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AlexLachance

Does anyone know of a PDF Translator that is somewhat customizable? We're looking to take our french drawings and translate them and some of the terms do not come out as we'd wish. For instance, ballon translates to balloon in english but the term we want is "air spring".

AlexLachance

Recommended pretty much means if you switch this setting issues might arise and you will have to deal with them. And by issues, I mean user issues, not necessarily program issues.

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Thanks, I'll give it a try. Do you know if it's possible to create a SolidWorks VBA Macro that can use this? If i have understood right, you can save this presets for exporting to DXF to a file, and then load this file so yoou don't have to re.do the layer selecting part right?. If anyone already h...

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The FooOK ing command

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You can create a mapfile

https://help.solidworks.com/2020/englis ... t=P&value=

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IndianaDave wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:34 pm Love that we can open a drawing from the BOM on the sheet now...
Unfortunately, I can't right click and open the drawing of a part in the drawing view. It seems to be broken.

Odd, it seems to work for me...?

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:51 pm There are better VAR's out there, but I don't know if switching is possible for you.

My VAR generally does a good job, but they've been going back to their old habits of before the original one and two, which is kind of the reason why I'm a bit grumpy lately

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Yeah, sent a nice mail to my VAR reminding that he;

should not be closing requests without giving valid reasons
and
should be following up on requests faster then a 10 month span and without having me to force him to do so.

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Reading my post today makes me think the question is not very clear... In Windows' file Explorer, I have the habit to add a column to show the Description custom property of SolidWorks files. I go through the process described on every reseller website such as this one: https://www.solidsolutions.c...

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SolidWorks being SolidWorks.

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Bryan O wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:31 am Do you put them in as a text field or note?

I'm not quite sure I understand the distinction..?

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Thank you so much for all the answers. I'll give it a try to separate different sizes into different files and i'll update you on if it still happens. But i'd like to know how the process of changing sizes works in an assembly. When you change the size, thus changing the part file, does the changed...

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That's odd, it seems to works for us

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Why do you guys use "instances to vary" rather then use sketch driven patterns...?

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Bryan O wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:46 pm I'm playing with my title block layouts and I cant figure out how to Center/Center justify the text in a given space.
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Any tips

The "bounding box" of the text has to have it's center positionned at the center of the rectangle you want it centered at.

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I get the following error whenever I run the modified version shared by Alex: image.png This happens after I type something in the box and select "generate QR Code" I am using SW 2022 SP4 on Windows 10 Hey Dan, Here's how to solve the issue: Edit the macro and go in Tools>References image...

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For some reason, i could not seem to link the bom cell to note in solidworks 2021 The cursor show a stop sign and nothing happens after clicking on the cell image.png The functionality is working fine in solidworks 2022 image.png Anyone has similar issue before? To link to the BOM cell number, you ...

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I hope you receive retribution for all you've done towards this to show their lack of commitment

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 3:52 pm Still designing new stuff!
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40' long trailer with a stabilizer and a high lift dump tailgate.

Few months later, we pretty much finished and tested the first trailer

Loaded tests coming next week

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If you'd like to add them there or perhaps use some there too, this thread has a collection of a bunch of macros:

viewtopic.php?t=74

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I wish I knew surfacic a bit more. These kind of shapes look awesome to develop.

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Uncle_Hairball wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:13 pm That was it! Thanks SPerman.

The difference a @ can make before a name is phenomenal

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Hey Brian, do you have a sample file you could share? I do a lot of sheet metal and we've had occurences like this.

Depends on what are your needs also. In our case, we needed to have round holes with a constant spacing between them.

AlexLachance

At least y'all saw something. It was overcast and rainy in my neck of the woods in Louisiana. 88 percent occulation. Got a little dark like what it would be in early AM. Dogs were a bit on edge. But other than that, lackluster. Clear sky on a hot spring day for us. It was in the 60's and dropped in...

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I can't believe schools closed around here because it was the equivalent of being a little bit cloudy. I'm sure it is impressive if you are in the zone of a total eclipse, but where we are it was barely noticeable. https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/434593448_2787049824805179_5086227...

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Interview was with a vice president (who is a civil engineer) and the lead draftsperson. Both middle aged ladies and very upper middle class mannerisms. A far cry from the restaurant industry or call centers. Not that there was anything wrong with that. Kept me in there probably about an hour, show...

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Welcome mate, there's a few Macro guru's around, I'm sure you'll enjoy the place!

