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MJuric

So... I'm kind of a squirrel. Stuffing my cheeks full of peanuts and what ever edible I can find. Then I go and hide them in holes and pits just to forget them ever being in the first place. But still I'm always looking for that next delicious snack. In more humanish-way - I roam around the interne...

MJuric

That's what wikis are designed to do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Yeah. That just screams web-based to me. A bunch of disparate topics with different subject matter experts. Since I do some coding and such here, I opted to install a Gitlab server so I could manage my source code with git . G...

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Our IT department just sent out a company wide email that they will be moving us to Office 365 in the near future. The SOLIDWORKS system requirements page makes no mention of Office 365, and the Knowledge Base states: ==================== S-072050: Does SOLIDWORKS® software support the use of the M...

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I watched this video about 8 years ago and gave myself a 10 year plan to get one.. I think I'm still 10 years away lol Over the years I've quoted at least a dozen projects that would incorporate robots and have not gotten a single one of them. In my experience it is the rare case that a robot makes...

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The more I use "Micro-sift Orifice" products, the more I hate them. The only good thing they have going is Excel and maybe PowerPoint. Onedrive sucks out loud; when it decides to sync it will kick everything offline. Word is way too automated for it's own good. Outlook breaks too easily. ...

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JSculley wrote: ↑Tue Jun 01, 2021 12:41 pmimage.png

Yeah, because what could possibly go wrong hanging out around a spinning, unguarded 6" diameter slippery tube that you have to drop a 500lb, 20ft length of pipe onto that is attempting to find a pocket of flammable material that is under pressure...Seems perfectly safe to me

MJuric

Check out OpenOffice or LibreOffice. Both are free and open source AFAIK. If not, I've got some installation files for you... :? :lol: I'm complaining more about the move to subscription for everything. It seems to me that this is a "Trick" for these companies to just bleed you dry. You c...

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How about a single sheet of paper with a URL and a QR code pointing to a web site? We don't have to create customer manuals here, but whenever I create documentation, I try to put it on a web page. As soon as you print something, it is out of date. The web page can always contain the latest informa...

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You might laugh, but PowerPoint can overcome a lot of what people dislike about Word. Still, I use Word for most of my writing, even with images. Depending on what you're going to do with your manual, you might also consider Wordpress (online html/blog format). You can get a lot of plugins for it, ...

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This seems to be absolutely crazy. I'm looking for a simple decent technical manual writing software. 95% of what is out there is on subscription and largely at, at least to me, ridiculous prices. So I pay every month in perpetuity for something I will use "Every once in a while"? I get th...

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What is everyone using for writing manuals? We use word for everything for our machines but typically these always end up being under 100pgs. I'm starting to compile a bunch of information that I'm sure will end up being far more than that. I find Word to be clumsy at best to a complete and utter ni...

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Im not hurting for one, Im just actively hunting them. I have not gone as far as to buy a bot to do the work for me( which is the one of the problems) But I am on the new egg shuffle each day and also signed up with over 50 websites for alerts when they do have stock. watch out with newegg, the car...

MJuric

Not sure I want to work for a "UTI" family....

MJuric

Thanks for taking time to do that. I watched over and over to keep up to the steps. It is interesting to see and brings back a bit of memories now. Couple more questions: - Is there anything preventing the user from using a part that is not available? as in not set up with a part number. The way I ...

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I had to dig back in my notes now to see where we were with toolbox. At @JSculley mentioned, toolbox is not available in Standard which I had forgotten about and was helpful reminder because I wasn't looking back to before we purchased SW. It was a matter of chicken and egg. We couldn't get context...

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Sometimes .... I spent a few minutes throwing your list into custom properties. I have zero experience using the Excel/PRT approach so have no idea how this compares to what you're doing. This is how it would work if you used the TB. Any of those added properties can be used to create a new configu...

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Yeah, sigh, we have every single screw in our system in SCREW.SLDPRT. We did that because it's common to switch between one head to another. So breaking it out into more than one file would very much undermine the ease of switching from one screw to another, there is no category that we might not s...

