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JSculley

I would open the subassembly, and there was nothing wrong. Except, you weren't opening it to the secret flexible configuration. If you open the parent assembly, open the flexible assembly and then switch to the 'flexible-xxxx' config, the rebuild errors may be there. It's all the usual configuratio...

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Are your fasteners using configurations? If not, I'd remove the equations. The McMaster parts never have configs. I always delete the equations. The other reason why flexible assemblies cause problem is that when you make it flexible a new secret configuration is created for the assembly. You can o...

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bnemec wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 4:00 pm Interesting. Virtual Docs sound like just a blank file. There must be a setting somewhere that prevents them?
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I believe it's tied to permissions. Try as full blown admin just to see if it shows up.

JSculley

Don't use items. Use virtual documents.

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After further investigation, the different wire styles aren't even the source of the bad behavior. I can change things so that there are only three wire styles: image.png and the report fails the same way. So, the source of the problem is the fact that there are multiple wires connected to each term...

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SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2021 SP5.1 There is a built in design rule check named Origin destination arrow connected to different wire styles . This design rule check does not appear to do what it claims to do. I created this simple schematic: image.png It should pass the design rule check with no issues...

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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:yUw32GbYTEqKdgY7-jbZPg/iquestion:5QlK4P5WS3yLgI6OLvXhOg Can you post the equivalent CADForum statistics to what Matthew Hall has in this post for SWYM? https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience....

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It's impossible to get an accurate playback of what exactly the wandering user did leading up to this but I'm fairly certain it's always because some other process (solidworks) has a lock on the file when the user performs checkout from the Vault View or Vault Search. Some possible causes (from KB ...

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I have an STL file sent to me. I want to perform a shell operation to hollow it out, or to even make extrude cuts, but am getting nowhere. I was hoping the ScanTo3D add-in would help, but I'm still not getting anywhere. Can any of you help? I'm using SWX2021. Here's a part file generated from your ...

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https://novedge.com/collections/xnurbs/products/xnurbs-for-solidworks-add-in-standalone-license Has anyone tried this out? Kevin Quigley outlined his experience (a few years ago) with it here: https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:yUw32GbYTEqKdgY7-jbZPg/post:HhptCEIBRBWt...

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I've been getting pressure to do something with our materials "DB". As the list grows and is not sorted people are not finding the correct material or asking for existing material to be added. If it would be possible to work together I'll do what I can. I haven't had time to work on this ...

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Does anyone know if this can be changed somewhere in the document properties? It cannot. There is an SPR: ========================== SPR # 1023142 Product SolidWorks Status Open Fixed in none none Area Drawings Sub-Area Annotations - Drawings Customer Impact Medium Add the ability to have 'Attach L...

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 2:26 pm Have you created an SPR on this?

No need. It's been on the books since August 19,2020:

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Network folder. If we were to speak for the sake of speaking, would there be an alternative that both works for Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, as a COM object would allow us to use this until our ERP transitions to Chrome, which is rather soon, so I'd like to perhaps find another alternative ...

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ResidentAtLarge wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 9:53 am Is there a command in solidworks macro to run a VB script and then place a pause for 1 second while it runs? I am not finding any information on how to do this anywhere.

Are you wanting to run a visual basic program or a VBScript script? They are two different things.

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I need to install IIS to see what happens when the HTML file is served from a web server as opposed to loading a local file. I'll report back. It works over the local intranet as well. I enabled the web server on one of our test servers, put a file with the same Javascript I posted previously, and ...

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SOLIDWORKS makes itself available as a COM object. Internet Explorer can create and communicate with COM objects via Javascript like this: image.png If I load a web page with the above, I get a warning like this: image.png If I allow blocked content, I get another warning: image.png If I click 'Yes'...

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Do you access the ERP via the browser or is it a standalone app that uses an embedded Internet Explorer browser control?

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Is this on GIT? Which language are you writing it in? C#? Man, I wish I could help you with this. It looks VERY promising! It is C#. I've got the dialog all working correctly. Next is to pass the info back to SOLIDWORKS to apply the material. I have to do a little more work to differentiate between...

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JSculley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 5:24 pm I haven't given up on that approach entirely but I suspect it isn't doable.

Actually it is quite doable. I just needed to read the API docs more carefully. Edit Material now brings up this dialog:

And search results look like this:

So...progress.

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If we could search for a description - that would solve almost all of our problems! Is it within Solidworks? Yes. As a SOLIDWORKS add-in it can be a menu item, toolbar button, etc. I played around with having it pop up when 'Edit Material' is selected, but the results weren't satisfactory (two dial...

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I found a workaround that requires making an assembly to house a camera and your actual working assembly. Then you can open your subassembly in another window to perform edits and it will not pop out of the camera in the top level assembly while also showing edits on rebuild. No need to do that. Yo...

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So.... We upgraded yesterday to SolidWorks 2021 and now we will finally be able to link the materials to a gauge table & with this to the thickness (FINALLY!). Also we are finally able to search for materials in the database - or so we thought: SolidWorks only allows to search for the TITLE of ...

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What do pants have to do with it? I assume this is auto-correct, but I can't figure out what it's supposed to be. Or is pants some slang term I'm not familiar with? pants pl (plural only) (Britain, slang) Rubbish; something worthless. You're talking pants! The film was a load [or pile] of pants.

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:oops: <()> I am such an idiot! So embarrassing. Looking in all the wrong places. Again. ... ... ... Prefer 32-bit is checked... I uncheck that one fr#$%@ng little checkbox and hit F5... Nothing, it silently flipped the state. Head to table moment. I switch the code back to our production vault and...

