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dave.laban

So they're closing the Swym Enhancement Requests community to new ideas. I think the problem was determined to be "people are making too many enhancement requests" and the solution was "stop them making requests" not "fix the underlying structural, software and philosophical...

dave.laban

What kind of stuff are you modeling? I must be doing it all wrong! The sketches I make in a model are 90% useless in a drawing. Didn't we move away from making 2D drawings and move to making 3D models and placing dimensions to geometry a couple decades ago? I've done a combination of oil/gas drilli...

dave.laban

Dimension in the model and use Import Model Items in the drawing always works for me, especially for the sorts of dimensions that would be flaky when applied in the drawing environment.

dave.laban

This one would have provided hours of entertainment on Jive...

dave.laban

I've never had this work, any tricks to making it function? From what I recall (it's been a while), the HTML file has to open in Internet Explorer and then asks to run/install an add-in, but whenever I choose "okay" to the prompt, it just reloaded the page and was blank. I feel like I tri...

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If your policies restrict you so much with regards to installing software then I don't think any of your management would be terribly happy with you taking your models and just uploading them to OnShape / Google Drive, no?

dave.laban

Do you need it to be network licenses on your secure network or could you get away with standalone licenses on those machines?

dave.laban

My current main new product development has 125 items out of 298 (distinct) items on the BOM as new items, however creating NEW objects in our ERP is fine as they all default to Rev 0, the same as they are in PDM. Revisions to products on an ECN would then only typically be <10 parts per ECN which i...

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I've been asking the automation question since I arrived at the company, though such was the state of things at that point even the manual process wasn't even documented. Been slowly turning the ship around and so automation is the next step. In reality though it isn't too painful - once you're logg...

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Unfortunately we didn't go with PDM because it's too expensive, so we built our own version with CustomTools instead. @dave.laban how is it done internally at your place? This is how we figured to do it for now: Create order from ERP ERP looks up part numbers ERP looks up revision number in part pr...

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Updating the revision in ERP is just part of our drawing release process so ERP is already in sync with the drawings. Manual and tedious (for now, I'm hopefully bullying through that upgrade some time this year) but means the right stuff gets ordered.

dave.laban

Would that also work for an item like, teflon tape, grease or locktite that is on the bom but does not have geometry? Yes, I do this all the time. Each of the consumables like grease just have an empty part model that gets dropped in to the assembly tree, and then you can pick that origin for ballo...

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Mike Gera wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 8:29 am Hi Deepak,

I tried that. It did not work.

-Mike

When picking from the Feature Tree you need to pick the parts Origin for it to be picked up.

dave.laban

Thank for sharing that. It really helps to understand how these bugs are able to get thru. I wonder what kind of quality control and testing actually takes place before a roll out. Over the years, it seems like some of the most commonly used features are the ones that get broken. you cant help but ...

dave.laban

How small do your parts get? If you go the decimal route, would you also be needing to decimalise #10-32 fasteners etc.?

dave.laban

I thought the whole point of cloudy based SAAS was that all the updates were invisible to the end user and didn't require any admin / management on our part?

dave.laban

Super, thanks.

dave.laban

So this bug (SPR 1034006) was apparently fixed in 2022 A1, can anyone confirm? 1. Insert a hole callout in a drawing for a countersunk hole: image.png 2. Use the dropdowns to change only the precision of the angle (I don't need the trailing zeroes). image.png 3. Watch and be infuriated as all the pa...

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So what do we think, they going to make a big deal of the 30th anniversary release being the last desktop version and it's "time to move on" to the cloud?

dave.laban

Which is frankly insane that they didn't at least raise prices to account for any kind of inflation on a year to year basis. Using https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ then $3995 in 1996 is $7224 now. The $1295 becomes $2340. Expecting something to cost the same as it did almost 30 years ago seems...

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Ace, thanks!

dave.laban

Is there a way of choosing what columns are visible in the PDM add-in while inside SW? There's plenty of documentation on how to add/change columns in the main File Explorer (which I have successfully changed) but I haven't seen anything for changing the add-in view. I'd like to add the Revision col...

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mike miller wrote: ↑Wed Mar 09, 2022 7:40 am Even so, you can adjust the response time in milliseconds for the outer ring to become active.

That sounds like it would solve the problem nicely.

dave.laban

It may pan out differently in practice, but just looking at that Radial Menu I think adding a second row of commands would lead to a worse user experience. With a single row, you just right-click and drag in the direction and you get the command. With a second row you have to right click, drag, actu...

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Fri Feb 11, 2022 1:43 pm Well, yeah, but you can't even use italics or bold text, so . . .

dave.laban

When reading big long lists of tags like that does anyone else read it in a really staccato fashion like each tag symbol is a full stop or something? My brain just can't process text written that way.

dave.laban

Got my first TTL idea with Breakout Counterbores sneaking in at No.10 there after its late surge. Would be fascinating to see the final vote numbers.

dave.laban

Voting increased significantly in intensity this morning. Top ideas are now in the 60's. Not huge, but a 20% increase in 24 hours. Case in point, 38 people voted for my "Breakout Counterbores to Avoid ZTG" idea in the last 24 hours of the TTL. I'm now wondering if that was enough to push ...

dave.laban

No idea when they'll turn off the voting tomorrow so here's how things stand at the moment: TTL update 2022-01-27: 1. Linear Pattern - Allow Staggers (49) 2. When parent features are suppressed, children should have the option to remain unsuppressed and dangling or having the external relations froz...

