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MJuric

Turducken was big down here 20 or 30 years ago. I'm not sure it started down here, but I think it did. The birds are all deboned, so you slice it like a roast. The duck fat gets into both the chicken and the turkey. So it's real juicy. If you've never had it, I recommend it. I'm pretty sure you can...

MJuric

So excited to make my first SW question on this forum! So, we're redesigning a power takeoff assembly and the main shaft has a tapered end that mates in a tapered shaft carrier/hub. How would I go about mating that together in SW? It's not super critical, but the final fixed position of the shaft d...

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Do you guys also see a huge regression in how the English Language is being annihilated because of Texting, not that my English skills are anything to write home about, but I cringed when I see what the previous owners and sales people sent to the customers. There is a generally degradation in the ...

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- You don't get promoted just for showing up to work. You do if you're really good at the Interpersonal relationship part. Not sure I personally could live with myself getting promoted that way but over the years I have seen completely incompetent people get promoted over and over and over again be...

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That does sound like a lot of work, but the trick is long and slow, best in lovin and cookin ;) My Wife's a vegan. I'd pull the pig out, cut enough up, well pull apart enough, for people to eat and then go take a shower. Every year when I came back down to eat, the pigs head was covered with a towe...

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Man that looks amazing! I've always wanted to go whole hog, but tackling an entire piglet is intimidating to say the least. Maybe you can try stuffing the turkey into the pig, or better yet a turducken in there. Nah, it'll probably take forever to get to the right internal temperature, and too much...

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Ok, so, I just went there to check my notifications and it sat for about 5 minutes thinking....then gave me this message: image.png Success: false ;; I got that, posted about it and was told. "We are having problems try clearing you cache". I cleared my cache and haven't been able to get ...

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What bothers me is that I can create two individual bodies without issues, but I can't merge them into one body: https://steenwinther.com/Zero%20thickness%20geometry.JPG Which illustrates why this is more of a software coding issue than it is a theoretical impossibility issue. It's nothing more tha...

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I log in there about once a week. Scroll through to see if I can answer any of the questions.....then log out. I have gotten notifications to load a total of 1 time.....ever. I always check though. I am using Firefox Without notifications the place is even more worthless. You essentially can not fo...

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I opened the file in SW 2019. It has the "1" by all the holes when I open. If I do a rebuilt I get this: image.png Selecting File/Properties and hitting OK, then doing a rebuilt gets this: image.png The odd part is it rebuilds on opening, so why it changes between the opening rebuild and ...

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Does it behave correctly if you browse there with an Incognito window? (CTRL+SHIFT+N)? If so, you may have a browser extension that is causing problems. Incognito did in fact work, but the only browser extensions I have are. image.png which if one of those are causing issues not really much I can d...

MJuric

Part with everything set up. Should be able to change the array and numbers will update. Might have to rebuild.

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MJuric

@MJuric You are smarter than you look! Thanks for posting with such clear steps. Perhaps you could show an example to get more people's attention. I've actually posted something I'm working on where I'm having some weird behavior with this function here https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&a...

MJuric

Most of this was pulled from other sources to credit must go to Marc-Xavier Bilodeau for figuring this out. Often times you will have an array of holes, features etc that you want marked sequentially. There are a number of manual ways to do this including entering the numbers manually into a Sketch ...

MJuric

Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 1:50 pm Update your java

I update my java every morning. Sometimes I add flavors or cream, other times just straight.

MJuric

You may gain some insight into the problem by using Chrome's developer tools. Go to the SWYM site and then press CTRL-SHIFT-I (that's I as in indigo). Click on the Notifications button and in the Developer Tools window, look for errors in the Console at the bottom. I have nearly no idea what I'm lo...

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Attached are two files. They are copies of the same file. I included both because I wanted to check two conditions and I do not know if the actions of one effect the other. This part was created using Driveworks Express. The issue I'm running into surrounds the marking of the holes. Snapshot of the ...

