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MJuric

I run into this fairly regularly and usually it's not a big deal because there aren't many and I can manually hide them. This time I'm using the drawing in a driveworks file and the "problem" will be replicated for each part with a lot of holes soooo.... Some times when I do a view where I...

MJuric

"...content that incites violence, hate speech.........." Wow. Serious potential for "political-correctness-policing" right there. <()> If indeed the left goes after porn it will be an interesting turning of the tables. The right has been pulling the "Political correctness&...

MJuric

I believe this will accomplish what you want. 1. Add a Note that's linked to the drawing view. 2. With your cursor in the text box, click on the dimension. That will copy the dimension (or hole callout) text and symbols to the Note. 3. Hide the leader on the note. image.png 4. Hide the dimension or...

MJuric

Link the dimension 2 (bottom) to dimension 1 (top) and hide the dimension 2? Sorry dont have access to my SW at the moment so there is no image Edit: See link below https://hawkridgesys.com/blog/link-note-feature-dimension Hmmm, I'll have to play with that. I was thinking about that as a potential ...

MJuric

Below is a snip from a dimension. The hole is a C'bore with a thread at the bottom of the C'bore. I'm pretty sure I could do this with an advanced hole but this is off our product line and historically we've done/designed this with a Tapped hole and an Extrude cut. The "Hole Callout" shows...

MJuric

Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:19 am That piece is typically used off the end of bridge or overpass concrete parapets.

Not surprisingly that's where the ones I say where

MJuric

Maybe my mind has been 'poisoned' by this video >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ62yNu9meo I just watched that video and for the most part our sister company follows this same approach but does it for our product lines. The majority of their products are also "Fabrication". As I've sa...

MJuric

You're going to outprice the competition by not buying a $200 printer? You're going to outprice the competition by getting rid of the thing that needs the printer....the people. When you get to the point you don't need the printer that pretty much means you don't have people. 2D drawings are design...

MJuric

I'm thinking about starting up a small part fabrication factory today, starting with a clean slate, would you need to buy a 'printer' ?? I don't think so. Would your young workers have a problem with that? I don't think so. If I'm starting from scratch today....there would be no workers :shock: I'v...

MJuric

I finally got this Part to work, but it was a struggle. image.png After using the Structural Member function to create both ends I tried every way I could think of to Loft between them. I admittedly go months without needing to do a Loft, but I think I tried every possible setting and kept getting ...

MJuric

Worth a mention - there's probably very few 2D drawings fluttering around in a modern car assembly plant, with most of them being almost totally automated. So maybe, I dunno, get rid of all the humans? Then, once that's done, throw out all the printers/photocopiers? There's not a whole lot of 2D dr...

MJuric

Why not just join the EAA and get SW for $49/year? https://www.eaa.org/eaa/eaa-membership/eaa-member-benefits/solidworks-resource-center/eaa-solidworks-standard If I had to guess the restrictions for personal use are probably very similar to the Maker version... I've looked at that but at present m...

MJuric

I've been using F360, Onshape and other systems at home but if 3DE for makers is closer to SW desktop and is only $99 a year I'd rather do that.

Also I noticed that some of it is locally installed and other is cloud based. Any idea what minimum system requirements are?

MJuric

It's a bit of an outdated idea though when you think about it - what with the arrival of cheap 3D scanning equipment. All a competitor needs to do these days is buy your product, take it to bits, scan all the parts and there they have it. This is the fastest way to get a Yugo from a Porche :-) In f...

MJuric

SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 1:44 pmLexington, NC

Solidworks has a locator. https://www.solidworks.com/how-to-buy/f ... s-reseller

Can't vouche for any of the ones around Lexington though.

MJuric

Salesmen have been crowing for decades that new product X will be the one to finally kill 2d drawings. It works for some industries. I rarely make 2D drawings, at least not the detailed ones that I used to make 30+ years ago. For plastic parts, I might have a couple critical dimensions, maybe a sur...