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Welp, just learned a guy I went to school with was part of the humanitarian crew that got hit by an airstrike from Israel... War is such a horrible and tragic event for everyone involved and even those not involved or indirectly involved.

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https://www.theguardian.com/global/2024/apr/02/techscape-linux-cyber-attack A malicious linux backdoor (CVE-2024-3094), with a CVSS score of 10/10 was detected recently... What more amazing is that it was detected because of a 0.5s lag (and also the fact that it is detected by a Microsoft developer...

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Some new stuff being worked on

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Have an interview over MS Teams for a local architect firm with the vice president of the firm. She had gotten a resume from my instructor. Though I am not holding my breath. In previous industries, I have been ghosted and things not work out. Not sure how they do drafters. Or if they see a 50 year...

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KennyG wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:04 pm Is this being done to push folks towards their 3DX apps and away from SW desktop?

Naw man, Dassault ain't the type to force things on it's customers.

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Jesus christ, I did it again, my apologies. I thought you were speaking about SolidWorks and not SolidEdge. I need to be more careful about where the topics are..

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Some sad news this morning in the US with the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Thoughts and prayers with those affected by this.

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We had the opportunity to head a few hours south this weekend and enjoy the Texas Hill Country. It always surprises me how much a few hours drive can make in what season you are in. Our bluebonnets are just starting here in the Dallas area, but the ones down near Fredericksburg, TX are well are the...

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Hidden part appearing in the drawing is most likely caused by how it was made originally. Most likely was hidden in drawing originally then hidden in part. So the view most likely has the body to hide/show selected in it's view properties. The angled cut most likely don't appear because they are not...

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philem wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:55 am You mean I have to save it as a templeate ?

Yes. Unfortunately it's one of those things that should be a system setting but instead is a document setting that is also used in more things such as rendering.

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If Dassault truely is doing this, then Mesh2Surface should approach SolidWorks competitors. How absurd to ask someone to discontinue a program because it brings no added value from their point of view. Who are they to determine what is added value and what isn't? Sounds more like one of the followin...

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We started with individual parts and then went with configurations instead, the reason being that we had a promoted assembly with each length in it and switching between configuration of the promoted assembly to reach the individual part would cause the drawing to lose it's references such as dimens...

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The cause was my collegue got a production call and opened another file with the solver still open to be able to answer the question.

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:14 pm I typically do all of my simulation work outside of PDM to avoid this problem.

Thanks mate.

For those interested:
https://kb.dsxclient.3ds.com/mashup-ui/ ... 0000366012

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Anyone ever got this warning?

My collegue has had this warning a few times and he can't figure out what is the root cause. The message says : a sharing violation occurred when accessing an unnamed file.

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To be fair, they did address that problem a few years ago. It still happens to me occasionally, but much less than before they worked on it. "Still happens occasionally" is pretty much a resume of most of the issues they fix lol I'm on 2023 SP4 and still get the seed issue fairly often. C...

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That was a quick example. Frequently you don't want to mirror the entire body, just a single feature. True. For hole wizards, I try to recreate an entire feature rather then mirror it because there are too many times where we've started with symmetrical sides and ended up with non-symmetrical sides...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:04 am Be fore-warned. Solidworks definition of "mirror" only works in certain conditions. I can't fathom why the programmers think this is good.

I'm a GIF. Click me.
mirror.gif

Hey Scott, try mirroring the body rather then the feature

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Hello, I also have a question if thats ok? I am here in the UK and about to start my Freelance Product Design business. The most common design ill be working on are bespoke cycle shelters, bin shelters usually with timber cladding, mesh cladding, green roof. What should be the basis of quoting the ...

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Yes you are right there that SW is broken beyond repair and ask the dev to add/change or even repair will brake the tool even more. But I think you are wrong here to not have the tool to not be consistent. In the other CAD you are giving guidance's on where to cut with a regular cutout. image.png O...

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mp3-250 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:13 pm do you have a SPR number for those issues? they sound scary...

Not sure. I can't find SPR's on the new platforms or previous SR/ER's.

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The key is given free. If you do not plan to upgrade or pay subscription later, you can continue using the key. So there is no recurring cost. And you can use the key on multiple machines. The only downfall is that the key is not forward compatible i.e. it can not read/write data form future files....

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Really?!? Linking the bom to a configuration and a view to a configuration isn't enough? I also have to link the balloons to the BOM? Thanks for explaining what I was doing wrong. I never would have found it on my own. You can have multiple BOMs in a drawing. I'm guessing this is the case for you a...

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