MJuric

I know some of you go to the 3DE site. Are any of you having issues with it?

Last week my notifications refused to load and still have not. Today some of the posts refuse to load. Maybe they're slowly kicking me out?

MJuric

...yah, for you who can't wait for this months geek pride day,.. you can still geek out early! (circ 1977.. .went with our mom to watch it... great memory!) :D Our whole family went to the theatre when it came out as well. I was only eight but I still remember how excited the crowd was at the theat...

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Hi all, In the attached file, I created Coincident4, by mating the Top Planes of two iterations of one part, in an effort to align them in that regard. However, the components do not appear to have been aligned in any such way after adding it. Also no error messages of any kind. Does anyone know wh...

MJuric

Are you looking for it to automatically drive itself? Yes. The numbers are done by a nifty thing I found in the old forum. In your sketch you draw the line for the text and another line. You dimension that line and make it the length of the amount you want the increment to be. So 1,2,3,4 you would ...

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Rob wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 12:48 pmimage.pngimage.png

The formula is actually pretty simple. I'm just not sure how to put this into Driveworks and have it drive it in the sketch of the part. I'd assume that is possible, I just haven't ever tried it.

=MID("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",B18,1)

MJuric

Do you not have access to the Excel functions by using DesignWorks? Quick Google http://help.solidworks.com/2018/english/solidworks/driveworksxpress/r_using_functions_driveworksxpress.htm "You can enter standard Microsoft™ Excel functions directly into the DriveWorksXpress Rule Builder dialog ...

MJuric

IF you can get a translated font then wouldn't that have to be selectively applied, i.e., only applied to the characters in that one dimension? Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking. image.png Do you not have access to the Excel functions by using DesignWorks? Good question that I do not have the...

MJuric

To me this is an obvious candidate for a macro. Other than that the first method that springs to mind is to make multiple individual sketches (with a,b,c...) And then use feature suppression in equations. +1 for the font idea😄 I'm sure this could be done with a macro but the application I'm using t...

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I'm looking for wire shelving similar to: image.png Let me send an E-mail to my brother. He works for a company that makes displays etc similar to the other company posted already. Not sure if they do this kind of work on a small scale or have someone they work with that would. If you have drawings...

MJuric

Is there any way to have a dimension number display as a corresponding letter? I have a method for increasing the numbers sequentially on a hole pattern grid, however in the other direction the holes are marked with letters. I can use the same method connecting the array pattern to the numbers but i...

MJuric

I don't use it so I have no preference as to whether it stays or goes.

MJuric

I'm not going to respond line to line here but suffice it to say that there is no such thing as a hard and fast rule. If you're in an industry that for some reason unilateral dimensioning is never the best design option, then never use it. I can say without hesitation that I have run into many appli...

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So I have a grid pattern of holes. One direction is numbers 1,2,3 and so on depending on number of holes. The other direction is A, B, C etc depending on number of holes. Is there a way to connect the array to the lettering in such a way that if the array pattern is changed that the numbering also u...

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I'm with you. We used to have a roles in the R&D departments likes drafter, designer and engineer. Each had their own role. Drafter made sure that the design and engineering requirements are properly communicated. The designer was taking the requirements from the engineer to create functional a...

MJuric

Never used F360 myself but FWIW A friend of mine who has used Inventor for many years recently told me that he is a lot more heavy user of F360 these days. Reason being, he says F360 has a much easier workflow for creating & outputting toolpaths etc for his CNC Mill & Lathe. He uses these m...

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I wouldn't say that's a fair comparison. Gimp has been around for a long time and is very mature, and has a lot of the same features as Photoshop. Fusion 360 has been around for something like 5 years, right? It doesn't have the equivalent to Weldments, Sheetmetal, or any of that type of advanced f...

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the problem of "trailing zero" for properties, not working correctly in PRT. i already saw another "dims" that don't follow the DOT unit setting... we all know it's Bugidworks.... it seems "the trailling zero" is still a buggy feature in Bugiworks. I had a discussion w...