MJuric

I've dealt with two VAR's; GoEngineer and MLC Cad. I've been very happy with both, and wouldn't hesitate to recommend either one. I've met @Alin and one or two of his co-workers, and from that limited exposure I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Javelin for people in Canada. I've worked with CATI and ...

MJuric

Ry-guy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:21 pm Well, we share a past! I started in seat adjuster assemblies too! Way back when in 1990..man I am getting old...

I started not much after you then. 91-93 or so...it's kind of a blurr these days so can't remember the exact year

MJuric

I typically do renderings for sales and concepting. Probably 80% of the time I do CAD snips but on occasion for larger projects where we are really trying to impress the potential customer I'll do a more realistic rendering. Since I don't do it often and I've never been "Good" at it the ti...

MJuric

Tom G wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:27 pm That is Unreal.

FIFY

MJuric

Sketchfab is now part of Epic Games I hadn't explored Sketchfab at all. Somehow I got on a mailing list. It still looks nice, and that is about as much as I know of it. The inclusion of this among the Epic Games platform is strange to me, professionally. However, if it increases the potential numbe...

MJuric

Just got a choice - Shop Production or one month Severance Pay, took the severance pay, today is my last day - no more SolidWorks - kinda sad in a way, but I'll be moving on. Some of you guys got my number, stay in touch, otherwise, good chance it's no more SW Forum, been a long run, but SWYM is no...

MJuric

Always fun to talk about the "Screw mate" when doing new user training. I worked at a company when I was much younger. We designed and built a lot of seat tracks for cars and trucks. All the guys would giggle every time someone in a meeting would mention the "Upper Rear" seat tr...

MJuric

Here is a real-life example. I started out working on a conceptual model that requires a gas spring: https://www.mcmaster.com/4138T54-4138T544/ I followed our normal procedure; in this case (because it's a McMaster part) I downloaded the model, doctored it up, added our custom properties, etc. Howe...

MJuric

Each branch gets merged back into the main workspace and updates the model at different times. As long as the hole added doesn't interfere with the cutout changes, there are no model issues, both set of changes show up in the main model version. I'll have to play with that. I've seen the branch thi...

MJuric

Onshape has the ability for multiple people to change the same part/assembly as a branch. Then you can merge the branch later, although you may have to resolve conflicting changes. So for example, User 1 creates a branch and adds a hole. User 2 creates a branch and modifies the size of a cutout. Ea...

MJuric

bnemec wrote: ↑Wed Jul 14, 2021 2:55 pm This happens to us too much. So maybe I'm more interested than I thought.

Do you mean you have two people changing the part at the same time?

MJuric

I don't know anything about it, but my imagination goes places like, what if there were no assemblies I think this is the direction Onshape is going although admittedly I have no idea what I'm doing with that software. I do know that they lean far more toward "One file many parts". It see...

MJuric

He said Onshape already has it. Maybe worth a try and see what it does. I've been using Onshape at home for a couple months now. Not really spent enough time with it to even consider myself "functionally literate" with it. I would like to see the "Collaboration" on it used thoug...

MJuric

"Collaboration" is one of those concepts that sounds great in theory but has a tendency to turn into "colloboration" in real life. I really have no interest, nor see any need for, a program that allows other users to edit the same model that I am working on. I have a need for it...

MJuric

True, but the Chinese New Year is only one week. It has never been too big of an inconvenience, at least for me, and I work directly with that area of the world. Some of the excuses I hear for European delays seem much too comfortable blaming the vacation thing. When I hear such excuses I think &qu...

MJuric

Hmmmm. DSS is a French company. That explains the rapid response to "fix" their new forum. I've had many times where I need a part for something and normally it would take 3-4 weeks and it turned into 8-12..."That's when we go on holiday" Similar situation in China with the New ...

MJuric

image.png That one isn't a joke....it's true. I don't know how many European companies you work with but at certain times of the year it's nigh on impossible to get something from them. It seems like the entire company goes on holiday at the same time for quite some time. Sadly, or not, depending o...

MJuric

Assis As wrote: ↑Sun Jul 11, 2021 4:14 pm before i used to have motion analysis few days back it is not showing , i do not know whats wrong

Any idea please thank you

Did you check to see if what you want has been loaded in the addins?

