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DanPihlaja

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Apr 19, 2023 10:31 am Man, I'd hate to have a conversation with...

FYI, he is on this forum. So don't say anything here that you wouldn't say to his face.

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Its set to 11 isn't it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven

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SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:54 pm One day. Just one day. All I want is one day of using solidworks without a crash. Is that really too much to ask?

I'll bet most Sundays Solidworks doesn't crash on your system. Or maybe Christmas Day.....

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Taken from here:
https://help.solidworks.com/2022/englis ... Redirect=1

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Can you record a video or screen shot of what you mean?

My guess is that you have a sub-assembly inside an assembly and it is treating the subassembly as rigid.

But this is just a guess.

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BrianHoerner wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 12:42 pm Hey Dan,

Thanks, I do remember seeing that, just didn't remember where, appreciated...

Do you know of any way to turn a switch to stop this action?

Thanks again sir!

I don't think that you can, as far as I know. I looked through the settings and couldn't find anything.

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Could this be why?

https://help.solidworks.com/2022/Englis ... Redirect=1

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If I change an assembly component to a different configuration, I am peeved that Solidworks flags the component as changed. Switching Configurations will run a rebuild if the circumstances call for it. Which flags the component as changed. image.png If you see a green check, that means that the reb...

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I had this happen to me last week, I had a drawing with 8 sheets, details/sections A thru J, of course I had to remove the part that section B was from on drawing sheet 2, so now I got to manually go back and re-letter each one. Doesn't happen often, but a pain when it does, I can't believe it woul...

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Why does the offset tool not allow you to use Global Equations during creation? Once you green check the offset you can immediately double click the offset dim and change it to an Equation. Same reason why the plane offset function doesn't allow it. Because different people programmed different are...

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XHawkeye wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 11:05 am If you want group the Part1 configs, without grouping the screws, one has to give the Part1 configs the same P/N.

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Good call. I didn't think about it also combining the hardware. Going to have to get creative.

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I get that this is available. I honestly do not understand why anyone would bother to use this though...

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The "configuration name" has to be the same for that to work.

This is for different parts with the same configuration name to be listed as the same item.

What you want for your case is this instead:

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I am pretty sure that setting lives in the part template. Holy crap you are right!! Here is what I did: Create a new part. Add a boss extrude. Then add a tapped hole and unchecked that checkbox and hit the green check. Then deleted the Tapped hole and the Boss extrude (and sketch) to go back to a b...

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matt wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 10:22 am ok, I found a couple of switches for those custom fields. Try it again, and see if they show up now.

Now I am curious why some people could see it and some people couldn't....

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matt wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 10:22 am ok, I found a couple of switches for those custom fields. Try it again, and see if they show up now.

sweet!!

Thank you @matt !!!

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"With thread callout" in the hole wizard drives me insane. I have to assume it is a holdover from before the "hole callout" was available in drafting. You would think after all of these years I would be in the habit of unchecking it when creating a threaded hole, but no. Art one...

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The previous screenshots that I shared were with Firefox.

This one is from Edge. No spot to edit software.

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Did anyone who can't see it fill out the information when they signed up? Maybe if you didn't fill it out, you can't see it. Not sure. This is odd. @establ does not have different permissions than the rest of you. I do remember filling it out in the beginning. Just am not sure why the field is not ...

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I am wondering if @matt and @establ have different permissions, which is why the rest of us cannot see it?

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If I were to go into business for myself, for design work, I would be charging $100/hour minimum.

For drafting work that someone else designed, I would almost prefer to do it by the job. But $50 to $75/hour would be reasonable.

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matt wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 11:16 am - Go to your profile (drop down next to your user name at the top of the window.
- Edit Profile
- At the bottom of this form is the area to use to change your hardware and software version

I'm using the Breeze theme.

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establ wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 4:00 pm I can edit mine. I'm using the we_universal theme.

Can you show a screenshot of the location that you used to edit it?

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So it looks like you are in an active sketch, and you have the circle command activated.

What happens when you click and drag or click and click? Does it create the circle and then immediately disappear? Or does it do something else?

And CAD noobs are why we are here!! Spam away (within reason).

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Honestly, for a lot of those, I would go with a graphical representation rather than an actual feature with holes.

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SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 2:46 pm Hole patterns with lots of instances are very slow in SW. I thought there was a thread on this forum, but it may have been the old one.

I believe that this is a copy of the post that you are referring to:

https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/201949

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"Scale" is different than "shrink" Scale uses a single point and reduces everything in the direction of that point. Which means that holes that are not on center will actually MOVE closer to the scale center after scaling (center line of hole will NOT remain in the same location)...