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 9:54 am They're about the same right? Just like MS Paint is the same as Photoshop...

I know that was sarcasm but that's not a bad description...although I would say the actually divide between the two is slightly less than that. Maybe GIMP vs Photoshop.

MJuric

What's the distinction between Fusion 360 and Inventor..? I know they're both different programs, but both are made by Autodesk F360 is more of a "New generation" and "Light" version. Inventor would, in my opinion, be comparable to Solidworks and similar in that class. F360 lean...

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Thanks @Glenn Schroeder I didn't think check Units in custom properties, that changes so many things I was hoping there was a more tactical method. I went thru this a while ago and I can't remember exactly what the solution was only that it was frustrating. Along with Glenn's suggestion you will ne...

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I'm creating multiple drawing of different configurations of an assembly. I'm changing the configuration of the assembly in the parent view and the BOM and doing a "save as" of the drawing. I've checked in the assembly so PDM should be the latest but during the "save as" of the ...

MJuric

Thanks for the feedback. The model name is now corrected but am still not getting a value for the custom property at the part level. Can you post the file so someone can see if it works on another system/version? Again I know that at one point this didn't work and then it was fixed....maybe they br...

MJuric

One chapter in your bible might be on how CAD design software has stiffled the design process. Design is different than CAD modeling. We all know and understand that. When you have to come up with a strategy to build your CAD model you are focusing not on the design of the product. You are focused ...

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Jaylin Hochstetler wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 5:09 pm Are the 2 images posted from the same file? I noticed the last # in the file name is not same.
2021-04-29 17_07_35-Window.jpg
2021-04-29 17_06_22-Window.jpg
If they are from the same file. Change the 8 to a 2 and see what happens.

Good catch.

MJuric

Greetings. Is there a way to use a custom property to reference the "Bounding Box Area" property from a Sheetmetal Cut list? Pic1.png Pic2.png Works for me in 2018. I know that at one time SW had a glitch in it so try this. Go into the value/text expression and put a space right at the en...

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Hello! We are upgrading from SW2018 to SW2020 and I found this wonderful option. Is there anyone aware whether it is possible to compile one custom property from a two or more other custom properties that are read (or written) by PDM? I tried some what of an expression as in the pic below kuva.png ...

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 1:10 pm Poll closed. Here are the results:
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I actually prefer this view. 3DSYWM barely beat out Reddit for second place on it's own forum

MJuric

I have a Co-Worker that is leaving the company and going to another that is using Inventor. I haven't used IV since 2016 or so and never switched to it from another system. Are there any recommendations for guides that would help someone to switch from SW to IV? Tutorials that would be good to watch...

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is this post another "America center of the world" need ? or international ? europe ? asie ? you didn't precise that. Not sure what you're saying here. I do live in the US and since I have no experience working in Europe, Asia or New Zealand I have scant little knowledge of what the job m...

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My problems weren't really about over-defining the mates, but more about overwhelming the system. Old way 1 assembly with 100 parts New way 1 assembly with 10 sub assemblies, each with their own sub assemblies as needed. Old way 100 fasteners New way 1 fastener and component patterns Old way Mate a...

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I can go through and produce the CSWA part in no time without errors...But, what's that really worth? Nothing if you're trying to hire someone that knows how to design something. I would look for a person like that if I had a whole bunch of paper drawings turned into CAD models though :lol: I think...

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I'm a freelance consultant and if someone asked me to do that I would in most cases just turn it down, I would guess most half decent freelancers would do the same unless they were really desperate. I stand by my previous work and would give references if the client requested (unless the reference ...

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Over and over again, I have a stable assembly model with no red or yellow mates. I save and close and the next time I open the model, it turns red. Any thoughts as to why this would be happening? I'm on SW 2019. One of the things I absolutely abhor about SW. It seems to randomly decide which mates ...

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