Solidworks CAD Design software

Blood on my drawings!

Hi All, Got one that's got me stumped good and proper. As of mid-morning this morning, all of the annotations (dimensio...

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posted by George.Maddever

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export to dwg

I'm having some trouble with saving my drawings to dwg. I have a macro set up which does it for me, appending a rev let...

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posted by Mark.Treadwell

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Help needed adding VB6 dll addin to SW2007

Hello - new group subscriber... Looking for info regarding how to add a VB6 dll to SW2007. Done a fair bit of Googling,...

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posted by agent0420

4 comments posted 18yrs posted by agent0420

Solidworks Electrical routing help!!!

Hi All I am trying to evaluate Solidworks router for doing electrical cables. Has any one got any advice for setting th...

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posted by kenneth.carpenter

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2008 Network Installs.... help....

Noob to this type of discussion forum, our Local guy that works in our office is having problems with the network insta...

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posted by mlk006

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2 Page Word Document as object

Does anyone know of a way to insert a 2 page word document into a drawing so that both pages show up?

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posted by srenigar

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Top down design Layout sketches

I have been having a discussion about Top Down design and Layout sketches with a colleague, wondering what the group's...

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posted by John------NOSPAM__

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Geometric tolerance symbols in ms word

A QA guy is writing reports in ms word and he asked me how to insert geometric tolerance symbols in to the text Any sugg...

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posted by mr.T

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A New Continuous Collision Detection Library (CATCH) Release

We announced the release of a new continuous collision detection (CCD) library, CATCH, based on the following SIGGRAPH...

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posted by kim.youngj

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SolidWorks Hot Air Vent...

For some reason I am really annoyed today and I feel the need to share some frustrations. So.... here goes! expect many...

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posted by dvanzile3

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FILE NAME

Does any one know how I can link the file name to the part number in the custom properties of the part? I tries $prp "fi...

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posted by stewhappens

6 comments posted 18yrs posted by stewhappens

Getting Model Data into Standard SW2007 Titleblock?

How does one go about getting Model Data such as mass/weight into a Standard SolidWorks 2007 Titleblock? From what I ca...

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posted by jimstrenk

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Mate names gone funny

I replaced a component in an assembly and mapped the mates to the new component, and now some of the mate names don't d...

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posted by john.harland.delete

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auto relief - sheetmetal

Cannot get autorelief to work. Any suggestions??

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posted by stewhappens

2 comments posted 18yrs posted by stewhappens

Change drawing template ?

Have a number of drawings that I want to change the text format on. Is there an easier way of doing besides going to to...

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posted by stever

4 comments posted 18yrs posted by stever