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dave.laban

Well turns out No.7 has made its way in to SW24, which is nice.

https://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworks ... -2024.html

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I used Ansys at an old job and it was absolutely dreamy to use. For how powerful it was the UI made it so clear how to achieve what you wanted, it really is an absolute triumph of a software package. I'd been on Abaqus for a bit before and I could never get past the "unitless" UI where you...

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Ah man I'd just about eradicated the memory of that superhero comic, now you've brought it back again!

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Officially, 3DSywm is comprised of applications and functions within a Sywm community. 3DSwym is a social and collaborative environment where users can communicate and interact. It allows them to innovate, share content and publish what matters to them with a limited and selected group of people. I...

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Change in and of itself is fine.

Badly communicated, poorly implemented change of dubious need or merit is what we're generally complaining about here.

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5 (if done properly

) will cut out quite a lot of time when something goes wrong, and I'm personally pleased 7 is in there as it was one of my ideas.

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Very odd. Still refusing to stream in Chrome but working quite happily in Edge. Might try and give it some time at some point then.

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Video is currently refusing to stream for me at the moment. Any chance of at least a vague summary of what's in that 25 minutes?

dave.laban

100% scaling on all monitors. My two externals are 1920x1080, laptop is 1600x900. However even having all three as 1920x1080, the problem persists. Problem persists even if I plug directly in to the laptop rather than through Thunderbolt dock. Have also tweaked the BIOS to ensure the Quadro is the o...

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Yeah I get the same with only two displays. Never had an issue on 2019 as the Command Manager would never truncate like that (which is another bugbear, it's only dropping one icon which is the same width as the Expand Menu button!).

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Hive mind help please - got a support call in with my VAR on this but just wanted to get a feel for how widespread this might be (currently experiencing in SW21 and '23). If I have a Toolbar docked next to my Command Manager, which causes the Command Manager to truncate in length (Sketch tab is typi...

dave.laban

If 3 months is still "early days" of the transition, what's the full (planned!) timeline?

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Satisfyingly quick response from SolidSolutions; Hi Dave, This is still the case across the board. We do not have a time schedule on when this functionality will be confirmed. SolidWorks have not migrated all of the resellers\customers over to the new system, so I would suggest that this is still th...

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Just nudged my VAR again on this subject to see what they have to say about old SPRs / ERs moving to the new system. I've got about 200 I've submitted / voted on / been added to that I'd like to keep a track of.

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And I know it's only a small thing but they're the easiest things to get right and show that someone is paying attention to detail somewhere - is it an App or an APP?

dave.laban

The inability to see ERs, SRs and SPRs may be explained by your permissions in the new system. You might want to check or check with your VAR to see what role/permissions you have and at what level (account or site). OR...it might be that ERs, SRs and SPRs have not been ported over as of yet. Remem...

dave.laban

Well they addressed the login time issue between Phase 1 and 2, it only took you half an hour to log in. It took me 26 days in Phase 1.

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Anyone capture what the official Top Ten was?

dave.laban

I can only imagine the frustration it's causing you, but please know your tales from the 3DX front line are at least really useful from an educational point of view!

dave.laban

Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 9:07 am . . . and then there's this one:

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At least that one is actually vaguely related to the topic at hand.

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Several questions for all. I've always wanted to ask, but I hadn't the chance to. Sorry for hijacking the thread? 1- How do you pronounce SWYMP? "swim" with a P on the end. 2- What it stands for? SW is possibly SolidWorks. What about WMP? "See What You Mean". The P has been adde...

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Interesting data point they've published; https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... vqWYgSidwA

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Some people at Dassault are sending in ideas in a hidden community to try and put something in place and then deleting them. I have no idea what it is but my best guess would be what @bnemec said. Probably creating an ER system with drop downs that turns into tags. The tags seem pretty frivolous to...

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DanPihlaja wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 5:14 pm I have no idea what I am seeing there. Can you explain?

From some posts that were on there yesterday and the quality of insults therein, I think some kids have discovered they can sign up and cause mischief.

dave.laban

To be honest, I don't know what that means. No it is not. I'm trying to look up the SPR but cannot log into portal and searching the SWYMp for "SPR 754516" brings up one thread that is applicable but not much follow-up. Direct link to the KB search for your bookmarks :) https://kbsw.3ds.c...

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For what it's worth there's been a substantial drop in Idea submission quantity since the move to 3DSwym, last one on Jive had 726 vs. 383 this year.

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TTL as of 2023-01-27 (13:00 GMT) 1. AutoSolve Dangling Relations and Dimensions in Sketches and Drawings (114) 2. Ability to toggle a selection filter that only allows selections (faces, edges, etc) from a specific component - useful to restrict selections when working in complex assembly (110) 3. A...

