Recent content by BandH

Could you use a 3D sketch to draw it? I regularly use 3D sketches to calculate compound angles for driveshafts etc.

Hi guys, our IT guy actually suggested what EEnd said, and it appears to have worked fine. Thanks for all your help, Brian

vacuumdesigner, did you try our suggestions?

Yeah, seems to work fine for me, as long as you are not selecting a "point" on the circle or the centre point of the circle

First dimension the part e.g. from an edge to the circle - be sure to select the circle and not the centre point/centre mark. Then right-click the dimension, and choose properties. There is an option near the bottom of the box that allows you to select CENTRE/MIN/MAX arc condition. Hope this...

Hi Bradley, Thanks for your response, and I understand your disclaimer completely. I have contacted our VAR but they're taking a long time to respond. I'll try your suggestion about \\snaz1, thanks. As I described above, I can't uninstall the current PDM installation because it doesn't...

Hi all, This is slightly long-winded and not sure if anyone can help, but here goes. Last Wednesday (7th February) two of our network storage drives failed - these were originally called "SNAZ". The PDM/Works Vault would have been originally installed on \\SNAZ\PDMWorks\ The two network...

Not being smart, but why are you using SP0? SP2.1 is out and may be worth installing. Also, im my opinion I believe the more advanced 3D packages become the greater the gap between DXF and 3D packages will be - this may be one of the reasons for the differences. Regards,

Thanks guys, I didn't think it was possible - I'll send in an enhancement request now. Regards,

Hi all, Does anyone know if it is possible to insert a SolidWorks BOM (not the Excel based one) into a drawing template? SW wold then automatically create a parts list when the assembly is inserted. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the input. We don't really want to go down the road of a PLM, but I was interested to hear about that Access could be used, I'll look into that more. If anyone has other suggestions, please keep them coming! Regards, Bandh

Hi all, I'm currently reviewing our CAD procedures at work. At the moment, we have a very "manual" system - the following is a brief description: User takes the next part/assembly number from the Drawing Code document. This is an MS Word document and all information is input manually. The...

Yeah, that looks good, but you need to be careful - for example, if you have a part number starting with a zero (0), when you paste it into Excel it sees it as a number and deletes the zero. Still deserves a star. Regards, bandh

Do you paste the text as a note or just paste it directly onto the sheet? You should be able to copy all the text (CTRL+A then CTRL+C in WORD). Then switch over to SolidWorks, start a new NOTE and paste the text into this note. You can then change text heights etc. Regards, BANDH

Hi Toycept, This is a performance enhancement - you probably only notice it on larger assembiles. If you go to TOOLS - OPTIONS - SYSTEM OPTIONS - PERFORMANCE you will see an option for CURVE GENERATION. Using the slider bar you can either increase or decrease the level of detail. Unless you...