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MJuric

I used one in college in 1989. :) image.png There were a couple "Holdout" systems that stuck with tablets for quite a while...we until the late 90's anyway. I always found tablets to be slower than a properly set up GUI and a mouse. Maybe I never got good enough with them but the ones I u...

MJuric

That's fair, it's not when it comes to fully customized. I wonder if the resellers may have expert knowledge our SWIFTY's don't. When we did ours I completely redid the entire thing by copying the entire database and separating out fine from course thread etc etc and that was fairly straight forwar...

MJuric

I know nothing about this manufacturing, but I watched in YouTube. It seem frequent design change is not possible with this type of manufacturing. Some of you may familiar with type of manufacturing. What is your experience? Why would this approach be any more or less able to deal with changes than...

MJuric

Don't post that over at the platform...you may give them an idea to do just that... The acronym madness has completely jumped the shark as it's been combined with made up sales lingo madness. I was looking around for data report writers and started run into the acronym "BI" all over the p...

MJuric

I'd be curious as to how you're doing this. I've been asking around and looking around for a couple years, forums, VAR's etc and no one has come up with an "Easy" way to add new parts to the tool box that I've been able to find. Unless you're talking "Specials" in the sense of c...

MJuric

I went to ikea once and decided not to go again. I was nervous. You cannot leave without visiting the entire maza for a shopping that will take 5 minutes in total. It was a nerve wracking experience for me. Yep, that's on purpose. The stores are designed to force the customer to traverse as much of...

MJuric

I'm expecting less and less every day from all CAD packages. Solid Edge did the same thing, I'm sure that was some feature that some bigger customer wanted. Then a while back they added a dialog that would ask how you wanted to "Save As". I think three options, one for update all open whe...

MJuric

Yes, but it appears that you still used an axis located on the same plane as the sketch you revolved it around. In my picture, the sketch of the square that you see (the thing I want to revolve cut with) is NOT a bisecting plane, meaning that the central axis of the part (the construction line you ...

MJuric

AlexB wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 1:12 pm ... can you... share it?

I don't even know if I have it anymore. I probably did that back in the late 90's early 00's. I probably have a back up of it somewhere though.

MJuric

Which is silly to think that is considered intended use, that one would need to open EVERY FILE in the data set that uses a material if the name needs to be changed. What would you expect from a software that if you "save as" a file that it replaces that part in every file that it is curr...

MJuric

Since a lot of us here had been complaining how bad the SWAMP is... I thought I will start this new thread for everyone to pay tribute to all the "bad designs" that make you laugh, cringe, or both. Feel free to drop any "bad design", be it software, hardware, user interface, gra...

MJuric

Since a lot of us here had been complaining how bad the SWAMP is... I thought I will start this new thread for everyone to pay tribute to all the "bad designs" that make you laugh, cringe, or both. Feel free to drop any "bad design", be it software, hardware, user interface, gra...

MJuric

And a list of non-CAD stuff. HP printers I will never own another HP printer unless it's a large format printer, which they actually do a good job on again. I've owned at least a half a dozen and pretty much everyone was replaced fairly quickly because it was a piece of junk. OTOH I got an HP large...

MJuric

I still see it as a set of adhd community algorithms providing confusing content to sell products that people don't need or want.... or, I'm foolishly lost in its twisted brilliance.👍 I think this is exactly correct, it's "Click bait". You see a heading in a community that "Sounds co...

MJuric

mike miller wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 9:35 am What da...........???

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What is that?

MJuric

IMO, the 3DEXPERIENCE stuff is more like a "cloud" replacement for PDM&PLM Based on my understanding, you could not used PDM and the 3DEXPERIENCE together. Does the platform deal with PLM stuff? Yes, but it seem like you need to purchase their "3DEXPERIENCE PLM" role or some...

MJuric

I only have one enhancement for them: Purchase actual forum software and abandon trying to "shoehorn" this functionality into your PLM platform. Is 3DE/3DSyWm a PLM software or just a another Facebook? I'm genuinely curious because, well the information available defining what it is...S%*...