MJuric

Zhen-Wei Tee wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:42 pm Is it possible to "shrink" or "move" the advertising banner?

The current banner is really huge and take up 25% of the screen
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Maybe move it to bottom?

It's an advertisement banner....it's supposed to be in the way

MJuric

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 3:23 pm I left my weekly dose of snarkiness

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I actually think there should be DS or at least VAR employees there. Maybe they just don't know the answers

MJuric

I noticed they are starting to resort to highlighting questions that haven't been answered yet in a new sticky post at the top since the questions have already scrolled off the cliff. I was going to be a smart @ss and say something like "Those probably would have been answered if posts didn't ...

MJuric

I have no idea what problem this gas can spout is designed to solve. What I can tell you is it takes 3 hands to operate, and I now spill several tablespoons of fuel every time I fill the lawn mower. image.png Those were designed to stop spills. If the can is knocked over supposedly the gas doesn't ...

MJuric

Anyone else astounded by how many spam posts there are on 3DSwym with links to random, presumably hostile websites? image.png Although the response to this question was almost believable as a real answer! If the spammers learn to use uppercase surnames then they might just start getting away with i...

MJuric

The collaboration capabilities inherent in Onshape are what attracted me to it. You can even have multiple people from across the word effectively driving the same mouse pointer at the same time. Now that is real-time collaboration. I only have the free account and have only gone through a portion ...

MJuric

Kind of like Tom I would like to know if anyone is using the 3DExperiance software. If there is much / any benefit to it. I like the concept of not having to fight with my IT department / computer salesman to get a machine capable of running SW efficiently but with our unreliable internet I am not ...

MJuric

I was asked to make this part for a laser cutting demonstration. The result is close enough, but I got some trouble with the Wrap Feature. I want to be able to control the angle, the distance and radius of offsets more freely. One way I found is to make the Linear Pattern in one sketch, then create...

MJuric

Check out this video I just made. It shows how selecting the correct breadcrumb can propagate the appearance to the part level. It really is all about hierarchy and overrides, you just have to understand how it works. (One caveat, SWX struggles sometimes with keeping appearances inside Display Stat...

MJuric

Have a look at my edit, you might find a new use for appearances, we never used them before this. Create an upper-level to whatever "master assembly" you have, and then add whatever colors you'd like. I'm sure that would be a lot less struggle, unless you're saying you have a lot of appea...

MJuric

It gets hella tricky when you start having people who don't understand this mixed with people who do understand this. Not sure I'm being very clear..? I don't use appearances very often. About the only thing I use them regularly on is weldments where we show "Machined Surfaces" as a diffe...

MJuric

Hey, I've noticed that sometimes, SolidWorks likes to mess up appearances. For instance, we use colors to differentiate materials, and I have parts, which will show the correct color in the part, in it's assembly, but won't show the correct color in the sub-assembly. Is there a way, from the sub-as...

MJuric

As @MJuric had mentioned we typically show a small portion of the perforation pattern in each corner, eliminating the stress on computing resources. This is a carry over from the drawing board. You'd be ushered out the door for drawing in 13,986 3/8 X 3/8 squares :-) Back in those days a whole lot ...

MJuric

Don't reinvent the wheel here. Shaodun Lin posted about this in the old forum, and I'm glad to see he was wise enough to post it elsewhere. You can read about it here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-improve-linear-pattern-rebuild-performance-10x-shaodun-lin/ Nice post and pretty much what I've ...

MJuric

If you can't get away with doing a representation of the grid, corners only, decal etc etc and you have to have the actual pattern, I've found the best way is to break it up into smaller chunks. So for instance in this case if you were looking at 74 across and 189 down I might do a cut and then patt...

MJuric

Adding new part is difficult in Toolbox. Changing material, description, add extra size is easier. I copied a few bolts to a custom standard. Added a few thread size. Changed description and material. All in Toolbox editor and excel with export and import. Try a few before you put it in PDM for eve...

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