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josh

It sort of depends on where your BOM data goes next... but I have done this by having two different custom properties for the part number - One called "Dwg number" and the other "Purchase Number" (or something like that). Of course, there's a Vendor property as well. For most fab...

josh

Sorry... I may have circled the wrong one.

The one I circled disables selection when you can't see them.
The one above it disables selection even when they're shown.

josh

You can turn off selection of hidden lines/edges.

josh

Is there something else you have to do to make this =2?

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josh

IMHO the best way is to go ahead and use the registry. There is a free module available here: http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/Registry.htm that contains simple calls for all the registry stuff you need for saving and editing macro settings etc. Additionally... You mentioned having a "separate mac...

josh

Alternate Position Views are really the best way I have found to do this. You mentioned being unable to dimension them... This was a bug a couple versions ago, but as far as I can tell works in 2020. You don't actually have to create multiple configs to use for the different alternate position views...

josh

The macro you are running creates a macro feature . It's a feature that contains macro code that runs every time you rebuild. This particular macro feature is set up to always be at the end of the feature tree (to make sure it runs last during rebuild and counts everything). The code contained in th...

josh

You'll probably get better results by telling us what end result you want. It's likely there are better ways to approach the model than this 3D sketch.

josh

This thread might give you a head-start:

https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/219694

josh

Checking the database on file open for matching GUID would update the properties stored in file if one exists, if not then don't update. Or am I over simplifying things? Probably more like overcomplicating them. The use case for editing the properties of a material in the DB and then wanting all th...

josh

My guess is that the swb comes in with no references. Therefore you can't use "Dim swPart as PartDoc", you have to declare everything as a generic Object. Your first couple of declarations (swApp and swDoc) are both Objects.

josh

The material library is a collection of materials and their properties that can be _applied_ to a part. The action of applying material copies these properties from the database and pastes them to the part with no link to the material database. This is really necessary because every install of SW co...

josh

It's somewhat crappy, but you can insert an alternate position view, then hide everything in the alternate position view except the part you want to show.

josh

I don't believe there's a way to find out if a file has a design table without opening it in SolidWorks. A macro could probably do it fairly quickly running in the background.

josh

We're trying to learn that now. That is the table that takes nearly a half hour to generate for the screw file. When it finished I displayed it full screen on my 43" 4k and the text was dots. There are way too many columns which leads me to believe there are a lot of redundant parameters. I th...

josh

2)This I wish we would have made time to get a better understanding of before we set up the configured files. 3)I forgot to mention eDrawings and such, so to get the proper stuff to show up in eDrawings for non CAD people looking we need all the configs to have display data turned on. I'm not sure ...

josh

oh boy. 1) Our config names don't have to match the part number but they sure should, otherwise how would we know which config to use? Every part has a part number and is set up in MRP and connected to BOMs. So no McMaster screws! Actually this is one of the minor pains is making sure that the part...

josh

At my last job we used a single file for all configs of the same "family" (SHCS, standard nut, thin nut, etc). Of course, these come in a somewhat limited range of possibilities (there's no M9.37 nut), so all of the possible configurations can be easily created using a design table. The be...

josh

In Solidworks this seems to be the case. To my mind this brings no advantage, only additional challenges and forever saving things that haven't fundamentally changed, all the way up to the root....Really I was asking as a way to know if this behaviour can be changed. I think I have my answer... Man...

josh

So, does CATIA not have mates or any sort of relationships between parts in assemblies? For example, let's say I model an automotive starter. It's a subassembly. One of its parts is a housing with mounting holes. I put this starter subassembly in the engine assembly, mating the mounting holes on the...

josh

I may have missed a subtlety of the question.... Were you asking why the root (top level) assembly has to rebuild instead of only rebuilding the subassembly? Changing the part by itself does not directly trigger the top level assembly rebuild. Changing the part triggers a rebuild (and change) to the...

josh

As I mentioned before, the assembly is made up of parts. If you change a part, the assembly must reflect that change. Rebuild involves examining all the parts and making sure the geometry etc. in the assembly window accurately reflects all the parts. Again, having never worked in CATIA myself, can s...

josh

How you can "manage" the issue depends on what failure modes occur in your workflow due to said issue. The assembly is defined as being made up of individual parts and/or subassemblies. When those parts or subassemblies change, the main assembly is changed. Therefore the main assembly must...

josh

It sounds like you are saying that (for certain parts anyway) none of the manual methods you can do will successfully make the imported part into sheet metal. If you cannot manually do it with the regular SW user interface, then it most likely cannot be done with a macro. It may be possible that a m...

josh

Wasn't there one called Use Software OpenGL? That might be what you are thinking of. That one's still there. It's different from the "enhanced graphics performance" thing. Software OpenGL bypasses your graphics card/driver for all the graphics processing. Basically, if you're having prett...

josh

Really? What has it been called before? AFAIK it was new with 2019

josh

Yeah, brain fart. I forgot about the temporary thing.

josh

This seems very roundabout... Why not actually save the dang assembly as a part, insert to assembly, and then make it virtual? Same end result, right?

josh

Try running this macro and see if it helps. If I remember right, you have to select the view then run the macro.

josh

You can't create an angle mate between a linear entity (axis, edge, line, etc) and a planar entity.

