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JSculley

Why does file.GetReferenceTree(ParentFolder.ID) need a specific folder for the file I'm getting references for? I would guess that this is because a PDM file can be in more than one folder: https://help.solidworks.com/2021/english/enterprisepdm/fileexplorer/c_shared_files.htm Of course, you aren't ...

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Related, sort of. I removed a fillet and replaced it with an undercut on this hub and lost the diameter dimension and now need to reattach it. If one leg is lost it is no problem. However I have NEVER been able to reattach if both legs of the dimension are lost. Is there a secret handshake I need t...

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The way I would generally approach a part that is purchased and then modified is to make an assembly of the part and make the modifications on the purchased part in the assembly. If I make a drawing of it, I am likely to call out the purchased part as the material. (Cutting certain lengths of gaske...

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 2:40 pm ...
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I was happy to do that, then somewhat frustrated when I realized that while that value was generated in the model, there was no way to reference it in a Drawing (or at least I couldn't find a way).
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To see the length in a drawing, you can use a weld table:

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ShareX is my go to software for this.

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If you stop using VBA and switch to C#, you have the infrastructure for application and user settings built in:

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@JSculley , Thanks for the suggestion. I made that change and the list it prints looks OK, but I still end up with the screw being renamed as part of the pack and go. The new assembly is referencing the renamed screw. There is something different between pgFileNames and pgGetFileNames and I'm not f...

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... ... So, I have my macro able to find the file in the list of files. I can't figure out how to change the name for that file to be an empty string. ... ... ... You just need to change this: If pgFileNames(i) = "C:\Users\JSculley.azz\Desktop\Solidworks Files\assy-and-macro\96817A310_M3x6_SCR...

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I did a quick test where I created a part with no custom properties. When I save it to PDM, the mapped properties get added. If I then delete the properties in SW, the data card still shows the values. I can check the file in and out and nothing changes. The properties aren't added to the file and t...

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Link a variable on the data card to the revision and to a custom property in the part model. I have a Rev column in my BOM template for manufactured parts that works this way.

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If you were doing this manually, you would have to activate the derived config, add a new config with a different name than 'Default', delete the 'Default' config and then rename the new config to Default.

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If you create a plane coincident with the top face of the boss and use the plane as the 'Offset from surface' entity, everything works.

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Lucas wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:38 pm Display/Delete Relations of sketch tool. Wish I knew how to use this from the very beginning, always comes in handy when there is sketch conflict, especially because some external relation gets in uninvited.

Protip: You can double-click any relation to access the Display/Delete Relations tool.

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With the 'Delete' command? Unless I'm misunderstanding what you want to do.

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This is similar to your previous question on the old forum, for a symmetric version: https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:yUw32GbYTEqKdgY7-jbZPg/iquestion:ayxrfFqRRkW3NiraOD2n3A The error message was different, but it might be worthwhile to match up the segment count bet...

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The longer we use PDM the more it seems to be built on the premise that the version in local cache should always be latest and that every where used of a file will always be using latest version. Also learning in many ways that not doing that will cause PDM to fight you in many many ways. Is anyone...

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Arial Narrow is fraught with problems in SOLIDWORKS: SPR 799254 -- Arial Narrow Bold does not show as bold when exporting to PDF SPR 653119 -- Annotations set to bold with specific font does not appear bold when saving as PDF SPR 115618 -- Making Arial Narrow note / dimension font bold shrinks the t...

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Can you upload your test files?

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matt wrote: ↑Fri Jul 16, 2021 7:18 pm if you're handy with database queries, that's probably the best way, although there might be a plugin for that. I can have a look...

This plugin seems to advertise this capability.

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I'm pretty sure that your pretty sure is correctly intuited. I know of no way to express 32/64 (or any other reducible dimension) and not have it automatically reduce to 1/2. No one likes dimensional overrides, And they don't work for fractional dimensions, and they definitely aren't available for ...

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If I understand you correctly, you want the actual dimension to show instead of having it rounded to the nearest 1/16"? If yes, it's pretty simple. Go to the Document Properties > Units, and change the 16 to 64. If that isn't what you meant please clarify for my tired old brain. image.png This...

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I'm pretty sure the answer is no, but is there a setting or trick to prevent SOLIDWORKS from reducing fractional dimensions? I have to duplicate some dimensions from a customer drawing and the callout is 44/64" (+0/ -2/64). Sure, this is 11/16 (+0/ -1/32) but I need to show the unreduced dimens...

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This is a feature. It's actually recommended that you use these freshly created templates when you upgrade to a new version of SOLIDWORKS. See this thread from the old forum.

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If you have an ERP system, find a way to hook into that, even if it is just to get unique part numbers. That's what we do here. If you don't have an ERP system, consider using PDMs serial number capability. If you have convoluted, supposedly 'intelligent' document numbering system, consider trashing...

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mike miller wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 10:26 am Hey matt, could you post those files? For some reason the original links get a "Page not found" error.

You already have the files. They are installed as part of the SOLIDWORKS Rx benchmarking tool:

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The SOLIDWORKS API is very much specific to SOLIDWORKS. There isn't going to be a generic 'API' course out there because every API for every piece of software does things differently. A person with a working knowledge of C++ and Java should have no problem using C#. It is far more important that the...

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Right click the top of the feature tree, select Tree Display and select Flat View.

