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May PhotoWorks Rendering Contest
The model files have been posted and the May photoWorks rendering contest is in full swing. To download the model visit . You have until May, 26th to submit your contest entry.
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"Description" column when using open or save dialogue boxes
Is it possible to have SWX show the custom property "Description" when using the File Open/Save dialogue box? If I click on a file, it shows me the description for that one file, but I like to use the...
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Extract cut list from drawing programatically using API (VB)
We are using SW2006 and need to extract the cut list of welded parts of a drawing the same way we do for BOMs. There are examples in the API to show how to do it for the BOMs themselves (i.e. 'Export...
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Disappering Hatch
Group, Has any body noticed this ?? I am creating some blocks for our drawings. On some of them while editing the Block Definition I add a hatch pattern. It shows. As soon as I get out of edit block...
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Unscrewing core draft analysis
I'm designing a part that needs an unscrewing core. For a straight pull part, we have draft analysis that works like a charm. How do you do an equivalent "draft analysis" for an unscrewing core? All I...
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Applying color to "standard" materials
I've been using the new (to me at least) SolidWorks material capability and like it a lot but have one question. Is there a straightforward was of changing the color on a part level of a part. You...
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Home office?
I'm thinking I can get more done at home (I used to work at home and loved it) and am trying figure out what to buy. I will be designing with Solidworks but also need MS Office. My assemblies aren't...
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Sketched entities in Drawings
I am in a drawing and sketching a line vertically through a view to get a cross section...as soon as I click-click to draw the line, it disappears as soon as I let go of the mouse button. There is...
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Unhide dims on drawing
Hello All, OK, maybe a stupid question, but can someone please tell me how to unhide a dim that I had hidden earlier. I know where they are but I can't seem to click on them to unhide. TIA, Muggs
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Vector conversion
I have a couple of DXF files exported from Correll Draw and all the gemoetry is complex curves. Anyone have software (like Arbor Image) that would convert the geometry to lines/arcs and be willing to...
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SW2006 Design Checker
Does anybody know of a god web site that explains in a little more detail, how to setup and use the 'Design Checker' in SW2006? Thanks, Richard
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17 years ago
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3D dwg files
Is it possible to import 3D dwg files. A supplier of ours keeps sending them to us, because the individual "parts" in an "assembly" (I'm using quotes because they all reside in the same Autocad dwg...
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[mm] TRAILING ZEROS???
Question: Can anyone tell me what the standard is for showing trailing zeros when using metric dimensions? I am using inches as primary, and mm as secondary dual dimensions. With my current settings...
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SW training books on ebay
I'm seeing a lot of SW training books on ebay recently. Are these books any good? It's hard to tell if they are the ones published by SolidWorks or by some guy with a color printer in his basement....
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gasket sweep
Hi, I have a rather complex part that uses another (mating) part to create a gasket groove in it. I am using a cavity feature in the context of the assembly to create the groove (not in a single...
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