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TTL as of 2023-01-26 (some people are already having trouble accessing the TTL community!); 1. Ability to toggle a selection filter that only allows selections (faces, edges, etc) from a specific component - useful to restrict selections when working in complex assembly (94) 2. AutoSolve Dangling Re...

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Treehouse is one of those many things that's a nice idea but let down by a lack of investment after initial release.

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TTL as of 2023-01-25; 1. Ability to toggle a selection filter that only allows selections (faces, edges, etc) from a specific component - useful to restrict selections when working in complex assembly (80) 2. AutoSolve Dangling Relations and Dimensions in Sketches and Drawings (78) 3. Allow Import D...

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I'd answer the same as JSculley, with the exception of 3; I'd just leave the default size in the assembly and not care that there's a bit of interference in a face or two.

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TTL as of 2023-01-20; 1. Ability to toggle a selection filter that only allows selections (faces, edges, etc) from a specific component - useful to restrict selections when working in complex assembly (63) 2. AutoSolve Dangling Relations and Dimensions in Sketches and Drawings (53) 3. Add the advanc...

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Did you use the Idea Form? It has all the tags in it and you're meant to delete the irrelevant ones. https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:I23-EB1ZRQyk2sLG5y9Kig/wiki:_3JBTIJNRwCDnIS9c6sqCA Should be able to C+P the tags from that post in to yours. Mod will add the tags a...

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Oh yeah I think it's a terrible decision but I never understood the problem with the old one either. But it does address two of the biggest complaints about the old one so hard to hold the decision against them.

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I'm afraid it isn't a SolidWorks-only TTL, they addressed that in the announcement post: https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:ASOG7PgNS7mfLRS8zemqQw/wiki:LLOIk-szQd2ARyJ0_Fd34Q image.png I still think they should allow this one through just to judge what the demand for i...

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It's a rare example of DS seemingly listening to what people wanted. Everyone complained that the old ER system wasn't good and needed changing, mostly to include a conversation element to an idea and better transparency of what the popular ideas are. Moving it to Swym achieves both of those goals.

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It's incredible how so many people from Turkey have voted for number 10. Bearing in mind that territory is far from the largest Solidworks user base. The first year the TTL went to Swym it ended up being the "Tekyaz Top Ten List", I think users from that company managed to get something l...

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bnemec wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:03 pm

Is that surprise at having to re-enter it again, or surprise that that's the new ER system?

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TTL as of 2023-01-13; 1. AutoSolve Dangling Relations and Dimensions in Sketches and Drawings (35 votes) 2. Ability to toggle a selection filter that only allows selections (faces, edges, etc) from a specific component - useful to restrict selections when working in complex assembly (26) 3. Allow Im...

dave.laban

Could you clarify by what you mean by "sort on the idea content"? And/or add some screenshots of what you're seeing?

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God I want to vote on ideas but this site is so horrible. How do filter to what I want? Where are the software categories like sheetmetal, PDM, eDrawings, etc? How do I sort on most voted ideas? grumph Go to the TTL community, then click on the Tags icon at the top: image.png Then down Tags menu th...

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While they're still sorting out the Customer Portal closure transition, best approach at this point is to just enter it again in to the SW Enhancement Ideas Community as that's the new ER system going forwards; https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... 2sLG5y9Kig

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Just in case you are too busy to read all 383 ideas from TTL23, take a look a this shortlist (focused mainly on productivity): https://www.engineersrule.com/now-is-the-time-to-vote-on-the-2023-solidworks-top-ten-list/ Glad one of mine made it to your list! I'd also like to plug one other of mine th...

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My direct KB search URL is still working at the moment too; https://kbsw.3ds.com/mashup-ui/page/sld ... portal_enu

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My direct URL to the KB search is still working https://kbsw.3ds.com/mashup-ui/page/sld ... portal_enu

You can then search for S-077636 and get the documents.

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Thanks! I think my Ctrl, C and V keys are still recovering. I've had reassurances that the TTL ideas will actually be transferred to the Enhancement Requests community for future use and reference, which if done correctly (hah!) will actually satisfy one of the long standing requests from Jive of re...

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We put the hardware where it would be assembled in real life. So your top assembly file for us, would be Motor, Gearbox and then all associated fasteners to hold the two together, which would then become the manufacturing BOM. Component patterns are used extensively to get all the fasteners where th...

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I've also largely given up on Swym improvements, but I do still care about the ER process. I'll concede the current system isn't perfect, but moving it all on to Swym seems an even worse step, not helped by a general lack of communication as to how it's going to work.

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God I hate all these acronyms to try and describe things that shouldn't be abreviated. For those wondering: EOY = End Of Year AMA = Ask Me Anything I don't expect any actual answers to come out of it. It's a publicity stunt. That's why it's called an ASK me anything, not "I'll ANSWER anything&...

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Thanks for the suggestion. Taken a look and it's more to do with what fields you should use in a BOM, very little by way of how to create an item name.

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