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MJuric

But first things first, they need to get it to a functional forum before trying to give us sizzle. Yes. Putting lipstick on a pig is going to do no one any good in this case. There are some very serious limitations with that site that need to be dealt with the worst of which is real estate. Posts j...

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DennisD wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 1:16 pm Case in point: the 3DSwamp.

Are you trying to tell me you're not onboard with the 3DSywm platform?

MJuric

I have found that the best way to introduce a 'new way of doing things' is to automate the process as much as possible so that users are 'doing less things'. If you can replace a 10 step manual process with a one button automatic process producing equivalent or better results, who can argue? Now, i...

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The video below is also noteworthy . . . They promise 3mm accuracy, more than enough for construction needs. That's a great use for AR. I can even see a system that would do a "Comparison" like they do in CAM software between the "Stock", what's existing and the "Finished P...

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One of the biggest game changers is taking key employees along to visit a shop that is where you want to be (with 5S, Lean, Six Sigma, etc.). This can be an effective way to break the mold and "knock the scales from their eyes". Of course it usually won't be a hole-in-one, but the closer ...

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I have been around long enough to be on the wrong side of this equation, forced into an inefficient and unnecessary workflow that is both more labor intensive and doesn't provide me with any benefit. That's EXACTLY what I'm trying to avoid and exactly why it is imperative to get honest input from e...

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At my workplace, we have something like a continuous improvement competition where people submit their idea and someone will judge and vote for it... I had something like this in the back of my mind and was trying to figure out a way to make it useful and not "Weird" or "Corny"....

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I don't know how big your company is, but any initiative like this must be fully supported from the top down. Here are a few suggestions in no particular order. A. Your item #2 explaining why something won't or can't work is important. Done properly it identifies the obstacles that must be breached...

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To be perfectly honest, if that's the culture then unless you have the authority (or support from upper management) to implement the changes you have a steep hill to climb. Unfortunately some people aren't interested in better ways of doing things, and won't unless forced to. Most of Upper manageme...

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Part of my current position is implementing various continuous improvement ideas, efficiency improvements etc etc. That being said I'm fully aware that the only way to truly make any changes like this is to have the people involved onboard and or even excited about the changes. At present, pretty mu...

MJuric

One of the best uses I've seen for AR has been on the shop floor for assembly, maintenance and repair. It was at one of the trade shows I went to. You put the glasses on and when you looked at the equipment you could touch/click on any part and get either part number, assembly information, maintenan...

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From the Knowledge Base: =================================== Solution Id S-060656 Product SolidWorks 2011 Created 10/9/2012 Technically Reviewed Date 3/12/2021 Area Part Sub-Area Hole Question How are straight tap blind hole depth values calculated? Answer: The formula is as follows: Blind Hole Dep...

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 6:14 pm It's here. Keep in mind that these times are approximate. https://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/downloads.htm

Perfect, Thanks

MJuric

Does anyone know where the formula or data is kept for the default drill depth on blind tapped holes in the toolbox? Tap Depth is simply 2X diameter but I have no idea where the drill depth comes from.

MJuric

I think SP schedule is the same every year. SP0 Sep SP1 Dec SP2 Feb SP3 Apr SP4 Aug SP5 Nov +/- a month Hmmm, we have several upgrade integration projects in the works that might actually push us out to Aug which would get us to SP4. If we move to SP4, fix as much as we can, then install SP5 as soo...

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If I were you, I'd stay with 2018. If not.......next best would be 2020 SP5. Both are more stable than 2021 so far. Just my $0.20 (raised for inflation). We really have no reason to move away from 2018 except that we are getting more and more "Future Files" from customers. Right now we ha...

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I've installed 2021, only used it a little right now. Just testing. Is there an SP release schedule somewhere? We will be upgrading later this year from 2018. Depending on SP at the time we will either go to 2020 SP5 or 2021, I would that to be SP4 but might look at SP3 if SP4 was right around the ...

MJuric

This ↑ You essential get a tag search built in. That's pretty much exactly what it's like. So for the most part I don't have a problem with tags in and of themselves. I think it's less efficient, more difficult for users to understand and use, but if used properly they work just fine. The problem i...

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Given those clarifications, would making a derived part be the way to go? Basically I want to start with the aluminum CAM version and just go in and change speeds and feeds, but yet still have the aluminum CAM version for posterity. Have you gone over material groups in the Tech Database in your cl...

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I mean one search no tag. Unless you want One cup Two ..... That's what I mean as well "PDM/Enterprise drawings" search in the search bar focused on the current forum will return the same thing as Tag:"PDM/Enterprise" Search:"Drawing" The problem is that you need to kn...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 4:47 pm Which could be done in ONE search instead of TWO.
One steering to go left, one to go right. Innovative!
Very powerful. You can go right and left at the same time!

to be fair you do it in one search over there as well if you knew exactly what tag you were looking for.

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Jim Steinmeyer wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 3:54 pm And then again, many of the posts have information, and sometimes topics that do not get included in the tags. Making it even harder to find things.

You can do a regular search in combination with the tags which is actually pretty powerful.

MJuric

That's pretty friggin' awesome. I bring cookies every thursday for my department, makes people happy and doesn't cost much. Haven't brought any since COVID though, the ridiculousness is still going on in Canada. Early on in the Covid thing someone brought in some goodies for their birthday. First t...

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I posted over there there are two solutions to this problem. Tag everything with #Solidworks. #Tag #every #word #in #your #post. I have plenty of other useful suggestions over there if you'd like to read through them... Tags are doomed over there as a tool because they have put no controls on them....

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My biggest problem with the tag approach is that I have a have time coming up with the right tag. When going through the help files and the knowledge base there appear to be all of these "secret handshake" insider terms that I can never figure out what goes where so I can never generate a...

