LOL on both replies.
Yes, different is good and bad at the same time. I'm just trying to be open-minded about it as I've been told too many times untruths that I would've benefitted from using, and I'd rather educate.
I think I'll convey the idea of issues regarding the dimensioning problems...
I've got a co-worker that is new to SolidWorks and he constantly uses the post-selection method of inserting hole wizard holes and for some reason they bother me. Usually for me that means there is something wrong/dangerous about the technique, but I can't put my finger on it...
Hi all. I've got a macro laid out for auto-inserting blocks into our drawings that works perfectly. The challenge I am having is to delete the block definitions in the drawing before the new definitions/instances are inserted.
There is a set number of blocks that I am checking for and am...
Is there any way to default the BOM inserted to automatically have the "Follow Assembly Order" button activated?
I've tried hitting it and re-saving the template, but it seems to be an option that isn't pulled from the sheet itself. The system and document options don't seem to have a checkbox...
Eek. Scary content in here. IMO, there should be an option to disable it somewhere... if not, they're quickly going to drive the old-school users insane.
Your Document Template is set to DIN or another as a standard dimensioning style. If you change it to ANSI, you will not get the chain ordinate dimensioning all the time.
I am quite familiar with this problem... I have to change it for every single set of ordinate dimensions I make, and I can't...
Thanks for the answers, guys.
I think I understand now, I was misunderstanding how the targetting of an object works. I was thinking that if it was selected, it was automatically the object that the macro works on. I see now in the macro above that you actually have to set an object variable...
Can someone please help me with this? I am going out of my mind trying to get this to work, but all of my tests and guesses have failed.
I've already got a larger macro to put this code into, so all I want is to be able to run a simple macro and change the selected dimension tolerance font...
InsertBlock does work over 0.999. Looks like next time I need to start looking into the API before just going with what I've got, and see what is the latest commands. (doh!)
Ahhh, you are correct about the InsertCustomSymbol... that seems to be an old call, and was taken over by DrawingDoc::InsertBlock, which allows you to specify a location when placing the symbol. I will have to give it a shot, however no indication of whether or not it'll let me specify anything...
I've got a macro that I am trying to create which inserts blocks at certain locations on drawings automatically depending on the size of the drawing. Eventually I need to modify it to give a choice of selections, hence the reason I don't just add it to my template.
I have no problems with A-D...
I find that typical problems with flexible assemblies comes when you have multiple instances of the same floating assembly in a main assembly. They all want to be in different positions, and this causes conflicts. Really the only way to solve this is to finish loading the main assembly, and...
I've run into the flipping problem often as well, and the only real solution is to not really solve it, it seems. We've got an engineer here who does not work in configurations, just sets limit mates to all his movements and leaves things floating. That way you can move it by hand to whatever...
You can leave the HLV choices off (better performance anyway) and just right-click and select-other to the face of the holes you want to add centerlines to.
You can also just click the drawing view and no particular edges/faces/dimensions, and when you hit the Centerlines button, it will add it...
