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DanPihlaja

@mike miller, I think we can continue this discussion as long as we both agree that you're wrong. Don't they now have the freeze bar for performance, if that's the concern? The freeze bar doesn't affect assemblies. And the performance hike he was talking about was the rebuild time for mates. With e...

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image.png The picture shows that you're not logged in. If you log in you'll be able to download. You had to log in to send the message, though. Testing me, I see... Well.....it is interesting that it brings me to the page, and logs me out. So far, its the only area that the "remember me" ...

DanPihlaja

FYI Clicked on the link and got this:

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mike miller wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 12:50 pm I only see it on the mchat page.

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Well, on my main page, the mchat bar is showing. Maybe that is it.

DanPihlaja

So I am using Firefox for my browser. If I leave the CAD forum website just sitting there without doing anything (for example, doing some *gasp* work while I am waiting for the next CAD forum post to show up), then I get this error popping up. image.png Not a huge deal.....I just click the little x ...

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And that behavior may be the reason why they will put tighter than necessary tolerances on everything from that day on. Either one could have picked up the phone... Agreed. Designers and drafters make mistakes. We are human. I am the one here who decides who we use for fixture manufacture and machi...

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Could it be that in the "Available References:" list for Solidworks it does not have any choice for sounds? sound ref.jpg I just thought it would be nice to have the Computer yell at me (Wake me up) when the macro is done. Just configure your sounds inside Solidworks and have the last lin...

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Just wanted to say thank you Matt for taking the time, energy, and apparently money to run this site. I hope that you can see the returns that you are getting on it, as it (so far) has kept the same type of social gathering that it was in the old SW forums. So I just wanted to say that I really appr...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 2:27 pm More fun.
Is that the answer or not?
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*shrug* it works. LOL except when I zoom in.....

DanPihlaja

Can you get it to make a Boop as well? Beep Boop would be kind of cool.

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From my experience, "replace model" is only useful if you had previously done a "save as" on your model and now you want to use that new model in your drawing. In using save as, your geometry tags all stay the same. Then it will save most of the dimensions. Any other use of it mi...

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Question:

What exactly does "no activity" mean?
Or rather, what does, "activity" include ?
Logging in?
Liking a post?
Replying?
etc...

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Check this out:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=371

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Edu User Anon wrote: ↑Sun Apr 18, 2021 4:39 pm I'm having the same problem. This page would be the best display of the issue >> viewtopic.php?f=30&t=23&start=50

Edit: am using chrome browser on a chromebook.

Same here:

Clicking on the image brings me here:

: image.png (11.02 KiB) Viewed 2660 times

Using Firefox

DanPihlaja

I'm about to start a small project and thought it might be a good chance to try out the SSP method. I know the rough shape but final dimensions will be coming later. I've read @mattpeneguy's PDF guide and I generally understand what we're shooting for, but how do you SSP pros deal with moving parts...

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Hi Guys My first question on this forum and I am very excited. :mrgreen: How do I hide these lines. the blue one is the flat line and it should be visible. I have to hide the other lines one by one. there is probably an easy way but I can't find it. Thank you in advance for your help. 2021-04-16_14...

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@matt Don't forget that you are not actually doing a translation if you are using Parasolid export. It's a direct read. Translations occur if you export out to a neutral format like STEP or IGuess and then back into a software that uses Parasolid. I tried this and it did strip out the dimensions an...

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mike miller wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 6:13 pm My all-time favorite from the old forum (RIP...):

That is awesome! I would love to be able to update error code messages on people sometimes......so that when the error comes up, they see this!! LOL

DanPihlaja

Nope. @AlexLachance The sketch is on the top face, and cuts in the right direction. @dpihlaja It is an open sketch, but not intentionally. It actually has multiple open profiles and also overlapping profiles. Seriously sloppy sketching. OK, you are right....however, it doesn't really make sense tha...

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Nope. @AlexLachance The sketch is on the top face, and cuts in the right direction. @dpihlaja It is an open sketch, but not intentionally. It actually has multiple open profiles and also overlapping profiles. Seriously sloppy sketching. OK, you are right....however, it doesn't really make sense tha...

DanPihlaja

Real quick (without downloading your file) I am guessing that you need to uncheck "thin feature".

Or, if you really are looking for a "thin feature" that you make sure that your thickness is less than the smallest radius for the wall thickness direction that you are going.

DanPihlaja

It's the same but cleaner. No need to insert a "Weldment" feature, and inserting an individual "body" into a drawing or assembly is easier. How easy is it to "Explode"? So what I was thinking that it would be relatively easy to design the "Basics" of somethin...

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I agree, Matt, and recall my own hearty blog (and insider testing) participation from that era, and in hindsight I would not have been so openly brutal. I recall showing up to a regional SWUG meeting and Richard Doyle knew who I was as soon as I walked into one of their sessions---and this was NOT ...

DanPihlaja

In the past I have used multiple bodies in a part file, not as multiple parts but as tool bodies or other "helper" geometry. Instead of trying to do everything as one body sometimes the feature tree can be much simpler by just using another body and doing a union or subtract, whatever. So...

DanPihlaja

Sorry for posting 2 questions in 1 but they are interrelated. 1. Has anyone else run into hole tables that recognize 2 IDENTICAL HOLES as different hole. The hole table is labeling them as 2 different holes. They ARE different features in the tree but all the dimensions are the same. 2. I can't bel...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:50 am BTW
All old forum bookmarks should be working.
Don't need to login to read.

