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MJuric

Just one little problem. No VAR in their right mind would sign a support contract for software that any random user can edit. I agree. That is why the only way I see it working is if there is some level of control. So for instance let's say you have 50 national VAR's. The VAR's would be able to tes...

MJuric

Anyone interested in a fruitless conversation about “what if” CAD could have had a community maintained player? the biggest issue with this approach is and always will be "Who's responsible?". While this is perfect for "Bob" who wants to do something in his garage or as a small ...

MJuric

Iyou can either replace the original ABC with ABC-V1 or you can have them both in there. That's the part I'm trying to get around. If you could just display ABC-V1 as a configuration of ABC then you would neither have to add or replace ABC. While this may not be a big thing if you're dealing with a...

MJuric

You're loosing me a little, but the point is the branched assembly will reference the branched part and the source assembly will be left referencing the source part. I assume you want the source files left alone for now as they are in some released state and no checked out permission. If/when the c...

MJuric

If that works better for you, by all means go for it, but : 1. I was already using this method before bounding boxes were a thing. Since I already have my profile sketches set up to create plate using the Structural Member function would there be any advantage to using bounding boxes? 2. I don't wa...

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I can post later today (not at my desk). Thanks, I will take another look at the SolidWorks site. The material is aluminum (specific alloy TBD). The mold will be used for pressure aluminum casting. The actual shape is rectangular, about 6" long, 4" wide, and 3" tall. The shape is hol...

MJuric

Want to see branched parts in an assembly that should stay in the released state? Just branch the assembly too, play in that one then delete it when done. I'm not sure how this would work. In order to now change the original part wouldn't I have to branch the assembly AND all the parts I want to wo...

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I edited the original post here to insert a sample Part and to add back screenshots that got lost a few months ago when the platform had the hiccups. I still don't understand why you aren't using the weldment property approach. All the custom properties are propagated and you can auto link dimensio...

MJuric

"Everything has to be earned, through work, persistence, and honesty." - Princess Grace Kelly "Everything has to should be earned, through work, persistence, and honesty." FIFY because we all know that lots of people get lots of things through methods other than those presented ...

MJuric

yes exactly. Consider branching the assembly as well? Just for the sake of comparison. Then delete the branched assembly when done and merge the desired branch of the part once the change is approved. Often times there are several parts that interact with each other, maybe even parts in different w...

MJuric

Please define 'branched part'. If you have PDM and have this feature installed you can "Branch Part" and it creates a copy of that part. Yu can then change that part and it will have no effect on the original part. If you like the changes you can then merge the part back to the original.

MJuric

Its a PDM thing https://help.solidworks.com/2019/english/enterprisepdm/fileexplorer/c_design_merge_branch.htm Branch is much like CopyTree except PDM keeps track of the relation between the source and branched file. Both methods create a new file. As for swapping out the source file in an assembly ...

MJuric

I'm aware my question may be a little vague. I believe the short version of what I am asking is, what file(s) do I need to provide someone who is using SolidWorks, so they can proceed with making a cost estimate for producing a mold via CNC? First, why is your workflow so complex? Doesn't Design Sp...

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I inserted multiple subassemblies and mated to another component using path mates. (I am modeling sliding door system with multiple door leaf. so Subassembly = each door leaf, mated to component = sliding track) All subassemblies mated with different paths. I wanted these subassemblies to move alon...

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One of the things that I've found remarkable is that when I make an appointment here for someone to come to my house to do whatever, they usually show up early. :shock: That's because the average age in Florida is 85. Every minute longer you take to deliver the product squares the odds that the rec...

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/icu-doctor-letter-to-patient-1.6171187 GOVERMENT CONTROLS THE MEDIA! That being said another person I know that leans the "It's a hoax" direction is in the hospital....with Covid. Mean time we are getting ready to re-instate mask mandates at work an...

MJuric

jcapriotti wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 12:49 pm
Does any CAD system handle this? Creo and I believe Solid Edge allows you to edit the view boundary and sketch a spline, kind of the same as cropping though as far as effort is concerned.

