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Platform announcement is here; https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... EQVs0FLBmg

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Major update to 3DSwym launches on Feb 10th. Prepare for lots of change and lots of the same. Will be interesting to see how it all goes.

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Support Selection Manager for Fill Surface and Planar Surface command

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Snap / Relate Sketch Entities to Tables in Drawings

Split and Group BOM

Split Balloon Quantities

Split Lines in Assemblies

Tile Windows Across Multiple Displays

Use Same Display State as Seed in Pattern

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Pack and Go “No to All” Option Permanently Discard "Document has been Modified or Converted in this Session" Message Permanently Discard "Save as Copy and Open" Dialog Box Permanently Discard “Upgrading Cosmetic Threads” Warning Message Provide a set of tools for creating geomet...

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Iteratively Purge Unused Features Left Hand Cosmetic Thread Support Library Features in Assemblies Link All Sketch Chamfer Dimensions Link Feature Description to Model Parameter Measure Distance between Cosmetic Threads Multi-Column Notes Name Fillet / Chamfer Feature Based on Size Near Side Counte...

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Group Hole Callout Instance Counts GUI for Hole Wizard Callout File Hole Table – Able to “Renumber All Tags” while “Combine Same Tags” is Active Hole Table – Assign Tags to Same Layer as Table Hole Table – Fully Adjust Datum Leader Position Hole Wizard – Reverse Offset from Surface Indicate if Fold...

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Cosmetic Knurls Decal Property Manager to remember last used location Dedicated BOM Sheets Define Chamfer by Angle and Diameter Delete Component Group from Tree Drag Folders in to Sub-Assemblies Drawings – Ability to Attach a Balloon to Multiple Mag Lines Drawings – Auto Hide Balloon Quantity if 1X...

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Add to Balloon Stack from BOM / FMT Allow General Tables in Drawing Sheet Format Allow Magnetic Lines to have Balloons from Multiple Views Allow Setting of Detail View Preferences as Document Properties Apply Jogs to Corners Automatic Sequential Note Numbering Across Pages Breakout Counterbores to ...

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Something of an idea dump; Ability to apply face colours at the assembly level Ability to Move Hole Tags to Detail Views Ability to Specify Drawing View Location on Sheet Able to Adjust Overlapping Balloons in a Stack Add Dimensions to Favorites Add Option to Pin the Fillet Feature Manager Add optio...

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Current top ten; 1 - ESCAPE Should Terminate Any Process and Return the Model/Drawing to its Previous State (92 votes) 2 - MBD: Ability to create ordinate dimensions in MBD (84) 3 - MBD: separate positional tolerance for length and width of a slot (83) 4 - MBD: Allow Creating width dimension between...

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Well that is a can of worms... Most likely titanium, though it isn't my top choice. Steel would be preferable but I'm struggling to find anyone who'll build it in steel. I've tried to parameterize tube diameters and wall thicknesses to be able to change this but I guess I might end up with two mode...

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If you're just trying out a specific feature there's the browser based trial version. https://my.solidworks.com/try-solidworks

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The downside to either of these solutions is that it isn't linked with your modelling software. Make a change, export out of cad, import into FE, rebuild all the broken references. Lather, rinse, repeat a few dozen times, and the price tag for an integrated solution starts to make a little more sen...

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I flagged it for abuse this morning for sharing confidential information, that system has hardly been rapid.

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I don't think I'd be very happy if my VAR posted my name, company and full license number online for all to see.

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Another low-hanging fruit idea if I might be so bold; https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... k2GOSBg0Ng

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That number lines up with the quote I got for subscription pricing including the new "SW Cloud Services" that was meant to only affect new customers, not renewing existing subscriptions. Though as I rather pointedly highlighted to my VAR back in July last year, the wording in the email was...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:06 am Is there a way to view the ideas on the platform sorted by "most votes" to "least votes"...?

No. Closest you can get is to open up the filters > More Tags > Likes > sort Alphabetical Z-A. Then click on those filters to see the ideas.

dave.laban

The "Import PMI" / AP242 topic is from the SolidWorks MBD part of the Help directory too, which would further support that theory too.

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Despite all being in the same place now, it baffles and frustrates me that all those TTL ideas with all their comments and likes will still be lost to the wind at the end of the process, because they can't move topics between communities so nothing will exist in the regular Enhancements community.

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I believe that's the invite that gets you in to the replacement for the Customer Portal in order to log support tickets.

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Mostly SW users as this place came in to be after the original official SW forum was shut down and Swym was not deemed an acceptable replacement.

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Where you are listing max stress, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess this max stress is found on one of the nodes that's associated with a fully rigid fixed restraint at one end of your beam. Which I'm also guessing is perhaps not the most representative of load cases. What are the bulk stress ...

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Turns out I was missing something obvious

I had only been exporting the Top-level parts, I'd completely missed the options presented in the Save window for this, my VCs are in a sub-assembly, so thanks to my VAR for pointing that out.

