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MJuric

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 1:51 pm The fact that they can't even track properly ideas that are sent in speaks volume as to how execrable the platform is.

Nifty, I learned a new word today

MJuric

I'm beginning to believe they don't know what's going on over there... Meanwhile: image.png I actually don't mind the tag sort approach. The problem I have with it is that there is no method to enforce it. Essentially anything new posted in that forum will be difficult to impossible to find and imp...

MJuric

Zhen-Wei Tee wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 12:36 pm Mine is not working
Tried incognito and it work

It amaze me how "LONG" the SWYMP take to load in incognito without all those cache....

Curious, what browser are you using. Someone had this issue on FireFox and I'm on Chrome.

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There will be a patch rolled out over night on a last node which he believes we are part of. So am I on a different node that a patch was rolled out for last Friday? Unless that's the case it makes ZERO sense. Mine was broke in the exact same fashion as you for a week....then suddenly works yesterd...

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I'm tired of the notifications not working over there. Until they can get these working correctly, I have no faith in what is to come out from their end. I will keep on bugging them about this until it is adressed once and for all. The ridiculousness of this has gone on long enough, stop taking us ...

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Merovingien wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 12:06 pm why... not the correct name of a button...

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Yeah, no doubt. I can't even figure out what that says. Looks like it was written in a foreign language or something. For what it's worth mine seems fine. I'm on 2018 though.

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BTW I use LastPass to manage my passwords. It is an awesome software (actually it's an extension for your browser). It will generate pws for you, it can store pws, credit cards, banking info, and a bunch of other stuff, plus your data can be backed up. And it will autofill the info for you!! I use ...

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forcing the user to put numbers, letters, caps, symbols, increase the safety I think what you're saying here is that the "Guessing" factor becomes an issue because of human nature. IE hackers know that people are lazy and thus unless they are forced to use a password that is not ridiculou...

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Can someone with more experience with this than I explain something to me. I just got a notice from our ERP/MRP whatever company that "We are excited to announce an update to our password security....." Blah Blah Blah. They made it case sensitive. Everywhere I go I get some twisted version...

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Best of luck. Really, people like you coming in should be a no brainer. If they have any sense, they will help you. Plus, I have to say, thanks for doing this the right way, even though it's frustrating. We get so many people doing it the wrong way and getting rewarded for it, with much less to off...

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Yeah, that was one of the first things I looked into. Got a pretty hard NO on it. Maybe one day we will upgrade to something better, but for now, this is what we have. Just a preference on my part. Can't tell you how many times I've been in discussions when someone would go off about a post of mine...

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That's the direction I was headed, before I decided it was way too much work for the project at hand. The only other approach I have used is to just set up the main assemblies with S/A's that would match the explode process you want to so. So you explode moving all the S/A's then go into each S/A a...

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Is it possible to have a drawing view of each step of the explosion process? I was trying to do this for an assembly manual recently and could only create a drawing view of the full explosion, not each step used to create that explosion. Only way I would know to do it would be to have a configurati...

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Do you create exploded view in drawing? How do you handle exploded view that is too cluttered? Sometimes I came across exploded view that is so messy that i cant even understand which part is assembled to where and end up just go back looking at the CAD. I do split the exploded view sometimes into ...

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Not a big deal but my "Preferred" view has always been a "threaded View". I find it's much easier to follow discussion lines that occur within threads this way.

Not a big deal but do you know if any of the board styles have a threaded view or if such a beast exists for phpBB's?

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Very interesting technique! One thing I've not found a work around for is that the numbers are based on the units for length in the model. So unless you change the units to [None] which ends up rounding everything to the nearest whole number when displayed, you get "1.000" in the number/C...

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I'm in the process of looking at ways to automate some of our CAM programming. The path I'm currently on is creating the paths inside a model that is used in Driveworks and then have those paths "Update" when the model is created. In the rather short time I've been working on this I've run...

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Full Driveworks or Express? I would love to get my hands on the full product as I love messing with this kind of software but our company went a different direction for configuring. Just Express, at the moment. If I can show enough advantage to using Driveworks I might be able to get them to spring...

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Interesting way to handle this but you're in the "red" area of pushing the software to the limits of what it's designed to do. I wouldn't be surprised to see this get broken in the future if they change something. Years back before you could "Configure" equation Global Variables...

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matt wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 12:15 pm And did you ever notice, depending on if you use one of their standard templates, they use all caps in their native file extensions too?

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So are we to assume that all DSS employees are actually Solidworks files? That would clear a whole lot up if it were true.

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A quote from news article about the Colonial Pipeline Ransomware attack, unrelated but relevant: "Obliging software companies to fix every fault before they ship their software would bring the industry to a halt." Maybe they should halt, and be so obliged as we users are to our own client...

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Red line represents the 0. arrow represents surface the dimension is taken from. image.png so you're saying the two pictures in the OP are 90 degrees to each other? Again, hard for me to tell since the drawing picture is pretty fuzzy for me. The drawing, again as far as I can tell, appears to have ...

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I don't understand Matt ( hey we disagree, must be over my fever... ). My take on it is that the drawing clearly doesn't match the part. The dimension from the horizontal face to the chamfer is 60 degrees in the part, but 30 degrees in the drawing image.png vs: image.png Where are you getting the p...

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It's the file name change. Just rename the file and open and the array all goes to "1". Rename it back it evaluates correctly. I'm guessing this is because the filename is stored in the custom property syntax. Apparently you have to open the custom properties and "Ok" it and it ...

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 9:27 am
Ultimately, no one here can tell you whether the part is correct or the drawing is correc

The way I'm looking at it the Part and drawing match. No one here can tell him whether the chamfer is correct or not.