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Hole patterns are my life. I've asked similar questions (equation driven patterns) I thought I would throw this out there and see how others would handle this. I would like to place a hole pattern that would be symmetrical about 1 axis and asymmetrical about another. I would also like the count to ...

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I'm starting this thread to share calculators, PSA documents, etc. Feel free to contribute! ;) First up is a machining calculator. It's not fancy but it works well for comparing different methods side-by-side, such as HEM vs. traditional roughing. Second is an Excel calculator I made. It's mostly f...

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Ah, but it does. Use the images on the little mouse preview and the black origin thingy. If you RMB on the short arm dot of the black origin, it mirrors. The joys of being an old time SW user. Click on the preview to play the gif. zzz.gif NICE!!!!! I have never used that and that saves me a ton of ...

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I've always used the Tools>Sketch Tools>Modify, image.png but there are more modern tools, like Tools>Sketch Tools>Move/Rotate/Scale/Copy image.png Those are the first thing I looked at but unless I'm missing something none of the tools except modify sketch are available on a derived sketch and mod...

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I'd probably do a derived sketch. Is there a way to flip the direction of a derived sketch? In my case I want the sketch to be the same in relationship to the face. Derived sketches appear to duplicate regardless of face normal. So for instance If I shorten the area I have circled and crossed out t...

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matt wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 9:44 am I'd probably do a derived sketch.

I've never used that. It looks similar to copy paste but saves a few steps of connecting dims and "Copy paste" stuff. I'll check it out.

Thanks

MJuric

Would sketch blocks work for this? Not used them very often in SW. Can you tie dimensions of the sketch to the insertion point? In other words if I choose an insertion point, say it's a point, and dimension the sketch to it, when I insert the block will the point be "Fixed" to whatever ge...

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Library feature. I think Library feature would be a great way to go if the sketches on all the parts were the same. Unfortunately on one part I may need 3 copies, and on the next part I might need seven copies but the sketch on the 3 copy part would be different than the sketch on the seven copy pa...

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What is your preferred method for recreating sketches? I have a situation where I have to have the same, similar sketch on multiple sides of a part. 4,6 or 8 sides. In a perfect world I would somehow array these sketches but apparently that can't be done or not that I see can be done. How I currentl...

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The materials in CAM are separate from the materials in Solid works. You do not have to save the part as a different part in either case unless for some reason you do not want to change the existing part. If for some reason this is a regular issue where the part is designed in one material, you can'...

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The only reason I'm busting my @$$ over this is because the forum was what got me a direct link to SolidWorks to get some issues I had solved. If it hadn't been for the forum, I might be working with another program. I mentioned this is another post but in my opinion a good portion of what my compa...

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Okay, Notifications seems to have been adressed. What else needs to crucially be adressed? Besides the "refresh" process of the platform and the fact that it's missing a real forum. there was a significant list in the feedback post. Why that isn't in some sort of postit mark off list on t...

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Just a thought, there are only five "regular plebeians" there: @Frederick_Law, @mattpeneguy, @MJuric, @Roasted By John, and @AlexLachance. All prefer this site over the Swymp AFAIK. :D Now for the coup de grace : if you would all abruptly go silent, it would pretty much turn turtle and si...

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I know this has been asked ad-nauseoum but I can't figure out how to find it in the swamp so... This machine will do far more CAD than FEA and most of our models are fairly large. Especially since some in the past have liked threads on hardware ect. There will be some programing and little to no re...

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Thank you for the details Matt. Ya, I knew that fewer cores didn't really speed things up but I have had a struggle trying to convince people that more wasn't better in this case. I didn't have any idea how turbo worked and while 4.7 GHz sounded good I was hoping to have more than 3.7 for running S...

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Thanks all,

I think at least I got something I can start to cut my teeth on.

MJuric

My questions are: a) what is the difference between standard and turbo frequency? Do I have to do something special to get it running at 4.7? Not typically at least to my knowledge. The OS looks at what is being asked of it and adjust the load and frequency accordingly. Open up your task manager>op...

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 2:46 pm Yeah, he's probably one of those kooks that believes the earth isn't flat...

I know what you mean...geeez, roundearther's. Never thought we'd see the day when we sunk this low

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JSculley wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 1:37 pm Not C. C# (C-Sharp). It's a newer, friendlier, less dangerous language.

I think any tutorial will do the job. Have a look at https://www.w3schools.com/cs/

Great, thanks

MJuric

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 1:02 pm Well, to be fair, space is beyond the clouds

If you believe in that kind of stuff

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Typically, if it is something you can do manually in SW, it is something you can automate via the API. There are some exceptions, but for the most part, everything in SW is available via the API. With that, you should be able to know if it is at least possible to do what you want. The API docs are ...

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It sounds like the process you want to automate is on the CAMWorks side. I have never used it and was curious what it looked like, but I cannot find help documents for any CAMWorks API. That's correct. I took a CAMWorks class a week or so back and have been discussing this with the instructor. He s...

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So I've sent this into my VAR already and their answer was "Can't be done" So I created a face feature and places a face mill path on it. The start point it chose was at the opposite corner of where I wanted to start. I could not find a way to start in the opposite corner so I sent it to s...

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i prefer manage passwords myself, with a paper. I live about five miles from a nuclear power plant. Every other year they do an "Open house", to their visitor center not the actual plant. In the Visitor center is their training center. It's essentially an exact replica of the control cent...

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I used to play Starcraft when I was a teenager and people would steal accounts on there by brute forcing passwords because generally they were all very fairly simple. I had already started my business when Starcraft came out. Me and a couple of my employees would play Starcraft after work regularly...

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