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JSculley

One help I've found is to color the key parent parts at the assy level, OR live by the rule of always working in a specific quadrant for symmetric assemblies. You call also roll the feature tree back above all the patterns/mirrors so they are invisible and unavailable for mates. Out of sight, out o...

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Here's a VBA version, using PartDoc::GetBodies instead of traversing the feature tree, which shortens the code quite a bit: Option Explicit Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Sub main() Dim mDoc As ModelDoc2 Dim pDoc As PartDoc Dim mExt As ModelDocExtension Dim massProp As MassProperty Dim vBodies As Va...

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Try an admin image repair.

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It's not relevant to your question, but the Confirm Delete dialog box is one that I firmly believe should never be dismissed. There are too many variables, depending on the situation, and hiding it for one situation hides it for all of them. I would go a step further. Any dialog with more than two ...

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Here's a C# macro that will print the mass of each body in a multi-body part: using SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks; using SolidWorks.Interop.swconst; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using System; using System.Diagnostics; namespace BodyWeights.csproj { public partial class SolidWorksMacro { /// <...

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I was helping a user with a part model issue and I watched him delete a feature and noticed that the Confirm Delete dialog didn't appear. Obviously, he had at some point in the past clicked the 'Don't show again' checkbox in this dialog so I had him undo the delete, clear that entry in the system op...

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Are you using flexible subassemblies?

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It's hokey, but you can add spaces before/after the weld size value and/or weld length-pitch values:

The downside is that when you go back into the weld symbol editor, it may look like there is no value:

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What OCR software are you using on the Linux machine?

Also, can you upload one of the misbehaving files?

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We recently purchased three FormLabs 3+ printers to print high performance ceramic parts. We'll also use it for silicone and other materials in the future. The ceramic material prints slow. Extremely slow. Three days to print and 5 days to burn out and sinter fairly small parts. But, the alternative...

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In this line: Debug.Print GetPropertyValue(swModel, prpName) you are calling your GetPropertyValue function with two arguments, but it expects three arguments: Function GetPropertyValue(model As SldWorks.ModelDoc2, prpName As String, prpVal As String) As String The third argument is useless since th...

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I would like to read all those properties. is it possible to use a loop to get them or do i have to read themone by one with a separate call? something more elegant than copy and paste in excel 100s of lInes, put some code before and after the enumerators and pasting back on the VBA IDE... https://...

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Check the task manager and see if explorer.exe or EdmServer.exe are running in elevated mode (you may have to add the 'Elevated' column). This is something that happens on some server operating systems. Maybe Windows 11 is doing something similar. If so, see QA00000125159 in the Knowledge Base for a...

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I am try to understand "macro features" and I probably need a couple of example to better grasp the concept as the documentation is quite difficult (at least for me) to understand and see a practical use. Are they a sort of macro embedded in a 3d file and triggered to do... uh something??...

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I don't think it can be accessed. There is an SPR requesting the ability to see/change it:

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All my batch files are made as shift jis encoded, I tried to add one to a test repository git and the diff tool in git desktop,(the first ui I found) show garbled text which means encoding problems. Can you upload a sample file? I'd like to see how it behaves. Also, you don't really need a program ...

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Current top ten; 1 - ESCAPE Should Terminate Any Process and Return the Model/Drawing to its Previous State (92 votes) This is most likely an impossible task. They don't own the modeling kernel, so they are at the mercy of the people who wrote it. If the modeling kernel doesn't have provisions for ...

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I've migrated all of my projects to c# using visual studio community for development and github for version control. Github is a game changer when compared to storage of copies on a network drive. I opted for a self-hosted Gitlab installation. Also, please be aware that VS Community has a pretty re...

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Switch to C# or VB.NET. They are far more powerful languages and you can use git with them.

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I have seen that as well. I always ignore it and have never had a problem. The KnowledgeBase says to contact your VAR if you still get the message after a reboot:

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Since you mentioned CAB files, does this mean you are using a compressed admin image? If so, I'm not familiar with the structure of those. However, if the expanded CAB file results in what looks like a normal admin image directory structure, you may want to use the ORCA tool to inspect the PDM clien...

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How did you repackage the .cab file?

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Step files are only required on our end when the part is sent externally which is why most items do not require step files. OK. So, you have non-SW folks determining which files will be routed externally, I assume. An app, or Excel macro using the SW Document Manager API can be used to alter custom...

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So, you create a PDF every time you save a drawing. Is there a reason you don't generate a STEP file (if needed) every time you save a model?

If you wanted to be fancy about it, it could be a macro feature in the model template that looks for the save event and acts accordingly.

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Use SQL to get the list of files from the database server. A query like this: SELECT [Filename] FROM [_EPDM].[dbo].[Documents] WHERE Filename IN ( SELECT replace([Filename],'B.SLDPRT','.SLDPRT') FROM [_EPDM].[dbo].[Documents] WHERE Filename LIKE '%B.sldprt%' ) The query searches for all files that e...

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Out of sight not so good, out of touch good. They will go looking wherever they can. It seems people will look for something until they find it, even go looking in places they've been told are no longer valid. I would like to catch them before the leave the vault and go out to the network shares. H...

