to imagine I'm more inclined to be "intricately folder" rather then "twisted" ;) Here is one of my indicators..... Stay clear of most traffic issues, ...

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It will take time, but hopefully this one will get to the same point.

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Being the one who has to make the non-standard SW requests happen, I have to get up to speed on Structural Systems (at least as it compares to Weldments). Especially since its capabilities are/will be beyond that of Weldments. Kevin I tried and went back to weldment. Need to figure out when to use ...

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