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It works fine for me. See the screenshots below. I created a new display state and set the Plane to show. When I switched back to the original display state the plane doesn't show. Maybe I wasn't clear though. You need to have manually hide or show the planes, sketches, etc in each display state. T...

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JSculley wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 5:09 pm I'm home now, but I'll try to create a simple example in the morning.

Like this (click to view screen recording):

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There's something wrong with my Task Add-in. - Ran it against another vault that did not have our task add-in and no errors. - Added the add-in in PDM Admin, did not create any task instances then ran the standalone change state app again and it failed to register the add-in. - I created new projec...

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Motion Study Basic Animation Is this the literally stupidest thing in the world? Or am I a complete idiot? GRRRR o[ o[ o[ I just spent the last hour trying to figure out how to create a simple animation of a swing clamp opening and closing and I cannot figure it out. I can get 1 direction of moveme...

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In case anyone cares, I was finally able to try the IedmBatchChangeState. It produces the same error dialog and successfully changes state. I still don't understand why I cannot use a standalone app to change state if there's a custom add-in. I'm starting to think could this be caused by something ...

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I replied to the SWYMP post. You can link the cosmetic thread depth to a global variable with no issues in 2021 SP4. So, somewhere between 2018 SP5 and 2021 SP4 the problem was fixed it seems.

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Am I using the correct epdm library? image.png Perhaps not. Per the API Help Instructions : ============================================== 7. Right-click the project name in the Solution Explorer and click Add Reference. 1. Click COM in the left-side panel, click PDMWorks Enterprise 20nn Type Libra...

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I'm open to any suggestions at this point. Is there a reason you are using a console app for this instead of creating a PDM add-in? Personally, I have a generic add-in that is available from the right click menu anywhere inside the vault. Whenever I need to create a little utility or test some idea...

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Has anyone used Protolabs to have CNC or sheet metal parts made? I sent a couple of part models to them and the quotes are reasonable given the rapid turnaround time I need, but before I pull the trigger I'd like to know (from anyone has used them before) if the quality good and the delivery time as...

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Hi there! Todays question is what software could be used or you would use to design hydraulic systems and diagrams? Scope would be lubrication systems, some pneumatics and occasionally even power hydraulics. So far I have been living in AutoCAD/Draftsight environment, but could there be some way to...

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Have you ever noticed that the red "X" on the Dimension tool is totally useless? It should cancel the command and not create a dimension at all. 2021-10-13 13_28_17.jpg Clicking "X" has the same effect as clicking the green checkmark. ESC only confirms as well. Double-clicking n...

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 11:46 am Howdy @mike miller,

I've been using SW since 2009 and didn't know you could do that. Thanks for teaching me something (though I'll admit it took me a few minutes to figure out).

You couldn't do that until SW2019, so it's a relatively new thing.

JSculley

I tested it, and it is fine as long as your sketch locating the library feature is separate from the sketch used to pattern. IOW, you'll need two sketches: one to locate the feature, and another to drive the pattern. That works, but you can also change the library feature so that a single sketch wi...

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So I get IEdmFile5 but just found out that cannot be cast to IEdmFile13 (the first generation to have ChangeState3). The SW API uses Microsoft COM (Component Object Model). One of the primary rules of COM is backward compatibility. Every new version of an interface (IEdmFile5, IEdmFile6, etc...) sh...

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I see. I thought "no duplicate file names" setting is per file extension and vault wide, how do you prevent duplicate names outside of the project/development folders? Automation. Users know (through training) to work only in the project folders (the creation of project folder structure i...

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** How do you get schizoworks to use the correct, same named file? Oh wait, because you use project folders and it looks for that file name in the same folder hierarchy as the assembly first? Edit, not even hierarchy, I just re-read your post and understand the point of "creation of subfolders...

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Until they try to name it "Bracket" and get that it's already used. "Bracket1", already used.....and so on. " We allow duplicate file names in the vault. The pre-release files are already segregated into projects, so there is rarely any name collision, especially since in a...

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If it's color you are wanting to change, I think you are out of luck. From the Knowledge Base: ===================================== Solution Id: S-068380 Product: SOLIDWORKS Premium 2015 Created: 3/31/2015 Technically Reviewed Date: 11/27/2019 Area: Drawings Sub-Area: Layers Question: In a drawing ...

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The file is named plain_sky.hdr and it is normally found here:

C:\Program Files\SolidWorks Corp\SOLIDWORKS\data\Images\zebraanalysis

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That's interesting, we were told that renaming is a thing of the past once PDM is used. That renaming files for the sake of file life cycle was the old way and not needed in PDM. I'm starting to see that there's still plenty good reasons for renaming files as part of the process even within PDM. Or...

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It isn't 'D'. It is: image.png The line to which the text is attached is short, so the text is truncated. The text is linked to the 'old' value of the property from before the file rename, which doesn't evaluate to anything in the newly named file so the text shows the 'raw' value. The only way to g...

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It appears to be a longstanding API bug. It doesn't work in SW2017SP5 or SW2021 SP4 which is the latest I have installed. There is and inactive SPR (1098031) listing this behavior. The fix is to simply set the anchor *after* the table is created: myRevisionTable.AnchorType = swBOMConfigurationAnchor...

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It's not uncommon for stuff to show up in intellisense that's isn't supposed to be visible. It's usually a good idea to never try to use something that isn't in the API docs. No telling what might happen.

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