What are you talking about?

Here is where I am brought with a link to one of my original posts on the Solidworks Forum:

DanPihlaja

mike miller wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 7:27 am
dpihlaja wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 7:14 am "Accidents don't just happen. They are caused."

--My grandfather.
He wasn't referring to you, was he?

Ummm......I don't know what you are talking about........

DanPihlaja

"Accidents don't just happen. They are caused."

--My grandfather.

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charlesculp wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 2:30 pm Hey, anyone seen any fun dialog boxes?

"This file was last opened in 5430 minutes and 34 seconds."

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Wow....that is 3 days, 18 hours, 30 minutes & 48 seconds! Wonder if it was left over a holiday weekend. LOL

DanPihlaja

The one enhancement I would love to see here is if the Hide/Show Tree Items was a Document Level Setting. YES!! and a while I'm on a roll if you could use just the favourites folder and hide everything else.. Never used that folder BTW does anyone use breadcrumbs? Most definitely yes! All the time!...

DanPihlaja

I don't see any reason that you cannot be part of this forum & at the same time as any forums that are officially licensed by Solidworks. Posting to this forum shouldn't be any different than posting to any other forum on the internet as long as you don't break any of the EULA rules. Which, unle...

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KaMei wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 1:46 am 60704a23d77d1_kkcm0slnprn61__700.jpg

Wow! I am all of them except 2 I think. LOL

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I randomly toggle it on or off depending if the view type is HLV or Shaded with Edges, as well as the level of detail required. I'm lazy like that...whatever floats the boat. tu So it is safe to toggle the setting back and forth, it's sort of up to the user for the moment? Has switching back and fo...

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Hi Dan, First you need to create new template files from scratch. Go to options and dhange the path pointing to the Document Templates file location to an empty folder. That will force SW to generate new templates. You will need to use the new templates that are generated to update your old files. ...

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Hi Rob, Have you tried a stringen evaluate check to see if there are any components with hidden errors. If you have problems with one particular part then you could try to replace the part template. Although I seem to remember that it doesn't work with external references inside. But maybe you can ...

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Of those, the only one I've heard of is Synergis. The rest don't seem to handle SolidWorks files and/or connect to SolidWorks PDM instead. Synergis would be most comparable to SolidWorks PDM I think. Price is probably similar but it's been a long time since I reviewed it. You'll have to contact the...

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OK, some back story: We have 2 facilities: Automotive and Aerospace Our Aerospace facility purchased Solidworks PDM and 2 CAD editor licenses. However, we were so backlogged with COVID, we dropped everything and switched to machining Ventilator parts for GM. So there was no progress implementing PDM...

DanPihlaja

Yeah, I hate how it doesn't let you choose a quadrant to measure from. It just arbitrarily picks one.

Technically, the measurement isn't wrong if you are measuring it in the top right quadrant.

DanPihlaja

ummm...not sure who you are talking to......but.....your welcome? @matt rocks!!

DanPihlaja

Put a picture up on your wall behind and above your monitors (or to the side).
Make it a picture of a valley or something similar. Basically lots of natural green and distance.

When you are feeling the eye strain, take a look at it for a minute or two.

DanPihlaja

... OK, I just re-read that article, and they specifically say, "...Catia 6 has been out for over 6 years...". And since Catia 6 was released in 2008, that means that the article is probably from late 2014.....so never mind.... but I am leaving the above paragraph because I still wanted t...

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I read the article....good stuff there.....and I don't have a lot to say about it because I really only have experience with CATIA V5, Solidworks and NX on that list. But my alarms go off when someone who is selling a product rates said product against other products that they do not sell. Pretty bi...

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Most of my projects start out as multi-body to create the geometry for each part, then progress into the assembly with inserting each body into its own part and assembling it, then creating drawings of each part. Honestly, if all the tools in an assembly environment were available in the multi-body ...

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Yes - untrim also as a method of getting back to full sphere. I believe I use untrimmed in the model I posted. If not I did use it on this model attached. It didn't get back to a full untrimmed sphere but did get me far enough to get a useable reference. All you had to do was run the untrim command...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:04 pm
MJuric wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:01 pm
dpihlaja wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:57 pm Your picture shows is caforum.com, not CADforum.com
The "D" cost extra.
Okay, that honestly made me LOL way more then it should have

Yeah, me too! LOL

DanPihlaja

Your picture shows is caforum.com, not CADforum.com

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Folks, I know there will be differing opinions, which I will keep mine to myself for the time being :D , When your engineers are designing parts, do they build in relation to 0,0,0 of the world, OR...do they build based on location in an assembly, so that 0,0,0 of every part in the assembly are at ...

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So I'm pulling up a bunch of parts. When I do this and I know the part number I typically File>Open [type in part number] and the file name pops up. Today however I noticed something that I'm wondering if someone can see if they see the same thing. So say I do the above File>Open [type in part numb...

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matt wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:09 pm Did anybody notice that a favicon started showing up?

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I have no idea what that means or what it represents. And I am not seeing it in my tabs (could be because I am using Firefox)

DanPihlaja

I am "sort of" a CAD Admin. I have all the responsibilities except the IT side of things. I stepped into the role because absolutely no one else was doing it. I kind of forced CAD standards and common settings on everyone and then started to control templates as well. Now I am in charge of...

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