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This is not possible with the automatic settings inside solidworks. However, you can play with a few things... you COULD create a sketch at the assembly level, show the silhouette entities of a part, then show the sketch at the drawing level and make it hidden lines. image.png image.png image.png im...

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In addition to the above, if you want a quick quantity of each component, you can use assembly visualization:

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Did you know that if you hold down the ALT key while selecting an element of a group, you can move that element individually within the group?

Click on this GIF file to see an example

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 9:14 am Would you mind explaining the process?

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Which version of Solidworks are you using?

I would say that this is a video card driver issue.

Either your driver was updated without your knowledge (shame on you Microsoft for automatic driver updates!) or your driver needs to be updated.

Also try unchecking this:

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Precision 5820 Tower.
Windows 10

NVIDIA Quadro P2000 Video Card
SATA 512 GB Drive

3 Monitors (just normal 22" monitors)

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Without seeing some examples of what you're trying to do this might be bad suggestion, so take that into consideration. Avoid using surfaces in that type of workflow. I understand that sometimes we need to work with surfaces, don't get me wrong. But I get the feeling (both from working with SE and ...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 4:39 pm And it keeps on going lol
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I have no idea what I am seeing there. Can you explain?

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DennisD wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 7:10 amimage.png

https://drive23.com/technology/the-end- ... ngine-oil/

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gupta9665 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 12:16 am Share one sample file and what changes you would need and then I will try to create one

Basically, you want to get rid of unneeded design table data, update graphics slider to something lower, possibly suppress a helix (if applicable), and possibly get rid of equation data.

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I thought I remembered someone on here mentioning a macro they used to clean all of the junk out of McMaster Carr part files. If someone could point me to that macro, or even that thread, I would appreciate it. I don't use a macro. I just save the part as a parasolid and then overwrite the original...

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I remember some people having problems with ballooning when they had their views in "Shaded with Edges" mode. Did you try switching it to "Hidden Lines Removed" mode and trying again?

Also this:

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Not really sure.

However, the website states that Solidworks 2021 is not compatible with Windows 11 64 bit. so I would doubt that SW 2016 is.

Your mileage may vary though.

Maybe someone with a similar situation can chime in.

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I'm not sure this works... Spec is for the edge of the bottom-right and upper-left rectangular holes to be 10mm from the nearest edge, no matter what size the plate is or what size the rectangular holes are. image.png image.png image.png Yeah. There really is no way to get it to 2 references for th...

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I think one struggle point of sketch patterns vs feature patterns is the fact that sketch patterns aren’t always fully locked in by default. When you make a feature pattern, and you check that box, the yellow preview immediately turns into hard, fully defined geometry. Ain’t nothing moving around. ...

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Frederik, ..... If it didn't then it would mean that if you loaded the ASM of a house and you wanted to focus on the kitchen that you would have to wait for the kitchen to load and when you wanted to switch to the attic that their would be more loading so as to show you the attic. It doesn't work t...

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jhodges wrote: ↑Thu Dec 08, 2022 2:23 pm I tested it in Sw2022 sp5. it worked. maybe that fixed it in sp5.
i did the same as you did and did it in both directions. mated a round block on top of a square block.

Thank you for the confirmation.

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Dan, I rarely use the Width mate, but I just tested (SW2022 sp 4.0), and got the same results you did. Has the Width mate worked for Quick Mates in previous versions? Yes, the width quick mate between a cylinder and 2 planar surfaces has always worked....even in SW 2018. So it got broke. Although i...

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So, I notice that width quick mates aren't working in SW 2022 (sp4). Here is my process: CTRL select the 2 planar surfaces that I want to center the cylinder on. CTRL select the cylinder. The width quick mate appears: image.png I select it and the the confirmation box appears: image.png Hitting the ...

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Hope it's ok to jump in, a bit off topic. Is this a place where we could use the "freeze bar" to help reduce build time? In theory, if we have that check box checked to do a "verification on build" then once those early features are build and known to be good we can freeze them ...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 07, 2022 10:55 am I don't know how much of an impact it has in 2022, but turning that on will slow things down.

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Agreed. It is a slower cycle time.

And there are times where I have had to turn it off to deal with a problematic casting from a supplier.

but for the most part, I leave it on.

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Is this setting turned on?

If not, my advice is to turn it on and leave it on.

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axco wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 2:55 pm The file is attached

Your issue is with this sketch:

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