We need to increase the work space in Solidworks!!. In order to do a huge part (a bridge). We know than the workspace in Solidworks is 1.000.000mm3, centred in the origin (500.000mm each side of the origin). And the bridge is bigger than this.
Do anybody know how to increase the workspace in SW. (We cannot change the scale, only to increase the workspace).Can anybody help us?
The standard answer you will get from SolidWorks is that SolidWorks is a general mechanical engineering tool, not a bridge design tool. Why would you be trying to do this in SW anyway?
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Peter,
Sorry man, the 1km limit is hard coded into the system.
About the only way to do it is to scale, or use a system without this limitation.
Mark
I would model up each component full sized except add a derived configuration of each part that would be scaled 1/10 or 1/100 depending on the size of your bridge. Then for the assembly of the bridge use all the scaled down configurations and duely note your drawings.
Regards, Corey
snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks to all for its answers.
swPeter.
Pretty clever, except it would make a mess of incontext modeling. You might also take a big performance hit in the assembly by having to calculate all the scales. And if you went the other way and modeled at
1/10 or 1/100 you would have to manually attach dimensions to the scaled up parts because nothing would transfer. Working in mm for metres might work. Have to watch density especially if running Cosmos.
One possibility may to scale up 10X any in context parts. Then there would be two basic configurations for every part.
The bridge is going to be big anyway and the performance may be the biggest issue.
Hope this helps.
Ed
Another issue that may come up is the fact that reference geometry like planes and axes don't scale. Also, blocks won't scale. So the tools that might be used to automate the process and carry intent through may not be usable or require an inordinate amount of book keeping effort to make work.
There is a partial Work-around or better planning for this situation in some cases.
If you generate the Axis or plane off of geometry and move it after the scale feature it will follow the geometry because it is referencing the surface edge and vertex IDs at that point in the tree. So reference geometry when created after the scale feature will move appropriately with the scalar change, although it appears in 2006 SP4.1 it requires a CTRL-Q to cause the reference geometry to update.
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