MJuric

This was in someone's name posting on SywM. I couldn't figure out why he would want to tell everyone on a CAD forum he had a Solidworks certification and sleeping issues.

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MJuric

I wonder if this is what drove the enhancement Remove the last message that appears below community names for a cleaner view I don't seem to recall anyone on the forums asking for this one... What's funnier is the fact that it appears to be implemented already. However only on the Solidworks User F...

MJuric

My company use Global Shop for our ERP https://www.globalshopsolutions.com/. I'm trying to create some, what I would call, very basic reports. I'm completely uneducated with Global Shop and thus have zero idea how to do this. Unfortunately, while we have decent IT support for the program we don't re...

MJuric

We have a saying "mind is better than mind" (two heads are better than one) The advice and ideas I get from you are methods that I can apply in the near future, if not today. Thank you all for your contributions. As far as I understand, people learn by experiencing the method that is prac...

MJuric

bnemec wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 6:18 pm A part cannot serve two masters, it will either work for one and break the other or wreck one and work for the other.

Exactly, so you're really left with finding some other way to "Verify" that everything is compatible and there are probably a bunch of ways to do that.

MJuric

Nothing is driving anything; well, parts and sub assemblies that are in the assembly drive the assembly, so purely bottom up. That is the only way we have found to deal with constantly revising and constantly evolving where used. If I understand @berg_lauritz description in original post that the p...

MJuric

This brings out the <ll> Good luck with SSPs for fixtures/jigs when there are other, unknown future products that will share that tool. You just defined the reason the place I work just does not use any form of top down for production models. I'm curious about this. Are you trying to make a single ...

MJuric

[quoteI'd spend an hour or more a day entering all the task, tracking time, checking off what I got done....which wasn't much because I was spending all my time entering task and planning ] LOL been there done that. We used 15 minutes slots. So in the end I get overtime for 8 hours of my time LOL S...

MJuric

I tried many apps to keep track of my tasks. google Kanbanchi, MS To Do, Kanban Tasker, etc. Now I drag and drop the mails from otlook into a folder, I send the ones I sent to production to the done folder, and the ones that are waiting for approval to the pending folder. For now this is a more pra...

MJuric

jcapriotti wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 5:04 pm Then Replace (to move) or Duplicate (to copy)

My kid when he was young said "Last Day" and "Next Day" so "Re-Place" makes complete sense to me. I mean your placing it again....just somewhere else.

MJuric

Came across this today image.png Please, please don't put everything in a sketch and don't use sketch mirror for a large amount of lines! grumph o[ <()> Unfortunately I can't blame @mike miller for this one! >>> How in the world can you even get that many constraints on so few pieces of geometry? I...

MJuric

I think it's the flood of outsourcing to countries where English is a second language. I imagine if I wrote instructions in some other language I don't speak daily, its would be less than correct. Well DS is a French company, maybe that explains the complete and utter confusion surrounding 3DE and ...

MJuric

We do the same, hiding from the view properties essentially is like creating a display state in just that drawing view. A drawing only Display State would be useful in some cases for applying to multiple views.. We do create Display States in some very large assemblies that have numerous exploded v...

MJuric

SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 12:49 pm I got that impression as well. Some of the more active posters on the other forum are nowhere to be found here. I have to assume that is due to pressure from DSS.

Many of them are also less and less found on the other forum.

MJuric

Not sure, maybe its changed since we were told. We only had a few IV licenses but we were offered a 2 for 1 deal where we would get double the licenses for the same cost as our current number of users needed. I found this: https://www.autodesk.com/licensing/overview Licenses available on an Autodes...

MJuric

Is it possible to create serial numbers for cut list items i.e. in weldments? I'm not sure I'm following exactly what you are trying to do. Do you mean you want the name of the cut list item to show up as a serial number in the weldment BOM? If that is the case all you need to do is rename the cutl...