I believe Inventor does

MJuric

I'm sure there are good people left out there but how do you go about finding them? It's getting more and more difficult. About the only way I know of doing it these days is word of mouth and word has to be coming from the mouth of someone you know would know the difference between good and bad wor...

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:48 am
Plumber cut clean through the joist under the bathtub and didn't bother fixing that...

Oh come on, we all know the number of floor joists is SOOoooooo over designed. removing a couple is a non issue...

MJuric

I do everything I have the tools for myself. Do I have the experience and knowledge of the expert? No. But I give a damn because it's my house. The "expert" is thinking about the beer in the fridge at home and doesn't give a damn, so at the end of the day, my work is at least as good as h...

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Hi. I see that you lack general knowledge about bricklaying. In the case of bricklaying, you don't try to use whole bricks. Often, even when the dimensions allow the use of whole bricks, we start with 3/4. On the other hand, the construction of stoves is "higher class" of masonry. Here, i...

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I got my shots as soon as I could and I'm planning on getting my booster at the earliest recommended point. I recognize there is some risk involved in taking the shot, and a little bowing to the powers that be, but these are the choices I made. BUT, I do kinda get it where some of the people who do...

MJuric

It's my opinion that it "kinda works". We all know stuff like that, right? We still use stuff that just kinda works. So if I get a headache vs spend a month with a plastic tube crammed down my throat, that's worth something, eh? Unless you believe that someone is controlling all the infor...

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Not all "vaccine" work the same. Some vaccine provide life time immunity. Some need periodic reinject. Some only reduce symptom and sickness. Flu "vaccine" is the last type which we get in Canada every year. *bat-fever* is similar. From the beginning, it never was "immune&q...

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We use two here on a regular basis, the primary being SW and the second is KeyCreator. Three if you count Mastercam but that's mainly the guys in the shop. We were all CadKey (now KeyCreator) when I started, then transitioned over to SW. We keep two seats of KeyCreator active, we have 6 or 7 seats ...

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 3:43 pm Can you do something that causes an electrical shock if anyone over the age of 12 types "lol"?

ZOMG, LMFAO, LOL!....I felt a little queasy just typing that. What about "K"...because "OK" needs to be abbreviated.

MJuric

matt wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 2:26 pm Love it. You're running afoul of the automatic word censor. Artificial intelligence indeed!

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Weird, why did it correct it when you quoted it but the post is not corrected, or does it appear corrected to you because it's not on my screen.

MJuric

Recently branched parts where brought up here and already I've had the opportunity to use them a few times. My question is whether there is a way to show the "Branched" version of a part in an assembly without merging the changed part. I know I can just drop it into the assy or replace the...

MJuric

Where I'm at now it's essentially SW and Draftsight. I consider those to be different CAD systems. We have to maintain everything the same way you would if we only used one system. I've worked a couple of places in the past where multiple systems where used. This happens a lot for Tier1-3 automotive...

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I believe you misunderstood. I'm pretty sure he wants the edges of partial section views to be jagged, similar to the present option for detail views and cropped views. image.png Thanks, and yes that's a good example of what I'm talking about. Seems to me that this should be a thing. I'd really lov...

MJuric

The principle of a section view is passing a plane through the part and looking at the face that was cut by the plane. You're asking for an additional cut along a second axis. You can crop the section view, but it should not be possible to create what you're after, using only a section view. I'm no...

MJuric

FWIW, Solid Edge has NEVER crashed on me. That is a fact ! . . . But I don't have Solid Edge, just SWX. :P And for the record SW did crash on me like 2-3 times yesterday (Pseudo opinion because I haven't looked but if I wanted to I could pull up the Rx and look if I really cared to) ....but I don't...

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The vaccine manufacturer makes no guarantees for the vaccine. A vaccinated person can be a covid carrier, die from covid, be infected with covid, die from side effects, and have to live with side effects for life. Why should I trust the vaccine when the manufacturer does not give any guarantees? I ...

