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AlexLachance

In 2023 they seems to have fixed somewhat the hole wizard when it comes to sketching. image.png Midpoint line is removed for the sketch toolbox. (its just face palm...) In 2024 have they also fixed the other smart sketch feature problem by just removed it from the user ? (Thinking here center retan...

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By knock-down, you mean broken down into parts? Is there any complexity to the box? If you could give more info I'll try and give some pointers. I guess it depends a lot on what the intent is. For instance we started by making our airboxes with each faces individually so that we could have a more ef...

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mp3-250 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:43 am @AlexLachance so SW devs really made the undo command working as expected ?
it is a serious concern as there are still instances that are simply ignored during the undo, so the undo does not relly... well undo wht you have done.

Sometimes it works as expected, other times it doesn't lol

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https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... KCwdyI6oFw

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bnemec wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:35 pm Shouldn't need to train people not to hammer screws or nuts.

As I often tell my boss, common sense is not all that common these days.

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I think you nailed it .. I seems that Dasult have gone to town of crafting UI components and forced upon workflow just to have end user to give up and slab everything that needs to be edit at the end of the feature tree. In other words their own poor man "synchronic" workflow. One way mod...

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I went to an existing part and added 2 holes to the end. They are there in the model. They are visible in the front view if I show hidden edges. They are not, however visible in the end view. If I create a new end view, they are there, but the old view refuses to update. There are no hidden edges. ...

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I have been struggling with an issue in 2022 that is probably going to force me to 2023. I have an assembly with multiple configurations, and derived configurations from those configurations. I will suppress a part in one configuration, and when I come back to it later, that part is unsuppressed. I...

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MattW wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:12 pm @AlexLachance where in Quebec are you located? I am probably going to be in the Montreal/ Laurentians area for a week or so this summer.

I'm closer to Quebec then Montreal, in "Chaudières Appalaches". Montreal is about a 3 hours drive from here.

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Okay, I was mistaken after all, my apologies for the confusion. I do get the ones that my templates point to after all. It's just that the basic part template is rarely ever used over here so it's a bit different then every other part template.

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Must be the french version doing it's own thang then

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We are on 2021. Templates are in PDM, and the only location in File Locations. going to new... gets this screen. image.png The home screen is the same as the one in the first post, ie, Part, Asssembly, Drawing. Clicking on those opens the template listed in file locations, in spite of the label on ...

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That's interesting... I'm using 2023 SP5.0 and those open my defined default templates. Do you still have the default templates listed in c:\Program Data\Solidworks\Solidworks\Templates? Perhaps if those are still there it could mess things up? I don't really know though. I'm on 2023 SP4, rolled ba...

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Those buttons open up the default templates that you define in your system options (Tools -> Options -> System Options -> Default Templates). If those point to a custom template of each type then there shouldn't be too much of an issue. Otherwise, clicking "Advanced" will show all the tem...

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Wow I had never noticed that, thanks for bringing it up. I don't think you can change or remove these from that bar. Perhaps you could overwrite the default templates so that they are your templates..? That would sorta do what you require, have it use your standards and keep it shown on the home tab...

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gosh i was nagivating the swmpy to look at the slides/recording for the 3dexperience world https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/community/swym:prd:R1132100503382:community:52/wiki?content=swym:prd:R1132100503382:wikitree:RALlNsSGQx-GKuq6RaQ4kg it is really beyond terrible (why am ...

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Buncha stuff seems to be down since a little over an hour ago including things linked to Meta such as Facebook and Instagram

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SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:40 pm Instead of enjoying the nice weather here in NC, I did something stupid and got to spend the last few hours in the ER waiting to get staples in my head.

Eek, what did you do..? Hope nothing too bad

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Probably named Rulers in the english version

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I thought this was an interesting listening surrounding the subject of A.I.

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Feels like a month early in WI too. Winter (what there was of it) left the soil as dry as it found it. Usually when the frost comes out the soil is very soggy, this year the top is dusty dry most places. There was very little frost this year, doubt more than a foot for more than a week if that. Las...

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Happy monday to yall, March is starting and spring seems around the corner for us, altough it generally is a month later. Hopefully there aren't too many people stranded with the weather conditions we had this weekend. The Blizzard that hit in California and Nevada hit 2 days earlier over here and i...

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I think it's controlled by the setting Alex posted above. image.png If you have it set to "use this document settings" it can be done in the template. When I created my templates I did a PDF print from them useing Tabloid size and sale of 100% as shown above. That is my default when I try...

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Okay, clearly a bot @matt

3 posts, 3 threads, all boasting his Miraco scanner without replying to the people trying to provide help. None of his models make sense either in his pictures.