MJuric

But the real factor in a larger installation is the fact that IV is named user license vs SolidWorks which has floating concurrent licensing. Our 50 SolidWorks licenses would jump to 150 IV licenses. Now IV is way more expensive, like 3x the annual cost of Swx Premium. I remember you mentioning tha...

MJuric

I will wholeheartedly agree that if you're only hiding one or two components of an Assembly it's easier to do it directly in the drawing view. However, if you have an Assembly like the one shown below, and want to hide everything except the concrete and rebar, or maybe keep the hardware that's embe...

MJuric

I will respectfully disagree with both of you. I use display states often, and wouldn't want to have to get by without them. It isn't unusual for me to want to hide dozens of components in a drawing view (or multiple drawing views). I'd hate to have to do that by hiding the components directly in t...

MJuric

It is just another one of those solidworks "features" that we all experience. I opened the part this morning, and the feature is now labeled 1-16, even though it is still creating the proper 1/4-20 hole. My best guess is that my hole wizard database is corrupt. It's a database managed by ...

MJuric

That makes both of us not knowing what I'm doing. :? Here's the tool in Solid Edge that I cannot seem to find a replacement in Solidworks. IIRC the suggestion is to use Display States. Hopefully someone can guide me. It's called Custom Orientation which is a 3D viewport of the model and has tools t...

MJuric

If you had IV I might say switch due to cost over time as they are subscription only now, so there may be an ROI there. If you look at the numbers it takes a LONG time to "Pay more" and it really depends on what level of the other packages you're using. IV offers one package that is somew...

MJuric

We store all templates in PDM. The folder is set to cache on login so the user has the latest version. Even if the user loses connection, they should be able to operate in PDM offline mode since the files are cached. @bnemec Not sure what's happening in your case, we've been operating this way for ...

MJuric

I was told early on to avoid toolbox, and I'm glad I did. I'm not sure what the relationship is between the two, but SW has issues with something as simple as the hole wizard. No way I would trust toolbox. (Below is a gif.) HoleWizard.gif I've never seen anything like that since I started using hol...

MJuric

To be honest. I don't really know, there's like a million variables all changing a million things on all the computers and after a year and a half when I think I have something figured out I just realize I'm wrong again... o[ when you say "old templates" do you mean the default location i...

MJuric

Thing is we just didn't trust them to not keep mucking around with it from one release to another, we favor stability over disruptions when it comes to our product data. Sad thing is we may have jumped from the kettle into the fire... <()> Well the good thing is that you will get absolutely no muck...

MJuric

It will do this silently and not change them back, so users will use the wrong ones until this is noticed and the File Locations settings corrected. Does it do this even if the path that the old templates are on are not in the search path or template paths? Can you just remove that path and fix thi...

MJuric

He'll try to clarify. ;) I had to get into Solidworks and work through example to make it clear in my mind and find the proper jargon that SW uses. What I had in my mind is display states. Yes, Solid Edge has those two but it seems Display States was the go to answer for our questions like "ho...

MJuric

bnemec wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 3:38 pm We wanted PDM and thought it would justify the change.

SE doesn't have PDM or something similar? That's kind of shocking to me. What do they do for document control?

MJuric

matt wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 2:38 pm I know if I had to purchase one for a company to use for the next 10 years or more, the choice would be easy.

I'm pretty sure you're talking about moving to MS Paint or maybe crayons and napkins, but maybe you're talking about something else

MJuric

What would trigger such thing, IMHO, would be external references, which would cause the model to update itself and therefor create a new version upon saving drawing, as it would also save the model(assembly or part) Lots of assuming in there though, I've never even used PDM. In the PDM you can't s...

MJuric

Matt, What he meant was having the model(part/assembly) loaded in it's cache, not necessarly opened. To create a view in a drawing, SolidWorks must first load the model of the assembly/part in it's cache. Not sure how it could work otherwise though Maybe he can clarify because "This business o...

MJuric

It's called looking ahead. If you're riding a train that is already suffering from a lack of maintenance and corporate TLC, and you see a cliff coming up.....it might be time to jump. The only question is when. It really doesn't matter how many people are on the train, when the fecal matter contact...

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