MJuric

Guys, can we stop with the arguing over opinions? Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and everyone thinks theirs doesn't stink compared to others However there is a huge difference between opinion and fact and that is the major issue we have on so many levels today. Opinion does not equal ...

MJuric

Does anyone know if it is possible to get "break" lines in a partial section view as shown below? Whenever you do a section thru only part of a part it makes the section view square. I could probably crop it with something and get what I want but was wondering if there was a way to get it ...

MJuric

I would prefer to have full-bricks only, having SOLIDWORKS automatically count how many additional full bricks are required to make these half bricks, but the for this specific example the math just takes seconds to do manually, This would be pretty easy to do in the BOM itself. Just add a new colu...

MJuric

This is interesting. I don't even have a branch option in our PDM. Is this something that needs to be set up at the administrator level? I can see this coming in handy for a few things if it works properly.

MJuric

No matter what your point of view is you're not going to "fix" anyone here (or likely anywhere else either). Just allow people to believe what they believe in peace, regardless of how wrong you think they are. I wonder how many people believe this and why. Whether it's multi-body sheet me...

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Hi, I have been using SOLIDWORKS since 2015, but for the first time now, I have to design a brick and mortar furnace for a sauna. I know rough dimensions of the space in which the furnace has to be built, as well as dimension of some off-shelf components (steel doors, reinforcement bars, heat trans...

MJuric

You can't make people do something they don't want to do, Making someone do something they don't want to is different than removing the natural consequences of what happens when you don't do something. In other words, no you can't make someone work, but you also don't have to support them if they d...

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yeah.. the US is still doing well.. but those darn Canadians are trying to make us look bad!? :D https://data.oecd.org/pop/working-age-population.htm I'm less concerned about the working age population than I am the percentage of people working regardless of age. The higher the working age populati...

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according to this account, you need 1 worker, I can come. :mrgreen: I went to a Robotics thingy and they had the statistic that by 2024 2.2M jobs will be created in manufacturing from when I went, last June or so. They then followed that up with that they are predicting that only 1.1M people will b...

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It would be cool if the majority of US workers would still be interested in working instead of sucking the teat.... I've often wondered how this worked. The US has a population of 331M. We have 73M under the age of 18 and 47 million over the age of 65. This leave ~211m people. The currently labor p...

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Lapuo wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 4:12 am Hey @MJuric , i am curious , how do you handle sheet metal part with weld bolts?

I used "Insert part". You have options to insert cut list properties, custom properties etc. If you set the inserted part up correctly that information is carried over to the cut list.

MJuric

Uh, if not here....where else? () Some of the brightest and best SWX users I know are members here (and no, I'm not one of them). As far as new users asking "easy" questions, that's a crucial part of keeping this place active. Otherwise there's just a bunch of gurus sitting around and com...

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Then again, we do not laser-cut in-house, its all done by outsource suppliers who request DXF Files.. I've only used DRW files purely for the purpose of creating drawings. It also never occured to me to export a DXF from there. And guys, are there benefits to this I'm missing out on..? clearly I do...

MJuric

The lower right corner can edit the document units image.png The Dimension propertymanager can over ride the document units image.png And here's one that throws me every now and then. The Tools >Measure dialog can over ride dimensions. image.png Oh, yeah NOW I remember. I thought this seemed like a...

MJuric

That's an interesting drawing. How did you get that shoe watermark onto the page? :lol: I downloaded those backgrounds a few years back. I have that one, a coffee stain, blood stain and burnt weld mark. Someone had them in a single zip file somewhere. That's the only one I use because all the other...

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What do you do with purchased hinges when one side is welded to the frame? For the most part when we do this we mount the hinge to the door and weld the hinge to the mating part so at least in our case this is an assembly process not part of the weldment. Typically mounting one half of the hinge to...

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Well then I'm confused about why we're arguing. :? Purchased assemblies, yeah, I'd do that as a single part. The only exception I'd add to what you say about sheet metal in a weldment would be if you had a complex sheet metal part that is welded onto a frame. Like an enclosure with a lot of bends a...

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