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Tahhhd wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 2:53 pm I don't know about the rest of your items, but Applesauce used to be available for CFD computation in Flow Simulation.
(I haven't checked in over a decade, but I saw it as an option back when I was with the VAR, and had access to that tool.)
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Still there:

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No. when PDM Pro was demo'd they though it looked nice. Once we got actual real data in there with all the versions and stuff, the perception changed. We have not yet seen how to make the BOM tab add value beyond the Contains tab. You can get some value from it if your SW BOM is THE BOM. You can vi...

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We're currently kicking the tires on a few PDM systems and a question that often comes up is: how does a PDM BOM get used by manufacturing? Do you export it to Excel and drop it onto a drawing? (Ick. <()> ) Does MFG view the BOM using a PDM client? Do you export it to a PDF? How do balloons work if...

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:10 am Pfft...Who still uses Java?...Regardless, this functionality doesn't work for me...:
[ code=c64]
LOAD"SOLIDWORKS",8,1
[ /code]

Because c64 is a platform, not a language. Try 'basic':

Code: Select all

LOAD"SOLIDWORKS",8,1

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To use it, you simply wrap the code in 'code' tags and put the name of the programming language as an attribute. So this: [ code=java] public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[ ]args) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); } } [ /code] becomes this: public class HelloWorld {...

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Are you serious or was that sarcasm? I was referring only to the SW2022 Beta. You can download the app like normal, or you can test drive it online in a browser window (Amazon App Stream). I ran the online app mainly to get access to the What's New guide to see if anything big has been added. Spoil...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 4:54 pm There is a Cloud only SW. Don't ask me what they call it.
You can see some of the post in Solidworks Connect Community.

2022 beta has cloud version. Don't know if its The cloud version or SW on cloud VM.

It's regular SW running in an Amazon App Stream

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This is what I see. When I open a part in SolidWork and look at the PDM tab it looks like this. Bunch of parts not in the PDM, but they do show up in the assy I just opened...well most of them, one appears to be just missing. image.png When I click on the part and say "show references" wi...

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Ok, thanks. I'll have to play with it a bit more but right now when I open an assembly that is checked into the vault and open the PDM in the Task plane it shows several parts as "Not in the vault" but they do show up in the assembly so they are actually there. When I do the "Update ...

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So the only "Out of PDM" files it will find are those that were at one time in the PDM and then removed from the PDM? That seems a bit unhelpful. No, that's not how it works. You may need to check the assembly file in, without checking in all the referenced files. This was 12 years ago, s...

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So short of the obvious and painful method of essentially moving all these files one by one and dealing with all the broken links etc one file at a time, does anyone have any super cool tricks for dealing with something like this? Even if it only does part of the work...anything would be helpful at...

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That's where Markforged fit in. Their printer, their material, their sintering, their slicer. You need a one $top $olution or $pend time on R&D yourself. We looked at the MarkForged MetalX two or three years ago. 100k for everything if I remember corectly. The sintering oven requires bottled ga...

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Solid Edge has a goofy way of looking for files as well, feels kinda like how SW does it. What I don't understand is why using the path that is stored in the parent file is so far down the list. If I could choose (thank goodness I cannot) it would be a 3 step process. CAD would do this when opening...

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They have removed this service pack from downloads .... o[ So how badly did i get screwed by installing it while it was available? grumph It's a glaring but fairly innocuous bug. If you open a file that's missing references, this dialog pops up as normal: image.png If you click on browse, no file c...

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So somehow they actually broke one of Solidworks worst habits which is that it looks all over the place and rather randomly decides which file to use. I wonder if they will "Fix it" by having SW resolving to "Mehhh, something close" It's not random. It's a poorly thought out 'ro...

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So nobody outside the usage of PDM needs to see rev history? It's not on the print at all? Customers, Vendors, toolmakers, none of them see revision history? We handle this with a rolling revision table. The last three revs are on the drawing. For anything older, you either look at the file history...

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You can alleviate some of the variability by making sure the Default Templates are set:

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This seems to be typical behavior. Think about it. You essentially selected that component twice, and therefore it is removed from the selection set/group. I'd say this behavior makes the most sense to me. I disagree. It is inconsistent. If you pre-select faces before selecting the delete face tool...

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Damo wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 11:04 pm I've recently become aware that my current version of SoiledWORKS no longer allows the "Measure" Dialog box to be closed with the Escape Key..?

Or.... Is it just me..??!

You may have pinned it, like this:

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The SPR seems to have existed only since December 2020, so it's only been 7 months. The problem had been unnoticed/unreported for quite some time.

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=============================== SPR #: 580149 Product: SolidWorks Status: Open Fixed in: none none Area: Parts Sub-Area: Feature - Mirror Summary: Some solid bodies cannot be selected for mirror; 'Only one body may be selected in a sheet metal part' tooltip displays) Technical Comments: To work arou...

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Check the admin image log files (in the '64bit\logs\<machine name>' folder under you admin image folder) for the machines that are having problems. Search for the words 'fail' or 'error'. Often this will give you a clue where things went wrong.

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The "Right way" to do this would have been to choose an assembly and then model up, move to the vault, check in and release ALL the parts and related assemblies with those parts...but no, that's to much work and we need to get this done NOW....so we can spend hours every time we have to d...

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