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You would think that when it comes to 5 or 6 digits before the decimal they would switch over from mm to M, but that's not the case, (15000mm is represented as 15000mm and not 15M). I guess it is to keep uniformity (one UOM) throughout. I would think one would change it as well, but not changing it...

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The disparity between the two systems gets compounded when dealing with architectural drawings. ex.: 15000mm from center to center of columns. Too many digits before the decimal for my likely. I know, I sound like a grumpy old man. ...or 15M instead of 15000mm. Isn't this a bit like saying "I ...

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don't look at the "choosed answer" but i took that problem as an example, the user have a specific need. with "PRT + Excel" in less than one minute, i modified the PRT. then users just have to use it with "one clic" under ASM (one clic, about one lazzy-second) with TB ...

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JSculley wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 1:01 pm One advantage of non-TB systems is that they don't require SW Professional. We have 18 seats of SW standard, so Toolbox has never been an option.

Good point, I never really understood why that is the case. Seems like a pretty basic function that they just don't include.

MJuric

Some users who have been around more than 10 years haven't forgiven toolbox for previous sins, and I haven't checked it to see what new wonders are in there. It was broken badly for a long time, and people just wrote it off. I understand that as well as companies/people, that developed their system...

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as you said, MJuric Excel work advanced formulas, etc... the formula stay into the file, no need to rewrite it, or copy-paste between "TB to Excel", do the work, then copy-paste "Excel to TB" for the automatization, it's possible to do the same, and even more, than TB, by using ...

MJuric

an example for this problem https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=582 it's so easy to solve with "PRT + Excel" and impossible with TB (toolbox) I'm not following. The solution was a sketch driven component pattern, which can not only be done with TB but actually has nothing to...

MJuric

Over the years, we tend to develop a comfort or for a better word a feel for the imperial system. For example, for fits and tolerancing, I know what 0.001" or even 0.0005" is, I can almost feel it on my fingertips. Now, if someone were to tell me that there is a gap of 0.05mm in between t...

MJuric

The purpose of conspiracies is so the elites can control the masses......wait.....does that qualify as a conspiracy theory? I'm so confused (because "they" want me to be right?) grumph One of the funniest bumper stickers I've seen was simply "We are Everywhere". Just that. No af...

MJuric

" If you're using TB and making a new part and saving it, it can get messy" . My point here was in response to matt talking about "How TB is set up". You have several options like "Create new part" or "Refer to the Toolbox". The former creates new models and ...

MJuric

In case you work in a group, spread out over the globe, using toolbox parts is almost impossible to control. So we always create a single part for every fastener, and let this travel the world, together with the assembly. Working 100%. Curious why you would say that. As long as single person or gro...

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Toolbox has a lot of great advantages, especially when used with Hole Wiz, I think we've already covered a lot of that in another thread. BUT in order to use those benefits, you have to use the configurations approach in toolbox, you can't use the individual parts. And in Toolbox, if you don't have...

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. . . or as I heard someone say once "When you can show me three people that can keep a secret I'll start believing in conspiracy theories." The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves, George Bernard Shaw. Most people can't keep a secret even if they are the only one that knows...

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AT one job I made huge configured files for various types of screws with different materials, heads, drives, thread lock, dog point, finishes, etc... The files were huge. Solid Edge does configurations, which it calls Family of Parts, but it does each as a separate document. It seems more tedious, ...

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Hmmm....... if we can't even keep our nuclear secrets, how could we keep a less consequential conspiracy secret? () EDIT: See, this discussion inevitably runs off the rails. ;; This has always been my argument against all these massive, convoluted, conspiracy theories. We found out what President C...

MJuric

How often do you use mesh data, and how often would you use it if you had better tools to work with it? - 3d scan - CGI / AR data - 3D print data - MRI, CAT medical scan data - subd type models Rarely but whenever I do I find it to be a PIA. I just surveyed my back yard. I wanted topography of it s...