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That one worked. Thanks for all of the replies. I tried this one first since it was the first reply and it worked great. CTRL + scroll wheel is generally the one that my dad gets. CTRL gets stuck and then scroll wheel zooms in/out until he bangs on the keyboard and out of coincidence hits the CTRL ...

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This old man could use some help for a very minor issue. I was typing a response on a an internet site (completely unrelated to SW) and attempting to underline some text. Somehow (I think I mistakenly held down Ctrl while hitting the -/_ key), and all the text got smaller. I've closed that tab and ...

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senuba wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:13 am Here it is You're awesome. Thank you so much. I've been struggling with this for so long, turns out it's this simple

If you ever have any other struggles, don't be shy to come here and ask. The community is great in helping each other.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:37 pm https://hackaday.com/2024/02/28/air-can ... for-facts/

When ChatBot gave wrong answer.

With that in mind, that ruling would also mean that Google is responsible for the obnoxious things it's A.I. says, which would then mean a shit-show's coming lol

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jcapriotti wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:04 pm I think it also created some very "diverse" Nazis
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68412620

I can't help but chuckle at all these

AlexLachance

Mine's pretty short:lol:

-Adding dimension will "overmate", would you like to have it be driven
-1:1 scale output warning
-edge fusion is defined at 0,000001....
-One or more functions of this part is based on other documents...
-Performance warning for add-on

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SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:04 pm Maybe we shouldn't be afraid of AI, but of the people doing the programming.

I was thinking pretty much the same. I think this is why AI is such a scary thing, kind of like nuclear energy, because it could be used in awful ways

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So, anyone seen Google's A.I. called Gemini's famous quotes?

There's some pretty wild ones from it's releases, the A.I. seems very 'woke'.

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I would go a step further. Any dialog with more than two options such as Yes/No should not be dismissible, and even some of those are still dangerous. Here's my list of dismissed dialogs: image.png I try to avoid those that revolve around rebuilds also, but that's mostly because I've had to deal wi...

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I don't want the technical drawing part. When I run the macro within the part, it will provide me with the weight of "Pah5" using debug.print, which is 258kg. I want the weights of "Pah5" and the others. I can get all the names here, but I can't get their weights. Unfortunately ...

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I could provide a note that links to the property of the body within the view it is attached to. This is how our multibody weights are displayed

Edit: can't attach it so here's some images to show

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mp3-250 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:57 pm STILL OPEN FROM SW2022SP5 REPRODUCED ON 2023SP5 AS WELL

you can "unbreak" the view and see if the balloons are hidden within it and if so move them out of the break. Doubt that's the case but figured I'd point it out in case.

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Hmmm... wish I could check because that's a realistic possibility. Too bad I already fixed it. Delete and reconstruct. When I'm getting some weird behavior like that in an assembly, I bring the bar back up to remove the patterns and mirrors. It's also a habit I have which helps in keeping assemblie...

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KennyG wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:07 pm Trying to be funny or did you forget what group you were in?

Lol thanks for slapping me across the head, silly me I saw Solid and jumped to conclusions.

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Forgive my lack of attention, I was mistaken.

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The scanned model will contain all the dimensioning, though it will be very roughly and won't be easy to dimension. (For instance, it most likely will not recognize holes as holes but as multiple faces)

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That's weird, it seems to be displaying ID's rather then feature names. Never seen that happen. Does the assembly contain parts/assemblies from previous version?

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Uncle_Hairball wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:41 pm Yes, but not this time. Yet another case where SW required delete and start over.

Was the component part of a symetry or a pattern? If so, an instance from either could have been the one "locking" it in place.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:34 am Simple rule: treat them all as scam.
Do not reply text, email, voice.
Do not contact them with email/phone number from the text, email, voice.
Go to the company website, get phone number or email and contact them there.

That's pretty much what I tell my folks.

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jcapriotti wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:53 am Matches your 3dx screen

https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?p=34054#p34054

indeed

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Just because it is good for the software companies, doesn't mean it is good for the consumer. I would argue, if you want to use the agile model in cad software, you should be way more careful than DSS, and put the things you broke way higher on the priority list. If the agile philosophy is "We...

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You've gotta love spam emails. I hadn't checked my spam folder in quite a while, so I just took a look. One of them is addressed to "Unconfirmed dear," and another one warns me that "Anamul" tried to log into my Facebook account (which would be a good trick since I've never had ...

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Just wanted to brag of our colourfulness

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Is the component fixed?

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I had the presentation, it was very interesting. It does translate external references. It does not translate macros. If you're a one man team, and you're tired of being bullied by SolidWorks or whichever program you use, I suggest giving a deep look at OnShape. They have a beautiful product with ve...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:05 pm Did they migrate the ER's already in the system when they created "the platform"?

Nope!

They gave it the swamp treatment, left it to sink to the bottom hoping nobody brings it up again

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