MJuric

Thanks for the reply. These features were not created as holes, but rather were created with a revolve. So the CAM Feature Tree shows "ID Feature1 [Drill]" for everything inside including the 1.25" bore and the 1/2" bottom hole . When I click on Parameters I get a "ID Profi...

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Maha Nadarasa wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 9:03 am @mattpeneguy

You say this is 60 degree. My understanding is 60 degree is correct.

The 60 Deg you are showing in the sketch is the complement angle of the 30 degree angle that is shown on the drawing. Both are correct assuming that is the type of chamfer you want.

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I feel that a sub-forum is just a tag in the DB. You can move them around between sub-forums if given the access. PHPBB just needs to add the ability to add a post to more than one. That would be the most idea tag/sub-forum arrangement. Yes, I agree. Tags, really are nothing more than a different m...

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What sets me off, and maybe it's because I'm a curmudgeon, is the over use of the work 'like'. It simply drives me bonkers. I have to deal with a couple co-workers that cannot seem utter a simple phrase without say it, like, I don't know, like, maybe like a dozen times. Sorry for the rant. grumph I...

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did we have too many people on at once

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..yep.. it's simple,... the content needs to be in a larger categorize format, broken in subjects which can be easily seen, sorted and accessed. The current dinky linear scroll feed ui is useless and needs to go away,..that is.. not a hyper focused adhd phone ui design :shock: I actually think the ...

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So I actually found something that works for what I'm trying to do. In the Driveworks model I put the largest possible spiral I will ever need. I also place the CAM path on that spiral. In the formula's in the driveworks model I alter the spiral to match the needs of the part being generated and loc...

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Interesting post over there. https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:yUw32GbYTEqKdgY7-jbZPg/post:iI-ds40mSCG5zjCRW5gQUw I'm not afraid to admit when I wrong so if they implement most of these I will be wrong. I honestly did not believe they would largely reformat the layout...

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If this is useful, I'll explain how I did it. If not, nevermind. The configurations are driven by the distance of the last side from the origin. It isn't driven by a path length, but you can probably get that in an equation or a lookup table, or come up with an inelegant by hidden method. This uses...

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I have a situation where I have a "Square Spiral" path in a sketch. This "Path" needs to change length based on the size of part it is associated with. What I'm attempting to do is to have the start point of the path and the end point of the path remain in the same relative posit...

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It's a journey,...so, trust you will get there eventually... and don't beat yourself up too much along your way, you'll need to pick yourself when you think you've exhausted everything,.. you will get there. UU Yeah, not so much. I think we have this "Ideal" that some how if I work hard e...

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"If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star … you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy." Terry Pratchett, from The Wee Free Men Last night I learned that curiosity spikes the useful brain ch...

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How did you know what I was thinking? I'm in the exact same predicament. I have done a little bit of programming in the past w/ Python, just enough to understand the basics. I would love to learn how to do programming but I have so many others things to do. I am young so maybe in the future sometim...

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I really don't get why you guys can't just let that place go Every year my company, companies like mine and many individuals pay millions of dollars to DSS. Part of that money is for support. To me that support should include a viable, DSS supported, forum. I'm a bit pissed because they have never ...

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Here is a macro to batch export all parts in selected folder as STEP file which will be saved in the same folder. UU Macro libraries are set to SW2019 version. In case you're running a different version then update/correct the macro references as suggested in this video (don't worry on the fact tha...

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touché And even now, half of the new posts are about how awful it is. Then you've got all the DS people following up on those posts making grand promises to fix it soon. I don't know where it falls on the spectrum between funny and sad...Mostly sad, I guess... I'd guess that DSS does not really car...

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I have a turned part that has a 1.25" diameter bore and then a 1/2" hole that is at the bottom of the bore and goes the rest of the way through the part. Initially I used a 15/32" drill to go all the way through the part and then used a small boring bar to chew out the large bore and...

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@artem posted dozens of his macros over at: https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-tools/ These are macros made by a real programmer. So, if he has one listed that does something similar to one I have posted, please take a look at his first. I am not a programmer and even though I've tried in a lot o...

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My first real job in high school was pumping gas at a local station (a lost career opportunity these days) and if nothing else the owner taught you how to work. My second real job. I spent a lot of time at the cash register and I learned several important life lessons about people and myself....fir...

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The Hole Wiz is the thing that makes Toolbox almost worth using. When it works according to " the vision ", it's a beautiful thing. But you have to check a lot of boxes before you get to " the vision ". To me the hole wizard is a complete no brainer. I can not imagine any other ...

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 5:26 pm My thinking is along the same lines as @MJuric...
should I be concerned?...need to check my temperature...maybe I'm not over covid?

Welcome to the Dark Side....

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It's possible I'm misremembering, but when I first started using SW again in 2018 I remember reading a lot of consternation about the hole wizard and whether it was worth using or not. Maybe that whole idea is a moot point at this time. Sure you're not thinking about the ToolBox rather than the hol...

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Just about as good (I can't tell the difference) and nowhere near the mess: https://www.charbroil.com/the-big-easy-oil-less-turkey-fryer-17102065 All I do with the turkey is take some season salt (Slap ya Momma, (not Tony Cachere's) or one of the local ones we have in our area that has a good seaso...

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Pfft...Spoken like a true Yankee... Remember we are the people that couldn't get enough spices on the outside of the meat...So we came up with this: image.png I actually have one of those that I use on turkeys. My favorite so far is a Jalapeno sauce I make myself. Oddly enough it's not hot and give...

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Oh, I got that 3D sketch thing screwed up. It seems they fixed that. You get a 2D sketch unless you hit the 3D sketch button on the Positions tab. Or if I'm not mistaken pick a non planar surface. So it automatically puts you into a 3D sketch if you pick a cylinder or some other non planar object.

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