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Anyway, we have a state for the SE files that are no longer maintained and have been superseded by SW files. So I can use permissions by user group for files in that state. But the permission named "Read file contents" is poorly named IMO, the file doesn't even show up in vault view or se...

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Why would you want to do that? What are you actually trying to accomplish?

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I also have this problem. Did you fix it yet? Read this: https://cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=1967 Basically, the SW macro functionality is hardwired to use a particular version of Visual Studio. For SW 2022, the required Visual Studio version was 2015. You cannot use a newer version. I haven't tes...

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mp3-250 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 1:43 am PDM ALLOWED ME to move these files with drag and drop in a folder, but block me if I try to use move tree saying that a parent is checked out.

That exact scenario is described in this open SPR, including the bit about the SQL query from S-077839 returning no results.

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This may be be relevant: https://support.3ds.com/knowledge-base/?q=docid:QA00000109905 ================= QUESTION Why do custom properties only ever populate a SOLIDWORKS® drawing's SOLIDWORKS PDM® data card '@' tab and not the drawing sheet tabs even when 'update all configurations' is used? ANSWER...

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I don't think you can. You can save the sort settings to the template, but you must manually apply the saved settings in new documents that use the template. See:

https://help.solidworks.com/2024/Englis ... etting.htm

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From what you've written, it's not clear what you have or what you are trying to do. It sounds like you have an assembly model of a hinge. Let's call it HINGE.SLDASM. And this assembly is composed of two part files: one for each half of the hinge. Let's call them LEAF-A.SLDPRT and LEAF-B.SLDPRT. The...

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Is it correct that the PDM API can only work with VB.Net and not with VBA? That is not correct. You can use the PDM API from VBA. To create a folder, you can use CreateFolderPath or AddFolder. Both are methods of the IEdmFolder5 interface. You can get a starting folder by using the RootFolder prope...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 8:09 am Oh, so you're dashboard is much better then this?

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I also have somehow like a dual profile?
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The Admin Dashboard is still accessed through the old method described here:

https://help.solidworks.com/2021/englis ... hboard.htm

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You may want to consider a completely different approach. Rather than using pack and go for the entire project (which probably duplicates a lot of files that you won't be changing), just pack and go (or Save As) the top assembly. As you work on the new design, any part/assy that you need to make cha...

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Any ideas to do that fast? I am sure i can work it out but it will be slow in stepping through each folder. :D Why do you believe it will be slow? Have you tested? With a C# macro I can retrieve and store the name of every file on my desktop and all subdirectories (5328 files in 739 directories) in...

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Try a SQL trace:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/top ... 991cf0b6f1

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Might have a look at InkScape. I was thinking it had this capability. Yep. Inkscape does a pretty good job. Here's my version using split line features: image.png And with the red as a Boss-Extrude and the black as a Cut-Extrude: image.png With some assistance from a video on separating colors: htt...

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MJuric wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 5:12 pm Part with everything set up. Should be able to change the array and numbers will update. Might have to rebuild.
SEQARRAY.mpg

Hmmmm. When I open this part (SW2023 SP2.1), make no changes and CTRL-Q rebuild, all the numbering reverts t o1.

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If you want to preselect geometry and then run you macro, those lines aren't needed. Instead, you need to set the mark for each of your selections so that they have the correct values for your primary, secondary and tertiary selections. Delete those three lines and replace them with this: Dim selMgr...

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Hello forum, My 1st post here! looking for a macro which I think might be helpful for all actually. So you know how you can use tab and shift-tab to hide & unhide hovered components; love that feature, super convenient, right? Can something like that be done but for transparency (basically a to...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 7:46 am I went through the settings in SW and couldn't find it either.

SPR184416 -- Unable to assign a hot key to "Change transparency" (short cut key quick )

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SAN is not tested by SW and they don't make recommendations about such setups, but it is not prohibited.

See S-025962 in the Knowledge Base.

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bnemec wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:13 pm As for removing all search card permissions. I don't understand, doesn't that apply to both the search in vault view as well as search tool?

Whoops. Indeed it does. Shows you how often I use the external tool (never).

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Mean time I'm still trying to explain how the preferred method of using the vault (Search tool) doesn't show up in Windows Start Menu, and is hidden away in the installer folder. Like they thought to themselves, we'll tell them "Don't browse in the vault, use search tool." then we'll make...

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TableAnnotation::GetCellRange() in conjunction with BOMTableAnnotation::GetComponents() will do the trick. Here's some sample code in C#: ModelDoc2 mDoc = swApp.ActiveDoc as ModelDoc2; SelectionMgr selMgr = mDoc.SelectionManager as SelectionMgr; int type = selMgr.GetSelectedObjectType3(1, -1); if (t...

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You might be better served by using the Move Face command. Here's some threads: image.png You can select the minor/major dia faces and the crown/root faces and use Move Face to offset them a small amount: image.png which gives you a slimmed down thread: image.png Here are two bodies showing the pre ...

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Your body has been set to rigid, which means it will not deform. A deformable body has the circled icon and gives the results like this: image.png A body set to rigid has the circled icon and results like yours: image.png To correct the problem, right click the body in the tree and select 'Make defo...

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