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TTL update 2022-01-17: 1. Linear Pattern - Allow Staggers (39) 2. Focus More on Increasing Stability (38) 3. Focus More on Fixing Bugs (35) 4. More Functionality for Breadcrumbs (31) 5. Allow more options for attaching entities to other entities in drawings (30) 6. When parent features are suppresse...

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I'm confused about where to vote (as if the rest of that site isn't confusing...). We were told that the TTL 2022 community will go away on Jan. 6 and a new one will appear with all of the "approved" ideas for official voting. As far as I can see that community is still there and official...

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It's about on track for the same voting levels as last year.

dave.laban

In fairness actual voting doesn't begin until Jan 3rd, however because Likes = Votes and they can't disable Likes temporarily, anyone with half a brain has been voting already as Ideas are generated rather than waiting to wade through the ridiculous list come January. I've just been amusing myself k...

dave.laban

TTL update 2021-12-17: 1. Focus More on Increasing Stability (28) 2. Focus More on Fixing Bugs (25) 3. Ability to have the optimize face command in SOLIDWORKS (16) 4. Extrude Cut direction should be where there is material (15) =. Provide a better way of re-attaching dangling dimensions (15) 6. Abil...

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@dave.laban is FLOODING the TTL. I love it! Glad to be of service :D This is my last week being in the office before the TTL closes so I need to get my ideas in now. By leaving it as late as possible they'll be as high up the scroll of doom as possible so there's a better chance of more people seei...

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TTL update 2021-12-10: Ex. Replace 3DEXPERIENCE with Desktop SWX (27 votes) 1. Focus More on Increasing Stability (26) Ex. Some Method of Deactivating / Activating a License from any Machine (23) 2. Focus More on Fixing Bugs (23) Ex. One and Two. (18) Ex. Split Solidworks into a separate company (16...

dave.laban

Don't apologise! Fascinating insight in to a side of CAD modelling I've never touched before. Highly educational and gratefully received.

dave.laban

FWIW, Solid Edge Synchronous can easily rotate and move bodies. I can do it for you if you post the file..... Not allowed to share the files, but I was allowed to get the 30 day free trial of SE - so far it's looking a better prospect for hacking about with these mesh files and I've already got the...

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So they finally gave up on their 6W(hat the hell are you talking about)Tag? ;; Guess again! <ll> Posts will still need tagging for the categories to work, but there's going to be a bunch of preset tags (i.e. the categories) that you're then prompted to pick at least one of for each post. The catego...

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Thanks for the offer Mike! I'll double check if I'm allowed to be sharing these models.

As for my original query, I've had some luck with the ScanTo3D Mesh Prep Wizard now which has done some sort of magic to remove the error from the tree so I might be able to cobble along for now.

dave.laban

Like on the old forum, sub-categories for posts about Assemblies, Weldments, Simulation etc. rather than just everything dumped together.

dave.laban

So for the first time I've got myself some STL files from a 3D Scan, that I now need to turn in to a usable model that I can then make some modifications to. I can import all my STLs in to SW fine and get some imported mesh bodies (with no errors). image.png First problem, all the parts are in wonky...

dave.laban

Well we got shown what's coming in development for Swym a bit last night and we're going to be getting a reasonable approximation of sub-categories in a future update scheduled for...May.

dave.laban

Maybe I'm just senile. What other search? image.png See the picture I posted - there's a dropdown where you can switch from "Search" to "Search in Current Page". So you just need to be in the right Community, then running the Search in Current Page will effectively filter the co...

dave.laban

I wanted to find Dave's post to comment, but I have no idea how to navigate that site. I am here, and clicking on the different posts seems to do nothing. My only option appears to be to "preview", but that doesn't seem to lead anywhere either. How can it be this bad and no one cares? ima...

dave.laban

Well I thought it was too good to be true, they've sacked off the Online licensing idea I submitted despite originally approving it.

dave.laban

TTL update 2021-12-03: Ex . Replace 3DEXPERIENCE with Desktop SWX (27 votes) 1. Focus More on Increasing Stability (24) 2. Some Method of Deactivating / Activating a License from any Machine (22) 3. Focus More on Fixing Bugs (21) Ex . One and Two. (17) Ex . Split Solidworks into a separate company (...

dave.laban

Well this bodes well.

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TTL update 2021-11-26: 1. Replace 3DEXPERIENCE with Desktop SWX (25 votes) [Excluded idea] 2. Focus More on Increasing Stability (22) 3. Focus More on Fixing Bugs (20) =. Some Method of Deactivating / Activating a License from any Machine (20) 5. One and Two. (15) [Excluded idea] 6. Split Solidworks...

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Revision table with brief notes and revision flags (for latest version only). ECO is still the master though as it would also include the why of the change as well as the what.

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