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by Marco
Mon Jun 26, 2023 3:42 am
Forum: Routing-Electrical-Piping
Topic: Cannot remove report from SW electrical
Replies: 1
Views: 788

Re: Cannot remove report from SW electrical

I found a way to remove the sheet.
I made a backup of the project first and selected the verify and project and fix errors.
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by Marco
Fri Jun 23, 2023 9:43 am
Forum: How To Questions
Topic: Using circles in 3D sketches
Replies: 8
Views: 1205

Re: Using circles in 3D sketches

Hi,
When you click to place the line, arc or anything. you see two red arrows appear. When you have these arrows, press tab key to change the the direction.
by Marco
Fri Jun 23, 2023 9:37 am
Forum: Routing-Electrical-Piping
Topic: Cannot remove report from SW electrical
Replies: 1
Views: 788

Cannot remove report from SW electrical

I've been fighting with this for a while now. Somehow there is an empty "report" in my project. I cannot remove this. It has the Icon of a report, when I click it it Solidworks says "no object selected". The item does have a number though, so when I will print my schemes It looks...
by Marco
Wed Dec 29, 2021 4:40 am
Forum: SW General
Topic: Quickly find Draft feature in feature tree
Replies: 10
Views: 1158

Re: Quickly find Draft feature in feature tree

Don't you have this when you select a feature in your assembly or part? You can click on the feature or sketch and it will take you to the feature in the tree.
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If you do not have this option switched on you can switch on the breadcrumbs
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by Marco
Wed Dec 29, 2021 3:56 am
Forum: Routing-Electrical-Piping
Topic: SOLIDWORKS Routing: Disable spool color in drawings
Replies: 4
Views: 1379

Re: SOLIDWORKS Routing: Disable spool color in drawings

Hi, I did check again and you are right, I did not look properly. It changes the color to white as you say. I did check again how to get rid of the color, but I believe there are no options for that. At least I could not find it anyway. A work around for this could be this. Make a drawing with the c...
by Marco
Wed Dec 01, 2021 9:16 am
Forum: How To Questions
Topic: How to pattern items in a Mirror Part
Replies: 6
Views: 1187

Re: How to pattern items in a Mirror Part

Oh ok, If you have a mirrored part inserted in an assembly than you will not have a pattern anymore in your mirrored part. Thus you cannot select it. You can work arround this by making the pattern a sketch driven pattern in your original part. (or make a sketch that follows your pattern). Mirror th...
by Marco
Wed Dec 01, 2021 6:38 am
Forum: How To Questions
Topic: How to pattern items in a Mirror Part
Replies: 6
Views: 1187

Re: How to pattern items in a Mirror Part

Hi Dwight, You should be able to just click a hole (or whatever feature is in the pattern) in the mirrored part to use as the pattern to drive your inserts. You will need to insert a new first part for the pattern in the mirrored part. If you cannot use the pattern in the mirrored part will you be a...
by Marco
Mon Nov 29, 2021 9:30 am
Forum: Routing-Electrical-Piping
Topic: SOLIDWORKS Routing: Disable spool color in drawings
Replies: 4
Views: 1379

Re: SOLIDWORKS Routing: Disable spool color in drawings

I did check for you and you can change the overlay color for the spools. When you edit the spool click on the color in front of the spool name and select the white color. This should solve your problem.
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by Marco
Fri Nov 26, 2021 9:57 am
Forum: Routing-Electrical-Piping
Topic: SOLIDWORKS Routing: Disable spool color in drawings
Replies: 4
Views: 1379

Re: SOLIDWORKS Routing: Disable spool color in drawings

I made a small test here, and if I use the spools in shaded view I get the same behaviour as you. So it does not seem to be a graphic issue.
by Marco
Mon Jul 19, 2021 8:00 am
Forum: SW General
Topic: Feature does not work anymore (SW2019)
Replies: 12
Views: 1090

Re: Feature does not work anymore (SW2019)

Hi Kai

Is your surface in which the hole or cutout is one surface? It is hard to see in your example picture.
If not knit the surfaces arround the hole and try again with the fill.

Marco
by Marco
Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:02 am
Forum: 2D Drawings
Topic: Any way to show one part of an subassembly in the BOM?
Replies: 9
Views: 2388

Re: Any way to show one part of an subassembly in the BOM?

For now I decided to go with a callout for the parts in the hidden subassemblys.
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by Marco
Thu Jun 17, 2021 9:54 am
Forum: 2D Drawings
Topic: Any way to show one part of an subassembly in the BOM?
Replies: 9
Views: 2388

Re: Any way to show one part of an subassembly in the BOM?

Take the extended BOM to the manual, the customer can fill in the QTY. You can let the customer rip out this page of the manual, you can provide it on your website to download, add QR code to the page in the manual, the possibilities are endless. But I like to keep it simple ;) @ Hi Frank thanks fo...
by Marco
Tue Jun 15, 2021 5:35 am
Forum: SolidWorks FAQ
Topic: Stopping SW from opening and rebuilding
Replies: 11
Views: 3148

Re: Stopping SW from opening and rebuilding

Don't know if this is a recent problem for you. There is an update in windows 10 that can cause programs to get slow SW is one of them. The update is KB5003173.
by Marco
Tue Jun 15, 2021 5:20 am
Forum: 2D Drawings
Topic: Any way to show one part of an subassembly in the BOM?
Replies: 9
Views: 2388

Re: Any way to show one part of an subassembly in the BOM?

Hi Frank,
Might be an option, and how do you indicate which set to order to get the part you need?
by Marco
Tue Jun 15, 2021 5:07 am
Forum: Routing-Electrical-Piping
Topic: Issue with Weld Gap in Piping Route
Replies: 1
Views: 961

Re: Issue with Weld Gap in Piping Route

Hi Pkennedy, Maybe a little too late, but you should be able to change the gap in an existing route. When the weld gap should be the same on both sides, you should tick the overide weld gap option and fill in the gap just below the option. If the gaps are not the same on both ends, do not tick the o...
by Marco
Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:35 am
Forum: 2D Drawings
Topic: Lost Component References after Rebuild
Replies: 5
Views: 1312

Re: Lost Component References after Rebuild

Hi JuTu, I checked here and same behaviour as you describe here (SW2021). With the part set to exclude from bom the reference works fine until you press the rebuild than it changes to * I do not know how many parts you have in your bom, maybe it is an option to remove the exclude from bom option and...
by Marco
Tue Jun 15, 2021 3:57 am
Forum: 2D Drawings
Topic: Any way to show one part of an subassembly in the BOM?
Replies: 9
Views: 2388

Any way to show one part of an subassembly in the BOM?

Hi, Somehow I am always fighting with the BOM in solidworks. Maybe one of you has some great idea for me. I am making a parts drawing for the manual. I have an assembly with parts and subassemblies. the subassemblies are set to hide as these subassemblies are sold as a complete part. However there a...