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Ronan

Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Is Dassault doing an across the board sweep on other partner products? For example SW PCB (which is basically Altium) was effectively retired a couple of years ago as it is no longer part of the network licensing. They we trying to push us to us it on li...

Ronan

That's too bad, used DDM at my previous job. Dassault always coming up with a new way upset the apple cart. What's the new partner program entail? Must have require more £££ then CSI wanted to commit. This is the relevant sentence. "We have been informed by DS SolidWorks that our current Partn...

Ronan

Well this is a start to 2025 o[ . We use Design Data Manager (DDM) as our PDM system since 2015. They are part of the SW partner program. Yesterday we received notification that SW is terminating CSI(the company that developed DDM) as a partner in Nov. 2026. Apparently Dassault are transitioning to ...

Ronan

JSculley wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 9:50 am HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\SOLIDWORKS 20XX\ExtReferences

Ok, that does not do the trick.
I found the Search Paths are stored in the windows index system. That is where one has to remove them from.

Ronan

How do you get rid of old search paths. deleting them from File Locations Search Paths, doesn't work. The come straight back.
Where are the stored in the registry?
This is a screen shot from my pc which is ok. Some pcs have real junk in the search paths.

Ronan

I add the hole callout information to the flat pattern.

Ronan

You missed one.
An Opinion is senior to any Fact.

Ronan

One I hate is the suppressing of mates within the assembly when I create new configurations..!! I cannot seem to get my head around the logic of why this happens, or which components will be affected. It just feels so random. This might help with your confusion. Check in the configuration propertie...

Ronan

I use this on the sheet metal drawings "Thickness@Sheet-Metal" mm Sheet.

Ronan

That fixed it. Thank You.

Ronan

All of them are disabled.

Ronan

Does anyone know how to stop this screen popping up when SW 2023 is started. Has been happening for a few months now. Tried all the usuals including a registry reset of SW. Even uninstalled the 3D Exp. stuff too.

Ronan

Has Anyone installed SW 2024 Sp2.0? Thinking of moving from 2023 Sp5.0 in the next month. What is the general feel about 2024?

Ronan

Just tried it on 2023 sp3. Works ok for me. Never knew this before. Nice feature.

Ronan

Has anyone seen this is SW 2023 SP3.0

What is _$$ dummy@@_
The files open ok and Ctrl Q does get rid of it.

Ronan

Guess I am to used to "the faulty attempt with selection box in SW". It's only when you change software that you find out how much you do on automatic without realising!

Ronan

Thank you. that makes things much simpler.

Ronan

I just installed it. Finally moving to SW 2023. Was on a training course last week on SW motion and that was being run on SP2.1 and was pretty stable. So will let you know how it goes.

Ronan

Try a sketch with a single closed boundary. Beyond that I don't know. I would upload my part but I am using the Community Edition and the Professional edition won't open it's files.

Ronan

You need to select the regions of the sketch to extrude as it is not a simple closed boundary. My screen shot shows 2 selected regions. When a region is selected it turns green.

Ronan

Interestingly. The link works here from my Work PC. Usually I use Edge. But will try Chrome at home.

Ronan

1) Is there a setting to automatically set new dimensions to locked? Several times now I have been caught out by forgetting to click the padlock symbol directly to the right of a dimension. 2)Is there a way to do a rectangular or circular pattern in a sketch of selected sketch entities? 3)Can a comp...

Ronan

Alternatively could make the side faces of the cut symmetric across a center plane so they don't need to pass through the center axis.

Ronan

Sorry. I meant Gauge table. Found this in this forum. I'll check it out tonight. viewtopic.php?t=633

Ronan

Thank you for the video clip. I shall experiment. Like the hotkey short cut!

Ronan

@Ronan1961 To answer your questions... There is not a Perpendicular relationship but instead look for the Angle relationship which can be at any angle including 90°. Slots if created as Slot features will have an axis in the middle, so an Axial Align or Connect can be used to say place a bolt in th...

Ronan

I read the article, but he doesn't explain how to display them.

Ronan

I am trying to do this in SE not SW. I know exactly how to do all this in SW. Am using this project as a great way to learn SE. I do read the help. Sometimes I admit I miss things. Then I ask questions.

Ronan

Are you able to disable the users. We use DDM as out PDM system and that is what we do with users who have left. The hides them from coming up in general searches etc. but keeps their history.

Ronan

Before we used a PDM system, I used to click on Save As and the save dialogue would bring up the folder the model was stored in.

Ronan

Thanks, mmm I do edit that section of the cosmetic thread when I need too.

Ronan

Is there a table stored somewhere in SW that can be edited for cosmetic threads (not the hole wizard ones). Currently the standard callout for say M5 is "M5 machine threads". I would like M5 x 0.8 x 10 deep or M5 x 0.8 Thru. Or along a bar M5 x 0.8x 15 Long. I know I can manually edit them...

Ronan

@Ronan1961 I unfortunately cannot open your SE files as I'm guessing you used the Community or Student license, and I have the Commercial license. I'll assume when these translated in, you have the body in Synchronous and what you are attempting to do would also be in Synchronous. Since I'm using m...

Ronan

That sounds like a lot of work. Why not simply use a representation of the assembly (maybe another configuration or derived assembly) for the machining drawings? It is very stable and separates the fabrication side from the machining side. It effectively emulated the physical world process. Start o...

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