MJuric

Just an idea. Add a new page and move the revision table here, add a statement (reference) to report that there is a revision page in the drawing page you can now revise enough to fill a full page. Or hire a more experienced designer, and continue with as few revisions as possible. (joke) I've done...

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Just hide the old revisions. No compelling reason to keep more than the last three. In any respectable firm, the real meat of the revisions is in the ECO documentation, anyway. I've worked at automotive companies where the EC's started to look like an Excel spreadsheet AAC, AAD, AAE. ALL of the rev...

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watch out with newegg, the cards in stock are used and sold by 3rd parties. I always use the filter and select sold by newegg only. I absolutely hate that they started doing this. Other than the fact that they have the one of best search filter for computer stuff on the net they've essentially turn...

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the whole internet has, only ebay has instock at 4x the going price. A rtx 3090 on ebay is 4000$ NewEgg has looks like they have a bunch of the 2060-2070's in stock. But yeah, the prices are ridiculous but I can't imagine someone that had one would just sell it for normal prices right now. I was pl...

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Maybe this is a bug with TB parts? I don't use them. Does same error reproduce when selecting non-TB parts similarly? I've had the same thing happen with pretty much all parts particularly here below. That's where I've had "Specify Configs" work and "All" not work. image.png

MJuric

FMAAID wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 4:33 pm looking to buy any 2000 or 3000 series rtx graphics cards new r used.

I need around 10 cards.

Did NewEgg break?

MJuric

I think you are misunderstanding the command, at least in this instance. The little indicator is to select what will happen when you execute the current command to change the configuration of the part. You are selecting whether the change will be applied to the current config, all configs or select...

MJuric

May I suggest an alternative workflow? Instead of using that button choose "Configure component" from the right-click drop-down. That will open a simplified design table with a row for each configuration and a column where you can select the appropriate component configuration for each co...

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Early you mentioned that the "Fusion 360" expert was also weighing in on this so I would be a bit more careful. For instance you say "No macro's". Well fusion 360 actually has an API which means you can do macro, to what extent I have no idea. https://autodeskfusion360.github.io/...

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In our case, every screw gets a part number in our "ERP" system so it get's a part number in PDM/CAD. Currently each part number is a config name in one of these files. If we dissolve the configured files then each part number would be in it's own part file with a serial number file name ...

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So I have run into this in multiple situations and on multiple occasions and each time the first thing I think is "Hmmm, I'm doing something wrong" then I move to "I know I did that" then "SW is completely broken again". So on many many occasions I have set one of the m...

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Hyper-V is included with Windows 10 ( except for the Home edition). Thanks, I'll look at that. If I can set up sims on VM and have them vomit without taking out SW on another machine that would be pretty nice. Also letting it chug away forever without it clogging up my screens would be nice as well...

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Anyway, is that all normal stuff for configured part files? We are strongly considering leaving the configured hardware file path now before we have thousands of where used files to update instead of hundreds that we would need to update now. Has anyone switched from configured hardware to individu...

MJuric

Interesting idea...A compromise...Something like mixed units?...I suggest meters and inches: 1m-8" That way everything works for all people...Problem solved... How is that a compromise...that's what imperial already does 1ft-8". The compromise would be to do away with inches, feet, yards,...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 10:27 am We should look at these from a 5th angle.

Maybe if we just looked at both of them from a different angle?

MJuric

I often run simulations using SW running on a virtual machine. Complete isolation and I can assign as many cores as I want to the VM. So, a flow simulation can use 12 of my 16 cores, leaving me with 4 for other work. What are you using to set up the virtual machine? That sounds like a really good i...

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How do you set up your assembly/subassembly structure? - subassemblies are stocked part numbers - subassemblies allow efficient use of mates - assembly structured to allow motion in the assembly - assembly/subassembly structure according to the mfg/assy BOM document - structured to create assembly ...

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