Solidworks CAD Design software

Windchill and Solidworks

The CAD community at my company is divided between Pro/E and SolidWorks users. The Pro/E side uses Windchill 8.0 (soon...

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posted by mpb2

4 comments posted 18yrs posted by mpb2

Open GL option

I had a display issue with solidwork 08 while running it on vista. However, this problem was corrected by checking the...

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posted by Philbrick.GR

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Cosmosworks expressions

I'm doing some analysis in CosmosWorks for the first time. I've played around enough to be reasonably comfortable with...

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posted by Mark.Treadwell

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Animator question from an absentee

Hello All, Well it certainly has been a while. Too much drama (more than usual) a few months ago so I stopped checking...

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posted by Muggs-TheTrash-828

9 comments posted 18yrs posted by Muggs-TheTrash-828

BOM query

The SWX (2007 sp3.1) Help files (as opposed to "helpfuls") have the following entry under "bill of materials property m...

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posted by john.harland.delete

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new to SW, a question in mind

I have used AutoCad and Solid Edge several years for a short period of time. Now I'm working on an industrial robot and...

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posted by mallawat

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COSMOS: Simulating Cable on a tower - design exercise

Hello, I am getting back into playing with COSMOS. For fun I thought I'd model up a simple tower (2" sched 40 aluminum...

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posted by lmar

9 comments posted 18yrs posted by lmar

The Ultimate Workstation

I don't post here very often anymore. In fact, I have probably not posted but a handfull of times in the last year or m...

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posted by srenigar

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Interview with Giuseppe Bocchi, Top-Notch Engine Designer

Giuseppe Bocchi is a brilliant mechanical engineer with a passion for engine design. He has an incredible breadth of ex...

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posted by folini

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Dimension set to "This Configuration" by default. Help!

On a part I've created in SW2007, when I add new configurations, many of the dimensions are set to "This Configuration"...

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posted by kevlar9296

5 comments posted 18yrs posted by kevlar9296

coarse object lines in printing and saving as pdf

hi the problem i am having is coarse object lines in printing and saving as pdf in 2207. Dimensions look fine. I have h...

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posted by garyreif

6 comments posted 18yrs posted by garyreif

Operators in Custom properties

I want to include some data in my drawing template to show things like the area of the part. SW-Surface area doesn't wo...

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posted by ben

3 comments posted 18yrs posted by ben

Component line font

SW2007 SP4.0 In a drawing I am not getting the component line font to work. Does anyone else use it and it works proper...

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posted by wayne.tiffanyRMVJUNK

5 comments posted 18yrs posted by wayne.tiffanyRMVJUNK

Can someone comfirm this?

Make a part with multiple configurations, say 1 to 3, make then so that they are distinctive from each other, such as l...

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posted by petefaasdas2

10 comments posted 18yrs posted by petefaasdas2

CAD Tool For Design Tiny Aircraft

Hi All, I have never really used a CAD program to design anything. I toyed with AutoCAD back in 1987 but nothing more....

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posted by jaibuduvin

18 comments posted 18yrs posted by jaibuduvin