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Hopefully I'm missing something obvious. Got an assembly where I want to export the Volume of all individual components so I load up Assembly Visualization tool, pick Volume for column then Save As. In the AV tool all components are listed (which includes some Virtual Components), however the saved ...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 7:47 am I would get a 3rd 27" and use all 3. Assuming your video card will support 3 monitors.

Or get the 32 and flank it either side with the existing 27s.

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Cut a piece of card to the right size and put it where you'd want the monitor. I've done a similar thing when sizing up TVs for a room, helps me to visualise what the end result should be like. Might give you some insight.

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With the platform they will be even more detached as your claims will be buried at the bottom of the bottomless 3Dswym. Haven't you heard? You can just invite Manish Kumar to your company and get your minor irritations bumped up the priority list within the week. Last October, when I visited a cust...

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So this article got linked to from Swym; https://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksblog/2023/09/what-solidworks-ceo-manish-kumar-is-most-excited-for-in-solidworks-2024-and-why-youll-love-it.html There's a very interesting tidbit buried right at the bottom; We are also on a mission to deliver new enhanc...

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DanPihlaja wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 9:54 am They are already talking about subscription fees to use certain features of your car.

BMW have just announced they're abandoning subscriptions for heated seats that they had started rolling out. There's a tiny chance for sense to prevail.

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PDM has revision dates. ERP doesn't track implementation or phase in/out dates. Further complicated by there maybe being 3-4 months between production runs (so there might be any number of revisions in the mean time) and everything is put together by a contract manufacturer rather than in-house. Thi...

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Yes, but for this scenario you have a customer who is only allowed to look at the outside of the unit (some fixes will be possible by them with a sealed unit, others would have to be return to base so stripping apart and getting part revs will be easier).

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Sorry for digging this thread up but as it's related to "how far to propagate a revision change" this feels like a good place to ask. Consider a basic assembly; Top Level (Rev 2) -----Sub-Assembly (Rev 0) ----------Part 1 (Rev 1) ----------Part 2 (Rev 1) The sub-assembly is revised to swap...

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Thanks! We're doing Legoland Windsor (UK). Been a few years since I've been now, will be her (and my son's) first time, she's turning 6 and quite excited about the whole thing.

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More excited about July 1st being my daughter's birthday and we're going to Legoland for it this year

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Can't use it as a selling point for 3DE if it's in SW standard.

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LOL. So, today I go to log into 3dexperience.3ds.com. It happily accepts my creds and then presents a blank screen. This is a "software" company, right? Interesting, sounds like the same issue I have with my Maker account. I can use Swym fine with my work email, but if I log out and back ...

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I am not entirely sure, but if you look at the output version, they need to be compatible. You can output as any previous parasolid version: image.png SW 2022 goes up to Parasolid version 33, where as SW 2018 went up to Parasolid version 26 (I think...I could be wrong on the number). So it would pr...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 8:55 am Newer version SW use newer version Parasolid which older version SW cannot open.

Are there documented limitations on this? Just exported an SW23 file in to a .X_T and successfully opened it in SW21.

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Presumably there's no drawing that would shed more light on the matter? Where did the model come from, can you not ask the originator?

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Well my VAR have put a figure on the "price uplift" at £350/yr for the new licenses with all the Cloud services attached. They acknowledged my concern of no affect to existing licenses "at this time" meaning "at a later time" but he genuinely had no further information....

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My issue is in the wording of the email I got from my VAR (Trimech via SolidSolutions); Please note that this is a global change that will apply to all new SOLIDWORKS license purchases on or after July 1st. However, we want to assure you that current licenses on subscription will not be impacted at ...

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Just had HTTP error 429 "Too Many Requests: You have sent too many requests in a given amount of time." while trying to visit 3DSwym. I hope if you're running your business on their platform you can't be accused of visiting too often

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I've got the Support Administrator role so it's not just for VARs. Won't pretend to understand why, just the cards I've been dealt.

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TBH I am more annoyed by the need to search the exact term. Is there a way to set up an approximate search so if you mistake one character or a singular-plural similar words come out the magic KB without spending hours in the process? For some reason I've never had an issue with searching in the KB...

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From a bit of an experiment it seems that the new KB has changed how you need to search for SPRs slightly. It always used to be the case that to get straight to the SPR, you'd need to search for SPR xxxxxx, however now you need to drop the space and search for SPRxxxxxx. Another excellent piece of c...

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mp3-250 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2023 1:47 am
BTW I cannot look it up in the KB as the new layout on 3DX does not allow SPR search.

Yes it does

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JSculley wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 2:29 pm We haven't been moved to 3DSWYM for support. From what I can tell, the transfer is happening for non US customers first. We haven't even received notification of the switchover.

My old portal had all the locks show up before I got any kind of notification about the transfer.

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The old SPR / ER / SR was confusing. Now it sounds like they aren't even trying. This is honestly one of the few places where the majority have actually got what they asked for. No longer need to be on active subs to submit an idea Discussion is possible around idea to try and enhance / clarify it ...

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