You can create angle mates between two linear entities, or between two planar entities.

josh

This is how you do it: Dim swApp As Object Sub main() Set swApp = Application.SldWorks Dim swDim As Dimension Dim swTol As SldWorks.DimensionTolerance Set swDim = swApp.ActiveDoc.Parameter("D1@LimitDistance1") 'You gotta figure out how to get the pointer to your dimension Set swTol = swDim...

josh

Actually, (if I read it right), the question was how to set those values for a specific configuration. I looked a little, but I didn't find a way to specify configs for that. The information does seem to be stored in the dimension somehow, because when you select said dimension is shows the upper an...

josh

IMHO yes, it does complicate things, and gives no performance or practical benefit other than they like it that way. As you said, whatever floats your boat.

josh

Interesting that the decimal separator is shown differently in the various dimensions.

Nevertheless, that chamfer dimensionis not pointing to the visible rounded surface, but to the corner between the 41.8 diameter and the 34 outer face. The actual chamfer is too small to be resolved at that scale.

josh

Umm, so when I open your assembly I see two curved right mouse buttons, and one is upside down. In order to make a mouse, you need a left button and a right button. Two right buttons will not work any better than two right shoes fit your feet.

josh

Also being that person who shows others how to do things... The first thing I would do for a new person was load my .sldreg to their profile...

josh

My heirarchy: 1. Shortcut keys. Nothing is faster for non-space-mouse-having me because my left hand is always on the keyboard 2. S-key (mapped to V because "S" was already "zoom to Selection"). Because it pops up at the cursor, it's easy to click. Commands are also arranged on i...

josh

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 ...

josh

Why did you ask the question if you were not going to believe the answer anyway? You are absolutely the only one being paranoid. Only one person has said you were not being paranoid, and then they immediately said you shouldn't be concerned. Basically, they were trying to make you feel OK with your ...

josh

I've always had a random color macro mapped to the "c" key. Ewww......random?? I would hate to work with a sick-green color like this text . I usually work with large-ish assemblies with lots of simple parts, created as quickly and efficiently as possible, so I don't typically work with a...

josh

I've always had a random color macro mapped to the "c" key.

josh

view properties. choose projected instead of true

josh

Impact should be minimal. Why not test yourself? Add/delete BOM is easy to do...

josh

Here is the code to paste into the "Code" custom property if you want only unsuppressed components: 1 Dim vComps As Variant Dim Cnt As Long Dim i As Long vComps = Assembly.GetComponents(False) For i = 0 To UBound(vComps) If vComps(i).GetSuppression2 <> 0 Then Cnt = Cnt + 1 End If Next i As...

josh

I did not know that you could just add API text like that to Custom Properties!! Wow! Well... You're not actually adding API text to the custom properties... You're hiding API text from the equation editor interface (just the stuipid interface!) by burying it in custom properties. It still gets eva...

josh

It is possible, but SW is much less happy with it. You have to paste a whole multiline macro into the "Code" custom property that actually sets the NumberOfComponents property because you can't get the value you want in a single line of code.

josh

A couple of additional notes... This will get the total number of components, including components of subassemblies. If you want top-level only, change "False" to "True".

josh

It is possible. You have to bury API code in a custom property, link an equation to that property, then link another property to that equation. Steps to achieve (Please follow closely): 1. Create two Text type custom properties. One called "Code" (or whatever you want), and one called &quo...

josh

Okey doke, thanks guys! At least sounds like it wasn't something stupid I did. Like I said, no need for a flat pattern for sure, I just figured some sketched bends would be the quickest route to my final shape. Then, when it didn't work, figured it might be a learning opportunity for me and a conten...

josh

So, here's one of the noob posts that we need... I don't work with sheet metal features much, so here goes. I want to buy this register vent boot from McMaster, cut the corners, and make it a sorta flat mount flange. So downloaded the model and I thought I'd cut some rips down the corners and do fou...

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